I think I've probably mentioned this before but my parents are Muggle mad. They love everything Muggle: they live in a Muggle community (with appropriate protective spells around the house and garden, mind, as Mum does love to experiment at home when she's not working), my father works in a combined clinic that threats both Muggle and magical patients, and my mum has a "split" business, part of which is like this carer thing for Muggle children.
The reason this is relevant is it means I get dragged to all sorts of strange Muggle events. This latest was one of the oddest by far. Apparently, there's this really old bloke from the Middle Ages who wrote - or didn't - a whole slew of famous Muggle plays. The oddest thing is? He was actually a wizard, and there's a whole traveling troupe that performs his plays exactly as they were written, with the parts that would clearly breach the Secrecy Act if Muggles ever got wind of them.
The thing is, this Shakespeare bloke predated the whole Secrecy Act thing, so his plays had to be "cleaned up" with quite a few Confunding Charms strewn about, as his plays were so well-liked by the lowbrow set.
Why am I ranting about this? Because in scrubbing those plays clean, not only did the Magical Law Enforcement crew of the day miss a fair few things ("double, double, toil and trouble" anybody?) but they so botched things that several of those places just don't make any sense at times. I mean, have you ever sat through an actual rendition of one of those Muggle versions without any actors' motions to give you any context at all? It might as well be Alice in Wonderland and those mimsy borogoves or whatever they are quilliging all over the place.
Additionally, while I get that some of Shakespeare's plays were billed as comedies and others weren't, did so many of them have to be Debbie Downers? It's worse than a soap opera. Take the play that has the witches in it. Bloke's told he's gonna be king, so instead of going and doing kingly things, he kills the current king so he can call himself king. But it doesn't stop there. Both he and his wife just keep murdering people, which leads to more killing, and then a war. Can't everybody just stop and think for a minute? Really? How illogical is that? I wouldn't want that sort of leadership ever. Just think if that were the way it worked in Quidditch - we'd never have a team! Heck, we'd be expelled so fast you couldn't say Quidditch!
So when I was voluntold to make sure we had tickets to the latest local production of "Macbeth" - only they didn't call it that, for some obscure reason - is it my fault that we "accidentally" ended up with tickets to a taping of some documentary called "Scottish Fling" instead?
It was an honest mistake!