Harry Potter Humor

[heidi.h.tandy.c92 at alumni.upenn.edu]

No: HPFGUIDX 7405

Newsweek Magazine had as one of its top 10 nonpolitical cartoons of 
hte year a book cover for HARRY POTTER & THE HEARTBREAKING WORK OF 
STAGGERING GENIUS, by JK Eggers (i.e. what happens When Books 
Collide) - the image is here: 
http://modernhumorist.com/mh/0005/harry/index.cfm
If you follow the links from that page, you get the best spoof of the 
HP books which is also simultaneously the best spoof of the Dave 
Eggers memoir/bio (if you don't know about that book, it's David 
Eggers (one of hte editors of Might (a zine)) tale of what happened 
in his life after his parents died when he was 22, and he became the 
guardian of his 8 year old brother).
Go read the whole thing - I'm putting a bit here to whet your 
appetite (please put down your drink now. thank you)

<<And then I am fumbling for my wand and Hermione takes it in her 
hands and together, oh, together we cast a spell that could make your 
heart break. The parchment. Look at it. Words appear on the 
parchment. "Hello, Harry Potter." I find a quill, ink, write quickly: 
"You know me?"
I've been waiting for you. To save us from the Basilisk. 
Sure, but you have to understand that everyone else is at a banquet 
in the Great Hall. They are eating roast beef, roast chicken, jam 
doughnuts baked on the premises. They never have to fight monsters. >>

Oh, and it mentions sex. And harry. and hermione. all in the same 
sentence. 

Go read it!