PSA

Have you recieved this email?

JUST A REMINDER, 14 days from today, cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies and you will start to receive sale calls. YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS!

To prevent this, call the following number from your cell phone: 888/382-1222. It is the National DO NOT CALL list. It will only take a minute of your time. It blocks your number for five (5) years.

PASS THIS ON TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS.

I'm always surprised that people don't do a little research before passing these things along. Half of my family is freaking out about this one, but I haven't been able to dig up any evidence that it's true. According to snopes.com, this is a HOAX. In fact, it's currently the number one hottest urban legend on their list!

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Feel free to pass this along.

Rec!!

I have pimped this before, back when Rita (jedirita) was posting the first draft -- and now it's done! This is a gorgeous novel-length Neville-centric story, with adorable Harry/Neville scenes and a dash of Snape/Lupin. It's set during the summer after OOTP, when Neville finds himself staying at Grimmauld Place with Harry and Remus for the summer. I love Rita's vision of Neville here -- he's perfectly awkward and geeky in the beginning, but he grows quite a lot over the course of the summer. The Harry/Neville subplot is delightfully awkward, and the main plot is full of mystery and action. I laughed, I cried -- I love it so much!

She's posting two chapters a week (Mondays and Thursdays), but this isn't a WIP. It's completed; she's just doing a final edit on each chapter as she goes. :-)

Title: Becoming Neville
Author: Jedi Rita
Rating/warning: mild sexuality (boys experimenting), a bit of language, mild violence
Characters: Neville and the Longbottoms, Harry, Lupin, Snape, various Weasleys, Dean, Tonks, and a few original characters for good measure.
Summary: Neville's Gran breaks her hip just after his fifth year at Hogwarts, and he must spend the summer with Harry and Remus at No. 12 Grimmauld Place. He and Harry discover a hidden message in the candy wrappers Neville's mother has been giving him over the years, and they begin to uncover secrets about the past, even as they must confront dangers in the present. Along the way, Neville learns just how much he has in common with The Boy Who Lived, and how to be his own kind of hero.
Link: http://www.livejournal.com/users/jedirita/tag/becoming+neville