A full set!

[rosathome.livejournal.com]

My copy of The Players and the Rebels arrived from GGBP this morning, so now, for the first time ever,  I have a full set of Marlow stories.  Though I am missing a page from my copy of the Cricket Term.  It's my third copy (don't ask) and I can't really justify the money they're charging for it on ebay.  Someone really needs to reprint that one.

Anyway, I think I will celebrate by reading the entire series from the beginning. 

Comments

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!!

I used to have a hardback copy of The Cricket Term but it went missing in a move and I now have a rather unsatisfactory paperback instead. I wonder what it is about that book in particular that makes it so likely to run for the hills?

[rosathome.livejournal.com]

It's odd, isn't it? I had a copy as a child which got lost in some move or other. Then I found one for an absolute bargain price on ebay which I also managed to mislay. My current copy is a paperback which is falling apart, but is missing, as far as I know, just one page. I've only ever had paperback copies.

I think it's because it's the best of the school stories that it's the easiest to lose!

[rosathome.livejournal.com]

Also, just yesterday I was browsing my friends of friends list and someone was asking whether we knew if Draco's wife was blonde or not. My first thought was, 'Well, of course she's blonde. Everyone knows that all the Marlows have blonde hair and blue eyes.' Then I realised that isn't technically HP canon. Oh well.

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

*grin*

I always think of the Greengrasses as dark, but I can't imagine why. In any case, Draco clearly has some mutant, dominant blond gene* inherited from his mother - I still have no idea how anyone with Narcissa's looks emerged from the Blacks - and Scorpius will come out blonde even if Draco marries Angelina.

* Not 'dominant blond' in the way of any of the 'Lucius gets creative with his cane' fics out there, I hasten to mention

[rosathome.livejournal.com]

Maybe magical genes operate differently? Or perhaps Narcissa's father wasn't actually a Black but it was all hushed up?

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I like that idea. Though I'm not sure who there is kicking around who's blond and not a Malfoy that it might be...

... oh dear. I think I may have discovered the root of Draco's occasional fits of 'He's mutilating my roots, professor!' prissiness, fondness for showing off, and general tendency to be what legionseagle so succinctly describes as 'all mouth and no trousers'.

He's secretly a quarter Lockhart. :)

[rosathome.livejournal.com]

LOL! I think you've got it.

[owl]

*snigger*

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I must be slow, but what's the connection between the Marlows and HP?

[rosathome.livejournal.com]

ankaret.

Read her crossovers at rose_and_lizard. The particular one that deals with Draco's wife is 'From the Ashes', though there's also a brief oneshot of the HP epilogue called, I think, 'The Woman on the Platform' that will give you the general idea.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Ooh, new fic to read! Thank you!

Alas, I don't have any Marlow books at all, and even the library is missing one, and both Player books. Still, I was pleased to find and read as many as I did.