Fw: GURPS Vorkosigan

[Eric Oppen]

No: HPFGUIDX 28698

A friend of mine on the Lois Bujold list did this, and she was kind enough
(see below) to allow me to share it with you...

> Please, feel free. I'm a devoted Potter fan. (Booked to see the movie in a
> preview on the 11th, and can't wait till the next book.)
>
> Genevieve Cogman
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Oppen <oppen at cnsinternet.com>
>
> >I love this .sig file..may I please share it with my friends on the Harry
> >Potter fan e-mail lists?
> >---
> >>
> >> It was true that when my great-grandfather had attended Hoggewartse, he
> >had
> >> chosen to say little about his courses of study, his schoolmates, or
his
> >> dominies. He had always refused to explain the hideous scars which
> >> ornamented his torso and forearms, and his penchant for running
> downstairs
> >> at midnight, screaming, "The potion! Slytherin! The potion!" was, or so
> my
> >> mother assured me, a mere eccentricity, understandable and pardonable
in
> >any
> >> English gentleman.
> >> That night, as I lay shivering in my bed, listening to the wind howl
> >through
> >> the healthily open window and to the tinkling of the ice forming in the
> >ewer
> >> of water upon my desk, I pondered upon that hereditary taint which
curses
> >> all members of the de la Poiterre family. Could it be that I, too,
would
> >be
> >> forced to undergo that trial, that ordeal, that horror? Would future
> >> generations of my line make their way through those hideous portals?
> >
> >