Too late for this year, but I will say that I had the best time I've ever had at an official (ie, at an establishment, not a friend's house) halloween party this year. BONZA BASH at EMP. I'd been to their New Year's party a few years ago at the Aquarium and it was decent, but not amazing.

But the EMP location really added...we had access to the entire museum and the special exhibits. Getting to jam on the instruments (without having to take turns/wait for kids) and watching others in costume playing the drums...too much fun. The dance floors were great. And Seattle folks REALLY represented. The best costumed crowd I've ever been in. Almost everyone spent some serious time and/or money on their outfits. It was VERY cool.

I heard that Bonza's halloween party last year was just at a hotel. If that were the case, I'm not sure I'd go, but if it's at a location where you get access to an activity as well, it's probably worth the $40. Plus, this year they offered a LivingSocial deal so it was just $20 (of course, we had to commit to halloween plans back in Sept when the deal was offered). This guy told me that this year's halloween party was close to 1,000 people and the biggest Bonza Bash has ever thrown. It was darn cool, and using the SkyChurch's giant video screen over the dance floor felt pretty cool.

Oh, I'm late to this question but I was a Sky Pirate in the Steam Punk style. Basically, I found an amazing pair of knee high lace up boots (that actually fit me! I'm a bigger gal, so have mostly only had ankle high boots my whole life) and needed to justify the purchase, so crafted a costume around them. Was able to borrow top hat and goggles. Add a faux leather corset piece, cute top and skirt, and it's a costume!

The interesting part of this halloween was finding out how many folks have not heard of "Steam Punk" before. When the New York Times did a Style article on it in 2008, I figured it was pretty widely known, but I'd say that about 60% of the folks I spoke with didn't know what I was talking about.

A pal is having a Steam Punk-themed wedding, and she's DEFINITELY encountered this. Grandmothers all worked up over a "punk" wedding. Oh dear. ha!

Dress your boot up like a boa constrictor, and go as that Shel Silverstein poem!

Make a rubber hand and forearm (use cold foam latex from display and costume) - and of course tuck your own arm inside the robes - and go as Recently Healed By GilderoyLockhardt Harry.

A cat. :)

Dead Yoko Ono in Space.

Foam core comes in extra thick black versions that might be good for the turn tables.

You can buy nylon webbing tape at fabric/craft or probably boating stores that can be attached to a cardboard box using paper fasteners. I did this for a Thomas the Train costume I made for my nephew years back, just use an exacto knife to pre-punch where the fastener connects.

Add an invisibility cloak? What about the moleskin pouch from Hagrid hung round your neck?

I'm not going as anything, but we're dressing our three-year-old daughter up as Bender. We've even taught her to say, "Bite my shiny metal ass!"

Teenage Mutant Ninja Noses; party night (10/29) is in the middle of my work week. I was contemplating on being a total flake and staying home this weekend; but then I was surprised by Halloween party in my own house.

Arthur Dent. Robe + towel. It should be good.

I'm going as a goth viking. Visigoth. Get it?

I know, I know... Weak sauce. I tossed the idea out to my girlfriend, never guessing that she would actually go for it. It's turning out better than I expected, though.

43.

Cabaret-fetish.

Zombie Sarah Palin.

Here Now

A little bit drunk.

Two things. Each to suit the party I'm attending. A cat girl for one and an SCA attendee for the other.

I was a Freudian Slip a couple Halloweens ago. Just get a silk or lace slip and pin pieces of paper with Freudian terms (you can find a list here:http://www.terrapsych.com/freud.html. I also had a cigar for the whole oral fixation thing.
The only problem with this costume is a lot of people don't really get it. But those who do are always super-amused.

Make a fake book cover called "Boob Magic: How to magically grow your very own set", unbutton your shirt a bit (with push-up bra if necessary) to make yourself a bit more chesty, and walk around like an excited, sex-starved teenage boy, ogling his own breasts all night, as if you've just discovered something wonderful.

Yeah. I know. There's a prop. (The book). But I guarantee there won't be another chesty potter at the party. Perfectly reasonable costume idea. Perfectly reasonable.

How about one of the campaign buttons from book 5 or 6?

disco harry potter? hippy harry? robo harry

Not even a little bit.

BTW, the guy who saved the girl may have been a hero that day, but he was also something of a scumbag. He didn't pay the workers at his sandwich shop, among other things. People are strange.

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2013726601_rizzos21m.html

How about Harry Potter...20 years Later...where are they now?

Like you could go as an Emma Watson who lost all her money and is now robbing convenience stores.

Creative solution: Go into your family dollar store, or similar Bigg Lotts or discount store.

Look in their housewears section for either a varagated wool blanket, or one of those varigated rag throw rugs. Buy one, take it home, unroll it, and then fold it corner to corner to mimic the world's largest taco (or diaper).

If the thing was roughly square, you should be able to cut a head-hole through at the middle of your folded crease, and you're done. (Sew it up to keep it from unraveling on you, if you want to save it for more than one night.)

If the rug or blanket is more of a rectangle than a square, just fold it in half widthwise, and procede to cut the head hole as above. [Feel free to tatter the loose edges to make fringe, or to add some brown tassals along the bottom edges to make it look more authentic mexican.]

Cheap, disposable, and can be repurposed if you're cheap!

Try wearing an extra long knit wool scarf, al la Tom Baker in Dr. Who... cause Mrs. Weasley just doesn't know when to stop knitting!

The only real originality you'll get out of a HP costume is imaginatively expanding upon the base costume from the movies (and which you've described). How might Harry modify his attire as part of his daily life? Would he pull on a Quidditch jersey before practice? What about the jumper that Mrs. Weasley knit for him for Christmas?

i do cuz my friend told me something but i cant tell u cuz it was a secret and one day mme and my friend went into this old dirty abandoned house and we felt a presence...