Hey! This is my attempt to get rid of my pre-recital jitters. (I have a violin recital in less than three hours, unfortunately. If I ever hear the 1st movement of Vivaldi's Concerto in A Minor again, I will scream.)
This was inspired by a recent trip to Lowe's with my dad.
By the way, as you probably guessed, I'm not J.K. Rowling.
"Sirius, will you hurry up? We have to leave!" cried Remus.
"Yeah, come on! The store is about to close!" James agreed.
"Moony, Prongs, have you ever considered what would happen if you put some of those signs together? Think of the messages they would make," Sirius began as he pointed at a rack that held signs such as Beware of Dog and Garage Sale and other, similar things.
"What? Like Beware of Sale?" Remus wondered aloud.
"Exactly!" Sirius came up to him with his finger in the air.
"Or perhaps Dog for Sale?" James suggested, as he stuggled to hold on to the bird bath that Lily wanted in the yard.
"Yes!" Sirius cried in excitement at the new game. "Wait a minute!" he exclaimed when thought of the message.
"Beware of paint," Moony said as they passed the paint aisle on the way to the check out counter.
"Beware of refrigerators," Prongs continued.
"Beware of light switches." The three went on saying, using the signs at the beginning of the aisle.
"Beware of lamps."
"Beware of doors."
"Beware of sinks."
"Beware of draperies!" Padfoot yelled. The Marauders laughed; why would they ever need to fear draperies?
Sirius should have listened to his own advice seventeen years later….
That came to me last night as my dad and I started doing the same thing, saying, "Beware of…," whatever we saw on the signs. I said, "Beware of draperies," and I thought of Sirius. This probably wasn't as good as it could be because I'm fighting my pre-recital nausea, but PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE review anyway.