The Summer of Harry Potter (& a Very Short Book Report)

Hello and Happy Poetry Friday! Please visit Jama at the ever-delicious Jama's Alphabet Soup for Roundup.

Confession: while I have oft professed love for Harry Potter (and even freaking CRIED when I rode the ride at Universal Studios), the only Harry Potter book I have read is the first one. (I have seen all the movies. More than once.)

So this summer I am going to remedy that. For the next 7 weeks, I will be reading a book a week -- and blogging about it. (Okay, it may take me longer than this -- I do have travel and family plans that may prevent me from keeping that schedule for the later/longer books.)

To start my Summer of Harry Potter, I'd like share a poem I wrote in a series of “found” poems from classic children's books. I selected words from the first three pages of a book (keeping the words in order of their appearance, as in blackout poetry) with the aim of creating a poem that kind of tells the whole story. Think of it as a very short book report!

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Proud Dursleyshad a secret.
Years shuddered,story hummed –
owl, cat, corner. People in cloaks.
- Irene Latham