If you check more than one of these symptoms, you have PHPDS. You need specific help*

Wearing HP T-Shirt / Hogwarts School Uniform / Mad-Eye Moody’s fake eye since Friday, even though by now it smells very, very bad.

Conducting Funerals for the characters that have died.

Uncontrollable crying moments.

Hugging the book in bed at night.

Tummy ache.

Toothache.

Measles.

Mumps.

Throwing up slugs.

Feeling empty, standing, desolate in corners of the room, letting out big sighs.

Flaming people from Scotland on Sunday for giving the book a bad review.

Carving a wand out of ‘found’ wood. Developing large red callous on thumb after carving sessions, carrying on regardless, whilst trying to summon up a Patronus through the tears of pain.

Going to the “Mythology of Harry Potter” talk.

Giving the “Mythology of Harry Potter” talk.

Wishing JK Rowling a restful nights sleep after finishing reading the last page. The last ever page, ever ever. I’m so glad I was alive to read this.

Wishing JK Rowling was your mother.

*C.S. Lewis, Roald Dahl, Beatrix Potter, Enid Blyton, J.R.R. Tolkien, J.M. Barrie, Lemony Snicket, Philip Pullman, Dianna Wynne-Jones, Ursula K. LeGuin, A.A. Milne et al.