[HPforGrownups] Lockhart's spells (transmogrification)

[Elizabeth]

No: HPFGUIDX 4669

Thanks, Neil! I was going crazy trying to remember
that poem. As soon as we started discussing the word I
start trying to rememver that poem. I think I had to
learn it my seior year of high school to, too. (which
btw was 1987 for me)

> Why do I remember something So obscure from high
> school senior year English
> class in 1988?
> There's  poem which mentions a "transmogrifying bee"
> -I managed to find it (you
> can see it at the end of this post) - and my teacher
> told us that
> The poem:
> Beautifully Janet slept
>            Till it was deeply morning. She woke then
>            And thought about her dainty-feathered
> hen,
>            To see how it had kept.
> 
>            One kiss she gave her mother.
>            Only a small one gave she to her daddy
>            Who would have kissed each curl of his
> shining
>            baby;
>            No kiss at all for her brother.
> 
>            Old Chucky, old Chucky! she cried,
>            Running across the world upon the grass
>            To Chuckys house, and listening. But
> alas,
>            Her Chucky had died.
> 
>            It was a transmogrifying bee
>            Came droning down on Chuckys old bald
> head
>            And sat and put the poison. It scarcely
> bled,
>            But how exceedingly
> 
>            And purply did the knot
>            Swell with the venom and communicate
>            Its rigor! Now the poor comb stood up
> straight
>            But Chucky did not.
> 
>            So there was Janet
>            Kneeling on the wet grass, crying her
> brown hen
>            (Translated far beyond the daughters of
> men)
>            To rise and walk upon it.
> 
>            And weeping fast as she had breath
>            Janet implored us, Wake her from her
> sleep!
>            And would not be instructed in how deep
>            Was the forgetful kingdom of death.
> 
> 


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Elizabeth (Rhiannon8404)

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She is like a cat in the dark
And then she is the darkness.
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