Busted at Lumos 2006!

Well, It finally happened ... Snape busted me and exposed me to the whole Lumos wizarding community as a were-pirate. The Ministry swooped in and had me before the Wizengamot in a matter of seconds. A laptop with wi-fi was brought in and www.MuggleMatters.com brought up and they indicted me instantaneously of writing about Pirates of the Caribbean on a Harry Potter named page. They were just bringing that Dementor back in to give me a nasty smooch when I managed to escape through a daring burst of swashbuckling and magic. I hopped up on a table and grabbed a chandelier and swung and jumped (acrobatically doing a couple flips in mid-air, narrowly missed by numerous stun and impediment spells), landing just beyond the area protected by anti-apparition enchantments and apparated back to my hotel room across the way ... but not before yelling "Gryffindors, Hufflepuffs, Ravenclaws and Slytherins! You will always remember this as the day you almost caught Captain ... uh ... er ... Wizard Merlinus Ambrettus!" The conference is not actually over yet and I am not actually leaving till tomorrow but I thought I would come over here and blog. They're having an auction and stuff tomorrow and the leaving feast (but I would not be in the great hall for that one anyway ... and it's from 9 -11, which makes going to Church at the Cathedral way over by the strip and getting to the airport on time for the security checks and all for the flight a little close). Tonight is mainly eaten up at the conference with a HUGE podcast by "LeakyMug" - the combined forces of Mugglenet and Leaky Cauldron. I figure they will have that available online for those interested, but I would have gone anyway if it wasn't just madly packed. Seriously, the thing did not start til 6 or 6:30 and there was already a huge line when I was walking to the last class at 4 pm. I'm more the academic type and am not really well traveled in the HP "fandom," but I gotta tell ya ... those folks have some seriously dedicated and excited fans... it's pretty cool.