This is getting harder and harder, not just because of time but other commitments. Today I finished up the comic strip for FTF Geocacher and sent that off and really just wanted to sit back and relax… but I knew I needed to to get a drawing done. SO after dinner tonight a sat at my drafting table and decided to dredge up an old drawing I had done years and years ago Harry Potter chasing a a golden snitch. The crazy thing these entries take more time to write than the drawing do.
The story for this drawing is one of opposing authority or at least openly disregarding it. As you know I’m a school teacher and over the years certain “Educational Decrees” have been issued some make sense and others show that whoever is writing these things isn’t all there. Unfortunately once a decree has been made the people in charge tend to just send out reminders without really looking at what the decree said. So years ago a school I was at sent out to all teachers requirements for classroom holiday decorations. basically a list of stuff that you could have on bulletin boards, on worksheets, and newsletters. When I first scanned the list I thought, “Hey, it’s nice to know so I don’t get in trouble.” Then I took a look at the list and since it was getting close to Halloween I started there. It was the typical – no monsters, or witches- you could however have harvest themed decorations including jack-o-lanterns. I stopped… I did a double take- you couldn’t have anything related to Halloween, but you could have jack-o-lanterns? I was confused and decided at that point I was going to see how far I could bend the rules. Outside of each room was a floor to ceiling bulletin board. It was a monster to deal with. I decided starting in October to create a Harry Potter bulletin board. Today’s image is pretty close to what I drew except Harry was pretty much life size. So there in the middle of the school was a bulletin board with a guy in a black robe riding a broomstick. That bulletin board stayed up for a year. No one said anything. I updated it with information about (at that time) the upcoming Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone film. Oh, that same educational decree still get’s sent out every year- and I’m still allowed to put jack-o-lanterns in my classroom to ward off evil spirits during All Hallow’s Eve.