During the 3 years that M and I lived in Australia I was vigilant about teaching M not to share brushes, hats etc with other kids because of lice (the climate there makes them more common, even if you're a clean person!). She took the anit-lice campaign to heart and we managed to survive our entire time living there without any lice coming home.We started reading the first Harry Potter book together last week, and last night we read the chapter with the sorting hat assigning the new students to their houses. At the end of the chapter we were talking about the hat and M said that she wouldn't want to wear it because what if she got lice! I'm guessing the hat is enchanted so that it zaps any lice on the new kids' heads when they put it on - maybe that is why it's the first thing they do when they arrive at Hogwarts.
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Yeah, send a few of those hats down under!
That's so funny. It's great that you escaped lice for the whole three years - what a miracle. I'm excited for you guys reading Harry Potter together.
That's just another thing I miss out on by not ever having the chance to live in Australia as an adult--paranoia about sharing hats. Glad you never had to deal with lice, though. I am reading HP with Ethan too, though we started a while ago. He said it got a lot more interesting once Harry received the invisibility cloak.
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