Owls, pussycats, Hermione/Moody, willows

[Tabouli]

No: HPFGUIDX 31612

Ebony:
> No, no no!  You've got it all wrong!  Obviously it's going to be 
Hedwig/Crookshanks--the HMS Owl and Pussycat.<

Now this is a fine suggestion: "The owl and the pussycat went to school / In a beautiful blood-red train...".  Of course, then there's always "Mad teacher, the subject / Of schoolgirl fantasy..."

Cindy (who thinks the H/MM Ship definitely needs an acronym)

Generation-crossing, teacher-student romances?  Definitely S.H.A.M.E.F.F.U.L!  (Sentimental Hermione And Mad-Eye: Fated For Undying Love).

Joshua:
> But can her love (or ambition, whichever it is) withstand the fact 
that the Moody she knew and loved is actually a traitorous Voldemort 
supporter while the real Moody lay in an undignified heap in the 
bottom of a magic trunk?<

I can just see it now:  

XOXOXOX

Excerpt from "A Moody Affair":

"Oh Alastor," whispered Hermione, her tender young lips quivering with pain, "you're not the man I thought you were."
"But Hermione," cried the unmasked Barty, anguish furrowing his manly brow, "I'm still the same man inside!"
"No, Alastor!" wept Hermione, tears streaking like comets across the velvet sky of her cheeks.  "The man I loved was the man inside that broken body, the man whose wooden leg I longed to paint with rainbows, the man whose magical eye gazed into my heart!"
"But Hermione, my love," shrieked Barty, "can't you see that broken body as a cocoon, from which *this* man, *this* body, has emerged, young and strong like a butterfly?  I am your butterfly Hermione, and you are my flower!  Hermione, Hermione, you can't do this to me!"

But even as his lips trembled toward hers, she turned away and bowed her head, like a tulip wilting in a porcelain vase.  It was no use.  It was the caterpillar she loved, and now that he had transformed into a butterfly, her petals were closed to him forever...

XOXOXOX

jenbea:
> What I find most interesting is that both authors chose willows, 
normally a sign of peace in most cultures, for trees with such violent aspects!<

Maybe it's precisely *because* willows are meant to be beautiful and peaceful - makes it more of a statement when one turns out to be nasty!  As for Old Man Willow, presumably he's been axed from the LOTR film along with Tom Bombadil, mutter mutter...

Tabouli.




[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]