AUTHOR'S NOTES ON "HARRY POTTER AND THE BOOK OF EVIL": A QUICK DIRECTORY OF NEW PEOPLE, PLACES, AND THINGS
*DO NOT READ UNLESS YOU HAVE FINISHED THE STORY!*
LLEWELLYN EURYALE originally began as a friendly, slightly shy, Irish-American girl with braids, glasses, and freckles, named Annie Hurrey. Save for a few letters in the last name, exactly myself. Later, when I decided to make Book of Evil a big, Rowling-grade fic, she got a last name change to Scelestus, which means "hidden wickedness" in Latin. This was about the time that I began writing the second edition of "Book of Evil" and I also started to uncover the horrors of Mary Sues. It was also about then that I realized I had little to no background for her. Time for a change.
I decided to think about how I would actually end BoE. The endings of all my stories don't appear until whether I want to evaluate whether I want to take my characters and plot so far all the way to the end of the story. So, I came up with the Chromo Alethio room and Annie's temptation with Nagini. I decided she would be a Parselmouth - a major pitfall in making a new Harry Potter character. So, I had to give a very good reason for her ability to speak to snakes...and change her nationality...and maybe even give her a new last name.
I sent myself to my huge Muggle book on magizoology - A Natural History of the Unnatural World - and searched through the snake-related creatures for a name. Then, I found the perfect section: the Gorgons.
(Interestingly enough, the 52nd edition of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander contains no mention at all of the Gorgons. Well, I guess when there are only three, and one was killed, there's no need to mention them in a modern-day magizoology book.)
The names of the three Gorgons are Medusa, Stheno, and Euryale. "Medusa" would have been too obvious, and I don't know how to pronounce "Stheno", hence the last name "Euryale". Annie then became Greek, losing all connection to myself physically, save for the trapezoidal glasses. (I'm rather fond of them.) She also became a Parseltongue with good reason, having a dark connection to the Gorgons of long ago, and she got a new last name with a history lesson enclosed.
I don't think the character Annie Euryale ever existed - she got the name Llewellyn right after that, from a quick glance at Quidditch Through The Ages by Kennilworthy Whisp. Llewellyn Euryale has no connection to "Dangerous" Dai Llewellyn. I just think it's a pretty name, although quite a bit long.
ROSALIND SIDEREUS (this entry written by Emily): Way back in 7th grade, my best friend Annie came up with the idea that it might be fun to write a Harry Potter book 4, starring new characters. Namely, us.
As book 4 turned into book 5 and Annie Hurrey turned into Llewellyn Euryale, Rosalind Sidereus, my character, began to take shape. She started out as sort of a mini-Mary Sue, being smarted than Hermione. Then Annie and I agreed that really wasn't possible.
When everyone else in the story began to be paired up, Rosalind ::cough:: I ::cough:: began to feel left out. Originally, Rosalind was supposed to be paired up with Harry Potter, but things were going well with him and Cho. We started going through all the characters...Ron? No...Neville??...DUDLEY?!? And then we hit upon it. Lawrence!
So then Roz had a boyfriend and a best friend, and life was good.
PROFESSOR MATT VISILIO was inspired by a "What If?" section of a Harry Potter fansite. I forgot what site it was and who wrote it, but if you try to sue me I'll deny everything in court. *wink* It was something like "They get a new DADA teacher who is a Cubs fan and gives them less homework whenever the Cubs win." This made me think of a sports fan DADA teacher from America - or, as I say it in BoE, the States. (I tried to keep a British feel about it, calling apartments "flats" and vacations "holidays", but I think I still spelled most words like "color" and "labor" the American way.) The way he speaks in semi-Spanglish on the first day of lessons comes from my technology teacher, Mr. Festante.
I also had to think of how he would leave at the end of the year. At first, it was going to be something really stupid, like he was caught stealing spoons - "Vispilio" means "Thief" in Latin. Then, after developing Matt (named after a crazy drama summer camp counselor named Matt Dunn, see Tim Wyvern's entry), I decided he deserved something cooler to leave Hogwarts by. (I got rid of the P in his name after that and I liked the Italian New Yorker feel of "Visilio" so I kept it.) I decided to have him drafted on to the New York Nogtails Quodpot 2000 team at the end of the year! Much, much cooler than stealing spoons. ^_^
THE NY NOGTAILS, Matt's team, began as the NY Yankees, but it soon became obvious that there would be confusion between them and the Muggle baseball team. A quick glance through Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them yielded the Nogtails, little demon-like things from North America and Europe. (See the Quodpot 2000 entry below.)
LAWRENCE BONE is a completely random person. I don't know where he came from or who he's supposed to be. Everything that developed about him was entirely spontaneous and accidental. And yet, he's a three-dimensional character with hopes and dreams, character potentials and character flaws.
I have to make more characters like him. He was easy!
THE COLUMBIA CHARACTERS are almost always based, to some degree, on actual people who were big in my life at the beginning of the story. Ino Kinst is a boy named Nick Sodano, and Skyla Conway is a girl named Jacklyn Goldstein. Nick has since gotten a "stick up his butt" and I don't hang out with him anymore, and Jacklyn moved, although we are still friends on the phone.
The staff at the school, except for Patursa, is the insertion of some of my seventh-grade teachers. Headmaster Jannis comes from my principal at the time, Mr. Jack Dennis. (Jack + Dennis = Jannis.) Professor McVey was Mrs. McVey, my first algebra teacher. Professor Risden was Mr. Risden, the musical instructor when the story was created, and he has since retired and moved to Arizona. Professor Szeles was Mrs. Szeles, my scary biology teacher who, as far as I know, is still a biology teacher. And is still scary.
JIMMY PATURSA, on the other hand, was a composite of different people, now nearly all of whom I can't remember now. "Patursa" is a kind of corrupted Latin for "Father Bear" (the actual translation of "Father Bear" would be "Pater Ursa"), and he is based mostly on a camp counselor nicknamed Papa Bear. The big, funny Papa Bear used his name so much I can't even remember what his real name was. I'm not sure where "Jimmy" came from, I think it just works with "Patursa". I'm not sure why he's even in this story, since he wasn't in the original plot. But he's here, and that's all that matters.
TIM WYVERN, originally Tim Dunn, got his last name from a creature that looks like a two-legged dragon in A Natural History of the Unnatural World. He got his last name change when I got rid of all the original names, turning everyone into wizards. "Dunn" came from another camp counselor. Matt Dunn is quite the zany oddball, and so I originally divided him into two kooky male characters in the story. (Matt's first name went to the DADA professor.)
Tim's first name, however, came from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Anyone who has seen the bizarre movie probably remembers these lines:
Arthur: What manner of man are you that can summon up fire without flint or tinder?
Tim: I... am an enchanter.
Arthur: By what name are you known?
Tim: There are some who call me... Tim!
You may also remember the monster.
Tim: Follow! But! follow only if ye be men of valor, for the entrance to this cave is guarded by a creature so foul, so cruel that no man yet has fought with it and lived! Bones of four fifty men lie strewn about its lair. So, brave knights, if you do doubt your courage or your strength, come no further, for death awaits you all...with nasty, big, pointy TEETH!
And the monster...er...rabbit....
Tim: Too late!
*dramatic chord*
Arthur: What?
Tim: There he is!
Arthur: Where?
Tim: There!
Arthur: What, behind the rabbit?
Tim: It *IS* the rabbit!
Arthur: You silly sod! You got us all worked up!
Tim: Well, that's no ordinary rabbit! That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on!!
Hehehe. Tim the Enchanter. That's also where Death, his carnivorous rabbit, came from.
QUODPOT 2000 was originally called Finnafunga. The following is from a conversation with my co-writer, Emily:
Emily: So, what sport do they play in America?
Annie: I dunno. Probably not Quidditch, because, you know, we play baseball here and they aren't too big on that in Europe. Some other sport that we'll call...for the sake of argument...um...Finnafunga.
*pause*
Emily: You do know that's what we're going to call it, right?
Annie: ....Yeah....
Eventually, though, there would have to be more to Finnafunga than a funny name. I tried concocting a new wizard sport, involving something about magic towers that shot flames. As you could guess, it...it didn't really go anywhere. As luck would have it, I found Quidditch Through The Ages and discovered that an American sport existed called Quodpot. Perfect! Only one small problem...It was boring! So, I wrote my own particular entry into the world of wizard sports: Quodpot 2000.
"Quodpot 2000 is a modern variation of the popular American sport invented in the 18th century by Abraham Peasegood. The outline of the originial Quodpot game is as follows:
- Two teams, of eleven players each.
- There is a Quod, which is a Quaffle that has been enchanted to randomly explode.
- The Quod is passed back and forth from player to player, trying to get to the end of the field.
- Whoever is holding the Quod when it explodes must leave the field.
- When the Quod gets to the end of the line, it is placed in the other team's pot, which prevents
the Quod from exploding.
- One point for each goal.
This has been quite a popular sport in America, reaching from the Washington Jarveys to the Florida Dugbogs. However, increasing requests for a better game have caused many loyal Quodpot fans to alter the game for their personal entertainment. In 1967, Mr. Geraldo Dizzfen, then President of the National Quodpot Club (NQC), decided to begin researching older broomstick sports like Quidditch and Swivenhodge. Rumors existed he looked at certain Muggle sports such as baseball and rugby. He also began accepting requests and ideas for improving the game of Quodpot from professionals, amateurs, and children alike.
The suggestions came in a hailstorm. Everything from adding another pot to requiring all players to sit in flying armchairs arrived by owl into Mr. Dizzfen's office. Finally, after putting in nearly two months total in overtime, the NQC president had drawn up a new set of rules for the new and improved sport of Quodpot 2000.
- Two teams, of six players each.
- The Quod is a small red ball about five inches in diameter that has been enchanted to randomlyflash and emit a loud scream. (There had been an increasing number of injuries due to the previous Quod's explosive tendencies.)
- Two of each team play defense and are called Blockers. The remaining four play offense and are called Runners. (Note: In more modern times, it has become increasingly popular to call the Blockers "Potties" and the Runners "Quoddies")
- When the Quod goes off, the team touching the Quod gets a Bamp. If it is in the air, it is whomever touched it last that receives the Bamp.
- Both Blockers and Runners are not allowed to touch the Quod in their hands. They must use semi-spheres called Shells, seven inches in diameter, to both hold and throw the Quod.
- A point is added to a grand total by each individual Runner who catches the Quod in his or her Shell, no matter what side he or she is on. The one team who throws the Quod in the Pot collects all the points in this grand total, and the grand total begins with a new score.
- The game ends when a team collects five Bamps. The other team receives an extra fifty points.
Mr. Dizzfen thanks everyone who sent him suggestions, and hopes that the new Quodpot 2000 will be a great success for all who attempt it."
Not too shabby for two month's overtime, huh? The Shells came from a game my friend Liz and I concocted after our GEPA tests in eighth grade. Using coconut shells (brought in to re-enact Monty Python and the Holy Grail), we would pass a bouncy ball that lit up when hit hard to each other faster and faster...without setting the bouncy ball off.
Fun while it lasted, unlike those GEPAs....
THE FIRST SONG, at the first dance, in case you are wondering, is the song "Heartbreaker" by Led Zeppelin, which helped to inspire me to begin writing this whole story three years ago. The beginning to the song is a loud, slammin' guitar solo that I can see all the puny little English kids quailing to.
These are the lines most important to the story in "Heartbreaker", which can be kind of applied to Harry saying them to Llewellyn (Annie):
"Hey fellas, have you heard the news?/You know, well, Annie's back in town/Won't take long, just watch and see/All the fellas lay their money down...People talkin' all around/'bout the way you left me flat/I don't care what the people say/I know where their jive is at...Heartbreaker, your time has come/Can't take your evil ways/Go away, you heartbreaker!!"
Does that mean that this whole thing is a song fic? Probably not, considering how little relevance it has to the whole story. But that's the way it goes.
OTHER THINGS were not considered important or cool enough to be included in my directory of new stuff in the wizard world. If you have any questions about something non-canon in "Book of Evil" that I haven't covered, please review or IM me and I'll explain it in detail.
One note I would like to make here is that there is a lot of stuff, such as Starfish and Stick formation or ashwinders, that is not in the Harry Potter series, but IS in either Quidditch Through the Ages or Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. I highly suggest you get these books, as they are very cheap, they can both be read in less than half an hour, and you will gain a much deeper knowledge of the wizarding world from them.
REVIEWERS rule! I would like to especially thank Tiger Girl, a random reader who wrote no less than 7 reviews for my story. I would also like to thank depth, my friend Irene, for her many reviews and comments at school. Oh, and thanks to lbj for his/her frank comment, I actually went back and altered the story a little on his/her suggestion. Thanks to everyone else who reviewed me. Sometimes I think that something's wrong with me because I have a very low amount of reviews in comparison to story length, but then I just think of all the nice people and helpful reviews that I've received, and life is good once again.
FINALLY, I would like to dedicate this story to my best friend Emily's and my friendship. I will admit that this story single-handedly saved, glorified, and immortalized our friendship over the past three years. "Book of Evil" is the parent of countless inside jokes, some of which will come to life in the next section, "Scenes that Never Made It".
*DO NOT READ UNLESS YOU HAVE FINISHED THE STORY!*
LLEWELLYN EURYALE originally began as a friendly, slightly shy, Irish-American girl with braids, glasses, and freckles, named Annie Hurrey. Save for a few letters in the last name, exactly myself. Later, when I decided to make Book of Evil a big, Rowling-grade fic, she got a last name change to Scelestus, which means "hidden wickedness" in Latin. This was about the time that I began writing the second edition of "Book of Evil" and I also started to uncover the horrors of Mary Sues. It was also about then that I realized I had little to no background for her. Time for a change.
I decided to think about how I would actually end BoE. The endings of all my stories don't appear until whether I want to evaluate whether I want to take my characters and plot so far all the way to the end of the story. So, I came up with the Chromo Alethio room and Annie's temptation with Nagini. I decided she would be a Parselmouth - a major pitfall in making a new Harry Potter character. So, I had to give a very good reason for her ability to speak to snakes...and change her nationality...and maybe even give her a new last name.
I sent myself to my huge Muggle book on magizoology - A Natural History of the Unnatural World - and searched through the snake-related creatures for a name. Then, I found the perfect section: the Gorgons.
(Interestingly enough, the 52nd edition of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander contains no mention at all of the Gorgons. Well, I guess when there are only three, and one was killed, there's no need to mention them in a modern-day magizoology book.)
The names of the three Gorgons are Medusa, Stheno, and Euryale. "Medusa" would have been too obvious, and I don't know how to pronounce "Stheno", hence the last name "Euryale". Annie then became Greek, losing all connection to myself physically, save for the trapezoidal glasses. (I'm rather fond of them.) She also became a Parseltongue with good reason, having a dark connection to the Gorgons of long ago, and she got a new last name with a history lesson enclosed.
I don't think the character Annie Euryale ever existed - she got the name Llewellyn right after that, from a quick glance at Quidditch Through The Ages by Kennilworthy Whisp. Llewellyn Euryale has no connection to "Dangerous" Dai Llewellyn. I just think it's a pretty name, although quite a bit long.
ROSALIND SIDEREUS (this entry written by Emily): Way back in 7th grade, my best friend Annie came up with the idea that it might be fun to write a Harry Potter book 4, starring new characters. Namely, us.
As book 4 turned into book 5 and Annie Hurrey turned into Llewellyn Euryale, Rosalind Sidereus, my character, began to take shape. She started out as sort of a mini-Mary Sue, being smarted than Hermione. Then Annie and I agreed that really wasn't possible.
When everyone else in the story began to be paired up, Rosalind ::cough:: I ::cough:: began to feel left out. Originally, Rosalind was supposed to be paired up with Harry Potter, but things were going well with him and Cho. We started going through all the characters...Ron? No...Neville??...DUDLEY?!? And then we hit upon it. Lawrence!
So then Roz had a boyfriend and a best friend, and life was good.
PROFESSOR MATT VISILIO was inspired by a "What If?" section of a Harry Potter fansite. I forgot what site it was and who wrote it, but if you try to sue me I'll deny everything in court. *wink* It was something like "They get a new DADA teacher who is a Cubs fan and gives them less homework whenever the Cubs win." This made me think of a sports fan DADA teacher from America - or, as I say it in BoE, the States. (I tried to keep a British feel about it, calling apartments "flats" and vacations "holidays", but I think I still spelled most words like "color" and "labor" the American way.) The way he speaks in semi-Spanglish on the first day of lessons comes from my technology teacher, Mr. Festante.
I also had to think of how he would leave at the end of the year. At first, it was going to be something really stupid, like he was caught stealing spoons - "Vispilio" means "Thief" in Latin. Then, after developing Matt (named after a crazy drama summer camp counselor named Matt Dunn, see Tim Wyvern's entry), I decided he deserved something cooler to leave Hogwarts by. (I got rid of the P in his name after that and I liked the Italian New Yorker feel of "Visilio" so I kept it.) I decided to have him drafted on to the New York Nogtails Quodpot 2000 team at the end of the year! Much, much cooler than stealing spoons. ^_^
THE NY NOGTAILS, Matt's team, began as the NY Yankees, but it soon became obvious that there would be confusion between them and the Muggle baseball team. A quick glance through Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them yielded the Nogtails, little demon-like things from North America and Europe. (See the Quodpot 2000 entry below.)
LAWRENCE BONE is a completely random person. I don't know where he came from or who he's supposed to be. Everything that developed about him was entirely spontaneous and accidental. And yet, he's a three-dimensional character with hopes and dreams, character potentials and character flaws.
I have to make more characters like him. He was easy!
THE COLUMBIA CHARACTERS are almost always based, to some degree, on actual people who were big in my life at the beginning of the story. Ino Kinst is a boy named Nick Sodano, and Skyla Conway is a girl named Jacklyn Goldstein. Nick has since gotten a "stick up his butt" and I don't hang out with him anymore, and Jacklyn moved, although we are still friends on the phone.
The staff at the school, except for Patursa, is the insertion of some of my seventh-grade teachers. Headmaster Jannis comes from my principal at the time, Mr. Jack Dennis. (Jack + Dennis = Jannis.) Professor McVey was Mrs. McVey, my first algebra teacher. Professor Risden was Mr. Risden, the musical instructor when the story was created, and he has since retired and moved to Arizona. Professor Szeles was Mrs. Szeles, my scary biology teacher who, as far as I know, is still a biology teacher. And is still scary.
JIMMY PATURSA, on the other hand, was a composite of different people, now nearly all of whom I can't remember now. "Patursa" is a kind of corrupted Latin for "Father Bear" (the actual translation of "Father Bear" would be "Pater Ursa"), and he is based mostly on a camp counselor nicknamed Papa Bear. The big, funny Papa Bear used his name so much I can't even remember what his real name was. I'm not sure where "Jimmy" came from, I think it just works with "Patursa". I'm not sure why he's even in this story, since he wasn't in the original plot. But he's here, and that's all that matters.
TIM WYVERN, originally Tim Dunn, got his last name from a creature that looks like a two-legged dragon in A Natural History of the Unnatural World. He got his last name change when I got rid of all the original names, turning everyone into wizards. "Dunn" came from another camp counselor. Matt Dunn is quite the zany oddball, and so I originally divided him into two kooky male characters in the story. (Matt's first name went to the DADA professor.)
Tim's first name, however, came from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Anyone who has seen the bizarre movie probably remembers these lines:
Arthur: What manner of man are you that can summon up fire without flint or tinder?
Tim: I... am an enchanter.
Arthur: By what name are you known?
Tim: There are some who call me... Tim!
You may also remember the monster.
Tim: Follow! But! follow only if ye be men of valor, for the entrance to this cave is guarded by a creature so foul, so cruel that no man yet has fought with it and lived! Bones of four fifty men lie strewn about its lair. So, brave knights, if you do doubt your courage or your strength, come no further, for death awaits you all...with nasty, big, pointy TEETH!
And the monster...er...rabbit....
Tim: Too late!
*dramatic chord*
Arthur: What?
Tim: There he is!
Arthur: Where?
Tim: There!
Arthur: What, behind the rabbit?
Tim: It *IS* the rabbit!
Arthur: You silly sod! You got us all worked up!
Tim: Well, that's no ordinary rabbit! That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on!!
Hehehe. Tim the Enchanter. That's also where Death, his carnivorous rabbit, came from.
QUODPOT 2000 was originally called Finnafunga. The following is from a conversation with my co-writer, Emily:
Emily: So, what sport do they play in America?
Annie: I dunno. Probably not Quidditch, because, you know, we play baseball here and they aren't too big on that in Europe. Some other sport that we'll call...for the sake of argument...um...Finnafunga.
*pause*
Emily: You do know that's what we're going to call it, right?
Annie: ....Yeah....
Eventually, though, there would have to be more to Finnafunga than a funny name. I tried concocting a new wizard sport, involving something about magic towers that shot flames. As you could guess, it...it didn't really go anywhere. As luck would have it, I found Quidditch Through The Ages and discovered that an American sport existed called Quodpot. Perfect! Only one small problem...It was boring! So, I wrote my own particular entry into the world of wizard sports: Quodpot 2000.
"Quodpot 2000 is a modern variation of the popular American sport invented in the 18th century by Abraham Peasegood. The outline of the originial Quodpot game is as follows:
- Two teams, of eleven players each.
- There is a Quod, which is a Quaffle that has been enchanted to randomly explode.
- The Quod is passed back and forth from player to player, trying to get to the end of the field.
- Whoever is holding the Quod when it explodes must leave the field.
- When the Quod gets to the end of the line, it is placed in the other team's pot, which prevents
the Quod from exploding.
- One point for each goal.
This has been quite a popular sport in America, reaching from the Washington Jarveys to the Florida Dugbogs. However, increasing requests for a better game have caused many loyal Quodpot fans to alter the game for their personal entertainment. In 1967, Mr. Geraldo Dizzfen, then President of the National Quodpot Club (NQC), decided to begin researching older broomstick sports like Quidditch and Swivenhodge. Rumors existed he looked at certain Muggle sports such as baseball and rugby. He also began accepting requests and ideas for improving the game of Quodpot from professionals, amateurs, and children alike.
The suggestions came in a hailstorm. Everything from adding another pot to requiring all players to sit in flying armchairs arrived by owl into Mr. Dizzfen's office. Finally, after putting in nearly two months total in overtime, the NQC president had drawn up a new set of rules for the new and improved sport of Quodpot 2000.
- Two teams, of six players each.
- The Quod is a small red ball about five inches in diameter that has been enchanted to randomlyflash and emit a loud scream. (There had been an increasing number of injuries due to the previous Quod's explosive tendencies.)
- Two of each team play defense and are called Blockers. The remaining four play offense and are called Runners. (Note: In more modern times, it has become increasingly popular to call the Blockers "Potties" and the Runners "Quoddies")
- When the Quod goes off, the team touching the Quod gets a Bamp. If it is in the air, it is whomever touched it last that receives the Bamp.
- Both Blockers and Runners are not allowed to touch the Quod in their hands. They must use semi-spheres called Shells, seven inches in diameter, to both hold and throw the Quod.
- A point is added to a grand total by each individual Runner who catches the Quod in his or her Shell, no matter what side he or she is on. The one team who throws the Quod in the Pot collects all the points in this grand total, and the grand total begins with a new score.
- The game ends when a team collects five Bamps. The other team receives an extra fifty points.
Mr. Dizzfen thanks everyone who sent him suggestions, and hopes that the new Quodpot 2000 will be a great success for all who attempt it."
Not too shabby for two month's overtime, huh? The Shells came from a game my friend Liz and I concocted after our GEPA tests in eighth grade. Using coconut shells (brought in to re-enact Monty Python and the Holy Grail), we would pass a bouncy ball that lit up when hit hard to each other faster and faster...without setting the bouncy ball off.
Fun while it lasted, unlike those GEPAs....
THE FIRST SONG, at the first dance, in case you are wondering, is the song "Heartbreaker" by Led Zeppelin, which helped to inspire me to begin writing this whole story three years ago. The beginning to the song is a loud, slammin' guitar solo that I can see all the puny little English kids quailing to.
These are the lines most important to the story in "Heartbreaker", which can be kind of applied to Harry saying them to Llewellyn (Annie):
"Hey fellas, have you heard the news?/You know, well, Annie's back in town/Won't take long, just watch and see/All the fellas lay their money down...People talkin' all around/'bout the way you left me flat/I don't care what the people say/I know where their jive is at...Heartbreaker, your time has come/Can't take your evil ways/Go away, you heartbreaker!!"
Does that mean that this whole thing is a song fic? Probably not, considering how little relevance it has to the whole story. But that's the way it goes.
OTHER THINGS were not considered important or cool enough to be included in my directory of new stuff in the wizard world. If you have any questions about something non-canon in "Book of Evil" that I haven't covered, please review or IM me and I'll explain it in detail.
One note I would like to make here is that there is a lot of stuff, such as Starfish and Stick formation or ashwinders, that is not in the Harry Potter series, but IS in either Quidditch Through the Ages or Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. I highly suggest you get these books, as they are very cheap, they can both be read in less than half an hour, and you will gain a much deeper knowledge of the wizarding world from them.
REVIEWERS rule! I would like to especially thank Tiger Girl, a random reader who wrote no less than 7 reviews for my story. I would also like to thank depth, my friend Irene, for her many reviews and comments at school. Oh, and thanks to lbj for his/her frank comment, I actually went back and altered the story a little on his/her suggestion. Thanks to everyone else who reviewed me. Sometimes I think that something's wrong with me because I have a very low amount of reviews in comparison to story length, but then I just think of all the nice people and helpful reviews that I've received, and life is good once again.
FINALLY, I would like to dedicate this story to my best friend Emily's and my friendship. I will admit that this story single-handedly saved, glorified, and immortalized our friendship over the past three years. "Book of Evil" is the parent of countless inside jokes, some of which will come to life in the next section, "Scenes that Never Made It".