Because I need an ego trip.

Yoinked from capheine:

We all have things about our friends that make us slightly envious. Not in a bad way, but in a 'Wow! I wish I had that person's hair/eyes/money/relationship/toenails/whatever.' So tell me what about me makes you envy me (if there is such a thing), then post this in your LJ and see what makes me envious of you.

Well, why not?

I was flipping through a chapter-by-chapter review of HP6, written by someone who hadn't read a word of HP1-5. It's an interesting (and fun) perspective; you might find it worth reading as well, provided you don't mind seeing Ryoko bitch-slapped on occassion. It also has classic "newbie and knows it" lines like the following:

Judging from the description in the narrative, I'm assuming Snape is the sleepy-eyed guy who kind of looks like Edward Scissorhands if he got his hair done and spent the last several years eating nothing but lemons and rotten eggs for every meal. Without knowing who he was, the last time I saw Snape, he was bouncing up and down in a Livejournal icon. Reading this book was a calculated risk, because I knew going in that I'd see ridiculous LJ pictures being treated like fully realized characters, and I guess Snape is the first one out of the dugout.

But anyway, his review of the first chapter went in assuming that the Prime Minister, though never named in the book, is indeed Tony Blair himself. I'd assumed as much myself (though can someone remind me what year HBP is supposed to be? Blair took office in 1997, so it may still be John Major.) But then he refers to the PM as "Tony Blair" repeatedly, which really drilled the image into my head and got me thinking...

See, Blair has already made a cameo on the Simpsons, so he doesn't consider acting below his station. And the Harry Potter series is responsible for something like 80% of the GNP of Britain. (Okay, an exaggeration. Slightly. But it's still a HUGE deal across the pond.) So wouldn't it be both possible and incredibly cool for Blair to make a quick appearance as himself when HBP goes to theaters?