I think the Conncel of Connies is in agreement on this.

Palms are lovely

I have no idea how to hook my Visor up to the work computer and get text-y files. This will all be a moot point when I switch over to the shinyshiny iPod, as I still won't be able to upload text files, but I'll be able to have all my contact info on a little shiny toy that will store 5000 songs. Shiny candylike iPod, as Clovis would say.

I'm going to read Transfigurations on the bus tonight.

Neat! A Council of Connies! Is that like a murder of crows?

When I was reading the rants, I assumed it was like the Cassandra Claire case, where someone took sections of a published work and claimed this as new.

Was CC the plagiariser or the plagiarised? I remember hearing something about a kerfuffle, but never got the details.

CC was the plagiarizer. Alleged plagiarizer, I suppose I should say, since I only know about the thing from secondhand accounts.

Micole posts here occasionally, and she went through a CC story and catalogued its textual similarities to a novel whose title I've forgotten. (It was a relatively obscure [published] fantasy novel, or obscure enough that I, not really a fantasy reader, had never heard of it.) I saw the two texts side by side, and it sure looked like plagiarism to me. I don't know if Micole's around and is willing to bring back fond, bilious memories of it all, but her research was some pretty damning evidence.

I think Jintian also went through a chapter or two of Draco Dormiens and pulled out all the references she recognized from TV shows like Buffy.

Incidentally, the Gray Day site seems to have been reorganized a little. The Wall of Shame is gone, unless I'm blind, and there's a message board instead to talk about various thing, including instances of stolen stuff.

all the references she recognized from TV shows like Buffy.

Are the references a bad thing? From a story universe point of view--I'm assuming it's an HP story--I doubt television in general and Buffy in particular are particularly well known in the wizarding world, but a wizard with a great deal of Muggle contact could know TV shows. What's the line between a reference and plagarism? The characters don't exist in a vacuum.

I'm not talking about mentioning that the show exists. I'm talking about lifting lines of dialogue.