The Silver Spring Penguin

Forget what you’ve read on other websites. Here’s how the last “Harry Potter” book really ends.

Harry Potter, Hermione and redhead Ron huddle around a table in a New Jersey diner. Shifty characters stream through the scene, though the Potterheads are seemingly oblivious. A waitress brings a plate of onion rings to the table, as Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing” blares through the tabletop jukebox.

Cut to black.

Have a good week!

Monday. Silver Spring’s transportation and pedestrian safety committee meets at the Silver Spring Regional Center (8435 Georgia Ave). The gig starts at 7:30 p.m. Update: This event has been cancelled. — JD (Jul 23, 2007)

Monday. State dels. Hank Heller (D-19) and Jeff Waldstreicher (D-18) hook up at the Woodside United Methodist Church (8900 Georgia Ave) to discuss the future of Montgomery College’s art and design campus in Wheaton. The deal drops at 8:00 p.m.

Thursday. The planning board is all over Silver Spring for its weekly meeting. During the 9:00 a.m. session, it reviews plans for a proposed office tower above the City Place mall, and examines tweaks to the National Park Seminary condo project.

During the afternoon session, the Bonifant Plaza residential project wrestles with the Purple Line. The residential project planned for 814 Thayer Ave also steps to the plate.

Everything goes down at planning board HQ (8787 Georgia Ave).

Thursday. This whole parking-meter meshugas gets hammered out at a public forum in Rockville. Share your thoughts with the county council starting at 7:30 p.m.