If you didn’t actually get a letter summoning you to Hogwart’s, getting to sniff Ron Weasley’s eyelash stank on your fingers has to be the next best thing. Just ask the Japanese Harry Potter fan who got to meet Rupert Grint in the flesh! Nine MSN says

While her job was technically an interview through a translator, Kana had more hands-on activities on the agenda. She marveled at Rupert’s ‘silver ‘ eyelashes, asked to [touch] them… and then smelled her hand.

This video is adorable because it’s a little Japanese school girl with buck teeth who giggles nervously with her hand over her mouth the whole time she’s fingering his eyelashes. If it were, say, a forty-year old man in a tank top and cutoff denim shorts, the tape would be submitted by the state as evidence. Just one more reason sex offenders might want to start dressing up as Japanese school girls. Besides the awesome wardrobe, of course!

I guess they forgot to teach the spell that would repel the swine flu at Hogwarts, because NineMSN is reporting that Harry Potter star Rupert Grint has come down with the virus.

It was only a matter of time before a celebrity came down with swine flu, and Harry Potter star Rupert Grint is the unlucky first.

The 20-year-old is under quarantine after contracting the virus and has had to take time off from filming Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.

His publicist confirms, “Rupert Grint has taken a few days out of filming due to a mild bout of swine flu.”

Luckily Rupert hasn’t been affected too badly by the virus — which has killed 332 people worldwide — and he’s expected to be on his feet again to join his castmates at the London premiere of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince tomorrow.

Since he’s a celebrity and can get into places I can’t, maybe he’ll go cough on the cast of Twilight for me.

Behind the scenes at the London studio for the filming of The Dealthly Hallows, because I know you’re big nerds: