This is a quote from the first Harry Potter and I believe these words from Uncle Vernon, if they had been heeded to when you first read the book or watched the movie, could have saved a lot of us a great deal of heart ache. We always have known how bad our football team that we support is but we continue(d) to believe that somehow the football gods will weave their magic later on in the year and make us a good football side no matter how badly we start each year, or how many bad years we have had before it.
Vernon in movie one personifies everything about the world that we should have learnt from as Eels fans. He sees the world for what it is, nothing remarkable happens, nothing strange happens, nothing different happens. "There's no such thing as magic", life was ordinary for him and so are the Eels.
Ironically the movie for philosophers stone came out the same year we lost the "unloseable" grand final which should have prepared us for the heatbreak that would ensue.
Let this be a lesson to all of us, especially those that were born into a world where the Eels have not won a premiership since. Let these words ring into your head on your death bed as you smile at the times you believed the Eels would do something magic but never did, uttering them as they consume you at the end:
"There's no such thing as magic".
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