Despite the many pins in the Billy Doll, his surliness is undiminished despite what must be, many patches of extra-sensory arthritis? (and that's from just One pin-inserter).
Now whether my ersatz defenestrator can suck the *bugs out of the authors of XP-J The Jerk's Edition.. remains next project.
* or perhaps insert some Interesting new scaly-clawed ones, into the pineal gland.
Ashton Bumbledore
physics or meta- use what Works
PS - as someone mentioned to me, Rowling wrote this-all (?) at a local coffee shop, while living on 'welfare' pittance. It seems clear that she has mapped out the entire saga. I can imagine (at home) some humongous chalk-board with circles, arrows and scribbled plot notes. It just *has* to have been conceived as a whole, before the first \ufffd was begun in final prose.
I heard also - that the accommodating Shoppe has received some Welfare from the well-earned windfall. :-) Well, ya can't write about altruism well, unless you know how to practise it.. Neat lady.
(Real Justice would be: that as Billy's fortune sags \\ Her's passes.. / the little twit's!)