[HPforGrownups] My animagus/nightmares

[Aberforths_Goat]

No: HPFGUIDX 4526

Some day, when I find time to get myself psychoanalyzed, I'll have to figure
out why I always end up picking on Neil.  But for the mean time, I can't
help it ...

> - I fear I would turn into a sponge and end up in someone's bathtub.

Err, you weren't planning to divulge the identity of the bathtub's owner,
were you?

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As for myself, I'd rather like to transform into cow, preferably a
Simmenthal.  I think cows are the single species on the planet to have
attained the true stoic ideal of apathia.  Cows have the problem of
existence pretty well taken care of.  That's obviously why Mrs. Zeus used to
turn into one whenever hubby's escapades got to be too much for her.

But I'm afraid I would finish the mighty magic, do my dance, wave my wand
... and nothing would happen.  Then I would discover that you can't turn
into an animal when you are one already.

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> When I was a small child, my mother always used to say, "Night, night.
> Sleep tight. Don't let the bed bugs bite".  I don't recall thinking, "What
> bed bugs? Are they lethal? Gemmeouttahere!" - there was just something
> comforting about the rhyme.

As it stands, that old rhyme is outdated and possibly detrimental to a
child's development of a healthy assertiveness.  It instructs kids to go
through life hoping bad things won't happen to them.  The more healthy
varient (which I invented for *my* kids) is as follows: "Night, night. Sleep
tight. And if the bed bugs bite, bite back."

Baaaaaa!

Aberforth's Goat (a.k.a. Mike Gray)
http://profiles.yahoo.com/aberforths_goat