Our Lives Through Sticks
Theme # 14: Horn Tongue


"Father says horn tongue incantations are bad to try," Luna explained, lying on her stomach by the lake in the vast, green grounds of Hogwarts. "The spell makes the caster ticklish many years later."

Ginny Weasley looked up from the odd-shaped, stick figures she was drawing rather absently on the back of her Potions textbook for the most fleeting of seconds. "Um, yes. And I'm going to be the first female to head the All-Men's Quidditch League when I grow up, you know."

Luna smiled, quite serenely. "Oh yes! If you want it. Though father says they only won the World cup last time because they all ate crushed cactus leaves for dinner."

Ginny blinked. Odd, Luna may have been but, today, she could not help feeling her friend was being especially odd. So, instead of replying, she continued to draw her odd-shaped, stick figures.

There was Harry, with a big, stick skirt and two, stick arms sticking out. There was Hermione with a big, stick mustache and a big, stick skirt. There was Ron, with a stick Firebolt and a stick Quidditch cup in his hands.

And there was Blaise with a stick her.