A woman has set her Madrid home on fire while cooking up a potion in an attempt to imitate the fictional wizard Harry Potter, emergency services say. The 21-year-old was rescued by firemen and treated for minor injuries, but half her home was destroyed.

The ambulance service said she had told them she was trying to emulate the boy magician, hero of the books by J K Rowling that have been a sensation among adults and children alike. For want of more magical ingredients, the woman cooked up a potion of water, oil, alcohol and toothpaste, local media reported on Wednesday. It was unclear what spell she was trying to weave.

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erm...okaaay!

You'd of thought at the age of 21 that she would be mature to know that the Harry Potter books are fictional

I wonder if we'll soon get stories of bank robbers using "ivisibility cloaks" and of course getting arrested on the spot because they just have a ratty old afghan.

lol@dust19..
or people trying to jump into fire places because they want to travel by floo powder!

I can see the headlines now. *waves wand and fake newspaper appears*

lol I heard about something the same except...

a boy in japan was obbsessed with pokemon so much so he thought he was pigeot (a flying pokemon) and he jumped off his roof (apartments in a tower) and died

a boy in japan thought he was pikachu and he saw a electracle wire waving around in a street and he ran up to it anf touched it thinking he would absorb it but he died.

Too much telly
Not enough sunshine