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"The parchment isn’t really saying this, is it? No.
 * Breaking the Fourth Wall: At the end of Harry Potter and the Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, while Harry writes to a parchment:

This is a literary device, this invisible ink, all manufactured and fake. It is.

It’s a good device, though. A way to squeeze a few more jokes into this parody that didn’t fit elsewhere. Yeah, but now I feel bad about it. What kind of monster teases a guy because tragic events in his life resonate with elements of the Harry Potter books?

He won’t mind. He’ll get it. Maybe, but just the same, I’d like to stop now."

"“What about the parchment?” Hermione says, not thinking about sex. And now I remember the parchment in my pocket. I unfold it. It is still blank. “It is still blank.”"
 * Department of Redundancy Department: In Harry Potter and the Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius:


 * Present Tense Narrative: The Harry Potter satire is written that way.
 * Satire: Harry Potter and the Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius is a satire of the memoir A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers and the Harry Potter series.