The Library

Thesis is still giving me a migraine. But: I wrote an amazin amount of 1,656 words today! Almost finished the narrator parts of GoF. Progress, yay!

And now, because alisanne wanted them, here some more drabbles that frustration produced:


Title: Distraction
Characters: Lucius, Harry
Rating: NC-17
Length: 100
Warning(s): AU
Summary: Lucius Malfoy is an obedient Death Eater, but he is also a Malfoy.
Disclaimer: JKR owns the Potter verse - I only play in it. No money is made.

( Distraction )


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Title: Gorgeous
Characters: Scorpius, Harry
Rating: NC-17
Length: 100
Warning(s): *oral sex, if that needs a warning*
Summary: Scorpius always looks gorgeous.
Disclaimer: JKR owns the Potter verse - I only play in it. No money is made.

( Gorgeous )


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Title: Study Session
Characters: Scorpius, Albus Severus, Rose
Rating: R
Length: 100
Warning(s): *(semi-)public sex*
Summary: The things you can learn at Hogwarts ... ^-^
Disclaimer: JKR owns the Potter verse - I only play in it. No money is made.

( Study Session )


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Title: Concentration and Coordination
Characters: Draco, Harry, Severus
Rating: NC-17
Length: 100
Warning(s): *double penetration, crack?*
Summary: Harry is multitasking.
Disclaimer: JKR owns the Potter verse - I only play in it. No money is made.

( Concentration and Coordination )

This thesis is killing me! Seriously. I just changed the the entire outline. Again. Argh.

Anyway, I'm fighting my way through Prisoner of Azkaban, and the Time-Turner thing made me wonder. You see, as Michael Maar points out in his book, how could Snape not have known about the Time-Turner? When Sirius Black mysteriously vanishes from Professor Flitwick's locked office, and Dumbledore all but outright tells him what happened ('Unless you suggest that Harry and Hermione are to be in two places at once', p. 306 in my edition), how could Snape not know? Hermione has been using the thing for the entire year. He's bound to have heard something about it in the staff room. Or, if Snape was too blinded by his fury, what about Cornelius Fudge? Whose Ministry, you know, approved Hermione's use of the Time Turner. Shouldn't either of them at least suspect something?

( So here's what I think )

Oh, well.

On a different note, there might be more drabbles. Shout if you want me to post them.

It's snowing!!! Yes, it is! Everything's white outside! For someone who hasn't seen evena shy, tiny snowflake in, oh, three years, this is a big moment. And anyway, snow always makes me excited like a child. If it weren't cold and dark, I'd go outside and build a snowman.

But you're here to read fic. Yeah. Didn't get anything done for the thesis, and although I'm madly in love with my Christmas fic, I can't interest Muse. She's playing with an original slash bunny and doesn't pay attention. Bitch. So I wrote another bunch of drabbles. Here's one.


Title: Interrogation Techniques
Characters: Harry, Draco
Rating: NC-17
Length: 2 x 100
Warning(s): *office sex ^-^*
Summary: Draco Malfoy has been called into Head Auror Potter's office.
Disclaimer: JKR owns the Potter verse - I only play in it. No money is made.

( Interrogation Techniques )

More drabbles. I wish I was as productive where the thesis is concerned.


Title: Hot and Cold Which is a stupid title
Characters: Harry, Severus
Rating: NC17
Length: 100
Warnings: *chan, teacher/student, possibly non-con*
Summary: Severus enjoys.
Disclaimer: JKR owns the Potterverse – I just play in it. No money is made from these amateur works.

( Hot and Cold )


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Title: Wrong or Right
Characters: Harry, Albus Severus
Rating: NC17
Length: 100
Warnings: *chan, incest*
Summary: Harry knows it is wrong.
Disclaimer: JKR owns the Potterverse – I just play in it. No money is made from these amateur works.

( Wrong or Right )


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Title: Seduction
Characters: Albus Severus, Severus
Rating: NC17
Length: 100
Warnings: *age difference, rough sex*
Summary: Al is a Slytherin through and through.
Disclaimer: JKR owns the Potterverse – I just play in it. No money is made from these amateur works.


( Seduction )


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Title: Threesome
Characters: Harry, Albus Severus, Severus
Rating: NC17
Length: 3 x 100
Warnings: *implied chan, implied infidelity, incest, cross-2-gen, threesome*
Summary: It was a good idea.
Disclaimer: JKR owns the Potterverse – I just play in it. No money is made from these amateur works.

( Threesome )


Meep. I have a dirty imagination when I'm frustrated.

...

*drabbles*

Out of frustration with my thesis and my Advent mystery fic I wrote drabbles. Lots of pr0ny drabbles. Here are the first three:


Title: Visit
Characters: Bill, Charlie
Rating: R
Length: 100
Warnings: * incst, infidelity*
Summary: Charlie comes to England for a visit.
Disclaimer: JKR owns the Potterverse – I just play in it. No money is made from these amateur works.

( Drabble: Visit )


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Title: Fantasy
Characters: Harry, Ginny, ??
Rating: NC17
Length: 100
Warnings: * het, possible infidelity*
Summary: It's Harry's favourite fantasy.
Disclaimer: JKR owns the Potterverse – I just play in it. No money is made from these amateur works.

( Fantasy )


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Title: Routine
Characters: Harry, Ginny, Percy
Rating: NC17
Length: 100
Warnings: *infidelity*
Summary: Nothing disturbs office routine.
Disclaimer: JKR owns the Potterverse – I just play in it. No money is made from these amateur works.

( Routine )

For two original slash stories. They were recommendet to me, and I simply adored them, so I had to pass the rec on.

Numero Uno:

Shadow of the Templar by M. Chandler

Three out of four books published on the website. The fourth is scheduled for January 2009. But the third doesn't leave you on a cliffy - or not much of one, it's bearable - so you can start reading. ^-^

Summary: Simon Drake is an up-and-coming young FBI agent. Jeremy Archer is the world's best thief. You do the maths.

Rating: none given, I'd say R, mostly for language.

( Why everyone has to read it? Well... )

Highestly (is that a word?) recommendet!!


Numero Due:

The Slave Breakers by maculategiraffe

Two stories finished, the third and last in progress. I think.

Summary: Bran is a "pleasure slave" in a society where impoverished peasants are legally permitted to sell their children into slavery starting at age 15. When he tries to run away one too many times, his master sells him to the fearsome married couple known as "the slave breakers."

Rating: a loud and clear NC17.

( Why everyone has to read it? Well... )

Go read! Now!

Research time again! For a fic, of course.

So: I'm sure you all know those "Get to know your friends" questionaires and the "My Friends" books everyone seemed to have at the age of 13. I daresay that's a fashion that didn't stop at the gates of Hogwarts. What questions do you think they'd ask? I started with a few:

1. What would be your Animagus animal?
2. What's your favourite Quidditch team?
3. Would a unicorn let you close/touch it?
4. What would you prefer to ride: a broom, a Hippogriff or a dragon?
5. Who is your favourite famous wizard/witch?
6. What is your favourite Honeydukes sweet?
7. What is your faovurite Weasleys' Wizard Wheeze?
8. What does Amortentia smell like?
9. Imagine you could use Polyjuice. Who would you like to turn into?
10. What is your favourite spell to perform? And your least favourite?
11. The Aurors are knocking at your door. Why?

Can you think of others? The more the better, and the more silly and juvenile and invasive the better, too. ^-^

I need a hug. Or a holiday. Preferably both.

Damn this thesis.

After struggling with it ALL DAY I decided I'd put the separate parts together and see how much I'd written so far. 31 pages. Not bad, in four weeks.

But. I'm allowed a maximum of 80 pages. And I'm not yet half-way through the books. To be more precise, I have written the theory and the close reading of PS. 50 pages left for six books. I think not.

And that means I have to change my entire plan and start over again from square one, basically.

I'm so bloody frustrated I could cry.

Argh. I'll go and read fic now and eat chocolate. *sniffs*

Aren't they ironic, those little things you notice in hindsight?

Chapter 7, The Sorting Hat:

"A horrible thought struck Harry, as horrible thoughts always do when you're very nervous. What if he wasn't chosen at all?"

I couldn't help laughing at re-reading this. Poor Chosen One. ^-^


Chapter 15, The Forbidden Forest:

Harry to Ron and Hermione: "Firenze saved me, but he shouldn't have done ... Bane was furious ... he was talking about interfering with what the planets say is going to happen ... They must show that Voldemort's coming back ... Bane thinks Firenze should have let Voldemort kill me ... I suppose that's written in the stars as well."

Um. Yes. To both. ^-^


Though it makes me wonder at the events in Deathly Hallows. I mean, if the stars predict that Voldemort will kill Harry in the Forbidden Forest, what made the centaurs change their mind and fight in the Battle of Hogwarts? Hagrid yelled at them for not helping. A little later, they act as the seventh cavalry. Why would they fight, if what the planets had told them had come to pass? Or did the stars tell them other things, like go fighting when Harry's dead, that haven't been mentioned or that I missed? Hm.

Copied from pir8fanicer and scrtkpr

The Recipe For CiraArana

3 parts Attractiveness 2 parts Wit 1 part Naughtiness Splash of Slyness Finish off with a little umbrella and straw

I should be working on my thesis. Instead, I went through my picture files. And found this:





I'd forgotten I had downloaded the art. OMGuh. Doesn't he look like young Severus Snape? Just before he leaves after the summer hols. The house in the background is clearly Spinner's End.


Oh, and I've also got this one:



My favourite of the series! Severus Snape at King's Cross. It could be young Snape on his way to the Hogwarts Express. Or Snape at that King's Cross Before the Next Great Adventure. Anyway, look at his expression. The not-quite-there smirk. *melts*

And for more picutures of young Snape lookalike, check zazaka's profile on deviantArt (model's name is Lucifel)

Fest Season is approaching. Yay! I'm really, really looking forward to it. And because I can't wait - and because I'm a list freak - I made a list of fests I'll be following:

- snarry_holidays
- snapelyholidays
- harry_holidays (on LJ)
- hd_holidays
- hp_yule_balls

Five sparkly, shiny fests! Or did I miss an important one?

And then, once the Holiday Fests are over, there is more to look forward to!

- hp_nextgen_fest(on LJ)
- drapery_snarco
- hds_beltane (on LJ)


There's nothing better against thesis-frustration than a good fanfic. It's been tested and tried. Can't wait for posting to start!

So, I read this essay. There was one part in it that had me grinning and snorting in turns. It’s an interesting interpretation, though rather hilarious at times (not to say ridiculous).

Anyway, I thought I’d share it with you. It’s quoted from Casey Cothran, “Lessons in Transfiguration: Allegories of Male Identity in Rowling’s Harry Potter Series” in Scholarly Studies in Harry Potter: applying academic methods to a popular text, ed. by Cynthia Whitney Hallett.

I’ve copied it and only changed the layout a bit to make it easier to read. Have fun.


( the essay )


( Cira's comment )

If you were asked for a word that means "a patch of earth", what would be the first thing to come to your mind?

Would you think of "sod"?

Is the word "sod" actually used in that meaning?

Because my dictionary notes its use as fml (formal) or rhet (rhetorical), and teachers tell us students to stay away from anything marked as formal. But whether because a consistent use of formal language is usually beyond the average student or because these words are so formal (or outdated) that they aren't used anymore in everyday language I haven't yet found out.

I need this for a fic and I'd like to know how long it would take someone - let's take Head Auror Harry Potter, for example (*cough*) - to think of "sod" when asked for "a patch of earth."

Seriously. I do. Usually after having read either lots of Snarry fics or a fic that made a special impact on me.

Though it's not only Snarry. The other night, I had a positively indecent dream: Harry, Al, James, and Teddy lived together and were shagging like mad bunnies, in all combinations. I blame it on Traditionalist by the_minx_17 and Pride, but most definitely on The Evil Devil Child and the Perfect Gift.

But last night, I dreamt Snarry. ( And it was a really interesting dream, with a bit of bonding and creature thrown in )

And then I woke up, with a creature in my head and the desire to write a story for it. So I've begun to work out what the creature is, where it comes from, why the bonding/claiming thing etc. I think this is the one creature fic that I will have to write. I might even have an idea, post-DH too, that includes the dream.

Ah, but: when to write it? Time is short.

Phew. Finally finished my fest fic. It's awfully long and I wrote the smut in a kind of daze. No idea if what I did even makes sense. I already love my beta for putting up with me.

So. Now that it's done, I can with good conscience spend time on my two Christmas fics. I've been wanting to do that for days! No fest stuff, though. One's a little "mystery" fic, in 25 parts, to be posted one part per day during December. (We'll see if I manage that).

The other one is actually a Christmas present for one of my favourite writers. I love her stories so much that I wanted to give her something back. Muse thought the idea was nice but didn't show much interest. Then the other day, I cleared up my fanfiction files and found an old bunny. Muse instantly decided that this was what we were going to write. It's a very pr0ny story and I'm really exited about it. Won't tell more, in case I don't manage to finish it before Christmas. Wouldn't want to disappoint awesome writer. ^-^

I'd also like to point your attention to my icon. Isn't he droolworthy?


*bounces off to try and decide which fic to write*

Listmania attacked again. So I began making themed lists for Harry Potter fanfiction.

The list themes are totally subjective (i.e. they're the kind of fics I love to read). If you know of any fic that might fit, please comment with a link. I'd love to read - and add - them!



Themed List: Cat!Harry & Feline!Harry

Themed List: Creature!Snarry

Update on my life. Heh.

I had a very busy week. Last Tuesday, I started writing my thesis. Finished introduction on Wednesday. Rewrote whole thing on Saturday. Still don't like it. Argh. Began theory stuff on narrator yesterday. It's okay. Doesn't go with intro, though. Double argh.

Anyone of you well-versed in narratology and Harry Potter? I'd love to have someone to bounce off ideas and discuss things and analyses etc. None of my friends knows enough about Harry Potter to be much of a help.

Last Thursday, I wrote smut. Not as much as I had planned but smut. I even like it. And now I worry that it's boring, or something. Usually, when I write and like what I did, it's no good. We'll see. Also, smut's not finished, so I'll be spending this Thursday making one character do the other. When that's finished, I only need a good ending - making girlfriend a definite ex - and I'm done. Yay! starry_nights88, if your offer to do the SPaG beta is still on, I'll gladly accept! ^-^

Saturday, I went to the birthday party of a friend I hadn't seen in years and got smashed. Had trouble driving home the next day. And the night ... eh, I'd better write an f-locked entry fot that. *grins*

Perhaps more interesting: Hamilton! For those new to my LJ: that's where I spent last year. Hamilton, New Zealand. I'm still homesick. First chance I get and I'll be back there. *nods*

And now I'd better stop procrastinating and get cracking. Must write "narrator" today. *would prefer to write smut*

Another burgeoning themed list, though really more a way for me to bookmark certain fics.

So, the first list's theme is oblivious!Harry. I love fics where Severus is in love with Harry, while Harry is completely oblivious to it. Usually, there are clues for the reader, and we wait for Harry to wake up and realise what's going on.

The second list's theme is struggling!Severus: he's in love with Harry, but for whatever reason either denies his feelings or refuses to act on them. Must be written from Severus's pov, though.

For now, I'll have both lists in one post. If they grow, I'll split it.


( Themed List: oblivious!Harry )


( struggling!Severus )

Is there anyone willing to read my fest fic for me? No SPaG, just read through and tell me whether it's okay so far or not. Perhaps tell me what I could do better.

There's no smut yet. I meant to write that today, but I'm so unhappy with the last bits I wrote yesterday that I can't go on. And for some reason I really can't figure out what it is I don't like about the last couple of hundred words.

Um, the fic's 21k so far. Meant to be Harry/Charlie, but mentions other pairings. DH compliant.

Anyone? Please??