Did someone say "frat"?

One thing I forgot to mention. Finns are crazy about fraternities...although unlike in the US that doesn't merely involve sporting a baseball cap :). When they belong to a fraternity, they wear the uniform and insignia of that fraternity... out in public, as if wearing normal clothes. It was kind of bizarre to see. For example, men in military wear with weird hairdos (and, no, they were not from the military). My favorite example though is of this group of teenagers my sister and I saw in Suomenlinna (an island off the coast of Helsinki and home to a fortress). After our walk around, we were heading back to the ferry and spotted this group of teenagers dressed in black and wearing black cloaks. As we got closer, we saw that they were also wearing striped scarves (half of them red and yellow, the other half green and white), and some of them were holding wooden sticks that resembled magic wands. I cannot state this with 100% certainty, but we are almost sure that we had landed upon a Harry Potter fan club/fraternity or something of the sort...There were about 20 of them... and no-one else around us seemed to find it strange at all. Well, you can draw your own conclusions, but mine is that some of these people really have nothing better to do with their time :). I don't mean it in a bad way, but I did find it a tad peculiar :).