New activity!!!

[voicelady_2000 at yahoo.com]

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No: HPFGUIDX C1082
From: voicelady_2000
Subject: New activity!!!
Date: 4/17/00 8:40 am  (ET)

Okay gang, I've thought about this quite a bit, and I'm ready to
continue with a new activity. We all know who our regular posters are,
right? Because that will help quite a bit. I'm going to start writing
a story, and each of you will continue it. To keep things from getting
messy, I will SELECT someone to continue. That person will write the
next bit, and then he or she will designate the next storyteller, and
so on. (This way, we'll have stuff to post!) So here goes:

HOW HAGRID BECAME A HERO

Early one bright July morning, Hagrid woke in his hut with the sun
streaming through the window. It was a beautiful day. The sun was
strong and bright, the dew glistened on his rosebushes, the birds were
singing merrily...in fact, it was a perfect Summer's day! And Hagrid
couldn't have been more blue. "Ahhh," he sighed, "I miss Harry. And
Ron and Hermione, too," he added quickly, feeling bad for almost having
forgot them. "Nothing excitin' ever seems to happen durin' the Summer
Holidays. Ahhh..." he sighed again.

"Well, there's nothing to be gained by moping about," he thought to
himself. So, brushing off his bleary eyes - for he'd had quite a bit of
mead in the village the night before - he struggled out of bed determined
to feel better.

As he worked in his garden, gazing in admiration at his summer squash,
"They're turning out nicely this year," he heard a great commotion
overhead. Craning his neck upwards and shading his eyes from the
glare of the sun, he saw something...something HUGE...flying closer and
closer. Feeling something close to panic, Hagrid realized that the great
shape was coming straight for him! Before he could shake off his stupor,
with a great THUD, it landed right in front of him, steaming fire from
it's great nostrils. It was Norbert!

"Norbert!" Hagrid cried happily, "You've come home to Mummy!" And that's
when Norbert began to talk. Now, dragons don't talk the way you or I
do, but Hagrid seemed able to understand him anyway. Norbert made such
a commotion with his snorting, hissing, growling and grunting that
Hagrid had to ask him to repeat himself twice. But finally, Hagrid
understood. "Wot's that you say? Bill? Bill Weasley? In trouble? Oh
no! I've got to do somethin'!"


And I choose darwin_nyc to continue the story.