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For those of you who missed the April Fool's prank -- Simon was hosting the site and we didn't want his bandwidth to die a horrible death, so I've reupped the images here now that we don't need to make it looks anonymous. The text that was up on the webpage was:

All you should know is that I don't think they know it's gone yet. I think they think it was just misprinted and the pages never made it out of the printer. Security's pretty tight but I took the pages while they were fixing a printer jam on some other pages. I mean this is all a rough draft. I'm kind of disappointed, I was hoping to get something about Voldemort or Ron and Hermione.

I'm putting some rightclick coding on this so that if someone does stumble on it they don't pass it around. I think the background code will keep it from showing up on Google and stuff. I'll keep it up till they send me a C&D anyway.

Just doing my part to help fandom get its fix.

There's three pages. Thumbnails link to a page with the image embedded. Please don't link to this page, I think it'll get enough attention as it is.

These are the images the page linked to, which were scans of the "stolen pages":

Page One - Page Two - Page Three

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Remix names have been revealed!

Thank you, nessa_owen! What a lovely remix mine was. It took what was basically a PWP and gave it a nice level of depth, using Lily's point of view; If It's Us is a threesome fic, Sirius/James/Remus, in which Remus and Sirius, already a couple, offer James the chance for a little relief from his sexual frustration now that Lily is pregnant. Lily's POV is both poignant, eye-opening, and at the same time amused. I love it.

You can find nessa_owen's remix of If It's Us here: Complications (The Pregnant Pause Remix), and you should give her feedback. :D

My own remix of cupiscent's Mortified may be found here: Patient (The Gritty Comic Remix). It twists the fic, centred on the relationship between John Constantine and Gabriel, out of its movie-based canon and replants it in the comic book canon for the same characters. Patient refers to what is, for me, the major shift between the two fics: in the original, Gabriel is building a house of cards, "playing God" as John says; in the remix, Gabriel's game of choice is Patience (more commonly known as Solitaire).

I also remixed castaliae's Philosophy, which may be found here: Filios Eros (The Socrates Remix). I fell in love with this fic for its interesting and original take on the Order of the Phoenix, and mischeviously made it Lupin/McGonagall, though there's nothing graphic. The title derives from two of the three Greek forms of love: Eros, Filios, and Agape (Romantic/Erotic, Brotherly, and Spiritual/Philosophical). It is the Socrates remix because -- well, Socrates questioned everything.

Also, names have now been put to fics over at fanfic_in_jest, where you may find, among others, my remix of musesfool's fic Caesar's Wife here: Germanicus and Piso (The Caesar's Daughter Was A Whore Remix). Germanicus and Piso were contenders for the crown of the Roman Empire during a crucial turning point in Rome's history; it is widely believed that Piso killed Germanicus, who would have been a splendid Emperor. The remix title comes from a reference to the early Caesars -- the expression "Caesar's wife must be above reproach", from which the original title derives, is mocked in the reminder that Augustus Caesar's daughter was considered a whore and a disgrace.

Congrats to all the remixers and remixees. See you next year, if musesfool is still mad enough to do one. *grins*

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Related to my aside about the English language having no decent-sounding second-person-plural, I graded a paper on Friday in which "yal" for "y'all" was used repeatedly.

And then she wanted to say "you all are".

Yep. Yalr.

Yalr is almost awesome enough for me to tolerate the formal introduction of yal into the language.

The paper right after that used the word "uneak" to refer to something out of the ordinary.

It's nearly Shakespearean.

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General consensus on the inheritance meta was extremely interesting. The most popular explanations seem to be as follows:

1. Werewolves can't inherit, so Remus couldn't legally inherit.
1a. The property and money was entailed somehow, either on a male relative or on a fully human inheritor, so Remus couldn't legally inherit.
This seems likely. I would hope that Sirius would have thought to put a trust clause in the will -- "Harry, give the poor bastard some money, would you?" -- but it's more likely he would have said that to Harry in person at some point. Some point that was interrupted by death.

2. Sirius did give him money, either before he died or in the will, and Remus has socked it away somewhere.
Unless Remus is being archly Bronte-esque, a la Rochester, this doesn't satisfy when compared to his "Too old, too poor" chant. And while I know that people do read that as "I DON'T LIKE GIRL PARTS", I am positive that JKR did not intend that reading. :D

2a. Sirius did give him money, either before he died or in the will, and Remus has given it away to someone.
This feels likely to me, especially in light of the way Sirius died. He wouldn't be able to use the money without thinking of Sirius. That having been said, poverty breeds callousness -- if I were Lupin, I'd find myself rather unable to care that I was using my dead best friend's money.

3. Sirius Black is a thoughtless, selfish bastard and just didn't think of it, or deliberately left him out as a jab at his leaving Sirius in prison for years on end.
Well, it's possible. I hate to think it, but it's possible.

4. Sirius didn't leave a will at all and Harry inherited as his next of kin through some legal or familial situation we're unaware of.
I think it's unlikely, but magical godparenting may be more binding than normal godparenting. With James dead, Harry may be fully de-facto adopted as Sirius' son without either realising it.

4a. Sirius left a will that was pre-Azkaban, leaving "everything" he owned to Harry.
This is plausible to me only if we believe that he made it while he believed Remus was the spy. "Everything" may not have been much, but he did have Alphard's inheritance.

5. Remus refused any money he was offered.
See my response to 2a.

I'm disinclined to think that Sirius couldn't write a new will, though I'm skeptically open to the idea that he didn't. For one thing, you don't need to have legal training to draw up a will; you may need a certified witness in the UK, but even that may not be necessary in the wizarding world, given that there are magical ways of determining who wrote a document. I once wrote a fic where Sirius, bored out of his mind, wrote a will that could defend itself in court after he was dead.

Maybe he left Remus the motorbike.

I think if I were Remus and that happened I would laugh until people started to worry about my sanity.

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Remix names have been revealed!

Thank you, [info]nessa_owen! What a lovely remix mine was. It took what was basically a PWP and gave it a nice level of depth, using Lily's point of view; If It's Us is a threesome fic, Sirius/James/Remus, in which Remus and Sirius, already a couple, offer James the chance for a little relief from his sexual frustration now that Lily is pregnant. Lily's POV is both poignant, eye-opening, and at the same time amused. I love it.

You can find [info]nessa_owen's remix of If It's Us here: Complications (The Pregnant Pause Remix), and you should give her feedback. :D

My own remix of [info]cupiscent's Mortified may be found here: Patient (The Gritty Comic Remix). It twists the fic, centred on the relationship between John Constantine and Gabriel, out of its movie-based canon and replants it in the comic book canon for the same characters. Patient refers to what is, for me, the major shift between the two fics: in the original, Gabriel is building a house of cards, "playing God" as John says; in the remix, Gabriel's game of choice is Patience (more commonly known as Solitaire).

I also remixed [info]castaliae's Philosophy, which may be found here: Filios Eros (The Socrates Remix). I fell in love with this fic for its interesting and original take on the Order of the Phoenix, and mischeviously made it Lupin/McGonagall, though there's nothing graphic. The title derives from two of the three Greek forms of love: Eros, Filios, and Agape (Romantic/Erotic, Brotherly, and Spiritual/Philosophical). It is the Socrates remix because -- well, Socrates questioned everything.

Also, names have now been put to fics over at [info]fanfic_in_jest, where you may find, among others, my remix of [info]musesfool's fic Caesar's Wife here: Germanicus and Piso (The Caesar's Daughter Was A Whore Remix). Germanicus and Piso were contenders for the crown of the Roman Empire during a crucial turning point in Rome's history; it is widely believed that Piso killed Germanicus, who would have been a splendid Emperor. The remix title comes from a reference to the early Caesars -- the expression "Caesar's wife must be above reproach", from which the original title derives, is mocked in the reminder that Augustus Caesar's daughter was considered a whore and a disgrace.

Congrats to all the remixers and remixees. See you next year, if [info]musesfool is still mad enough to do one. *grins*