Sir Cad Again

“IT WASN’T A NIGHTMARE!” Ron yelled. “PROFESSOR, I WOKE UP, AND SIRIUS BLACK WAS STANDING OVER ME, HOLDING A KNIFE!”Professor McGonagall stared at him. “Don’t be ridiculous, Weasley, how could he possibly have gotten through the portrait hole?”“Ask him!” said Ron, pointing a shaking finger at the back of Sir Cadogan’s picture. “Ask him if […]

Second Star on the Right…..

He squeezed Buckbeak’s sides with his heels. Harry and Hermione jumped back as the enormous wings rose once more. . . . The hippogriff took off into the air. . . . He and his rider became smaller and smaller as Harry gazed after them . . . then a cloud drifted across the moon. […]

Who Can Stand

Poem by William BlakeLyrics by Benatar PredatorsEverywhereAnd found in children’sNeighborhoods They cry in the dark, so you can’t see their tearsThey hide in the light, so you can’t see their fearsForgive and forget, all the whileLove and pain become one and the sameIn the eyes of a wounded child When being forced to babysitSo, the […]

Payment Due, Payment Owed

“I must be cruel only to be kind;Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.” Hamlet, act 3 scene 4 “And thirdly,” said Uncle Vernon, his mean little eyes now slits in his great purple face, “we’ve told Marge you attend St. Brutus’s Secure Center for Incurably Criminal Boys.”“What?” Harry yelled.“And you’ll be sticking to that […]

more’n broomsticks or rats

but I gotta tell yeh, I thought you two’d value yer friend more’n broomsticks or rats. Tha’s all.” Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (p. 111). Pottermore Publishing. Kindle Edition. Harry put his hand on Ron’s arm to keep him silent, “Hagrid? How many things do you treasure in this hut. Don’t […]

Malfoy’s Malingering

HarryMadam PomphreySeverus Snape BAMF Pomphrey Malingering: to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work) Malfoy’s Malingering “There’s nothing wrong with your arm,” he hissed at Malfoy.Malfoy smirked across the table.“Weasley, you heard Professor Snape; cut up these roots.”Ron seized his knife, pulled Malfoy’s roots toward him, and began to chop […]

Walks These Halls

I came to herone night before bedI killed her thinkingshe’d been with another instead My wifeI slaidAnd where no one could findher body I laid Time continuesas do all thingsThen my innocent wifecame a – visiting She would come to the mealsWhich with friend I would shareShe would come to my roomWhen with women I […]

Inflation Marge

Harry Potter Third Year, Minor Character Deaths “MARGE!” yelled Uncle Vernon and Aunt Petunia together as Aunt Marge’s whole body began to rise off her chair toward the ceiling.She was entirely round, now, like a vast life buoy with piggy eyes, and her hands and feet stuck out weirdly as she drifted up into the […]

How Many

HP, Third Year, Lyrics by Dylan Before he’d had time to think, Harry had taken his eyes off the Snitch and looked down. At least a hundred dementors, their hidden faces pointing up at him, were standing beneath him. It was as though freezing water were rising in his chest, cutting at his insides.And then […]

Did They?

Everyone makes comments on Harry being the Obscural in the stories. But what about Neville? Lyrics: Willie McBride Did They? Neville was pink and trembling. He looked as though he was on the verge of tears.“Please, sir,” said Hermione, “please, I could help Neville put it right —”“I don’t remember asking you to show off, […]