The Lair of the Emerald Serpent

More Potter Plotting

Time is running out for speculation, crystal ball gazing and wild theories. So Izzie is taking advantage of these last few days for some musing and mumblings
( The Dark Half )

Izzie has been basically brain dead since work on Wednesday. But we had a five minute speech to prepare for Friday. Already knew about this last week but was utterly uninspired.
Just been so edgy and irritable and totally incapable of rational thinking. The inner introvert is just screaming to just curl up in nice dark room and be bothered by nobody. It does not help when it is raining either. Not just because everywhere is wet and miserable but noise seems so much louder when it has been raining.

After a glass or two of red last night and vegging out for an hour or two online while listening to lots of nice music, finally seemed to calm down but was still uninspired concerning that speech. Never ever got around to mentioning it in Secret Diary Land last week looking for suggestions.
Also did not mention that last week's Word of the Day – not presented by Izzie but another club member was “Micro$haft Internet Exploiter” Got a lot of giggles and groans and moans of sympathy, that one. Poor Tony – our resident Bean Counter (a real one - not just a wannabee) was basically locked out of Cyberia because his browser crashed. He could get no mails or nothing and suspected he would end up spending a good few hours cleaning it up or reinstalling it or whatever things that geeks do when their computer crashes.

Izzie was quite astonished that so many people have only one browser – especially a wanky one such as IE. At the Ministry, before we got our Preciousss, you could have any browser you liked as long as it was Evilnet Exploiter and it pissed Izzie off no end to have no choice and to be continually getting “#$%^& has performed an illegal operation and will now shut down” or whatever damn thing it used to say.

So being very greedy and with pointers from the Computer Cat, we went and snatched Firefox and Opera, in addition to Safari and Camino which we already have. Safari does not like Simpy so now we just use it for visiting our usual lurks and save the pottering for Firefox

( more meeting stuff )

So, after reading the papers and indulging in the latest Izzie puzzle addiction, decided it was time for munchies at our usual haunt. Then we popped into a very nice Italian delicatessen with just the sorts of nibblies that Izzie loves – extra virgin olive oil, chocolate and lots of cheese. This is the first shop in Oz where Izzie has ever seen Irish cheese. Must be a new thing. Izzie is eternally in search of an affordable substitute for Appenzeller and Gruyere. There are so very nice Italian mountain cheeses that are similar but not many places have them. New Zealand has some pretty good versions too. This particular one looked almost possible.
But the catch of the day was the choccies. Izzie giggled herself silly seeing some dodgy Russian stuff amongst the Lindts and Hachez. The worst excuse for choccies Izzie ever tasted were made in Russia and East Germany. This one was called “Vernisaj” but what interested Izzie was not the posh snot name but the claim to being dark chocolate – 70% at that. Curiosity got the better of us. Will do the taste test tomorrow. Wonder if we will live to tell the tale.

So after that, dropped by the Lair to check our non existent mail and to pick up yet another Preciouss. Nearly finished reading “Chamber of Secrets” Saving the best bits for one of our sacred sites. Izzie never needs an excuse to read a Potter and next Tuesday being 21st June is a perfectly good one. After all, with 20/20 hindsight some time after 16th July, it will not be quite the same next time round.
And anyway, Izzie wants to put on her Sibyl hat and indulge in some Potter predictions.


Purely out of sheer badness, we have Dumbledore dying in a blaze of glory (or shall we make that duelling wands with Tom – why should Anakin have all the fun?) and poor little Ratty Peter Pettigrew mending his ways and abandoning the Dark Side. Oh and Kreachers' Ring. Will some nasty stinking thieveseses steal it from him?

It seems sort of fitting that the Keeper of the Phoenix should die in a fire of sorts.Or do fires only tickle magical folks like in the beginning of book 3?

Oh and Justin Finch whatever his name - Izzie does not think he is the Prince but we suspect not to have seen the last of either him or creepy Creavey
Izzie also thinks that Harry's ability to speak to serpents will once again come in useful and hopes that the Great White Witch finally feeds Ginny Weasley to some creature - maybe Aragog - oops. That will be Ron Weasley's fate

Anyone remember the chapter title "Spinners' End"? No. We ain't seen the last of hairy scary spiderses. Wonders if Kreacher is friendses with it. Everyone seems to have forgotten about Winky and Kreacher!

The stone that the builders rejected shall become the cornerstone ;)