Harry Potter fans flock to Yankee game Thursday night to see end of Lord Bartolomore

They arrived in full Yankwart regalia Thursday night, dressed as Harry, Snape, Draco, Swish, Tex and Grandy, to celebrate the magical season of Harrytolo Colon, who - unfortunately - may have just crossed over into the Indiana Andruw Jones Temple of Doom trilogy.*

Yes, the true believers of Yankeedom last night got to see their hero Muggle - our hero - perhaps fling his final spells unto the batting orders of the AL East. Let's not count him out - the Bartman has a few incantations left in his third chin o' tricks - but his future increasingly appears captured in the way Harry would describe to the ever-ripening fruit known as Emma Watson, after their ship, the Enterprise, survives a Klingon attack: "He's dead, Jim."

Only one spell now can save the Yankees spaceship from disaster: The reappearance of a magical, distant Nova.

NOTE: This, students of journalism, is called "Yankeeizing the national story."