[HPFGU-OTChatter] Has anyone else noticed....

[Amanda Geist]

Rachel observed:

> how if you run your mouse over the links on the WB Harry site really
> fast it sounds like steel drums?  I've had this great Jamaican music
> festival going on here at my desk.

*Amanda smiles reassuringly at Rachel, and speaks gently and calmly as she
pries Rachel's fingers off her mouse and helps uncurl her from her chair.
She watches benevolently as Rachel is led away by reassuringly smiling men
in white robes, who nod gently as Rachel chatters to them. Amanda hears,
"Really, it's true, if you give each letter the value of its place in the
alphabet, the totals of the 40th line on the 157th page of each book add up
to 598! Isn't that amazing? And if you look at all the instances of the
color puce occurring in conjunction with......" Rachel's voice fades.

Amanda wanders to the window and gazes out as the still happily talking
Rachel is put into the van. She must call the Anglia and warn him that we
can only expect more of this at the clinics, as the wait for the next book
keeps stretching farther and farther into the distance.....people just
weren't built for this type of stress. She wonders if she should ask if he
wants to co-author her paper, "Pre-Release Anxiety Disorder: The Effects of
Deprivation on the Outlandish Theory Centers of the Brain." She sighs, and
turns to go. It was way past time for her to be working on Volume 17 of her
analysis of Snape ("Snape: Dumbledore's long-lost brother's second-cousin's
wife's former lover's son").

--Amanda