Harry Potter in 100 words or less

The BBC’s web site has been running a contest, asking readers to submit a summary of the first six Harry Potter books, using 100 words or less. The seventh book will be released at midnight tonight.

There are six finalists, all extremely clever and some hilarious. I urge you to read them and vote. I especially like the BBC’s Spoiler Alert:

“But beware, the following summaries give away the plots of the first six books. “

The entry perhaps of most interest to readers of a blog with a local politics theme was submitted by Marie, of Aylesbury (my brother’s neck-of-the-woods). She writes:

“Cinderfella discovers he’s a wizard and trots off to wizard school where he aces in broomsticks and being Mr popular. The wicked wizard, who tried to kill him as a baby, returns from half dead and tries again only to be defeated by pluck, luck and the togetherness of giants and friendly centaurs.

Repeated attacks by the evil wizard and teenage hormones ensure gripping adventures but the wizard community buries its head in the sand until the battles of good and evil affect the politicians and the nanny state clamps down.

Evil legacies, puzzles and exams, love and angst await.”