What the hell are they up to now?

[annemehr]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "vinnia_chrysshallie" <vinnia_chrysshallie at y...> wrote:
> "annemehr" <annemehr at y...> wrote:

> > Have you ever read that Ray Bradbury book?  The one called 
> _Something
> > Wicked This Way Comes_ which features prominently an accursed
> > roundabout belonging to an evil travelling fair?  Sounds like maybe
> > someone's a fan.
> > 
> > It's a really good book, actually, but it's not PoA.
> > 
> > Annemehr
> > 
> > P.S. no tiny people in it, though, as far as I can remember...  :P
> 
> Vinnia:
> Isn't that part of the choir's song? 'Something wicked this way 
> comes'? Maybe for Halloween this year Hogwarts has a carnival 
> feast...with carousel and choir and cotton candy? And the next day 
> one student theorizes that Sirius hitch a ride with the carousel to 
> get into the castle?

Annemehr:
Yeah, the choir's song I took to be the quote from the Play-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named (oh, what the heck; I'm not in theater: 
MACBETH!).  But then when I read about the carousel, I thought of the Bradbury book of the same name.  In that book, if you rode the 
carousel in one direction, it aged you, and if you rode it the other way, it made you younger.  IIRC, someone rode it forward so long 
they became ancient and dried up and blew away.  But if you rode it carefully the other way whenever necessary, you'd never need the 
philosopher's stone!  It'd make plenty of money for you, too, if you sold rides to anyone who wanted to change their age.

Annemehr
who hasn't read that book in ages, & mentally puts it on the loooong list of books to read