Magical confusion

LAST night, I dreamt of Hogwarts again. Indeed, the time is ripe to revisit Harry Potter and Hogwarts — the boarding school where the series is based — for here in Pakistan, we are living in the most ‘confunding’ times possible. Surely, the ‘Confundus Charm’ has been used on everyone. And the result is greater confusion than ever before. Let us begin at the beginning. Of late, the soothsayers among our midst, like Prof Trelawny, have rarely got a prophecy right. For days, they told us ominously that decisions had been made. First came the warning about the departure of Sohail Afridi. Within…