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Just to quickly say we - as in mrstater and I - have updated Up All Night, Chapter Two: Much Fondue About Nothing. I've done it as per the link, she's done it on her LJ on that very nice brown screen of hers.

Everyone seems to have started their Jumble Fic while I've been out shopping... This is going to be like college all over again, where I'll be last in with the homework.

Have posted the prologue to "Up All Night." This is the story I've co-written with mrstater and which we've been boring everyone with for weeks now. It's available to the brave, adventurous and foolhardy by clicking on my Fan Fic Link, or my co-writer has posted it at her LJ. Yes, it's everywhere, and may shortly be re-christened "Up All Over And You Can't Get Away From It." ;)

Okay, so I've toyed with a number of possible topics for my first post. Pluto being turned into a Mickey Mouse Planet seems to have been well-covered, and then there's my worrying obsession with "How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?" Worrying because it's not a good sign when you've nothing better to do than watch TV on a Saturday night, and also because I'm not sure the obsession isn't with Andrew Lloyd-Webber as I keep casting him in suitable HP roles. (jesspallas aren't you into this? Obviously it's only to kill time until Strictly Come Dancing makes a triumphant return;))

But I've rejected both those, and catching up on my emails (to those who I owe one, please look on them as a WIP, and they'll be progressing soonish;)), to instead give a progress report on "Up All Night," the joint writing project mrstater and I are attempting. Not least, because she'd probably like to know if I've done anything today, or just enjoyed the sunshine. (Erm...;))

So ... we're doing alternate chapters, and so far we've completed a joint prologue and a long chapter each. I'm now three-quarters through chapter 3. Mrstater did a beautifully organised plan which, at various times, I have changed, ignored and, on one slightly embarrassing occasion, deleted by mistake. She's also put up with me adding the odd 3500 words to my first chapter, based on a supposedly good idea that was going to take half a page, and consequently having to write part of hers from the angle that mine was based on. Still, I like to think she's having a really good time!

As there's a vicious rumour going around - which I started - that this may never see the light of day, and as thousands of people are clamouring to know what's going on (or, to put it another way, a couple have politely enquired), I thought I'd give anyone who might have read this far a sneak preview of what to expect from an early chapter. And just to prove it really does exist ...



Sirius gave him a grin, which could only be described as smarmy. “You would think that, wouldn’t you?”

“What do you mean?”

“She’s not that far removed from a young Minerva, is she? I remember you at fifteen hot-footing it to Transfiguration at a million miles an hour. The rest of us couldn’t keep up with you.”

“Minerva was an excellent teacher and I always enjoyed her class.” Remus firmly sent a fleeting image of his teenage self goggling at Professor McGonagall – it was those tartan plaids that always got him - to the outer most reaches of his mind. Hopefully it would get lost there in a passing black hole. “Anything else is a figment of your imagination.”

“You were a figment then, were you? Sat there, saying: ‘Please, Miss! Show us your cat, Miss!’”

“Getting back to the original topic of conversation just for a few minutes,” Remus said, coldly. Merlin, he wasn’t going to be able to look Minerva in the face at the next meeting. “Do you think you can ever mix work and romance?"

Sirius pulled a face. "You tell me. You're the one who thinks she's stately."