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Do you want to be a member of the Slytherin House? You can with our great Slytherin costume.

Hogwarts Slytherin house likes the values of cunning, resourcefulness and ambition. The Slytherin house mascot is the serpent, and the colors of the house are silver and green.

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The house was founded by Salazar Slytherin and the head of House is Severus Snape in virtually all of the books. In the seventh book, Horace Slughorn, the old Potions master and previous Head of House came out of retirement and reassumed authority of Slytherin house.

Slytherin house ghost is “The Bloody Baron.” Slytherin roughly corresponds to the water element. The house common room and dormitories are accessed through the dungeons and bare stone wall. Their common room is long and low, a dungeon style and located under the lake at Hogwarts. It is furnished with carved chairs and green lamps. The description of the room in the 7th book was described as emanating a greenish glow.

Although it was not mentioned until the 5th Harry Potter book, blood purity is a major factor for Slytherin house members according to the Sorting Hat. This does does not mean that Muggles are not placed in this house but more so that pure blood is more desirable. There are examples that half bloods have been placed into this house, like Voldemort and Professor Snape.

Some Snatchers in the Deathly Hallows claimed that “not many Mudbloods” were placed into Slytherin house, but this suggests that Slytherin Muggle borns might not be common but are also not unknown.

Voldemort, believing Harry Potter was dead and that he was nearing his final victory, proclaimed that he would dissolve and abolish all other houses except Slytherin, thereby housing all Hogwarts student under Slytherin. This plan was stopped with his death and defeat, after, the blood purity of Slytherin became more diluted. It’s reputation for darkness lingers but it is no longer the pure-blood bastion that it once was.

Be darkly mysterious with your own Slytherin costume.

Slytherin Video

With our selection of Harry Potter Hats we can help you to become one of the famous characters from the very popular Potter stories.

How about Albus Dumbledore’s hat? His Dix wizard hat or his tassel hat for more relaxed situations. Albus Dumbledore’s full name is Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore. Headmaster of the School of Wizardry and Witchcraft for most of the Potter story series. He is the leader and founder of an organization the “Order of the Phoenix,” that’s dedicated to fending off the main villain in the story series, Lord Voldemort.

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Maybe you would like to be Prof. Minerva McGonagall, head of the Gryffindor House, the Transfiguration teacher, Deputy Headmistress, although she later became actual Headmistress of Hogwarts. Professor McGonagall was introduced to us in Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone’s initial chapter, this was where she met with Albus Dumbledore at Harry’s aunt and uncle’s house, number 4 Privet Drive. Minerva McGonagall is described as a severe looking woman, tall, with black hair normally tied back in a tight bun. A rather prim expression and generally wears emerald green colored robes with her pointed hat.

Hogwarts hat and scarf set. Why not keep yourself warmer and in character with our Harry Potter Hogwarts hat and scarf set. A perfect accompaniment to any Harry Potter costume.

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Be Madame Hooch (Rolanda Hooch). She is the broomstick flying teacher at Hogwarts and also the Intramural Quidditch match referee. Described as having “Yellow eyes of a hawk” and short grey hair. The character of Madame Hooch in the film Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was acted by Zoe Wanamaker.

Quidditch helmet. If you fancy being a Quidditch team member and be the hero of the hour by winning the match, then wear our authentic Quidditch helmet. Complete the outfit with our great Quidditch costume

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The Sorting Hat. The mystical and magical Hogwarts hat that allocates which students will be placed into which school house, Gryffiddor, Hufflepuff, Slytherin or Ravenclaw.

Harry Potter students hat. Show that you are one of the magical and mystical hard working wizard or witch for the famous school of wizardry and witchcraft.

Whatever the occasion is, be it a Halloween celebration or a themed costume party, a characters hat is one of the most important costume accessories. What kind of Harry Potter party or celebration would it be without Harry Potter hats.

Harry Potter Hat Video

Become a member of Hogwarts most famous house with a authentic Gryffindor costume.

The Gryffindor house is known to value courage, daring, bravery, chivalry and nerve. This particular house was founded by Godric Gryffindor. The Gryffindor house mascot is a rampant lion, in red and gold colors. The teacher Head of Gryffindor is Minerva McGonagall who is the Transfiguration teacher, The resident house ghost is “Nearly Headless Nick,” named because of his partially beheaded neck who’s real name is Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington.

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Any self respecting Harry Potter enthusiast would wish to be sorted by the Sorting Hat into the house of Gryffindor. This is the house where our hero Harry and his courageous friends were placed.

At Hogwarts Castle, Gryffindor house is to be found on the 7th floor, where the house entrance is secreted behind the painting of a large, silk dressed woman. She will not refuse access to anyone who has the right password but she is known to give short shrift to any student that disturbs her whilst she is sleeping.

Behind her painting is the students common room. The common room, during daylight hours, is generally fairly busy with students. This room is the preferred place for students to study and socialize with their friends. Furnished with the normal chairs and tables and an information board for student to keep abreast of the school rules and information about school trips. The common room fireplace not only keeps the room warm but is a useful access point to the outside world with the “Floo” network.

From the Gryffindor common are two staircases, one of which leads to the female dormitory and the other leads to the male one. The females staircase is protected from males entering their dorm with an enchantment, but strangely enough the male staircase has no protection from the girls.

The House of Gryffindor has been the house where the most successful and famous witches and wizards have been housed, such as the head of Hogwarts, Sir Albus Dumbledore. Others have included well known people such as Harry’s parents, Lily Evans and James Potter, Sirius Black Harry’s godfather and the entire Redhead family of Weasleys.

Like every other house at Hogwarts, Gryffindor guards its secrets closely. Much still remains secret and has yet to be discovered. So Gryffindor is still full of past mysteries and has great expectation of the future and will always be known as a house where loyalty and courage is always treasured.

Wearing a Gryffindor costume will place you with the greatest house in Hogwarts.

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The Harry Potter Sorting Hat is the Hogwarts magical hat that determines and decides which of the Hogwarts school House new student are to be designated to. These houses are of course Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw.

One of the founders of Hogwarts, Godric Gryffindor, was the original owner of the Sorting Hat. The hat’s usually stored with the Headmaster until it is brought out into the assembly for the sorting ceremony.

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At the banquet at the beginning of the school year, all first year students have their names read out to take the seat and have the sorting hat placed on their heads. The Sorting Hat then, after a moments deliberation, informs out loud which house the student is to be placed. The Sorting Hat may very the time of deliberation taken, varying from a few seconds to a minute. The hat may at time speak directly to the student in question before it’s decision is made, as it was with Harry’s sorting.

Harry tried the sorting hat for another occasion when Dumbledore sent for Harry to come to his office for the first time during his second year

The Sorting Hat each year recites a introductory song in front of the students. The songs vary in content and length each year and Ron Weasley might well be right when he said he thought that the hat donates the complete school year composing it’s next song.

The hat also sometimes warns of danger that may come to pass, as it was so in the song of 1995. It is not exactly known how the Sorting Hat becomes aware of such up and coming events, it has been suggested that it picks some information from the headmaster, Albus Dumbledore.

The Hat seemed to have a certain amount of difficulty with the sorting of Harry. The hat suggested that great glory and fame would be found if Harry joined the Slytherin House, Harry had requested quite specifically and emphatically that he wished to be spared the threat of joining that particular house. It was due to this request from Harry that persuaded the Hat to place him into Gryffindor instead. This was the house where both his parents had been placed also. At the time when Harry wore the Hat for a second time, the hat repeated its first declarations in that Harry would have performed and done well in the Slytherin House.

During the second Hogwarts year, the Sorting Hat was a crucial role in Harry’s winning battle with the Basilisk. Valiantly the hat was brought to aid Harry by Fawkes in the Chamber of Secrets, which gave Harry Godric Griffindor’s sword, together these two items are known relics of that wizard.

Lord Vodemort tried to destroy the Sorting Hat by setting it alight whilst it was on top of Neville Longbottom‘s head at Hogwarts in 1998. Longbottom managed to get the Godric Gryffindor sword with which he then beheaded Nagini. It was not very clear whether the hat was damaged due to the earlier sacrifice of Harry which was preventing any spell from Lord Voldemort hurting anyone Harry cared about.

Have your own wizard relics to guide and assist you. Get your own Harry Potter Sorting Hat now.

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Are you looking for some snazzy Harry Potter ties?

Here in this section of our Harry Potter Costume website you can find our great selection of Potter character tie designs that are available.

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Become a Harry Potter character by wearing a Potter tie from our selection of Potter ties. Which character do you wish to be or which house do you wish to belong to? Harry himself or Malfoy, Gryffindor house, Hufflepuff or Slytherin? I personally prefer to align myself with Gryffindor house.

These ties are just great, they are just like the ties that the characters wear in all of the Harry Potter movies. What style do you like and how do you wear your tie? Do you wear yours differently or in the traditional style? Whatever way you wear one wear your tie with pride as a perfect accessory to your Harry Potter costume.

About ties: Ties are material neckwear that are worn mainly by the male gender for business and for formal dress, ties can and are defined as long narrow pieces of plain or patterned fabric which is knotted around the neck under a shirt collar.

Sales of Potter ties are growing much faster this year according to reports. A neck tie is an integral part of the Harry Potter character. Gryffindor ties are one of the most popular ties with their striped diagonal pattern made with the two very striking house colors which are burgundy and gold. These ties are so popular that even women who are not Harry Potter costume characters are wearing them now! Neck ties are at times worn as part of a uniform by women, obviously in the armed forces but also in restaurants and hotels.

Why settle for a standard neck tie when you can make a great statement with Gryffindor, Hufflepuff or Slytherin Harry Potter ties. Today the tie is a mainstay of fashion, there are many of the top fashion designers like Gucci, Furmagalli, Armani, Zegna and Valentino have neck ties as part of their collection. You will find that neck ties are great for every occasion, casual, work day and special occasions.

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Wear the ultimate Harry Potter scarf! The perfect Harry Potter Accessory!

Keep your Hogwarts wizards and witches warm with these officially licensed Harry Potter scarves. Keep them even warmer with our Potter hat and scarf set!

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These official licensed scarves are in the Gryffindor colors scheme which is burgundy and gold. The Hogwarts school scarf has the Hogwarts crest with the gold and scarlet color scheme. If your wearing your costume for Halloween, a notorious time of the year for chilly weather, you can stay warmer and complete your costumes authentic look with a Potter scarf! These are perfect Hermione and Ron too!

Complete your favorite witch or wizards outfit with accessories from our scarves, hats, ties, and wands. Wear your Hogwarts house colors with pride, whether you are representing Gryffindor, Hufflepuff or Slytherin house. I have always been rather fond of the potter scarf, I personally like and wear the scarf representing the Gryffindor house with alternating burgundy and gold colors and a crest, this I think is the ultimate scarf! These selections of scarves will help you to turn your good costume into a great costume.

Generally speaking, when most people think about potter scarf, the Hogwarts general house one is the one that springs to mind. But why not try the other Hogwarts house colors to be a little different.

If you think your character is more suited to the Slytherin house, then the Slytherin colors will be for you. Likewise for the Hufflepuff house

These Harry Potter accessories are also excellent to wear as a regular everyday scarf or for a costume accessory. When you wrap these around you, you will feel as if you had come directly from the Hogwarts school whatever house colors you wear.

If your having a Harry Potter costume party, or thinking of celebrating Halloween with one, then don’t forget to finish off your costume with a scarf, a tie, a wand or other accessories to give that complete authentic look.

You could of course knit your own scarf, but it can take quite a long time to do so, and the cost comparison would not be that different. Why take all that time and make all that effort when you can obtain an excellent quality Harry Potter scarf online at any time of day or night at your convenience

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Do you want to be just like the fabulous Hermione Granger? Well you can with our Harry Potter Hermione costume.

Hermione Granger appeared in the first Potter novel, “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.” Her appearance was as a new Hogwarts student traveling to the school. She eventually became very close friends with Harry and many times used her encyclopedic knowledge and quick wit to help him.

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She was a Muggle born student of the Gryffindor house. She is the daughter of two dentist parents, an overachiever who excels at her academic work. Her dentist parents are a little bemused by their odd daughter, but they are quite proud of her all the same.

In her initial appearance in Philosopher’s Stone, she met future companions Harry and Ron during the trip to school on the Hogwarts Express. Hermione constantly annoyed her school peers with her extensive knowledge. Ron and Harry initially thought her to be very arrogant, especially so after she criticized Ron’s Levitation Charm. Ron and Harry intently disliked her until the Troll in the toilet incident, which she was so thankful for that she lied to protect them, that was when their good friendship really began. Hermione’s adeptness for logical analysis later enabled the three of them to solve a puzzle that was essential for retrieving the Philosopher’s Stone.

Her most prominent characteristics are her cleverness and prodigious intellect. She is very level-headed, book-smart and very logical, although initially, she does have a tendency to panic in scary or intense situations, as she did with the Devil’s Snare at the climax of the Philosopher’s Stone. By the time of the Deathly Hallows, she had learnt to be much more instinctive and saved lives on more than one occasion with her quick thinking.

Hermione is quite often a little bossy but very loyal and very conscientious. She is someone that never strays off the path and always maintains her attention and focus on what must be done. Despite her intelligence and bossiness, she has quite a lot of vulnerability in her, also a sense of buried insecurity and can feel quite inadequate. To compensate, Hermione attempts to be the best at everything she does at school, in the process of projecting false confidence she can irritate others. Whilst doing her exams for the Defense against the Dark Arts at the end of the Prisoner of Azkaban, she revealed that her greatest fear was failure, when a Boggart took the form of Professor McGonagall and told her that she had failed all her exams.

One side of her personality is extremely compassionate and she is very quick to assist others, particularly those who are less able to help themselves, like Neville Longbottom, fellow Muggles, poor House Elves and half giants like Hagrid. She values her friends very much and is exceedingly protective of them.

During the whole Potter series, Hermione Granger is portrayed as an exceptionally talented student and young witch. She is considered to be the best student in Harry Potter’s year. She is often the first Hogwarts student to master spells and charms in her classes, and those classes of more advanced years. This was evidenced when she was able to conjure up the Protean Charm on the D.A.’s fake Galleon coins and this is a N.E.W.T. level charm. Hermione was also the first to be able to cast non verbal spells. Hermione is an accomplished and exceptional duelist, perfectly capable of out-matching even the Death Eaters, as she showed us in the battle that took place at the Department of Mysteries, at the Battle of Hogwarts and Lovegoods’ house.

You to could be like this intelligent and clever witch with a Hermione costume.

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Presenting to you the most famous flying Harry Potter broom, the “Firebolt Broom.” It’s the finest and the fastest.

This is a replica of the broom that was used by Harry Potter in the Book and film “The Prisoner of Azkaban.” This broom is approximately 3 feet in length and is made of hollow hard wearing plastic, with plastic bristles. The side accents are constructed of flexable soft plastic. This is the absolute perfect accessory for your Harry Potter Quidditch costume.

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* For those with very vivid imaginations, please note, this is a toy broomstick, it will not actually fly!

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Magic broomsticks are used as transportation by all ages of wizards and witches. They are an essential piece of equipment for the game of Quidditch to. The broom is excedingly uncomfortable to sit on for extensive and long periods of time, even if you are using the now widely used cushion charm.

Flying broomsticks are major consumer products in the Harry Potter Wizarding world. There are a large number of broom brands and models, all of them will have varied capabilities. The capabilities will range from very expensive and high performance brand models to toy brooms for very young children, which will only hover and fly a few feet above the ground, to larger family sized brooms that have enough space for a whole family to sit on, they can even have a luggage area below the brooms seating area.

As Harry is a Quidditch team member and later captain, his brooms, which were a Nimbus 2000, and later the fantastic Firebolt, were very prominent in the Potter series. His Nimbus 2000 broomstick was given by special consent from Dumbledore by way of Minerva McGonagall, who had selected Potter as Seeker.

Harry Potter saw the Firebolt in the Quality Quidditch Supplies window the summer before his third year. He already had a Nimbus 2000 but he certainly wanted a Firebolt as his next broom. Every time he went to Diagon Alley, he made a point of passing the window to stare longingly at the magnificent broom. He had to muster all his willpower to refrain from keep going in and asking the price.

His later broom, the Firebolt was gifted to him by his uncle Sirius Black for a Christmas present after his Nimbus 2000 was destroyed in a Quidditch match. The Firebolt broom still remains the fastest flying broomstick in the world. having beaten the Nimbus 2001′s previous record.

Firebolt brooms, the same as the Harry Potter broom, were used by the Bulgarian and Irish Quidditch teams for the Quidditch World Cup in 1994.

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Do you have a question about or are you looking for Harry Potter glasses? You will not need to drink any Polyjuice or any other such potions, just put on a pair of our Harry Potter spectacles with one of our Harry Potter costumes and this will complete your transformation into “the boy wizard who lived!” These Potter glasses definitely complete the costume. Of course, these are the officially licensed Potter glasses.

Be transformed into everyone’s favorite wizard with help from our selection of Harry Potter wands and glasses. These glasses will definitely make your Harry Potter costume complete and authentic looking. Become the boy wizard exactly like your favorite Hogwarts student with these glasses.

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Any Potter costume would be enhanced further with our Deluxe Potter glasses or our classic style specs. These authentic and officially licensed glasses are shipped the same day if they are ordered by 4pm CD Time, as are all our costume selections.

Potter glasses are quite easy to make yourself, as a Halloween craft session children could make them to go along with their potter costume this year. Kids can quite easily make their own Potter costume and glasses with some adult help and the right collection of materials. But for many, the effort and not having the right materials makes this exercise not viable when you can obtain a more authentic looking costume at a very reasonable cost.

Harry potter glasses from the books and films have become very popular, not only as the perfect accessory for any wanna-be Harry Potter, or the perfect accessory for any “wizard in training” and because they also go perfectly with the Harry Potter quidditch costume and the Nimbus 2000 flying broom. These style of spectacles have become very popular with many children and adults for actual prescription glasses.

Unfortunately as yet our selection of Potter glasses do not yet come as prescription or sunglasses, so I guess you will all just have to continue squinting whilst flying around on your broomsticks in the sun.

We have narrowed down the selection of Potter glasses to find the best featured ones and of the best quality at the lowest price. These Harry Potter glasses that we have highlighted are officially licensed Harry Potter products, and are replicas of the spectacles worn by Harry in the films and book series!

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Harry potter wands are a must have item for any Harry Potter costume.

Wands are very significant to a wizard or witch, why? Because what would Harry or any of his chums do without one? A Harry Potter wand is very much a part of the legacy as is Potter as Harry himself.

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For Harry, wand waving and spell casting has become his way of life, whether or not it is changing the color of rats or battling and fighting off Lord Voldemort and his army. So what better way for you to show and display your affinity to your own favorite Harry Potter character than by getting your very own special wand.

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Who wouldn’t want to have and own their own special wand? Not any self respecting wizard or witch that for sure. The wand is the perfect accompaniment and accessory to finish off and compliment any Harry Potter costume. It will give it that certain authenticity that you want.

Which Potter wand would be for you? All wands are made just like they are in the Potter films, there is of course Harry’s wand, the lovely Hermione’s wand, unpleasant and nasty Malfoy’s wand, Ron’s unique wand and of course Dumbledore’s wand.

In the Harry Potter story series the wands were created from a combination of a number of elements. The core of Harry’s own wand was made of a magical material, such as a phoenix feather.

Besides the Potter character wands being very cool they also make such great gifts. Remember though, wands are individual to each wizard and witch, right from the magical core, to the surrounding wood, and to the engravings around it.

Harry Potter wands are an essential accessory for any new or up and coming wizard or witch.

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