Nicola Grafton and The BMP

My attempts to write a political allegory (if that's the word I am looking for) about a politician named Nicola and her rise to power as part of the British Muggle Party aren't going as well as I'd hoped.

The basic idea is that about two, three years after the magical secret comes out, Nicola Grafton (who revealed the secret originally) uses fear of magic and mages to gain a massive majority in Parliament. And then to bring in a number of oppressive rules against mages. She also opens up the policy of "Voluntary Resettlement" for mages - citing the fact they'd be happier amongst their own kind in other countries than in a hostile environment.

The trouble is I either make it far too obvious who I am talking about, or I realise I am not making it clear enough.

So, maybe Harry Potter and Politics don't mix. Which, given the similarities between the Death Eaters and The BNP is kind of surprising.

Distraction. It's never good.

So instead of continuing The New Dawn trilogy, or typing up "Holiday From Hell" and "Starlight", spent the last week writing a cross-over between Harry Potter and Jane and The Dragon, and am now plotting out a "do-over story" (Harry comes back to rewrite the past).

I really need to get more organized with this. Or just stop coming up with ideas.

(The Jane and the Dragon crossover was just something that popped in to my head, and took 12 days to write, so I don't feel so bad about that one, and the "do-over" story is a reaction to all of the bloody annoying "whiny Harry" stories that people seem to think should follow "OOTP". Get over it people - JK Rowling went the other way!).