Potter in Poetry, Part 3

Read Part 2 or start at the beginning.

Then they went to buy his things

Through the letter, Harry knew what to get,

Cauldrons and ingredients, books and quills;

At Mme. Malkins, he and Malfoy first met.

Then they went to Ollivander's Wand Shop

Said Mr. Ollivander, who was old and pale,

"It's curious; the feather in Harry's and You-Know-Who's wand

Came from the same phoenix's tail."

Hagrid also bought him a white owl

Hedwig was as white as snow;

Then Harry went back home and waited

For the day to come when he would go.

Yes, he was going to Hogwarts School

Of Witchcraft and Wizardry

To learn a bit of magic;

Oh, he was as happy as one could be!

September the first came at last,

The Dursleys dropped him at Kings Cross station

But Platform 9 and 3/4 was nowhere in sight

Oh! This was a situation!

He followed a jolly family,

They ran into a solid wall;

He did it too, and came out on the other side

Narrowly missing a fall.

He sat in the gleaming Hogwarts Express,

In his compartment was another boy,

He was Ron Weasley, red-haired and freckled

And then not a picture of joy.

They ate Beans, and Chocolate Frogs

Unwrapping them from the foil;

They met Hermione Granger and Neville Longbottom,

And Malfoy and Crabbe and Goyle.

The Hogwarts Express stopped at last,

There was Hagrid, with a lamp and overcoat

He beckoned the "firs' years" to follow him to the lake,

And they rowed to the castle, four in a boat.

Into the castle, into the Great Hall they went

Professor McGonagall brought in an old hat,

It was frayed, patched and dirty,

On a stool it sat.