ALWAYS

HOGWARTS IS MY HOME

switching off the lights, I popped the tape in the video player.

Taking a seat on the sofa, I settled my newborn son, Brenden, on my lap.

As the screen went dark, I watched as an old man dressed in a funny cloak with a long, grey beard walked into the dimly lit street.

Pulling out a strange device, just like magic, he turned off all of the streetlights.

Then, a tabby cat purred in the background.

‘I should have known that you would be here, Professor McGonagall,’ Dumbledore remarked in a hushed tone.

Harry Potter and the had been released into cinemas the year before, but being pregnant, I didn’t get to see it.