Nannie Potter and Lord Voldemort

One of the most nerdy things I do is have a Harry Potter Spanish Lesson. The gist of this is I pick a HP movie I have seen a burlizion times (so, any of them) and switch the language features and subtitles to Spanish. It actually has proven very useful. I've learned a lot of new words and phrases, including "varita" (wand), Ojoloco (MadEye), and Quien-Tú-Sabes (You-Know-Who).

I try not to make anyone else endure this because while I think it is the perfect way to spend a Friday night, others disagree.

Particularly my 80 year old grandmother.

I have been watching the movies on my laptop with headphones on so that she wouldn't have to watch it. Because she is old and a Southern Baptist, the fact that I'm even watching Harry Potter in her house disturbs her.

Recently however, she had not been in the den all day so I decided to put Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire in and have my Spanish lesson. Of all days, she comes in and plops down on the couch. I immediately turned it back to English and asked her if she would like to watch something else. The rest, as they say, is history:

Nannie: Naw, I ain't gonna stay in here.
*ten minutes*
N: Are they in a school?
YT: Yes. They are learning how to be good witches and wizards. Not bad ones like Satan.
N: Oh.

*later*
N: Why are they trying to kill that boy?
YT: They're not trying to kill him. He's competing in a contest. It's sort of like the Wizard Olympics. But someone DOES want to kill him, he just hasn't come out yet.
N: Well who wants to kill 'im?
YT: Well his name is Voldemort. He's really bad. He tried to kill Harry once, but it didn't work.
N: Well why did he want to do that?
YT: Because he's the Wizard Osama bin Laden.
N: Oh.

*later*
N: Who are all them people wearing black?
YT: They're more terrorists.
N: Why is that Potter boy stuck in that grave?
YT: Because the terrorists want to kill him.
N: I don't like this part.
YT: Well you've watched it for two hours, so you're gonna sit through the next twenty minutes.

The funny part about all of this is this is the least amount of questions I have ever had to answer during a movie for my Nannie. INCLUDING movies that we have seen fifteen times. She still doesn't like OR understand HP. But the fact that I was able to explain it to her merits me an epic high five.