Seraviel -- thanks. The extra space came from a linewrap in the original plaintext version that I missed when cleaning up the HTML conversion. As for elevators... the Ministry lifts are older-style cage elevators, not enclosed rooms. Although Luna is Ravenclaw -- she should make the conceptual leap. Let me think about how to revise that, or even if I should just pull it...
Speaking of whom... My Luna is still a bit half-formed. I started with the plan that the Looney persona was an outright troll, but it's kind of mutated into a half-trollery, half-really-her thing that still is working its shape out as I write her. I will note, btw, that Luna is Kat's favorite HP character, and she's absolutely delighted to find her DW avatar getting along so well with her. So I guess as long as I keep Kat happy...
As for how Doug happens to Umbridge... I have Plans. Umbridge will not be lording it over a Ministry department two years after DW5 ends, I can assure you... Although Doug will be showing more restraint than most of you will probably be happy with.
Edit: DHBirr -- no, Pansy's not going to be a bad guy; I'm not entirely convinced that her canon version is really evil so much as just a mirror for Draco. About the only thing she does on her own that I can think of is suggest throwing Harry out to Voldemort at the climax of Deathly Hallows -- and that could simply be as much fear as any evil inclination. Get her away from him, and she might be a decent person. Doug doesn't so much lead her away from evil as lead her away from Draco.
Oh, and that Pansy teaser wasn't in the RoR. It was in her bedroom at the Parkinson home over the Christmas break.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Speaking of whom... My Luna is still a bit half-formed. I started with the plan that the Looney persona was an outright troll, but it's kind of mutated into a half-trollery, half-really-her thing that still is working its shape out as I write her. I will note, btw, that Luna is Kat's favorite HP character, and she's absolutely delighted to find her DW avatar getting along so well with her. So I guess as long as I keep Kat happy...
As for how Doug happens to Umbridge... I have Plans. Umbridge will not be lording it over a Ministry department two years after DW5 ends, I can assure you... Although Doug will be showing more restraint than most of you will probably be happy with.
Edit: DHBirr -- no, Pansy's not going to be a bad guy; I'm not entirely convinced that her canon version is really evil so much as just a mirror for Draco. About the only thing she does on her own that I can think of is suggest throwing Harry out to Voldemort at the climax of Deathly Hallows -- and that could simply be as much fear as any evil inclination. Get her away from him, and she might be a decent person. Doug doesn't so much lead her away from evil as lead her away from Draco.
Oh, and that Pansy teaser wasn't in the RoR. It was in her bedroom at the Parkinson home over the Christmas break.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.