LeakyCon: Hagrid vs. Alex Carpenter, Plus Bacon Randomness

Alex Carpenter is the lead singer and founder of the band, The Remus Lupins, which is my favorite Wizard Rock band.   You have to know that in order for this post to make much sense.

Friday night was the second Wizard Rock concert.  Tonks and the Aurors opened, followed by Gred and Forge, the Whomping Willows, and then Harry and the Potters.

The concert was brilliant.  My favorite band was Tonks and the Aurors and I bought one of their t-shirts and CDs.  However, the best part of the night was when Alex Carpenter got ahold of my brother’s light saber and started dueling with a guy dressed as Hagrid.

Hagrid’s costume was complete with a pink umbrella and he and Alex were really going at it.  Hitting each other with the umbrella and light saber, running around the room.  It was hilarious.  I got a few pics, thinking someone would capture it on video and put it on Youtube.  A lot of people had cameras out, but so far nothing has appeared on Youtube.  I’ll post if it’s ever there.  Here are some pics I got.

Hagrid won, which just proves that even a broken wand concealed in a pink umbrella would beat a light saber in a duel.

The night only got better when Harry and the Potters, the first ever Wizard Rock band, took the stage.  Their songs were amazing and they really energized the audience.  The band, brothers Paul and Joe DeGeorge, really like bacon.  During one of their later songs they passed around platters of bacon while changing ‘Bacon, bacon, bacon, etc.’  My sister wound up with a platter and no one wanted to take it from her, so she just set it down on a table.  It was pretty funny.  Here’s the platter she had.

At this point, LeakyCon was only half over and only getting better by the minute.  I must say that I had a hard time getting to sleep while I was there because I was so excited.