A/N: A few days ago, I watched a commercial for Disney's The Lion King III:
Hakuna Matata, and this struck me.
Prologue
THE BEGINNING
"Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything -"
"And yada, yada, yada! Come on, let's read this instead!" Charlie Weasley threw Jackie Larkin a book. It landed on her lap and she put down the book she'd been reading aloud from and picked up the new one.
"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," she read. "But that's book four - why should we start reading that?"
"Because I'm in it, and I can't wait three whole books to be introduced!" Charlie answered, snapping the book from her again and flipping through it to find a place where he was.
"You're mentioned in this one." Jackie picked up the first book again.
"So what? I want to be in there physically - here, start there." He handed Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire back to her, opened on page 49.
"But Charlie, we can't start with book four, it'll just make people confused," she said, looking from the book up at him. He sighed.
"You're right. What we need to do is to go back. To before all of this happened." Charlie leaned forward and hit the book out of Jackie's hands. He caught it before it hit the floor and laid it on top of the other four books on the table.
"Before *any* of this happened!" He swept the books from the table and left them in a pile on the floor.
"Yeah, you're right! We'll tell them our story!" Jackie stood up.
"All right then! Forget about Harry. Let's read another book!" Charlie's face had split in a grin.
"So does that mean we'll go back to the beginning?" asked Jackie.
"No, no, no! That's way too long. In the beginning God created Heaven and Earth, and we weren't in that book either! No, we'll start at our beginning, Jack, and if I'm not mistaken, it was around July in 1980...."
Prologue
THE BEGINNING
"Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much. They were the last people you'd expect to be involved in anything -"
"And yada, yada, yada! Come on, let's read this instead!" Charlie Weasley threw Jackie Larkin a book. It landed on her lap and she put down the book she'd been reading aloud from and picked up the new one.
"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire," she read. "But that's book four - why should we start reading that?"
"Because I'm in it, and I can't wait three whole books to be introduced!" Charlie answered, snapping the book from her again and flipping through it to find a place where he was.
"You're mentioned in this one." Jackie picked up the first book again.
"So what? I want to be in there physically - here, start there." He handed Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire back to her, opened on page 49.
"But Charlie, we can't start with book four, it'll just make people confused," she said, looking from the book up at him. He sighed.
"You're right. What we need to do is to go back. To before all of this happened." Charlie leaned forward and hit the book out of Jackie's hands. He caught it before it hit the floor and laid it on top of the other four books on the table.
"Before *any* of this happened!" He swept the books from the table and left them in a pile on the floor.
"Yeah, you're right! We'll tell them our story!" Jackie stood up.
"All right then! Forget about Harry. Let's read another book!" Charlie's face had split in a grin.
"So does that mean we'll go back to the beginning?" asked Jackie.
"No, no, no! That's way too long. In the beginning God created Heaven and Earth, and we weren't in that book either! No, we'll start at our beginning, Jack, and if I'm not mistaken, it was around July in 1980...."