A/N: Nope, don't own these characters. If I did I'd be rich and wouldn't spend my time doing this, eh?

Harry stops to wonder

To think where his time had gone

Could it be his fifth year,

When it really all felt like one?

Hermione is still there,

She's still a know-it-all

Ron is still around

With shoes too small.

Voldemort, most likely

Is still waiting for a chance

To strike at him,

Maybe at the Fall Ball dance?

Draco's hair is still blonde

His eyes are still an icy blue

He's up to his old tricks

He stuck Neville to a chair with glue.

Dumbledore's beard is longer

But still silver-white

Professor McGonagall, meanwhile

Remained strict and uptight.

Snape still likes to punish him.

Professor Trelawney's mystical light

Still hadn't gone dim

She predicted more death, and a fight.

Cho was still a beautiful person

Though Harry got over that girl.

Hagrid remained tall and hairy

His newest pet was half bird, half squirrel.

Perhaps nothing changed

His scar was still there,

Right over his glasses

And below his messy hair.

Yet people still read these characters

As if it was something new,

When the characters all remain the same,

Like beans in hunter's stew.

Yet somewhere across the ocean

In England, most likely,

A woman sits to write this all

With a taste of pizzazz, originality.

That way nobody wants it to change

Nobody wants Dumbledore to turn mean

Who'd like the twins if they behaved?

Imagine serious Hermione turned obscene!

Harry suddenly snaps out of his thoughts

And he finds himself outside

He turns around, faces Hogwarts,

And he really can smile in pride.

Yes, this school of magical wonder

Where Potions replaces Chemistry,

Where people ride broomsticks and hold wands,

It's like a land from a dream.



A/N: Don't ask. Just something I wrote at the crack of dawn, which is when I usually arrive at my school. Sometimes I get those author urges. Well I'm posting this up from my school library, and I gotta admit I don't like the mean look the librarian's giving me.