We met at a Harry Potter bar crawl in Washington, DC. Jacob was standing at the bar with his high school friends, while Cristina was nearby with her nursing-school friends. We were both having a great night, completely unaware that we were about to meet the love of our lives. So how did it all begin? Earlier in the night, Cristina spotted Jacob at the very first bar and casually mentioned to her friend that she thought the guy in the Hufflepuff jersey was cute. Later on, when Cristina and her friends ran into Jacob again at a different bar on the crawl, her friend encouraged her to talk to the “Hufflepuff boy,” AKA Jacob. With a little liquid courage, Cristina casually (and very intentionally) pretended to bump into him. What started as a simple hello quickly turned into hours of talking and dancing. When the bar crawl ended, Cristina’s friends headed to another bar—but Jacob was stopped at the door for being “underdressed” in his Hufflepuff jersey and Adidas pants. We said goodbye, thinking the night was over… but it was only the beginning.