There were both muggles and wizards at St. Anne's school last week. It was a Harry Potter costume event organized by the Spirit Committee of Leadership, said eighth-grade teacher Pam Sturgeon. "This is our first Spirit day this year."
The committee is made up of a handful of middle-school students at the K-8 Catholic school on Queen Anne Hill, she said. "They just came up with it because it's fun, and everybody loves Harry Potter."
There's also another connection. Sophie DeGroot, one of Sturgeon's students, was one of 250 students worldwide who won a sweepstakes and got to go to London, where they met Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling.
Rowling was very nice, DeGroot said. "She smelled good," added the local student, one of the seven sweepstakes winners from the United States.
DeGroot has read all of the Harry Potter books multiple times, and when the books' publishers announced the sweepstakes, DeGroot took a shot at it.
"I had kind of forgotten all about it," she said of the contest. In fact, DeGroot didn't know she'd won at first because contest organizers called her mom first and told her not to tell her daughter for a week. "They wanted it to be a surprise."
DeGroot was also apparently surprised about the Harry Potter day at school, although the eighth-grader said she has a couple friends on the Spirit Committee.
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