Not a spoiler...

[sistermagpie]

Err...Spungen?

Dodged a bullet there, my lad.

Do you think he was named after Nancy? Now I've got all these images of Draco in a hotel room with Harry, crying, in a pink kitten sweatshirt. The scary thing is how easy that is to picture.

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[blankcanvas.livejournal.com]

Am I missing something? I'm confused.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

JKR has updated her website and included a very early draft of PS. It's the scene of Harry's first Potions class, which he has with yet-to-have-found-his-real-name "Draco Spungen."

[blankcanvas.livejournal.com]

Oh, thanks! I will go check that out.

[angevin2.livejournal.com]

The scary thing is how easy that is.

It does seem like the sort of thing that would turn up in "Summary Executions"...

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Doesn't it? I'm sure he's done that in fics before.

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

Where on the site would I find this? I'm terrible at negotiating her site.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

I got help and only had time to look at the one thing, so I went for Draco's name of course.

Go to the fansites page, which you get to clicking on the big paperclip thing. On that page there's trophies, and a little red box to the right. Click on the red box five times, a bubble will come up, and you click on that.

[primroseburrows.livejournal.com]

*saves* Will look after bed. Because I'm up too late once again.

[mizbean.livejournal.com]

Now I've got all these images of Draco in a hotel room with Harry, crying, in a pink kitten sweatshirt

OMG! *laughs* Of course, it helps that I just recently rewatched Sid and Nancy. Courtney Love can have the cameo as Narcissa.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

And when her husband comes home beaten up after picking on Muggles she can explain, "Lucius got beaten up by fascists!"

[saturniia.livejournal.com]

*laughs*

I found it. Thanks for the direction.

For the record, does anyone know what the message on her "Rubbish Bin" page means? The one that shows up when one "breaks" the pen on the lefthand side of the bin? A series of lines, a series of ovals, and a pair of eggshells, all going into a mystery cauldron.

[hermione-panic.livejournal.com]

www.potterkeys.com

[lotesse]

Oh. My. God.

Wow. Poor kid. That's almost as bad as the fifteen-year-old on the parenting website who was proud to announce that she had named her kid "Infynyte Skyy."

Won't someone please think of the children?

[teratologist.livejournal.com]

Hey, what's that kid got to complain about? He's got a fine future once they name a trendy flavored vodka after him.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

LOL! It may give him some direction to create it himself!

[saturniia.livejournal.com]

A fifteen-year-old nearly named her kid a homonym of "Infinate Sky"?

*shudders*

I can see a kid named "Sky" or "Skye", but please, people! Adjectives do not usually make good first or middle names.

[gillieweed.livejournal.com]

I just discovered that a real person named a real child "Trillian" after the character in Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy--whose name was actually Tricia.

Had no words.

[flaxenescapee.livejournal.com]

Ding ding ding!



Someone should write the Sid & Nancy H/D fic.

I'm waiting starting..... now. *Looks expectant*

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Any second...

Draco's calling up Lucius telling him he and Pansy have gotten married. "I am so married! I AM SO MARRIED!"

[slinkhard.livejournal.com]

I AMMMMMMM!

[onlyinfatuated.livejournal.com]

Aw, you beat me to it. Which I guess is just as good, since I don't even know what Sid & Nancy is. The idea sounded nice, though =)

[mirabella]

Ahaha, dude! I totally saw that, and Nancy was the first thing I thought of. I wonder if that means he's doomed to become a heroin addict.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

I keep picturing him getting his slang wrong too, now. "You're wonkin' off!"

She's the only Spungen I've ever heard of. I suspect JKR was thinking either:

a) It's like "sponge," and it's a comment on how the aristocracy are lazy good-for-nothings who feed parasitically on society or

b) It's like Eustace Scrubb. "There was once a boy named Draco Spungen who was so awful he almost deserved the name...only in my universe you can't have a name you don't deserve, so I changed it."

Rock 'N' Roll Hogwarts

[q-spade.livejournal.com]

She should have given all her characters the last name Ramone (http://users.bestweb.net/~rline/IMAGES/ramones.jpg) and left it at that. ;)

I'm now imagining Harry as Joey Ramone, Hermione as Johnny Ramone, Draco as Dee Dee...

Re: Rock 'N' Roll Hogwarts

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

Yes!

I agree with this comment.

and it's not like Sirius doesn't have a Bowie or Bolan fetish in half the MWPP-era fic out there

Re: Rock 'N' Roll Hogwarts

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

You know she considered it. The Marauders just had to have tried to start a band even if they couldn't play anything.

Re: Rock 'N' Roll Hogwarts

[jodel-from-aol.livejournal.com]

Only Lupin couldn't make the scene on a regular basis and Pettigrew wasn't pretty enough to do anything but hide behind his drumset.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_rp_zeal_/]

Haha, that just put a different spin on Gary Oldman playing Sirius ;-) Someone should totally go and write a Sirius/Draco fic featuring potion overdose!

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

I see phoot manips!

[slinkhard.livejournal.com]

LOL. 'Weasley, you mother looks like fucking STEVIE NICKS!'

So Harry's Sid? (Who's Johnny?)
I can see that. You'd totally have to explain to Harry that New York was in America. Probably with diagrams, maps and annotations, too. ;)

[q-spade.livejournal.com]

So Harry's Sid? (Who's Johnny?)

Snape, of course. :D

[slinkhard.livejournal.com]

But Johnny dislikes Nancy! :(

Who didn't?

[q-spade.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but I'm not feeling the Draco=Nancy, anyway. Debbie Harry, perhaps...

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Hee! Harry has his first dinner at the Malfoy's Manor.

"So...Harry...are you going to make an honest wizard out of our Draco?"

"Fuck you, grampa."

[ackonrad.livejournal.com]

For some reason, I've been laughing aloud ever since I saw that name. Spungen? Spungen? What kind of name is that supposed to be?

My poor, poor Draco. As though it wasn't enough to suffer under Harry's hand, your creator had to torture you additionally, too.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

It's amazing--I can't even find anything about its origins. The only person I've ever heard of who had it was Sid Vicious' girlfriend, Nancy Spungen, which makes me wonder if that was a factor.

Like I said to Mira, I feel like it was either a case of her going for something like "Sponge" to imply aristocrats lazily sponged off society (which is funny because in my high school the popular crowd was called "The Sponges"), or it was just supposed to be ugly like Eustace Scrubb is ugly for the sake of being ugly.

[ackonrad.livejournal.com]

OMG, so this is the Nancy you were talking about! I didn't dare to say anything in order not to appear stupid, but now that you mentioned Sid Vicious's name, I remembered the story! Nancy is his girlfriend whom he stabbed in a hotel room and killed her, right? I recall to have read their story somewhere. They were both drug addicts.

it was just supposed to be ugly like Eustace Scrubb is ugly for the sake of being ugly.

This is what I thought of right after I heard it.

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

I should have identified her in the OP, actually. Have you ever seen Sid & Nancy? It stars Gary Oldman and Chloe Webb and is really great--in the scene where Nancy gets stabbed she's strung out and wearing a pink kitten sweatshirt. She has many hilariously dumb lines, which are fun to imagine coming out of Draco's mouth.:-)

[ackonrad.livejournal.com]

Nope, I've never seen the movie. I didn't even know the story's been filmed. I have read about them somewhere, definitely, even though I don't remember where. I only remember that Sid killed Nancy and then died shortly after her murder himself. I think the reason for his death was an overdose, but I'm not sure.

[slinkhard.livejournal.com]

Wonder if Nancy made it up, then, if no one else is known to have it. (But why would you call yourself that?)

I love livejournal sometimes, and one of them is now, when I discover that someone's already taken the name 'spungen' in honour of this! ;)

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Wonder if Nancy made it up, then, if no one else is known to have it. (But why would you call yourself that?)

Perhaps it sounds better if you're on heroin?

I love livejournal sometimes, and one of them is now, when I discover that someone's already taken the name 'spungen' in honour of this! ;)

Oh yay! Now we just need the fic where we find out that Lucius changed his name when he started pretending to be upper class and that his real name is Larry Spungen.

[ishtar79.livejournal.com]

Bwahaha!

Oh, poor Draco. XD I guess we should be really happy she changed her mind.