I'd like to know how Voldemort managed to forget that he didn't kill Double-D, seeing as how that was what blew Snape's cover and forced him out of his position as Voldemort's spy on the Order and all.
And yes, why has no one spotted the dragon? You know, I can remember a poem (pre-9/11) by Richard L. Wexelblat called "The Dragon over Hackensack, which describes the probable response of humans to an actual dragon:
Unexpectedly, a red dragon appeared over Hackensack, New Jersey One late winter afternoon. Two F-104s of the New Jersey National Guard scrambled to meet it.
In a move surprising to some observers, Though not all, The dragon breathed a stream of fire... That completely missed the planes But incinerated an empty wooden watertower on the Bijou, a billboard that used to blow smoke rings and the ABC Action-Cam hot air balloon.
One F-104 attacked with 105mm cannon, The other with Sidewinder heat-seeking missles.
Of course, the cannon shells bounced off the dragon's scales. The Sidewinders missed and eventually fell to earth in the Great Swamp, Just missing a deer on the runway of Morristown Airport.
The dragon, flattered or annoyed by all this attention, Reversed course and flew off Out of sight, In the direction of Long Island, Pausing only to eat the top fifty feet Off the leftmost of the two World Trade Center Towers.
The Pentagon ignored the report on the incident.
Now that I could believe. Not an entire country somehow missing the presence of A HUGE FECKING DRAGON OVERHEAD.
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Date: 2008-02-04 04:47 pm (UTC)And yes, why has no one spotted the dragon? You know, I can remember a poem (pre-9/11) by Richard L. Wexelblat called "The Dragon over Hackensack, which describes the probable response of humans to an actual dragon:
Unexpectedly, a red dragon appeared over Hackensack, New Jersey
One late winter afternoon.
Two F-104s of the New Jersey National Guard scrambled to meet it.
In a move surprising to some observers,
Though not all,
The dragon breathed a stream of fire...
That completely missed the planes
But incinerated an empty wooden watertower on the Bijou,
a billboard that used to blow smoke rings
and the ABC Action-Cam hot air balloon.
One F-104 attacked with 105mm cannon,
The other with Sidewinder heat-seeking missles.
Of course, the cannon shells bounced off the dragon's scales.
The Sidewinders missed and eventually fell to earth in the Great Swamp,
Just missing a deer on the runway of Morristown Airport.
The dragon, flattered or annoyed by all this attention,
Reversed course and flew off
Out of sight,
In the direction of Long Island,
Pausing only to eat the top fifty feet
Off the leftmost of the two World Trade Center Towers.
The Pentagon ignored the report on the incident.
Now that I could believe. Not an entire country somehow missing the presence of A HUGE FECKING DRAGON OVERHEAD.