Hee! Having worked at a metro daily paper as one of the shoemaker's elves unseen desk editors frantically scrolling through the wire services at 10 minutes till midnight to find a new story to fill the hole -- yep, I definitely appreciate the random rubbish that shows up in the morning paper. Especially in the "People" and pop culture tidbits section that usually runs inside the front page. There, I quickly learned that Huge Heds EAT Space! Ah, typography; such an overworked substitute for content!
How many of us have wondered how JKR, in all those books, missed writing in even a wee bit of the humor of Trelawney's balls? She's such a "madwoman in the attic" but it never seemed to me JKR noticed it. Especially after her ball-busting, head-smushing performance in the DH finale, Trelawney deserves more, er, exposure! Alas, it is for slashers to see and write the humor. Milking it for all it's worth, of course. *g*
The Scum seriously deserves many more editions. This story is already an award-winner, though, no question.