Toto, we’re not at Hogwarts anymore

A substitute teacher dismissed upstate for, along with more pertinent flaws like not following lesson plans, performing “wizardry”.

Piculas says the parent of a traumatized student complained after he performed the toothpick trick.

I realize preteens are not, thanks to puberty and immaturity, the most stable individuals around, but how in the name of Houdini can you be traumatized by a magic trick?

It’s a good thing Mr. Etherege of Castrevenford, who can be encountered in the chronicles of Gervase Fen (Love Lies Bleeding to be specific) is not teaching in Land o’ Lakes. There would be a bunch of traumatized students lying around.

When Wells, the porter, entered the Modern Sixth room ten minutes before the end of last period, he found Mr. Etherege expounding the technics of demonology and black magic….Cautiously skirting the mirific sign of the pentagram which was chalked on the floor, Wells delivered the headmaster’s message to Mr. Etherege, who passed it on, embroidered with pessimistic conjecture, to J. H. Williams. Wells departed, and Mr.Etherege commented briskly on the Grand Grimoire until an electric bell, shrilling violently throughout the building, indicated that morning school was over; at this he uttered a cantrip, designed, as he said, to protect J. H. Williams from bodily harm during his interview with the headmaster.

[Found through Mr. Beck}

I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised by this

wandering through Narnes and Boble I saw this (or more precisely, the book sans card set). I guess it was bound to happen. The artwork is not outstanding, but it would work well in a Narnes and Boble edition of Miss Jane Austen’s works. As a curiousity, it is fine, but I don’t think explaining to a client that I see the King of Teacups quickly approaching in her future, or that the Nine of Quills does not bode well, or congratulating her on the appearance of the Ace of Candlesticks, has quite the frisson necessary.

A quick check of Amazon does not reveal a Harry Potter tarot. I will presume that Ms. Rowling gets the credit for that. (Although there is a Lord of the Rings Tarot.)

Myself I will stick to to the Beast I know.