[HPFGU-OTChatter] I have been a victim of muggle-baiting

[Peggy Wilkins]

On 10/19/06, Jordan Abel <random832 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Now, normally it would seem that I'm just careless, except for where
> the old one reappeared - in my wallet. The only explanations are that
> A) it was actually gone [or shrunk] and came back again or B) I was
> confunded. So it seems clear that we now have a real-life example of
> muggle baiting
>
> (disclaimer: all of the above may not actually be true.)

Now I have to tell about how I once apparated...

I was three years old and my family had just moved to a new town.  I
was playing outside, running up and down a neighbor's driveway.  The
driveway went downhill and curved off to one side to their garage, and
I was thoroughly enjoying myself running down the hill to the garage,
turning around in a circle, and then up the driveway again to the
street.  It was a steep hill so the street would go out of view as I
went down, then it would come back into view as I ran up.  I did this
several times repeatedly until the last time I ran up the hill, but
didn't recognize where I was anymore.  I was lost and confused, and so
started walking down the street to find my house again.

I actually never did find my house.  I was picked up by two policemen
who saw me out walking on the street alone and asked me where I lived;
and of course I had no idea.  So they drove me around asking people if
they knew me until a neighbor recognized me.  It turned out I was
found walking about a mile and a half from home.

I really do remember this experience very clearly, and always felt
that when I went up that driveway the last time I did not come up at
the same place I went down!

When I found out about Apparition, well, that seemed to explain it.

My wandering experience was reported in the local newspaper that
weekend, so this is even documented.

-- 
Peggy Wilkins
"We Kingly Pigs"
enlil65 at gmail.com