I dream that I’m reading the 3rd Harry Potter book. The kids have to write essays on fashion history for professor Lupin, Harry has taken a lucky potion so his essay is as good as Hermione’s. Both their full essays are printed in the book and it’s weird how I’ve never bothered to read them before. Hermione’s essay is full of pictures, she went the extra mile and glued in magazine clippings. I wonder why she only talks about muggle fashion, shouldn’t wizards be included somewhere?
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Brad and I
I dream that I’m in town and come across Brad Pitt, with his hair graying and a sweet dumb smile. He’s filming in a basement (I’m assuming a DC movie, because I spot Harley Quinn and a Batman costume discarded in a corner). The filming is super secret, but I can’t wait to tell my brother all about it.
There is an attack, the basement is filled with tear gas and the actors have to flee. Brad and I go to a bookstore where I introduce him to Harry Potter, he almost buys the whole series but I point out it’s the British version. I’ll get him the ebooks instead, even though I’m much poorer than him.
Brad asks me to marry him; he’s really dumb, almost childish, and in his brain this must make perfect sense. I tell him I’m not interested. My brother is there too now and angry because Brad he’s much older than me and how dare he.
Wishing To Be Part Of Something.
There’s a group of people taking professional nighttime pictures. I open a gate for them so they can work in a cool urban courtyard, but I don’t stay even though I love photography and I wish so much I could be part of this. In the corner of my eyes I can see their flashes bursting.
I go home and watch a Harry Potter movie. Umbridge is in it, and so unpleasant she actually materializes on my couch and starts bullying my sister and I.
Nonsense Potter
I’m watching a new Harry Potter TV adaptation, the actors are adults pretending to be children and the whole thing is rather irreverent.
In the episode I’m watching Harry wants to travel to a parallel world Hogwarts, so he transfigures himself into a woman to play an excellent prank on the other students. Now he has blue hair, tattoos and a fake tan; he shows his breasts proudly to Ron, and Hermione has to remind him he’s supposed to be eleven. Female Harry is a success at parallel Hogwarts, all the boys and even a few girls fall in love with him. He travels back home on his motorbike, on the highway he sees flying cars and laughs gleefuly.
Another episode starts, Harry and the gang are playing outside on the Hogwarts grounds when they find a strange emblem. They rush to the library, up in the highest tower, and place the emblem on the cover of a certain book: Harry has a vision of Voldemort, sees him talking to his Death Eaters around a table in a dark room. Voldemort realizes he’s being watched and orders Snape (who is a woman) to go get the children.
They run but it’s too late, Snape is already at the library door. Dumbledore apparates in the room and whisks everyone away to safety, the whole scene lasts only a few seconds and it’s quite exciting. In the commotion Mad-Eye Moody falls off the tower and crashes next to the maze, but he doesn’t die.
Weirdo Fear and Pleasure
There is a man chasing us, he’s wearing an animal skull on his head. He’s immortal, no matter how much we hurt him he keeps getting up; eventually I throw a bomb and blow him to smithereens. I know this is gonna buy me some time so I go to class; I can’t pay attention though, ever few moments I glance at the door, wondering when the man with the animal skull will be back.
I’m taking a walk in town with Gran, we’re not wearing a face mask and I feel guilty about it. She buys a notebook and I pay for it, then she gets a coffee to go (more sanitary!) and I pay for that too, so now I don’t have any money left.
I go back home and use the notebook to copy down a Sudoku board, I make a big mess of inky splotches and have to rip out the page. An old schoolmate comes over, he shows me a book he’s writing: the plot is about a rich young boy (self insert much? I think) with a kidnapped little sister. The book *I* am writing is much better, it’s about a genius little girl living in Victorian times.
He notices a picture of Narcissa Malfoy on the cover of one of my books, says she’s the most beautiful woman in all Harry Potter canon. I argue that would be Rowena Ravenclaw’s daughter, I try to google her but there’s something wrong: I’m writing her name on my notebook instead of a computer, and each two words I write, a drawing that combines both of them appears on paper. I immediately start combining pornographic words, and I’m still having fun with the results when my alarm rings, dangit.
Pirate Ships and Washing Bins
My brother and I are watching a special DVD edition of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets with two whole disks of extra content.
There is a deleted scene with Harry and Ron on a pirate ship. It’s a red and gold steamer with three black funnels, it’s smaller than a regular ship and it belongs to Captain Hook. Harry and Ron have been kidnapped along with other children, at twelve they are taller than the others so they try their best to look scared and innocent. I think it’s great to see them both so young again, it’s like going back in time.
More deleted scenes are shown, one is just a storyboard, one is really bad CGI, in one we see Harry from afar but it’s clearly a body double with glasses and gray hair. One scene is preserved only thanks to a couple of Indian voice actors in their booth, Hermione is too high-pitched but the boy playing Harry sounds remarkably like him. My sister catches us watching and says she’ll want to watch all the extras too when she comes back home.
I’m now at work, from my desk I can see inside my boss’ office because there is a closet missing, and apparently there never was a wall behind it. A customer is inside, I’m supposed to transfer her mobile data from her old umbrella to a new one. I ask my cousin for help and she tells me to use a standard cable.
Boss Lady walks out, demands to know why Saturday’s files weren’t archived. I promise her I archived everything I was given that evening and somebody must have hidden some files from me. Cousin G. gives me a new task, to wash our uniforms in a bin outside. I set to work in a sunny garden, and I wash with such gusto that I somehow end up drying the clothes as well. Boss Lady is even more impressed when I kill a mosquito that was walking on her neck.
I go back home and my sister is sitting on the living room floor. I’m really heartbroken because I was hoping she’d be gone forever.
I wake up and fall asleep again for a few minutes before my alarm rings. I dream about having to carry an old dying man to Hell. His wife is asleep in their room, unaware of what is happening. I take the man by the hand and we fly away, stars and building zooming behind us.
Once arrived to Hell, a demon cuts the old man’s penis off. He won’t need it anymore, the demon explains.
Bread and Science
My sister is being insufferable as always, to shut her up I turn her into a cat. And not just any cat, but my very own black, grumpy kitten. I put this creature that is both my sister and my cat in her carrier (she bites me through the bars) and bring her to the vet.
I meet my friend F. there, he tells me it’s not much, but he put some free menstrual pads aside for me. I thank him warmly. As I’m sitting in the waiting room though, two men steal my pads. I confront them with all my wit and sarcasm and humiliate them into giving my pads back.
My breakfast toasts are wrong: instead of mozzarella, they are filled with slices of pale, unripe pumpkin . There’s also a bread roll on the table, it has peanut butter sticks inside; my brother grabs it and takes a bite, I yell because the sticks are actually cat food, but it’s too late, he has eaten the bread.
It’s time to walk to school! I’m running through a meadow because I’m late. On my way I meet two unnamed voice actors and their dog, I explain to them I’m going to “phone school“.* I finally reach the building and it’s not my IRL High School: it’s a ~technical school that I apparently decided to transfer to. Inside there is a massively high ceiling and a lot of stairs moving and intertwining, a bit like Hogwarts but much more airy and modern.
My class is in the upmost right corner, I hurry up the stairs and I’m very relieved to realize I’m only five minutes late. The teacher pops his head from the door, he’s my usual philosophy prof but there’s something different this time: he has a big smile, like he’s enjoying himself, for once. He gives me a pair of scissors and tasks me with cutting out the tags from his sweater. But wait, all my classmates are teenagers, I realize with a sudden jolt. I’m an adult in my 30s! How am I supposed to get along with them!?
Back home, I boot up The Sims. Since I have all the expansion packs, I find some oriental clothes and objects. I create two Sims, an old Chinese woman and her daughter, give them musical instruments, and listen to them playing in the snow for a while.
*My new job is indeed at a phone store, but of course I’d still be stuck in high school in some way.
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