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Well, a day or two has gone past and I’m feeling a good bit more rational than I was last time I posted.
It’s funny how the demise of a literary character can affect one. I remember being shocked and bereft the very first time I read the Lord of the Rings when Boromir died. It affected me far more than any of the frequent deaths in the classics…the deaths of Little Nell and Cathy Earnshaw left me unperturbed…possibly because while you read the classics you live books like LotR and the HP series.
To save some space I’ll hide the next bit:

( Initial Thoughts on OotP )

So there you go!

Now I’m going to do something quite unforgivable that will get me cursed in certain quarters except they’ll probably never find out about it!! I’m going to use another cut thingy so I can post a fic and nobody need be bothered by it. You see, I really want to use these two characters in The Mattress and as far as I know nobody has ever written any fan fiction for this fandom – apart from a few vastly respectful little pieces in the official magazine. Certainly nobody will have ever written any slash, even though in this case its canon and some of the characters are just begging for it! Just to ease my conscience therefore, I have written my own, rather overblown, slash fic and can induct the two young men involved into the Fan Fiction Factory whether they like it or not.

( Suivi Francois – and I hope the Dorothy Dunnett Appreciation Society never find out about this.  )

Ok, that’s done. Now, on to The Mattress – Recovered (possibly in rubber).