Four Down...

and two classes left to go. Heh. A scary thought. The next item on the agenda after finishing my classes is to get a summer job. And then to finish off my HP fic and get onto putting down the backstory for the original fic. Which is now going to be SF, as I came up with the title "Three-Body Problem" for it this week. Yes. You are correctly reading the innuendo into that title. At least on the emotional aspects of the romantic plot...And there will be tons of backstory to work through. I need to get my hands on the Machiavelli, the Clausewitz, the Sun Tzu, and on some sort of political analysis of the Cold War. I have the idea of the basic romantic plot, now I need to put these people down into a universe. I am nursing the ideas, but need much more development. Writing fanfic is so easy in comparison...already got the world built at least partway for you.

Bad headache from sleep deprivation from finals. Need to give up using the Internet after 9 pm at night. (and how many times have I told myself this?)

Am still bemused from the link I found on lasultrix's journal to a FAP thread about religion in the HP-verse. I've seen other opinions, but to me, a cradle Catholic, the Malfoys and the Weasleys simply do not seem or feel Catholic. There's a few weak markers, such as Draco's swearing by God instead of Merlin and referring to "St. Potter, patron of mudbloods," and the Weasleys being a large family of redheads. The overall feel and impression I get from each family says to me non-practicing, as so many of the British are. In my fic, I'm going with the Weasleys as non-practicing Anglican, and the Malfoys as pagan holdouts. But then again, I'm a dumb American, so what do I know about it anyway?

--Kayla R.