Jul. 8th, 2005

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Notes: Thanks to [personal profile] imaginarycircus for the beta-read. Hermione's presence in this chapter, entirely due to her.

Legion of Ghosts, Ch. 5: The Scholar and the Madman )
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Warning: DH spoilers through the end of the book.
Notes: Thanks to [personal profile] imaginarycircus and [personal profile] elaboration for betas and feedback.

Chapter Four: Storytime )
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Warning: DH spoilers through the end of the book.
Notes: Thanks to [personal profile] imaginarycircus for betaz leik wo. :D

The song in this chapter is a folk song from the north of England; you can read the original lyrics and click a link to hear a midi of the song here.

First posted 8.13.07

Chapter Three: Dance Ti Thy Daddy )
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Warnings: DH spoilers; this is a post-DH fic, set four years after the end (not the epilogue) of the book.

Chapter One

Chapter Two: I must Not Tell Lies )
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Title: Harry Potter and the Legion of Ghosts
Rating: PG for now.
Warnings: Portrayal of institutional incarceration. Some discussion of mental illness.
Notes: Thanks to Judy, Simon, and Heidi for feedbackses, especially for catching one exceptionally embarrassing typo...
Summary: Four years after the events of Deathly Hallows, people have begun to move on, even to forget. For one young soldier of the war, however, the past he laid to rest has begun to resurface, forcing him to question his conceptions of death -- and his sanity.

PLEASE NOTE: This story is incomplete, and I have no plans to complete it at this time.

Chapter One: Don't Die Today )
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Summary: After the war, Hermione has settled into a quiet if unorthodox life with Severus -- until a small problem in the form of a refugee spy calls for an even more unorthodox solution.
Rating: R for sexual content.
Notes: [personal profile] arsenicjade challenged me the other day to write Snape/Hermione/Lupin in a hurt/comfort scenario, and VOILA. Blame her. :D

Originally Posted 12/16/2006

Three Galleons, ch. 4 )
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Summary: After the war, Hermione has settled into a quiet if unorthodox life with Severus -- until a small problem in the form of a refugee spy calls for an even more unorthodox solution.
Rating: R for sexual content.
Notes: [personal profile] arsenicjade challenged me the other day to write Snape/Hermione/Lupin in a hurt/comfort scenario, and VOILA. Blame her. :D

Originally Posted 12/16/2006

Three Galleons, ch. 3 )
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Summary: After the war, Hermione has settled into a quiet if unorthodox life with Severus -- until a small problem in the form of a refugee spy calls for an even more unorthodox solution.
Rating: R for sexual content.
Notes: [personal profile] arsenicjade challenged me the other day to write Snape/Hermione/Lupin in a hurt/comfort scenario, and VOILA. Blame her. :D

Originally Posted 12/16/2006

Three Galleons, ch. 2 )
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Summary: After the war, Hermione has settled into a quiet if unorthodox life with Severus -- until a small problem in the form of a refugee spy calls for an even more unorthodox solution.
Rating: R for sexual content. (Hermione/Snape, Hermione/Snape/Lupin)
Notes: [personal profile] arsenicjade challenged me the other day to write Snape/Hermione/Lupin in a hurt/comfort scenario, and VOILA. Blame her. :D
Warnings: None.

Originally Posted 12/16/2006

Also available at AO3.

Three Galleons, chapter 1 of 4 )
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Rating: PG-13 (Lupin/McGonagall)
Summary: Lupin and McGonagall build a tenuous but important relationship together during the year of Prisoner of Azkaban.
Author's Note: This odd perspective on PoA probably wouldn't have been completed without the feedback, edits, and support from my regular LJ readers, to whom I owe all gratitude. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.
Warnings: None.

Also available at AO3.

Most Of Gryffindor )
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Rating: R (Remus/Tonks)
Summary: Remus attempts to understand his growing relationship with Tonks as he comes to leadership in the Order and explores his werewolf heritage.
Warnings: Some gore, especially in the later chapters.
Notes: I owe much gratitude to the LJ crowd, who put up with my miscellaneous postings of snippets from this work for weeks; also to the Y!M regulars for letting me bounce ideas off them. Special thanks to Judy, Jill, Tai, and Yap, who beta'd relentlessly and quite well.

Amid My Solitude was born of a one-shot called Breaking Control, which received such positive feedback on Fiction Alley that I decided to expand upon it.

Also available at AO3.

Chapter 1 )
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Rating: R (Remus/OMC, Remus/OFC)
Summary: Being a chronicle of the twelve missing years between the deaths of the Potters and Remus Lupin's return to Hogwarts.
Warnings: Some gore, especially in the later chapters. Frequent allusions to depression.

Also available at AO3.

Chapter 1 )

On Storytelling:

Fanfiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations instead of owned by folk.
-- Henry Jenkins

Life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by piece, or be written again in another language.
-- Tom Stoppard

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
-- G. Bernard Shaw

A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.
-- J. Michael Strazynski

Here's how to become a great artist. First, get miserable. Misery drives you to become a great artist, but the art does nothing for your misery, which drives you to drugs, which makes you a lousy artist.
-- House M.D.

Humans? They're long gone. Vanished. Extinct. They only exist in stories.
-- Ferngully

Anton Chekov, who was a doctor, said, "Medicine is my wife; writing is my mistress."

Se non e vero, e ben trovato. (Even if it’s not true, it’s a good story.)
-- Italian Proverb

The recipe for becoming a good novelist is easy to give, but to carry it out presupposes qualities one is accustomed to overlook. One has only to make a hundred or so sketches for novels, none longer than two pages but of such distinctness that every word in them is necessary. One should write down anecdotes every day until one has learnt how to give them the most pregnant and effective form; one should be tireless in collecting and describing human types and characters; one should above all relate things to others and listen to others relate, keeping one's eyes and ears open for the effect produced on those present, one should travel like a landscape painter or costume designer. One should, finally, reflect on the motives of human actions, disdain no signpost for instruction about them and be a collector of these things by day and night. One should continue in this many-sided exercise for some ten years; what is then created in the workshop will be fit to go out into the world.
-- Nietzsche

The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much. Thieving is God's message to him. Let him try and be a good thief.
-- Samuel Butler

What is written without effort is generally read without pleasure.
-- Samuel Johnson

Same story, different versions, and all are true.
-- POTC: Dead Man's Chest

I am a humble artist
moulding my earthly clod,
adding my labour to nature's,
simply assisting God.
-- Piet Hein

Every archaeologist knows in his heart why he digs. He digs, in pity and humility, that the dead may live again, that what is past may not be forever lost, that something may be salvaged from the wrack of the ages.
-- From "The Testimony of the Spade"

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
-- Francis Bacon

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
-- Seneca epistles 88 45

When asked how she acquired her knowledge of science, Octavia Butler replied, "I read."

Imagination is more important than information.
-- Albert Einstein

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