What is the best deal for Harry Potter souvenirs?

[3girlmamma]

We're looking for a birthday gift for a Harry Potter fan. We're thinking about something in the $10-15 dollar range. Honeydukes has the $10 Botts Beans and Chocolate Frogs but it doesn't seem like a good deal. Could you buy the Botts Beans a la carte and fill them in a Honeydukes container?

 

[Not2L8]

Honeyduke's sells a glass candy jar imprinted with their logo. There are several selections of hard candies to choose from. I have bought these and given them as gifts and I keep one in my office. The hard candy is pretty standard, but I like to buy souvenirs from fictional businesses; I like the inside joke! I once bought two jars that had some weird candy inside that needed immediate replacement, but that price was right.

Another nice souvenir is a deck of Hogwarts playing cards ($10-12). I think there are two varieties. The photos are great and they have a little narrative on each card. They are a bit more over-sized than regular cards.

Last Christmas, I gave my niece a leather-bound Gryffindor journal, which she loved.

So, lots of great inexpensive gift items to choose from! Enjoy your shopping!

 

[damo]

We love the candy jars too!

 

[bumbershoot]

Honeyduke's sells a glass candy jar imprinted with their logo.

Do they actually sell them empty? I hadn't noticed that.




We bought one container of jellybeans once, gave the beans away (they have ingredients DS cannot have) and keep it filled with "safe" Trader Joes jellybeans. Sits in our living room.

DS loves the chocolate frogs (I hate the chocolate of the frogs but he likes it) and the frogs go in the freezer to be chopped up bit by bit over months), while the containers are used to hold other things. His little treasures, or whatever we choose to put in them. By the way, the chocolate frogs are pretty big.


If you increased the budget a little AND knew what Hogwarts house the child identifies with, there are school ties, lanyards that look like ties, and even scarves. But you'd have to increase the budget a bit.

 

[MinnieLovesMickey12]

I think the best gift for a Harry Potter fan would be a wand. But they are $30. You would have to double your budget.

And just FYI those Bott's every flavor beans are super expensive by the pound. I didn't know how much they were the first time I went to buy them and got a bag about 1/4 full and it turned out to be $27 worth of beans that would not have even been enough to half way fill a candy jar.

 

[macraven]

you could go to the parry hotter shop website
http://www.harrypottershop.com/

and see what is available online.


there are some items you can buy before you go and other items while you are in the park.

 

[bumbershoot]

I think the best gift for a Harry Potter fan would be a wand. But they are $30. You would have to double your budget.

I think that you are right, but only if the recipient is there. And if they want it. I'm a HP fan but I do not, in any way, want a wand. There is no good point to them IMO. DH and DS feel differently, and both have two each. Because the first time we went, DS thought he was HP. So he bought Harry's wand. And then the stinker was chosen for Ollivander's (after I spent MONTHS telling him he probably would not be chosen and had to be sure to enjoy the experience even with someone else being chosen) and wanted to get the wand "for papa", so DH got that wand.

The next time we went, DS had "embraced his inner Ron" (the kid looks like Ron while he cousin looks just like Harry...why fight it?) so he "needed" Ron's wand. And DH decided he needed Sirius's wand.



So I feel the recipient of a wand should be there. Just my feelings, though.

 

[LMichelleee]

I love my deathly hallows keychain! It's the only souvenir I use everyday. I believe it was around $11ish. There are also Head Boy/Head Girl pins as well as prefect pins. Another item would be a copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard. As a huge Harry Potter fan it's great to have in addition to my books.

 

[coastgirl]

We bought a number of the pins for gifts. They are small, but cool--bought my nephew a Prefect pin, and my niece a Hedwig pin. They sell pygmy puffs at Zonko's, I believe they are still under $20. My kids love their pygmy puffs.

I have a Ministry of Magic mug (but the gold wore off pretty fast) and a Dumbledore's Army mug, they were both under $20, depending on the age of the recipient.

They also sell the Bertie Bott's beans (and some other candies) in bulk, you get a plastic bag with Honeyduke's on it, but it wouldn't say Bertie Bott's. Much better value if you are merely after the candy, but it's not as much fun without the "legend" that says which flavours are which.

Yeah--I'd want to pick out my own wand too.

 

[Tay N Evie's Mom]

DD and I got Gryffindor winter scarves on out last trip in 2010. We saw everyone wearing them even though it was warm outside and decided to get them. Wore it the whole time we were there and I still wear it every winter. Every once in a while someone will recognize that it's from the Harry Potter books.

 

[Dizisfun]

The journal is nice and so are the ties.....Got my Granddaughters both for Christmas in 2010...They still have the ties.