dear cooks, feel free to spoil the broth

Yes! *punches air* (*although despises that gesture, really; 'tis vulgar and macho but can't undo it now, heh*)

I have solved a niggling Harry Potter opus plot problem!

I can't remember who was on my little staff of semi-betas for the HP opus. I'm sure it was lazlet (for canon!!), ukcalico and brightest_blue (if she's ever going to be online again ever again!). But was it also resonant8? (Did I ever send you anything, Res?) And sheldrake, was she in on it?

Anyway, as I can't remember, I'll post my solution to HP conundrum behind the cut so everyone else: just move on, nothing to see here.

(Unless you feel inclined to spit into the broth, *g*.)

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In non-plot type news, I have come to a writing insight. I remembered what one of my favourite origfic published authors said, the goddess Ann-Marie McDonald:

I knew quite a bit about structure. I knew how to build a story, and in a way I tried to forget that ... I liken it to having focused on creating all the vital organs and the mucous membranes, and then eventually the central nervous system. Finally, once I have this soft creature on the slab, I stick the bones in it. It was hard to put the skeleton in at the end, but it was worth it because I knew that I had the vital thing. I knew I had that beating heart...
from Writers on Writing, edited by James Roberts et al.

So that's what I'm going to do. Write the soft heart. Because who, after all, is going to care about the bones of the ins and outs of spells and plagues and whatnot if their soft hearts don't beat in tandem with Draco's? And if they can't believe his unbelievable love?

she's back!

brightest_blue is back!

Oh, my sweetest natashachen! I have missed her so much!

*does happy, happy dance*

People going offline due to not having a computer or no internet connection: this is the 21st century equivalent of an 18th-C. trip to Australia from the UK via sailboat! Incommunicada feared in desperate straits!