01/26/06
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House: Hufflepuff and proud to be so
I'm 29, and "History" is my first ever Harry Potter fanfiction, but I've been writing fanfic of all kinds (Star Trek, Star Wars, Buffy, Angel, Hercules, etc) since I was about.... oh, eleven. Not that it was great back then, but you know... I started writing them "professionally" when I was 16. As I said, "History" is my first fanfiction ala Potter, and is my baby. Many of my own theories are the making of this, erm... novel... because I'm sure that is how long it will be in the end. ;)
Graduating with my BFA in Graphic Design and moving to Nashville have prevented me from writing in quite some time...
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The Portrait Painter by coppercurls
Rated: 3rd-5th Years •Summary: It is England in the early 1800's, Bonapart is reigning in France and tensions between the two countries are running high. Phillip must face the secrets of his past while still surviving in the present. It takes the portrait of a remarkable girl to teach him that he can find trust in a world gone mad.
Winner of the June/July monthly challenge, #1: autobiography, and overall winner. By coppercurls of Hufflepuff house.
Date: 01/29/07 Title: Chapter 1: The Portrait Painter
This was excellent. I've never read a HP fiction that wasn't centered around Harry Potter or the Marauders at least, but with your first few paragraphs you sucked me in. You're discriptiveness was excellent, and the dialogue was very real. I could almost see the characters in my mind.
Very good work, I really enjoyed it :)
Author's Response: I\'m glad you liked it, and as to the omission of Harry and the like, I find it almost more interesting to write characters we don\'t know and can only surmise what their life was like. Anyway, thanks again!
Fragmentary by Noldo
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •
Summary: It's all in the stories, and the way we tell them. (Regulus)
Date: 09/11/06 Title: Chapter 1: Fragmentary
I really really liked this one. It's so interesting to read things from a very minor character's POV, because the author has a lot of license to what that person thinks and feels. And that's exactly what you did. Do I see some hints about Regulus changing his identity and not really being dead? Or, is that just me trying to find someone who agrees with that theory... besides myself? LOL. I especially liked (and agreed with) this line:
and that’s the way Sirius is, all intelligence and explosive temper and quite possibly madness
I do think that Sirius was a bit... off. Not crazy, mind, but maybe a little, well, off as I said. Probably due to the Black's inbreeding every once and a while.
Anyway, great one shot, I really enjoyed it.
Egypt by ProfessorFlitwick
Rated: 3rd-5th Years •Summary: Lesson one in Slian Martreb's class on the MNFF Beta Forums.
Date: 10/22/06 Title: Chapter 2: OWL Level
Very interesting.... I hadn't really much looked into Egyptian mythology before. I really only knew about Bast, Isis, Osiris, Anubis, Ra, and Horus.
Greece by ProfessorFlitwick
Rated: 6th-7th Years •Summary: Written for Professor Martreb's course 'World Wide Wizarding and the Mysteries of Mythology' on the Beta Forums. Lesson Two
Date: 11/03/06 Title: Chapter 2: The Olympians
I, too, knew most of this already, but it was interesting to read it from a HP perspective. I love Greek mythology, and it would seem that Jo does, too, as she takes a lot of names, stories, and animals from Greek myth. Merope, for example, was a nymph who was disowned for marrying a mortal.
Unexpected Gifts by Ron x Hermione
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •Summary: Ron and Hermione are in a rut this Christmas. They’re married, yet they don’t have that much money to buy each other gifts; especially after they have already bought all of their family and friends things.
Ron and Hermione both realize they know what to get each other, but when they go to buy it, they know they don’t have the money. They can’t get the gift.
Unless…
Ron and Hermione realize that as long as they have each other, they’ll get through anything.
This was written for the Christmas Challenge, the prompt, Gift of the Magi. I am Ron x Hermione, of Hufflepuff.
Won second place in the Prompt!
Date: 12/28/06 Title: Chapter 1: Unexpected GIfts
Aww, that was really cute. I liked Ron's characterization the best. Hermione, well... seeing as she was brilliant I don't see her just working in a bookstore, but I know that you had prompts, so.... :) Anyway, I found one mispelling, I think "others" was supposed to be "brothers" in the paragraph when you were describing everyone's gifts.
Author's Response: Oopsie! Te he, thanks for that, I\'ll have to look in on the brothers. Thanks, I\'ve heard \"cute\" rather a lot! LOL, but it\'s better than crap; I meant for it to be cute! But, lol, I\'m glad that you liked it! Thanks so much for your review! ~Lindsey :)
Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Gin_Drinka
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •Summary: “You sing to me every night that heaven is somewhere over the rainbow. Granddad told me today, when I asked him, that heaven is after the stars. Everybody tells me that’s where my father is and…I miss him. I wish I could be with him. And if that means being a million light years away from earth, then that’s how far I want to be.”
Harry's family is missing him. A heart-wrenching conversation between Ginny and her fatherless daughter.
Nominated for a Quicksilver Quill for Best Dark/Angst. Thank you!
Date: 02/20/07 Title: Chapter 1: Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Well, I thought this was very touching and heartwarming. It's hard to lose someone that you love. I personally have not lost a parent, and I could never understand going through something like that so young. My fiance's daughter, McKenzie, doesn't have a mother, but unfortunately that's by her mother's choice. Kenzie is only four but I can see that she's going to be a different person because of that. She's strong for her age, for her dad.
Anyway, nice story :)
Author's Response: Thanks! I haven\'t lost a parent either, thank God, but that\'s a part of writing, right...knowing what it might feel like...thanks!
Author's Response: Thanks! I haven\'t lost a parent either, thank God, but that\'s a part of writing, right...knowing what it might feel like...thanks!
Lord Voldemort and the Deathly Hallows by Schmerg_The_Impaler
Rated: 1st-2nd Years •Summary: Lord Voldemort made a deal with someone who even he considers superior, and if he doesn't fulfill his side of it, then he'll be mortal again!
I am Schmerg_The_Impaler of Hufflepuff house, and this is my submission for the Deathly Hallows prompt in the New Year's Challenge.
Although this story's a one-shot for the challenge, I may add more chapters after the contest is over.
EDIT: Dude! This story came in second in the "Deathly Hallows" prompt of the New Years' Challenge! So, let's do the "2nd Place Dance!" (It's a lot like the Cha-Cha slide.)
Date: 02/26/07 Title: Chapter 1: Chapter 1 and Only
LMAO! This story was hilarious, and very good. I think you are the only person to have done a humourous story for the DH challenge. You'll definitely be giving my story a run for it's money ;)
Good work, I love your stuff. You really do make writing humour look easy.
Author's Response: Thanks, Stacey! I\'m definitely going to have to check out yours now. It\'s funny, you make writing SERIOUS stuff seem so easy. At the beginning of writing this story, I tried to make it serious, I really did. But it morphed into this!
Author's Response: Wait, nevermind. I\'m not allowed to read 6th-7th year stories! Sorry! =(