Rewriting OotP PAGE ONE IDEA

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, Randy Estes <estesrandy at y...> wrote:
> The incredibly loud silence on this list over the last
> 4 days does not bode well for this activity. 

I feel guilty for not being part of the enthusiasm that first greeted
your idea, but to REWRITING OoP is WRITING which is WORK, and if I had
the TIME, I would use it to Work on my own fanfic that's hanging out
on Schnoogle unfinished.

I don't think I was part of the wide-spread expression of
disappointment with OoP, other than that JKR made the Bones who had
been killed be Susan Bones' uncle, aunt, and cousins, rather than her
grandparents as had been stated in an interview: more proof that 
Canon Can Change, to go along with the correction of the Priori
Incantati sequence, and (according to hearsay) changing later
printings of PS/SS to say that Marcus Flint was a FIFTH-year. I had a
more complicated and private feeling, in which I was glad that She 
had (responded to fannish interest and) filled in backstory on the
original Order, the Bones, MacKinnons, and Prewetts who had been
killed, Neville's mother's name (and that she was an Auror as had not
been stated in GoF), and at the same time, disappointment that this
information so totally contradicted the backstory I had made up... 
But at least I was happy that She hadn't contradicted Sirius/Remus
ship... 

So what is it I would want to put in MY OoP? Adult ships? Harry
playing Quidditch? Voldemort's attacks beginning during the summer 
and reaching Reign of Terror levels early in the book? 

[Here I express appreciations of your parody rewrites, such as the
reference to Quidditch/Cabbage at Orlando over the summer.]