Boredom Can Become Beautiful

 

The teenager is reading aloud to the littles, The Trumpet of the Swan by EB White! This is the second day in a row. They sit for chapter after chapter after chapter.... They were bored yesterday and I almost caved and let them watch tv/ play video games, something reserved for after dinner. It’s vacation so all they have to do is piano and silent reading. But low and behold, they can figure out how to entertain themselves. Moral of this story: Don’t over-schedule them. Don’t cave. Boredom can force beautiful things.

The next time The Double Wanderers club met, Rupert came, too.  So the club's membership had doubled. "The doubling spell I cast on the group must have worked!"  Professor Paggie McSmith exclaimed.

Haniel made a friend named Rupert Wrint, who also has two wands.

They were so busy talking about the things they can do with two wands that neither of them realized they were sitting at the Slytherin's table. Time for a quick invisibility spell before they are caught.

Professor Paggie McSmith cast a spell and magically, their two cups were filled with bubbling hot butter beer and there was a turkey twice the size of Haniel's head!

But at the first club meeting, Haniel's found out he's the only one in the club so far. 

Professor Paggie McSmith uses two wands, too, so she recruited Haniel for her club.

Feeling confident, Haniel tried again and made one tree double the size.  

Haniel cast a spell for one tree, but got two! Each wand made one! His wizarding skills are improving. 

The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten, full of grace and truth. 

-John 1:14

I purchased this nativity set in a pewter shop in Boston.

It's time to catch the Pigblemish Undeviating. Haniel casts a self-image to his communal medium.  



han_the_man Evanesco, Muggles!

Haniel Padcliffe was half the wizard he wanted to be, so he thought to make up the difference by using twice the wands.

"I do not understand the Incarnation. I rejoice in it."

-Madeline L'Engle, Bright Evening Star: Mysteries of the Incarnation

Norah made this nativity set, adding pieces each year.