Sorry I'm so late in posting this. We finished up our 24 days of the 2020 Funco advent calendar with two more dupicate characters of Dumbledore and Harry (although of course in different costumes). So that was a bit disappointing that with so many choices available they opted to do repeats. Three Dumbledores, three Harrys, two Rons, and Technically two Hermiones (although one was the polyjuiced version). In spite of the dupes, I still loved doing the reveal each day and collecting all these adorable mini funco characters. I will display them with my other HP stuff so I can continue to enjoy them throughout the year.

Day 23: Dumbledore # 3 has a decidedly Santa-ish look with a tassled cap and fur trimmed robes.



Day 24: Harry #3 is wearing the ever popular Weasley sweater.



And for our final look-see, a group shot of the entire 2020 Funco advent calender crew!



Well, I had a lot of fun with this! Thanks go to my daughter K for giving me something to look forward to each day and adding to my HP addiction. Hope you all enjoyed the journey with me. Happy Holidays and here's hoping the coming year is better than the last!!

Well, I'm certainly feeling a little bit smug as I acurately predicted on Wednesday (or at least expressed a hope for) all of the last three arrivals: Luna on the 17th, George on the18th, and Neville today. Perhaps I should consider getting a mastery in Divination

George is identical to Fred aside from the Initial on his Weasley jumper. Unless he's Gred and Fred is Forge, or Fred is gred and George is Forge or..... Oh my goodness, you'll have to figure it out for yourself, these two have me all discombobulated--tricksie twins!

An in case you're wondering the thing in Nevill's arms is The Monster Book of Monsters I thought at first it might be Trevor but after squinting a bit, I realized it was a book.



If you'll notice in the background, it seems Dumbledore has knocked Hedgewig off his pedestal. Perhaps he felt as Headmaster he deserved to be head and shoulders above the crowd. Ahhh... but our wily owl has had the last laugh and I don't think Dumbles even realizes it yet. (see below the cut.)
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Day 15 yeilds another duplicate... kinda... and yet, not exactly. It's Polyjuiced Hermione--the feline edition. For a cat/person she's actully very cute but I'm sure she doesn't appreciate that fact though. Poor Hermione, or is that Purrrrrr Hermione?



And for Day 16: Another Weasley joins our little party. It's Ginny!



Our HP mini crew has grown so much, only eight days left, I wonder who is left to come? We only have two heads of houses so far, I hope we get Flitwick and Sprout, and of course Hagrid. And Luna and Neville, and George! How can we have Fred and not George! Or maybe Lupin or Sirius. Will there be any bad guys? Other than Draco there are no bad guys and honestly Draco is not really all that bad. Who do you want to see most in the next eight days?

And just wondering if anyone else noticed in the background of the first picture that Severus and Hermione are definitely edging much closer together. And in the second pic, I know the background is a little blurry but I'm postive that Crooksie is staring hungrily at Hedgewig and I can practically hear him screaming "Winner, winner chicken dinner... or owl will do too!"

Apologies to all those waiting for the daily reveal yesterday, I got side tracked and never posted, so today you get a two-fer.

Day 10: Crookshanks has arrived and I zoomed in for a close up. You can actually see his whiskers and eybrows. (I appreciate the addition of the familiars/pets, but I sincerely hope Scabbers isn't waiting in the wings).





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Poor Fang, he's waiting patiently for Hagrid to show up. I hope he won't have to wait too long!

I'll make Hagrid my guess for tomorrow, just to help Fang out.

And toby wins accolades for right guess. And he truly is a Free Elf, as he came complete with a teeny tiny little sock in his hand, although I'm sure you won't be able to see it in the pics. And I finally got a chance to stop at the dollar store and buy some bling to dress up their set. (just noticed I still have my fall/thanksgiving table cloth on, guess I need to change that soon!)

Dobby had the same balance problem  as Hermione, (I believe the technical term is small-feetitis) and the last sticking charm I cast was not holding very well. So I found some more effective magic (I used to have glue dots but couldn't find them and the $ store didn't have any, but they had this tacky/putty like stuff for hanging posters and a little wad of that seems to working so far).

I'm posting a close up under the cut, but wanted you to see that our friends now have a more festive atmosphere to celebrate the season in.

Anyone care to guess who we will meet next?





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Yes, Hermione must have finished up that research she was working on and joined the boys today.

I found a spool for hedgewig to perch on, but have't found any other accessories to dress up the set yet,but I'll keep looking.

Okay so the trio is here, I wonder what adventures they'll get up to. Who do you think will join them next?

As we all suspected a good friend of Harry's arrived today. It's Ron, of course! Do you suppose the other third of the Golden Trio will arrive tommorrow? I hope so.

I thought at first the Ronald was pumping iron getting ready for Quidditch season as the thing in his hand looks like a small dumbell, but now I'm thinking what he's holding might be the deluminator.

I zoomed in a bit closer on this one so you all can see how totally adorable they are. I told hubby I need to dig up some sort of props so I can stage the scene. Drat, I think I gave all my christmas village stuff away to my youngest daughter.

Happy Halloween today and thanks to everyone who sent birthday wishes, v-gifts, and gorgeous art (mywitch) yesterday.

I had a lovely quiet day at home reading, knitting, and just hanging out. I heard from all four of my kids (even my oldest son who is notorious for remembering my b'day usually three days later.) He and his kids left a birthday serenade on my voicemail.

I made a pot of Chicken Gnocchi soup for dinner. (It was delicious. The recipe claims that it's even better than Olive Garden's. I've honestly never had theirs, but it has become one of my favorite soups). Younger son T came out to hunt after school (he's a teacher) and stayed for dinner, so that was nice.

I got a amazon gift card from my baby J and her family, along with a video card that was adorable of her three and five-year-old singing Happy B'day to me, and also had nice long call with them. And I had Skyped earlier with older daughter K and grandkids and opened their gift that arrived in the mail (picture below). I was quite excited about this as I have quite a collection of HP funco dolls, but I'll have to wait until Dec.1st to play with it as it's an Advent calender. Perhaps I'll post a pic each day when I open them ala Gingerbred, as she did last year with her lego calender. So all in all I had a very nice birthday.