[the_old_crowd] Updates at Jo's site -- interesting throwaway line on Hermione

[Susan Albrecht]

SS Susan:
>>> I haven't seen any discussion here yet of the
juicy new goodies at Jo's site.  Not being
particularly good at discovering or deciphering clues
there, I always cheat and let someone else tell me how
to attain all the new scrapbook items (5 this
time).<<<

Sherry asked:
>>> is there anything else interesting?  I've been
told there were no updates on the text only site, but
could you pass along any interesting tidbits from
the scrapbook stuff?  my screen reader program doesn't
work with all those cute things on the regular
site.<<<


SSSusan back again:

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...for any who care to avoid.

You get two different early draft pages from SS/PS,
plus the synopsis of SS/PS I mentioned a moment ago. 
There is a pretty cool, hand-written chart on OotP,
with several chapters listed along the left and then
various topics in columns along the top, for which JKR
noted things she wanted to cover.  I only took a brief
look at it -- and the damn thing is oriented SIDEWAYS
so I was getting a crick in my neck trying to read it
[must investigate whether I can turn it] -- but I did
find it interesting that she had a column headed
"Cho/Ginny," as if she were already thinking of those
two in terms of "facing off" over Harry?  There's also
a page of note-jotting from around the time of PoA,
where Jo wrote names she considered for Hippogriffs,
has a list of the professors (with their subject area
& their genders), etc.  

The most hilarious bit, I suppose, is that we discover
that Draco's surname was originally... SPUNGEN. Surely
"Malfoy," with the manner in which we can "translate"
it from the French, fits much more nicely with the
family.

Let me know, Sherry, if you want any more specifics,
and I can chat with you offlist if this might prove
tedious to the entire list?

Siriusly Snapey Susan