The Wizard and the Hopping Pot
There once was a little boy named Colithius –Coli for short. Coli had a addiction too sweets. He always snuck into the pantry to steal more candy. His favorite type of candy was Chocolate Frogs.
There was a wizard who lived one house over from Colithius. The wizard's name was Agamenun, but everyone called him Agam.
Agam liked to lure little children into his house, and have them work for him. After a week, he'd let them go home. He'd been observing Colithius for a long while, now, and he figured that he should put his plan into action.
Agam took his biggest and deepest cauldron, and put a permanent sticking charm on the sides and on the bottom. Then, he placed a Chocolate Frog, a Licorice Wand and a Sugar Quill at the bottom of the cauldron.
Since Agam lived next-door to Colithius, Agam placed the cauldron in front of his own door. That day, after school, Colithius was walking home, and his gaze fell onto the black cauldron.
Out of curiousness, Coli looked inside of the cauldron. When he saw the candy, his eyes widened. The candy at his house had run out, and he was seriously eager for candy – especially Chocolate Frogs.
Colithius reached his hand down as far as it would go into the cauldron, but he couldn't reach the candy. If he was a smart boy, he would have tipped the cauldron over, but Colithius was not a very smart boy, so he decided to climb inside of the cauldron in order to get the candy.
When he was inside, he grabbed at the candy. But, the candy wouldn't budge, and, after a moment, Coli realized that he couldn't, either. Coli got scared, and tried to scream, but before he knew it, Agamenun stuck an apple into his mouth, and Colithius couldn't speak.
Agamenun took the cauldron into his house, and tried to pull little Coli out of the cauldron, but Colithius was stuck firmly to the cauldron.
"Can't you get me out?" Colithius asked, frightened of what the answer might be.
"Well, no," Agamenun admitted, and Colithius began to cry.
Three years passed, and Colithius lived with Agamenun. Agamenun fed the little boy, and Colithius would wash dishes by making the pot hop, and wash them off in the river in-between Agamenun's house, and Colithius's house.
But one day, the Ministry was on their search for Colithius, when they saw a large pot sitting by the river, and scrawny, bony arms were protruding from it, and washing dishes in the river.
One of the Ministry Officials hurried down to the riverbank, and saw little Colithius sitting inside of the pot.
"What are you doing inside that pot, Colithius?" the man asked.
"I'm stuck," Colithius answered, "There's a permanent sticking charm on this cauldron, and I can't get out."
But, luckily, the man knew how to undo a permanent sticking charm, and soon the boy was sitting on the grass next to the man, and told him what happened.
The Ministry told Agamenun that what he had done was bad, and let Agamenun live in peace and quiet, as long as he didn't capture any other little boys.
Now, children, remember this lesson: Candy is good, even I, Beedle, know it, but never enter a cauldron unless you know that there is no permanent sticking charm on it, or you might be stuck for a very long time, just like little Colithius.