Disclaimers: See the first chapter.
Snippets From the Potterverse
Chapter 14 - Pie This Way
A large sign hung on a wall in Diagon Alley.
It featured a picture of a pie. Underneath the pie was an arrow, pointing off to the right.
Crabbe and Goyle stood, entranced, in front of the sign, drooling.
It could only mean one thing, they deduced within their tiny minds.
Pie This Way.
But there was one tiny flaw.
The arrow was pointing to the Magical Menagerie.
Now, Crabbe and Goyle might not be the sharpest crayons on the Christmas tree, but they did realise that the Magical Menagerie did NOT sell pies.
But they couldn't argue with the sign! If the sign said, Pie This Way' and pointed to the Magical Menagerie, then they should at least go inside to see if there might be traces of pie.
The moral : Signs are always right.
So Crabbe and Goyle bumbled through the door of the Magical Menagerie, where the first person they encountered was the cranky owner.
I'm feeding the animals! Now go away!
Feeling thoroughly rejected, Crabbe and Goyle returned to the pie sign.
I want some pie, Goyle spoke up ten minutes later.
Me too, Crabbe agreed.
Neither boy moved for another ten minutes. Then -
I wonder where we find the pie. Crabbe mused.
The sign says it's in there, Goyle said, pointing at the Magical Menagerie.
So they went into the Magical Menagerie.
The cranky owner hit them with Stunning Spells and tossed their immobile bodies out into the dumpster behind his building.
Once they unfroze, Crabbe and Goyle returned home, feeling very disappointed.
And to add injury to insult, their mothers fed them liver for dinner that night.
With no pie.
Next door to the Magical Menagerie, a witch was closing up her shop for the night. Today had been the grand opening, and it had been quite a hit. Many people had turned up, and her merchandise had fairly flown off the shelves.
The name of this shop was Madame Beaumont's Home-Made Pies.
