--- description: She cried when she got it title: Magical Boyfriend Made His Girlfriend Harry Potter's Nimbus 2000 for Christmas image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt11e0cc2d8c18f4e7/6988774e3c163943f345b637/harry-potter-and-the-sorcerers-stone_r0npfa.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Magical Boyfriend Made His Girlfriend Harry Potter's Nimbus 2000 for Christmas by [Jessica Derschowitz / EW](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Jessica Derschowitz / EW Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 2, 2016 7:55 PM CUT  Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's StoneWarner Bros. by [Jessica Derschowitz / EW](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Jessica Derschowitz / EW Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 2, 2016 7:55 PM CUT Talk about finding a Keeper. One [_Harry Potter_](http://www.ew.com/harry-potter "undefined") fan got an incredible gift from her boyfriend over the holidays: a handmade replica of Harry’s Nimbus 2000 broomstick. Jared Weissman said he spent three weeks before Christmas crafting the broom for his girlfriend, Shelby Stein. “I used a 2x4x8 piece of pine for the handle and cut it out with a jigsaw and sanded it to shape with a block plane,” he [wrote in an email to _Mashable_](http://mashable.com/2015/12/30/boyfriend-nimbus-2000/#im2pYT74UZqy "undefined"). “The bristles were shaped out of basket reed, reinforced underneath with Styrofoam circles to create the shape, and spray-painted a dark brown.” He then added the Nimbus 2000 logo to the handle and made a kickstand of out plastic rod and spray painted it gold. > [](https://twitter.com/mashable/status/682418919299223552) And the way Weissman gave Stein the finished product was magical, too. “I gave her the gift just after we had finished opening presents with our families. I wrapped it in brown paper and twine just like it was in the movie when Harry receives \[it\] in the Great Hall from his owl,” he explained. “Unfortunately, she could tell exactly what it was when she saw it (it’s kind of hard to hide the shape of a broom when it’s tightly wrapped). She was extremely excited though, and she even cried!” Get a closer look at how Weissman made the Nimbus 2000 at [_Mashable_](http://mashable.com/2015/12/30/boyfriend-nimbus-2000/#im2pYT74UZqy "undefined"). _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/01/02/harry-potter-nimbus-2000-boyfriend-christmas "undefined") _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/01/02/harry-potter-nimbus-2000-boyfriend-christmas "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4165553/boyfriend-makes-harry-potter-nimbus-2000-christmas/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4165553/boyfriend-makes-harry-potter-nimbus-2000-christmas/"},"headline":"Magical Boyfriend Made His Girlfriend Harry Potter's Nimbus 2000 for Christmas","datePublished":"2016-01-02T19:55:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:28:13.760Z","description":"She cried when she got it","url":"https://time.com/4165553/boyfriend-makes-harry-potter-nimbus-2000-christmas/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt11e0cc2d8c18f4e7/6988774e3c163943f345b637/harry-potter-and-the-sorcerers-stone_r0npfa.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Jessica Derschowitz / EW"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt11e0cc2d8c18f4e7/6988774e3c163943f345b637/harry-potter-and-the-sorcerers-stone_r0npfa.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"harry-potter-and-the-sorcerers-stone_r0NPfA","caption":"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone","creditText":"Warner Bros.","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4165553/boyfriend-makes-harry-potter-nimbus-2000-christmas/","name":"Magical Boyfriend Made His Girlfriend Harry Potter's Nimbus 2000 for Christmas"}}]}] ```