oof! thanks. i'm glad it worked. I sort of promptly stuck a mention of penny in there. do you believe i actuall ytried to look up if anything was said at all about her whereabouts. no-one sad somethign about her after percy left hogwarts, not a word! i was tryign to set it in say, teddylupin's third year. in my head the kids of the trio are still teeny tiny (perhaps i should have added something about that to clear that-oen up). it's wh yI said in my notes i pray everything worked fine within the dh cannon. kind of amazign the things you remember readign about when yo uwrite from that angle though. wow, thanks.