MKC's Creative Writers!

Rewriting Rowling!

The MKC’s creative writers took a stab at transforming passages from the works of JK Rowling from narrative into poetry! These budding writers discussed what was important to include – and what could be taken out – in order to create an image, a mood, or an emotion. Take a look at what a few of them did:

Original passage:

   After lunch, they went to the reptile house. It was cool and dark in there, with lit windows all along the walls. Behind the glass, all sorts of lizards and snakes were crawling and slithering over bits of wood and stone. Dudley and Piers wanted to see huge, poisonous cobras and thick, man-crushing pythons. Dudley quickly found the largest snake in the place. It could have wrapped its body twice around Uncle Vernon’s car and crushed it into a trash can.

Rewrite #1:

The reptile house.

Cool and dark. Behind the glass

Lizards and snakes crawling, slithering.

Quickly, the man-crushing python wrapped its body twice around Uncle Vernon’s car

Crushed it into a trash can.

--by J.S.

Rewrite #2:

The reptile house

Cool and dark along the walls.

Lizards and snakes

Crawling, slithering on wood and stone.

Dudley and piers wanted to see huge cobras and man-crushing pythons.

--by Aryel

Rewrite #3:

Reptile house.

Cool and dark

Lizards and snakes

Crawling and slithering.

Dudley found the largest snake.

Wrapped its body twice, crushed a car into a trash can.

--by Nancy F.