So you have to be called Harry?/Reading

[erastes]

According to Jim Butcher - I’m a witch. I’d like that - I would have always liked it. My birthday is Halloween, which is the best birthdate in the universe, imho, and from my earliest memories I was always convinced I had to be a witch. after all you don’t get born at one minute past midnight on Halloween and not become a witch, do you? the

Comments

[aunty_marion]

I have a very prosaic birthday, but my wizard powers with regard to electrical equipment usually includes making things work just by looking at them (particularly office equipment).

[gaedhal]

I like the witches of "Bell, Book and Candle" the best. Plus, they
live in Greenwich Village and are beatniks! What could be better?

[gehayi]

I have to admit that I laughed at the West Country kid. That’s really not an accepted American expression. I think that the writer was trying to make Erik sound old-fashioned. People always seem to want vampires to sound old-fashioned-instead of hopelessly dated, which seems far more likely. Imagine a vampire who enthusiastically used slang from eighteenth-century London, because that’s when they were turned. Or tenth-century Edo (now Tokyo). Or 1920s America.

Also, I quite agree with you. It is frustrating to have things randomly break without getting proper magical powers as compensation! (Is there any chance that your government will fix the radiators? I don’t like the idea of winter without heat, not one bit.)

Good luck with The Home and the World! I’ve never heard of it, so I hope it’s entertaining!