Harry Potter/ J K Rowling Writing Competition

[Flint]

• What songs do wizards use to celebrate birthdays?

Shake: Well kiss that snooze-fest goodbye, because I wrote a new one, and from now on whenever someone blows out candles or unties a ribbon, THIS is what their waitresses will be singing (turns on tape machine):

Deep within the wall of time a creature thus be born.
See the mighty united with the egg of tyranny.
Check this force within the womb of life for three-quarter and nigh a year,
The creature thus be born. The creature thus be formed.

(guitar solo)

Shake: This is Zakk Wylde.

Meatwad: This is Ozzy’s old guy?

Shake: The man knows his way around five strings.

Frylock: You’re telling me that THIS is the new birthday song?

Shake: Gee willikers, it must be Obvious Day at Camp Stupid. What it’s called is “Spirit Journey Formation Anniversary.” It came to Geddy and I in a dream.

Frylock: Geddy?

(song continues in the background:
And every year raineth down the celebratory tears.
A celebration of the years from the immortal sky.)

Shake: Geddy Lee, lead singer of Rush.