what else we've learned

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

JKR has a dog -- presumably the ugly black and white one in the photo
on the bulletin board of Extra Stuff. Dog food is on the shopping list
on that bulletin board.

The bands whose tickets were scrapbooked on the Sean Harris page of
her Bio were the Bay City Rollers and the Smiths. Does that show
something about her musical tastes? 

Besides the wrist watch on the desk picking up the time from my PC,
the windows in the ? room show either a day or a night scene. Has
anyone noticed whether the butterfly on the desk -- blue now, blue
when I started yesterday, yellow in-between -- changes blue -> yellow
for day -> night? Unlike Vinnie, I am not agile enough to catch the
butterfly.

Which icon goes with which News Story in the News Paper changes
apparently randomly.

There are several different ads which can appear on the Tabloid -- the
ad for Charm Your Own Cheese, Revised Edition, says it includes a new
chapter on Dragon Milk Cheeses. Some interesting *reptile* dragons
must be! Today I saw one I hadn't seen yesterday, an ad for The
Quibbler. It announced headline: Fudge Forced to Flee! Minister for
Magic Chased from Office!

Finally, just now, the cackle and knocked over pen cup --- it took me
HOURS to see that was a pen cup and the color-dot things were Bic
stick pens like I use all the time --- for my first encounter with
Peeves! For a long time I thought that was an ashtray containing two
lipsticks and two nail files, and tried to figure out why the nail
files had colored dots. 

I foolishly didn't have the sound on yesterday, so I don't know what I
missed while collecting four items in my scrap book. Of the four items
on the clue, I still need a spider: I've clicked a zillion times on
the spider on the Trophy Case without anything happening. I'm
thinking, if I ever did find and catch the right spider, the pen
dangling from the bulletin board would do something, as it is one of
the images that slides in *after* the background.

I wonder how much of her own time JKR spend devising this seductive
game when she should have been working on book 6?