More Wizarding Superstore? Help!

[Doreen Rich]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., > > Ebony asked:
> > 
> > <<If there was a wizarding version of the American
> > superstore (Super
> > Wal-mart, Super K-Mart, Meijer's, etc.), what would
> > it sell?  I'm  trying to
> > make a list of departments here...
> > 
> >  And before you say "this would never happen--this
> > world is too
> > traditional--they wouldn't like it" rest assured
> > that this conflict  of
> > interest is being exploited as a source of
> > tension.>>
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Additional Knute's Knut & Sickle Variety Store Stuff

Ernie & Stan's Engraving Kit
No more lost umbrellas or wands on the Knight Buses. Put a Dark Mark 
on all your valuable items today! Handy Engraving Kit has complete 
instructions on how to engrave your MOM Sorcerer's Security number 
onto all of your treasured items. Great for marking your student's 
belongings when you send them off to Hogwarts! Works on metal, wood, 
and leather. (not recommended for the flimsy, shallow-bottomed 
cauldrons ... MOM approved cauldrons only)
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Hermione's Hot Rollers
Pop these rollers into the fireplace to heat. When the magic button 
turns red, they are ready to use Just roll up your hair in them. You 
too can exchange long straight hair for the more fashionable frizzy 
curls look. Endorsed by Hermione Granger, lifetime friend of "The Boy 
Who Lived", Harry Potter.
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Cauldron Cozies
Just the thing to hide that unsightly cauldron from view when 
unannounced company apparates in! Comes in a variety of colors & 
patterns: 
moonbeam yellow stars & moons pattern
mandrake green leaf pattern
cauldron cream wand pattern
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Rita Skeeter is at it again!
Read it in our "Witches Wand to Know" tabloids, found at all our 
check-out aisles.

This week's headlines include:

"My Divination Teacher Kept Me After Class ... We Did More Than 
Discuss Tea Leaves!" claims Neville Longbottom. The teaching future 
looks grim for S. Trelawney.

"Hanky Panky in Herbology" ... or ... "Why Do All the Mandrakes 
Resemble Albus Dumbledore?"
(see photo top left ... contributed by a Prof. Sprout) Ms. Sprout 
informed me that she has always been suspicious of AD ... she has 
seen him poking about in her gardens when he thought nobody was 
looking.

"I Was a Teenage Werewolf!"  the real scoop on Remus Lupin, Hogwarts 
Dark Arts Teacher's mysterious monthly disappearances.
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Doreen