[HPforGrownups] "I see no ships!"

[Neil Ward]

No: HPFGUIDX 10346

Penny said:

> Neil!  It was hilarious, but couldn't you have compared the Good Ship R/H
to
> Titanic rather than our very own SS H/H?  <g>
>
> Penny (not so sure I want to be captain anymore if I must die with my ship
> .... can I be the ship owner instead & surreptiously find my way to a
> lifeboat?)

Well, that was the point ... I'm afraid I'm [hesitates... flinches] wavering
a bit ( I think it was all that "in defence of Ron" stuff I had to read
while compiling the Ron Weasley FAQ).   I'm not signing up to R/H, I'm just
inclined to leave the shipping lane and sit in my lifeboat.  Much as I love
the old H/H ship, I can see her sinking without a trace.  Oh dear...what
have I said?

***

Don't worry, Penny, you didn't die in the story.  Captain Linsenmayer was
rescued in the nick of time by a passing Hippogriff and deposited on a
remote desert island, where she and her child lived out their days in
idyllic surroundings.

The Hippogriff also rescued a solitary peace-loving goat from the ship, but
dropped it en route to the island.  It sank like a rock to the ocean floor,
where it was rescued and genetically modified by a tribe of Merpeople.

At last report, mother, baby and mergoat were all doing well.

Neil
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Flying-Ford-Anglia

"Ron, full of turkey and cake and with nothing
mysterious to bother him, fell asleep almost
as soon as he'd drawn the curtains of his
four-poster."

[Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone]