Link to short story that JKR wrote for charity is now on Leaky

[Carol]

bboyminn:
> 
> Loved the story, but for the life of me, I couldn't figure out why
they were carrying chicken legs in their back pockets. Though,
admittedly, it eventually dawned on me.
> 
> Curious, would it be legal to 'type it up and post it here'?
> 
Carol:
You're joking about the chicken legs, right? I always thought that
Muggles would think that wands resembled conductor's batons, but
drumsticks (literal drumsticks, not chicken legs) would suit teenage
boys who appear to be wearing T-shirts advertising a rock group.

But Wilberforce, Bathsheba, and Elvendork as the names of the three
men they were chasing? (I think Alla must be right that they're DEs,
but that's not clear from the story, and they're nobody we've ever
heard of. Of course, Snape wouldn't be involved since Sirius never
knew that he'd been a DE, but it could at least be, say, Yaxley,
Travers, and Carrow.)

As for being legal to copy the story here, I seriously doubt it since
you'd be copying the entire story without permission. It's safest just
to link to the Waterstone's site. Granted, the auction is already over
with, but I wouldn't consider the story to be in the public domain
until JKR herself says it is. (If the typed version disappears from
the comments section of the Leaky site, we'll know that she doesn't
approve unauthorized copying!)

Anyway, I think it's sad that the Marauders were already reduced to
Sirius and James together (no wonder "Wormy" felt resentful enough to
betray them and there was enough friction or coldness between Remus
and Sirius four years later for them to suspect each other of being
the traitor). And I didn't like their smart-alec attitude or their
recklessness, either. But that's Sirius and James for you. It didn't
help me to know them or like them any better. Just more of the same
cocky, arrogant recklessness that we saw in SWM.

Carol, who thinks that if this story is a taste of the prequel JKR
isn't writing, it might as well remain unwritten