quips about my interests aside

[rm]

This article deserves a note of "wtf?!?!" to the NYTimes. I'm just debating how to phrase it, for both clarity and personal amusement.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/01/nyregion/01cats.html

the quote in question?

"Any evil intention against my cats and me, will come back to you, three times three."

Thus spoke the witch of Elmhurst last week, casting a protective spell over her coven of cats — 30 strong, but shrinking by the day — living in the rent-controlled studio apartment she shares with her mother on 80th Street in Queens.

The witch happens to be Melanie Neer, 50, a student of the principles of Wicca and Harry Potter.

Comments

[algor.livejournal.com]

A "student of the principles of Harry Potter".

Exactly what principles are they talking about? Does she live her life according the Collected Wisdom of the Sorting Hat?

[crazycatlady.livejournal.com]

I love cats and I do enjoy Harry Potter but damn. I'm scared I'm going to wind up her. I wish there were a way I coudl change my LJ account name...

[fuyukodachi.livejournal.com]

This is embarrassing.

[melebeth]

Seriously what the hell?

And I wonder if the "wicca and principles of HP" came from her or the reporter. The Wicca thing is clearly from her, and her being an animal hoarder shows that she's a nutjob, but I question whether the HP is her idiocy or his. And why, oh why, didn't animal care and control spay the remaining cats the first time they went in?!!!