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Sometimes, it's surprising how life unfolds. I remember back in my second year at boarding school, we were all set to return for another term, standing on the train station platform. Fooling around, we missed the train.
With no other options and perhaps a bit of youthful audacity, we took dads old ford and we ended up driving it all the way to school.
The car broke down, we almost got caught. Then crazily, we crashed into a famous tree on campus.
However, as wild as that was, missing that train might just have saved us.
We later found out that the Chamber of Secrets had been opened around the time we were meant to be on that train. A deadly monster, a Basilisk, was slithering around the castle, able to kill just by meeting your gaze.
Whoโs to say we wouldnโt have bumped into it, had we made that train? With our track record of stumbling into trouble, it seems more than likely. Itโs a chilling thought.
Xoxo Ron
Wow, that's crazy! They should make a movie about it!
I'd rather he would make a nicely structured story about it. Perhaps with some more characters. Maybe write all his years in boarding school.
This is pretty much the most authentic story in this thread...
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