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[McGonagall's Cat]

In Chapter 21, The Unknowable Room, Hermione gives Ron a hard time because Madam Rosemerta didn't laugh at his joke about The Hag, The Healer, and the Mimbulus Mimbletonia.


Your challenge:

Please tell us the joke about The Hag, The Healer, and The Mimbulus Mimbletonia.

Make it funny, or clever, or even a "groaner"!

[zymurgy]

A Hag goes into the Healer's office.

"Healer," she says, "I haven't always been a Hag. I was once a gorgeous Witch, but one day, in a dream, I heard the words 'mimblus mimbletonia,' so I asked my mother what a mimblus was. She told me that was no question for a lady and cursed me with a harelip.

"When my father got home, he asked me who had cursed me, and I said my mother had, because I'd asked what a mimblus mimbletonia was. He flew into a rage, and cursed me with a bowed back.

"Then, I went to school, trying to hide the curses, but my teachers saw, and they asked me what had happened, and I said that I'd asked what a mimblus mimbletonia was. She cursed me with a hundred extra years of age, and I was expelled.

"And so, Healer, I've wandered the world, and tried to find out the secret of the Mimblus Mimbletonia, but have only been cursed. Tell me, what is the Mimblus Mimbletonia?"

"Curse you for asking such a question!" shouts the Healer, drawing his wand and cursing her warts to grow warts.

Sobbing, she flees the office, her last hope gone.

But then, across the Alley, she sees a little roadside stand, with an enormous sign saying, "Find out what a Mimblus Mimbletonia is, 4 sickles."

Overjoyed, she runs towards it -

- and gets run over by the Knight Bus.