I see and hear, but can't move,

transformed by spell into living statuary

placed in the Grangers' garden

as unintended focal point.

 

I decide to give Grandfather's artwork a name.

Boy with Niffler.

 

Voices echo around me

like museum curators

discussing art in normal tones

when alone in the exhibition room.

 

Should the piece stay in European sculpture,

or move to another gallery?

 

I feel a pleasant tingle

and shiver in mind if not body

as magic sweeps over me,

turning stone to lightest down.

 

Rose's arms wrap tightly, securing me for Apparation.

The statue is moving.

 

In the seconds before nothingness,

I remember the myth of Pygmalion,

and realise Galatea

also prayed to Aphrodite.

 

 

A/N: This poem was inspired by Billy Collins' poetry and ch 18 of my Scorpius/Rose story Our Little Secret. In legend, Pygmalion was a sculptor who created a woman out of ivory and named her Galatea. When he fell in love with her, Aphrodite heard his prayers, took pity on him and brought the statue to life.

Any readers who hear my prayers and review won't be revered as gods and goddesses, :D, but will be thanked with much appreciation.