Nigel Molesworth reads Harry Potter

junediamanti june.diamanti at blueyonder.co.uk
Mon Jan 12 16:15:32 UTC 2004


--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Tabouli" <tabouli at u...> 
wrote:
> (enter a salad with laughter convulsing among her leaves)
> 
> Did someone link to this:
> 
> http://www.alice.dryden.co.uk/ho_for_hoggwarts.htm
> 
> when people were discussing school series a few weeks back?  If so, 
have it again.  Can't remember how many of you said they'd read Down 
with Skool and the others in that series (by Geoffrey Willans and 
Ronald Searle, IIRC), but for those who have, this is very very 
amusing.  Very amusing indeed.
> 
> I've only just started reading it (read a couple paragraphs and 
dashed off to send this message!), but from what I've seen so far, it 
is a fine, fine rendition of the original Willans and Searle style.  
Hee!
> 
> Tabouli.
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

As a Molesworth fan of decades standing I would say it is about as 
canonically sound (Willans and Searle) as you could get.  

I will have to read it properly later on again, because I nearly 
dislocated my jaw trying not to laugh at the office.

June





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