Jo's website Update Spoilerish

[justcarol67]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "jlnbtr" <jlnbtr at ...> wrote:
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> Next, go to the main page. On the phone, dial "31071965" (which 
> happens to be Jo's birthday, 7/31/65). Now you have an early (around 
> 1994) draft of Philosopher's Stone and information that Draco's 
> surname used to be "Spungen." <snip>

> Go to the Fan Sites page. To the right, click on the small red box 
> five times. It will open. Click the question mark bubble to get the 
> same clue as the phone dialing one. An early (around 1994) draft of 
> Philosopher's Stone and information that Draco's surname used to 
> be "Spungen."
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Carol:
Actually, it's not the same page. One is about Snape's class and the
other about Quirrell's and McGonagall's. You had me worried for a
moment! (I already had the one from the book but not the one from the
phone number/)

Draco Spungen. Ugh! How fortunate that she changed it, not only
because Malfoy means "bad faith" and is therefore appropriate, it just
sounds much, much better. And character's names are part of the appeal
of the book--one of the joys of reading the HP books, for me.

And on another note (different clue/reward), did anyone notice that
the fourth-year DADA teacher was originally going to be named
Pettigrew? (I doubt that PP as we know him would have been teaching
the class, though. I'm sure she just gave the name to a different
character.)

Carol, who tried dialing SNAPE but would never have figured out that
JKR's birthdate was the phone number clue

Carol