Two questions answered, one rather OT:

[Eric Oppen]

No: HPFGUIDX 21586

First off, the name "Ku Klux Klan" derives from the Greek word "kuklos,"
meaning "circle," and "clan," referring to the original members all being of
Scots descent, which was a status symbol in the Old South, largely due to
the Sir Walter Scott novels.  A lot of the South's sillier attitudes came
from reading the "Waverley" novels, practically memorizing them, and
mentally casting themselves as the heroes.

Secondly, as far as the "visit from the MoM enforcers" scene goes---I never
even knew there _was_ such a Python sketch.  Python was thin on the ground
when I was growing up.

Come to it, I wonder what the Pythons would be like if _they_ were wizards?
I could see them as a wizard comedy troupe, greatly in demand in the magical
world.  Of course, if they were, er, "incautious" enough to do skits that
seriously irritated He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, they might have had
"accidents" themselves..."shocking, how they mis-Apparated so spectacularly.
Showing up, starkers, in Holloway Prison...before the guards could rescue
them, they were literally drained of life!"

Eric Oppen
Gryffindor, but with strong Ravenclaw sympathies, and a sneaking liking for
the Slytherins---hey, two hundred or more kids can't _all_ be bad, we just
see the ones that are because JKR wants us to.
Redwood, phoenix feather, eight-and-a-half inches.

"Elder gods?  Old Ones?  Bunch of hooey!  Hastur, Hastur, Hastur!  See,
nothing happ---"