Walking past the Secret Garden Books today in beautiful Downtown Ballard, I stopped to admire the Harry Potter display (3 more days!!!) and noticed that the store is giving 20% of the profits of The Deathly Hallows to three Seattle non-profits that support children’s literacy. One of them is 826 Seattle…..hmmmm….where have I heard that name before? (Slaps forehead.) I know! It sounds just like 826 Valencia, the children’s writing nonprofit with the pirate store in San Francisco that I blogged about last week, in which I wrote “If it were in Seattle I would definitely volunteer there.” The Seattle branch doesn’t have a pirate store, to my great disappointment, but it has awesome free creative writing classes for teenagers. Two classes I want to take are “Write a novel in a month” and “Northwest Mythology Tales”. If only I were under 18! Arrrrrg!