When my next door neighbor, Miss Molly found out I was making things from Charmed Knits: Projects for Fans of Harry Potter,  it slipped out that she, too, was a witch-in-training.

She confessed of her crush on Harry Potter and I mine on Ron Weasley. She was in Gryffindor, as I had been. Soon after, her mom commissioned me to knit the Gryffindor House Scarf being that Molly was a first year in kindergarten at the local elementary school here in the Redwoods. I had to send it off to Diagon Alley for authentification, but it was eventually delivered by owl of course to “the cottage on Oak Street with the shiny new car” on the harvest full moon. The next day Molly said that something “very strange” had happened lat night. She had received a package from the Ministry of Magic . There were owl feathers and claw marks! I watched her open it with shear delight and caution. No, it wasn’t an invisibility cloak, but she l-o-v-e-d her Gryffindor scarf! Now all she needed was her “badge” and she would be set. As we sat in her kitchen and ate caramel covered pears and drank tea I thought to myself “this is what life’s about…magic, wonderment, and getting to know your next door neighbors.”

I used Cascade 220 Superwash wool yarn.

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