Wow, you guys really have helped me overcome the glitches. I knew that I needed two magic words to jolt the emitter into life and, while I certainly wasn't the one abducting Snap'es ingredients, once Harry's name was brought up I KNEW that one of the words just HAD to be 'Expelliarmus!'. I would never have guessed that 'XML' was the other word, but it was. I am sitting here now, reading the recently posted 'Thrilling Stories Of The Ocean', by Marmaduke Park, and the smell of the sea is wafting about me. It looks like xml IS a magic bullet after all. I just wonder if it can help me to create a gentle breeze to flutter the curtains a little. Or would that be asking too much?

In a message dated 10/15/2004 4:04:24 PM Mountain Standard Time, colc@gutenberg.net.au writes:

>>Don't get too hung up on this one, as I am working on a >>"virtual aroma
>>emitter". You rub your left ear in a certain way as you >>read the e-book and
>>can then bring forth mould, vinegar, coffee, new-mown >>grass or whatever is
>>required by that page to enhance your reading >>experience. I just have a few
>>technical hitches to overcome. Version 2 will emit the >>smells without
>>rubbing your ear. It will recognise words like coffee, >>grass, perfume, roast
>>beef, etc. We will need a black list and a white list, of >>course. Most of us
>>don't want to experience the actual smells as we are >>reading about running
>>around the sewers below the streets of Paris.

Aha! So YOU'RE the one who has been sneaking

into Snapes's study abducting his potion ingredients!

Doggone it, you KNOW Harry and Ron and Hermione

got in trouble over it! Apologize and admit your guilt.

(Gad. That sounds like a line from THE LAST EMPEROR

or TO LIVE, doesn't it!)