Aberdeen International Youth Festival

Had a nice day today – it was the start of The Aberdeen International Youth Festival so we went to see the opening parade. Great seeing all the different groups from around the world – Aberdeen felt quite muticultural for once! I attended the festival dance summer school when I was 14 – I remember it being quite an eye-opening experience for me then. The young girls from the summer school all seemed very over-exited – wonder if I was like that back then? Undoubtedly Went on to the Maritime Museum – not a subject that has ever really attracted us but it was interesting with an awful lot to see. Davie enjoyed extolling us all with his first hand experience of oil rigs. We met my sister and had a gorgeous lunch in The Beautiful Mountain. Squeezed quite a lot in today actually, going for a lengthy browse in the art gallery before doing the bookshops.

** edit it – Ooh – look how right we were in these speculations!!

SPOILER ALERT!! Speculation has grown here about Harry – you might want to skip the rest of this paragraph if not finished reading book 6 or intending to read it. Is Harry himself a horcrux? Is R.A.B. Regulus Black, Sirius’s brother? Some interesting stuff all over the internet just now debating these theories – wikipedia has a page on horcruxes up already here. Charlotte thinks he probably is one but Daniel doesn’t want to entertain that idea as it would mean Harry would have to die before Voldemort could be killed – but there may be a way around that We also wonder if the person who died (can’t bring self to write such a massive spoiler as that!) might have planned it like that for specific reasons and may have left all sorts of enchantments around to be found…END SPOILER!!