Harry Potter: Fans celebrate wizard's birthday

Harry Potter fans person been celebrating the character's day with movie marathons, outfits and 'butterbeer'.

The fashionable wizard, created by writer JK Rowling, was fixed the day of commencement 31 July 1980.

It is 26 years since the the archetypal publication successful the series, Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, was released.

Fan Danny Dawkins, from Kent, said the books and characters volition "live connected for hundreds of years successful the aforesaid mode arsenic Shakespeare's enactment has".

Crystal, from Essex, has passed her ain puerility emotion for each things Potter connected to her five-year-old girl Blair.

The brace are spending 31 July "playing Harry Potter and dressing up".

Crystal said: "I'm getting to relive my puerility memories done Blair, which is rather lovely."

She enactment retired an entreaty connected a Facebook station for memorabilia relating to the wizard.

"We were talented items similar a sorting hat, a level nine-and-three-quarters light, Harry and Hermione teddies, a Hogwarts' pillow and blanket," Crystal said.

Mr Dawkins has been a instrumentality since helium was astir 7 and said his archetypal clip speechmaking 1 of the books from the bid was a "magical experience".

He has a postulation of "hundreds" of Harry Potter items including figurines, Lego, wands and books.

He said: "My eighth day is the earliest representation I person of Harry Potter and I got immoderate figurines and I was perfectly obsessed with them.

"That has led to maine collecting the hundreds and hundreds of pieces that I person today."

Speaking astir Harry Potter's birthday, helium said helium plans to person a Harry Potter movie marathon.

He said: "I volition conscionable beryllium backmost and ticker the Harry Potter films and get immoderate Potter snacks, and perchance marque immoderate butterbeer."