Parent life / March 2023
The potato had too much nose
Voldemort, in potato. The nose was always going to be difficult.
For World Book Day in March 2023, one school replaced costumes with decorated potatoes. A parent on Reddit reported their daughter's first choice: Voldemort, sporting the elder wand. Ambitious. Voldemort's entire look depends on not having a nose. A potato, left to its own devices, is mostly nose.
The family supplied a cape, wand and balloon over the potato. The daughter did the eyes; the parent's girlfriend drew the nose in pencil. Too many lines. Voldemort just has slits. Erasing them, the parent explained, would have smudged the balloon.
Another user proposed Spud-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. The parent said they might have to steal that. Two days later, the parent reported putting that name on a card in the box with him. It is, by some distance, the best thing that has ever happened to a potato.