Writing from Beyond

The fictional Dumbledore is back from his fictional death, fictionally speaking ... sorta. The creation of author J.K. Rowling is the stern father in situ for Harry Potter [Earlier: Father Falls and More Footsteps] during the latter's seven books of adventures — although (spoiler alert?) Dumbledore does die at the end of vol. Six.

This time the headmaster of wizarding academy Hogwarts is the commentator on short stories in Rowling's new The Tales of Beedle and the Bard. The first of the too-cute but still magickal-in-her-own-way-of-telling tales about a son who inherits a cauldron from his wizard father. Apparently, Dumbledore's commentary makes the otherwise so-so stories worth the reading because you always want to know what the father figure thinks.

You especially want to know what the FF thinks when he is a real father. That sort of quirky curiosity is what led to the arrest of two adult children of a murdered man. They haven't been charged with his demise, yet, but are on the hook for hacking his computer and installing bugs on his car so they could track where he travelled.

Rounding out this not even death should keep us from learning what a dad thinks cabal is the British hospital insisting they required a dead man's signature to insure that he was okay with his daughter looking into his medical file.