The Eternal Lost Lurker wrote:

   "But how do we get to this Platform Nine and Three-Quarters,
anyway?" asked Morrigan.  "I don't see a sign."

   "May I help you with that?"  The speaker was a tall redheaded man
pushing a very overloaded baggage cart.  Beside him were four
red-headed children descending in size from nearly as tall as the man
to just shorter than Duncan.  "I'm Ron Weasley."

And the potato farmer turns out to be just as fertile as his own parents.
Big surprise there.

   "You...saw that?  Yes, but I think I'm getting the hang of it
now.  Maybe I can even make the Quidditch team someday.  Oh, I'm
Kirsten Kinnock, and this is my cat Jinx."  The girl indicated a
black cat that was emerging from behind her.

*groan* Still, I half expected this.

   Polishing off the candy, the children started talking about
Quidditch.  Apparently it was a sport played on broomsticks, with
multiple balls, some of which attacked the players.  It sounded
horribly confusing to Duncan, but then he couldn't figure out cricket
either, and he'd *played* that.

Cricket: As explained to a foreigner...

You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in 
the side
that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes 
in until
he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the 
side thats
been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you 
get men
still in and not out.

When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, 
and when he
is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are 
two men
called umpires who stay all out all the time and they decide when the 
men who are
in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have out, and 
both sides
have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who 
are not
out, that is the end of the game!


Chris Mattern

"NOBODY understands cricket!"

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