Hosting a Harry Potter Movie Marathon
If you are a Potterhead you know that July 31st is
Harry’s birthday and, if you are as big of a Potter fan
as me then you know you cannot let this day go by
unnoticed! So this year, on that day, my friend Makenzie
and I decided there was no better way to celebrate than
with our very own Harry Potter movie marathon. It was
definitely a daunting task, but with a rock solid plan in
place it was definitely one we knew we could accomplish.
Scroll on down to see how we did it!
Movie Runtime
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone: 2 hours 39 minutes
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: 2 hours 54 minutes
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: 2 hours 22 minutes
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: 2 hours 37 minutes
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NAP BREAK
We decided once we reached the halfway point we
had enough time to take a much needed 2 hour nap.
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Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix: 2 hours 22 minutes
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: 2 hours 34 minutes
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt.1: 2 hours 26 minutes
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt. 2: 2 hours 10 minutes
TOTAL MARATHON RUNTIME: 19 hours 43 minutes
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Food
For this marathon I had all the typical unhealthy movie
snacks including popcorn, chips, pretzels, pizza, and
candy as well as some specific Harry Potter themed
food. These special recipes came from my Binging with
Babish cookbook and included the following:
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Treacle Tart (this legit came out tasting exactly like pancakes and syrup!)
Pumpkin Pasties (I am not typically a huge fan of pumpkin, but these were quite delicious.)
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Butterbeer (Is a Harry Potter marathon even complete without this?!)
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Binging with Babish Harry Potter Special Recipes
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And of course….what kind of a birthday celebration
would it be without a cake?! I tried my best to replicate
the cake Hagrid brings to Harry in the first movie, words
and all. I have tried this recreation before in the past
(and I think the lettering turned out better the first time), but
at least there are some similarities between mine and Hagrid’s!
Decorations and Costumes
This year I didn’t have much in the way of decorations. The
other time I hosted this marathon I printed out these
house pictures and laid out the HP boxed book set I have.
Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to find my decorations and
opted to just use my books and Harry Potter themed shirts.
I also decided to dress in my house colors soooo where
are all my Ravenclaws at?!
(Fun fact, in the movies Ravenclaw’s colors are blue and
silver, but in the books Ravenclaw’s actual colors are blue
and bronze. The producers of the movie actually changed
the colors because Gryffindor and Hufflepuff also had
yellow/gold in them and they thought changing out the bronze for
silver would make it more visually pleasing.)
My friend Makenzie is a Gryffindor so she also dressed
up sporting that maroon and gold.
Movie marathons are always so much fun and this definitely
won’t be my last HP marathon! If you haven’t done one
before I highly recommend you try it out especially with
Harry Potter!