Not-evil!Lupin/Slytherin Hermione/ Wizarding JObs/ Fanficmess

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston) <catlady@wicca.net>]

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Maria Kirilenko wrote:

<< Does that sound plausible? It doesn't to me. I'm sorry, but I 
can't see Remus Lupin saying "C'mon, guys, it hurts so much! Do break 
the law! it's not as important as helping me bear my pain! And you 
could have so much fun in the process!" >>

I agree with you that it doesn't sound plausible at all, but someone 
could argue that Lupin's mildness is an act  he is putting on just 
while teaching at Hogwarts or all his life since he learned how to  
act that role. I was shocked when the movie made me realize just HOW 
Slytherin-ish Hermione was acting in that scene.   

Maria Kirilenko wrote:

<< My father said recently that wizards don't have very many 
employment options - namely, they can only work in the MoM. We, of 
course, know that's not true - they can also work in Hogwarts, in 
shops, on the Knight Bus and Hogwarts Express. But that's still 
very little! So... any ideas for where else they can work *to earn 
money*? >>

Many people have already answered this question, but I still want to 
talk about some of the businesses I have invented.

In MY Potterverse, the professional Quidditch teams run Quidditch 
camps for the 12 to 17 year olds who want to improve their play 
during the summer holiday. The Chudley Cannons have not had great 
success with theirs, so they decided to switch to a summer Quidditch 
camp for the 5 to 11 year olds. One of Charlie's friends from 
Gryffindor Quidditch is working in the Cannons' business office, 
giving Ron and Ginny a "in" for summer jobs between GoF and OotP -- 
Ron as "counsellor" (what do you call it in UK?) for eight (a team 
and one reserve) 8 year olds and Ginny as a cook in the meals tent, 
where she wrote the song "We are Fake House Elves" and smacked down 
wizards four times her age who ogled her.

Back in the 19th century, the Brewer sisters, Wilhelmina and 
Alexandra (Mrs John Joy and Mrs Erasmus Comfort) started selling a 
hair potion from an old family recipe. Demand grew --  they added 
more 'health and beauty' potions -- demand grew more -- they ended 
up with a large business named Comfort & Joy -- a factory out in the 
country where employees brew potions from recipes, and three retail 
shops: the original one at the factory, an old Victorian one in 
Diagon Alley, and a new faux-Victorian one in Hogsmeade. Brewer 
Comfort married Emily Joy and their son Brewer Joy Comfort is now 
President of Comfort & Joy. Pansy and Draco spend a ton of money on 
their Spot Remover Potion (anti-acne), Sunscreen, and Slimming 
Solution. 

Pansy Parkinson's late grandfather (Why is it "gaffer" rather than 
"graffer"?) started as a tinker, mending enchanted pots and pans in 
a rented shed in Hogsmeade. He married a witch who worked in a 
robemaker's shop. With a loan from his wife's family, he began making 
and selling his own enchanted pots and pans. The wife talked them up 
to her customers, enough sold to repay the loan and expand the 
business to additional kinds of enchanted kitchenware. Nowdays it is 
named Kitchen Witchery, large and properous, ran by Pansy's Aunt 
Provvy (short for Providence), selling to wizarding retailers and 
wizarding restaurants and hotels... Provvy never married, has no 
children, wants Pansy to learn the business and inherit it from her. 
Pansy thinks it's boring.     

Pansy's father, "Prospero", much younger than Provvy, wanted to go 
into the music biz. Started with a small bookstore/cafe that had live 
concerts, became a small-time promoter, bought a larger club, married 
a classical pianist who was playing with a band he booked, took his 
inheritance in cash rather than a share of Kitchen Witchery, now owns 
and runs THE most fashionable nightclub (named The Dump) where adult 
Malfoys and Fudges show up with their adulterous lovers to mingle 
with (lead singer of The Weird Sisters) and (MVP of the latest 
England-Scotland match). During the Voldemort Reign of Terror, he 
reckoned that allowing his nightclub to be used as a Death Eater 
secret meeting place was better than having his nightclub blasted to 
bits.  After the V RoT, he added an exclusive beach resort (named 
Wizarding Beach Resort), on a Unplottable Island within Floo distance 
of Diagon Alley, magically equipped with perfect warm sunshine year 
around, lush tropical plants, jewel sand beaches. Less magically 
equipped with attractive young barmaids and cabana boys. Pansy does 
not like the way her father has to kiss up to rich, aristocratic 
customers and thinks one benefit of becoming Mrs. Malfoy of the Manor 
is that those snobs would have to kiss up to her.           
 
Steve bboy_mn wrote:

<< Fruit and sugar, since their production in the English climate is 
limited, have to be imported. >>

Well, maybe not, because of magic. Fruit could be grown in orchards 
enchanted to have the right climate year-round -- I wonder if the 
spots on Scilly Isles (irresistably pronounced Silly Isless)  and 
Ireland where tropical gardens are now planted thanks to the Gulf 
Stream are connected in some way to wizards? Could sugar be produced 
by Transfiguring salt?

Help me with a wizarding alphabet quilt to hang on the nursery wall:

A is for Apple
B is for Broomstick
C is for Cauldron
D is for Dragon
E is for Eagle
F is for Fireplace (pictured Fireplace has green flames for Floo)
G is for Glove (pictured Glove is dragonhide)
H is for Hat (pictured Hat is stereotype witchy pointy hat)
I is for Invisible (no picture)
J
K is for Knut 
L is for Lantern
M is for Moon
N 
O is for Owl (pictured Owl is carrying a letter)
P is for Parchment
Q is for Quaffle
R is for Robe
S is for Sword
T 
U is for Umbrella
V is for Vampire
W is for Wand
X
Y
Z is for  Zebra (the horsie not the street crossing)