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electricwalrus, you might be amused by the last few entries from mctabby. She went spork. And here I thought that "I relentlessly desire your custard tongue between my eyelids" was just her fangirling my fic with a bizarre come-on.

And the [LJ-less] Caroline-Kechara-Bleudragen complex might rejoice to welcome strange_fire. For it is she who ringeth the hubcap with my bra, she who bestowith the hickey, she who I spent long nights reading Harry Potter aloud to (Shrieking Shack scene! Chapters 32-36 in GoF! Dramatic presentations! Whoo!), she who, at school, read the output of my muses and found it Good and gave me much joyous support. *nods vigorously*

Wrote more of "A Lexicon of Serpents" last night. Prefects meeting. Behold the swarm of unidentified background OCs, two Weasleys, Joe Bones (Susan's grandpa, and eventually to be killed in the war with a certain Slytherin sixth-year) as Head Boy, Minerva McGonagall as Head Girl (naturally), Poppy Pomfrey and a Stebbins amongst the Hufflepuffs, a Random Longbottom and Random Rosier, VacuumCleaner!Dippett, BoredStiff!Moody, OglingMoody!Tom, and lots of stained glass. *nods some more*

I made a list.

Of the OCs in "A Lexicon of Serpents." There are 23. And I haven't even named all the spare prefects and possible professors yet, and there might be another Quidditch team or two to fill.

Of course, most of them are petty background characters, and I've cheated by making at least half of them relations of somebody, and there is perhaps one who will play even the faintest role in the plot, and that's only because she currently has Alastor at wandpoint. (Tiger, behave!) But they are at least half real to me, and fill the halls of Hogwarts, and fill me with a t00by joy.

*t00bs around having t00by joy, and exceeds her double-zero limit for this post*

Oh, who else thinks Cornelius Fudge and Bartemius Crouch (Sr.) would be at Hogwarts about this time? Because they would so be in Slytherin. Hee. Cameos!