I’m Not Entirely Certain That This is the Brightest of Ideas
I’m as big a Harry Potter fan as the next guy, don’t get me wrong. But am I the only one who finds the whole Make Your Own Death Eater Mask part of the Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix website a bit… gruesome? Kind of makes people play the part of Death Eaters, does it not? And do you really want to pretend to be a member of that particular organization with your very own one-of-a-kind mask? Icky icky ook.
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I dunno. A Death Eater here…. a make your own Daemon out of chopped liver there…marketing is (and sometimes sadly) marketing.
Yeah, I see your point. But with the Daemon you can pretend that the best and brightest in you is now visible to the world. With the masks it’s the opposite extreme. But, as you say, it’s just marketing in the end. Clever clever marketing.