[HPforGrownups] Re: TBAY: Fourth Man Revisited (was:The Real Rita/ Cohere...

[Edblanning at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 38877

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Despite the fact that Eloise is supposed to enjoying a period of complete 
quiet in St Mugo's, an owl has managed to post a letter through the bars of 
her secure room.

It is from Ali:

> I think that the second cousin mentioned in PS/SS and the cousin who 
> JKR had intended to put into Gof are different. Sorry, although I 've 
> read loads of her interviews I'm useless at remembering where she 
> said what. I think though that the cousin in GoF was to be a female 
> who would be sending information out of Hogwarts I guess as a fellow 
> pupil - actually fulfilling some of the role that Rita Skeeter 
> eventually had.

'Which only goes to show the cunning workings of JKR's mind', thinks Eloise, 
who also, now Ali comes to mention it, has an inkling in the back of her 
deranged mind that this was the scenario envisaged.

But before lapsing into a state of depression, it occurs to her that it 
doesn't really matter in the greater scheme of things if the Weasley cousins 
are not one and the same.

Eloise grabs the bars of her window and shouts to anyone who will listen, 

'Molly Weasley's Second Cousin Is *Still* Ever So Evil', sending a small 
family of hedgehogs,  

[ #,#,">  #,#,">  #,#,">  #,##,#">      (Mamma and babies) - thanks again to 
Porphyria, purveyor of hedgehogs by appointment to the OFH]  

who had been peacefully rummaging for slugs under the window, sailing into 
the air in search of the nearest safe tree-top.

It also brings forth the wizards in white coats, bearing a goblet of 
something distinctly unpleasant looking and a contract reminding her that she 
will not be released from solitary confinement until she has written at least 
another 1000 words on Egyptian chronology. Eloise is not sure that this is 
really going to help her sanity, but it may bring her back to reality for a 
bit.

So....in the immortal words of Douglas Adams,

So long [for now], and thanks for all the fish,

Eloise 

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