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About me:

I'm a lurker and have been ever since I was delighted to discover that FanFiction existed online about 12 years ago. I used to have nearly every Star Trek ff novel ever published, but it wasn't until I stumbled onto "LiveJournal" and found that they had a thriving ff community, writing ff for a couple of my favorite books and shows that FanFiction is alive and well and NOT JUST for us "old fogie" ST: TOS & SW fans anymore!😎
NO, HP is *not* one of those favorites.

As a matter of fact, it wasn't until 2012 that I accidentally read an SPNff story that was actually a crossover with an *unlabeled* and *untagged* HPff! I was already several pages in before they introduced an abused child named "Harry"!

That I'd found a writer who ACKNOWLEDGED the *child abuse* found throughout this "touted" and "ballyhooed" work of unattributed FANFICTION was, to me, a *revelation*! Prior to *that* story, I'd avoided HPff like the plague!

For me, to see the "Harry Potter" label on a story was the "kiss of death"!

I'm a Fantasy & Science Fiction BIBLIOHOLIC and have been since I was about 4-years-old, so when my husband's nephew came to live with us, in 2005, and I saw that he had the first 5 [HP] novels, I was *eager* to read them [picture "grabby hands ;D]! But the story *started* out /Dark/; I began to get a bad feeling when this creepy "Gandalf" knock-off started turning off streetlights! I was already unsettled when the teacher and "Gandalf" stood there debating leaving a 15-month-old *TODDLER* *OUTSIDE* on a doorstep in *November*! I just *knew* that "Gandalf" was going to turn out to be the real (true) villain of the books!

Nothing has changed my mind since.

Further reading of the 5 books saw me finding instance after instance of nearly direct *steals* from many *classic* Fantasy novels and MY childhood favorites; how could people tout books that were filled with unattributed plagiarism?

How could people *applaud* books that used unmitigated, unremedied, and even *IGNORED* child abuse and bullying (of MULTIPLE characters!) as *PLOT DEVICES*?!

Anyhoo, discovering HPff and finding that there are a LOT of writers --and READERS-- who feel as I do and work diligently to "write"(;D) the wrongs of the books are what has made me an HPff fanatical *fan*!

Thank you, HPff writers! Y'all keep me going and bring some sanity, humor, and justice to an insane world!

You make this old "lurker" very happy!

Bless you, all! [Report This]
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Favorite Stories

What the Neighbor Saw by aikawa akihiko starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 28]
Mrs. Jahoda sees what is going on next door at number four Privet Drive and the only one who will help is Severus Snape

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Alternate Universe, Child fic, Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Alcohol Use, Character Bashing, Violence
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 11 Jun 2011 / 11 Jun 2011
Series: None - Challenges: Someone noticed
The Stinging Habits of the Western Honey Bee by NicNac starstarstarstarhalf-star [Reviews - 78]
For Want of a Nail. When a honey bee decides not to sting a little boy it cascades into Severus Snape bringing Harry Potter his Hogwarts letter. From there...

Takes Place: 1st summer before Hogwarts - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Neglect
Chapters: 7 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 13 May 2011 / 14 Apr 2011
Series: Honey Bee 'Verse - Challenges: None
All That He Had Left by NicNac starstarstarstarhalf-star [Reviews - 13]
All he knew was that the sound of a soothing voice, the gentle rocking of the chair, and the weight in his arms were the only things that mattered, all that he had left.

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: None
Tags: None
Categories: Misc > All written in Snape's POV, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 07 May 2011 / 06 May 2011
Series: None - Challenges: Snape finds Harry first
A Wish Granted by etherian starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 21]
DH - the scene in the Shrieking Shack. Harry and Snape catch a Wish, and change everything.

Takes Place: 8 - Pre Epilogue (adult Harry) - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Adoption, Child fic
Categories: Parental Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 31 Mar 2011 / 31 Mar 2011
Series: None - Challenges: None
Past Featured Story Ugly Duckling by Morgana starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 68]
Seven year old Harry Potter is the proverbial ugly duckling; small, scrawny, scruffy and (thanks to Dudley Dursley) solitary. However, one day Harry discovers, in a lonely clump of weed, this beautiful black swan … Entrant in the 2011 Fic Exchange. Written for Bil.

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11), 3rd summer - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Alternate Universe, Creature!fic
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Fic Fests > #13 Fic Exchange 2011
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Character Death, Profanity
Chapters: 2 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 16 Feb 2011 / 16 Feb 2011
Series: None - Challenges: None
Comments: This is the story of a Swan animagus and an ill-used child; a reluctant spy who fell in love with an abused little boy. It's also the story of a hateful bastard Headmaster who *refused* to allow the spy to give succor to the little boy. The MOB's goal: To groom the child to be a sacrificial lamb!
What Might Have Been: Catalyst by Nightshade sydneylover150 starstarstarstarhalf-star [Reviews - 43]
How much of Harry's story would have been different if Professor Severus Snape had just looked down at the boy's parchment that first day of class...

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Azkaban Character
Categories: Healer Snape, Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Master Snape > Apprentice Harry, Snape Equal Status to Harry > Foes Snape and Harry, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Neglect
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 04 Jan 2011 / 03 Jan 2011
Series: What Might Have Been - Challenges: None
Wizard's Debt by Morgana starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 17]
Severus Snape survived the battle of Hogwarts and struggled to rebuild the Wizarding world. Now, duty fulfilled, Severus' life is, at last, his own. To end.

However, Harry Potter has a life-debt to repay.

Takes Place: 8 - Pre Epilogue (adult Harry) - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Alternate Universe
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Profanity, Self-harm, Suicide Themes
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 06 Jun 2010 / 06 Jun 2010
Series: None - Challenges: Suicidal Snape
When the Boat Comes In by Morgana starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 618]
Darkness swallowed Severus's childhood and is threatening to engulf Harry's. Will the man recognize himself in the boy before history repeats itself? [Generally short chapters due to (almost) daily updates]

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Slytherin!Harry, Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Character Death, Profanity
Chapters: 60 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 16 May 2010 / 07 Mar 2010
Series: Ship to Shore - Challenges: None
The Next Great Adventure by Morgana starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 11]
Oneshot: Severus Snape died one hundred-and-twenty years ago, yet Harry Potter still visits his grave for a chat.

A series of monologues, mapping Harry's life, his deepening understanding of Severus and his change of heart towards his former enemy.

Takes Place: 9 - Post Epilogue (middle aged Harry) - Snape flavour: None
Tags: None
Categories: Snape Equal Status to Harry > Comrades Snape and Harry
Rated: T - Warnings: Character Death, Profanity
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 02 Apr 2010 / 02 Apr 2010
Series: Making Amends - Challenges: None
I Wish, I Wish by wellyuthink starstarstarstarhalf-star [Reviews - 49]
Abandoned in the wilds of northen England, lost and alone, Harry stumbles across a small town and discovers a street called Spinners End...

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Child fic
Categories: Fic Fests > #10 Holiday/Winter 2009, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: None
Chapters: 2 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 25 Dec 2009 / 24 Dec 2009
Series: None - Challenges: None

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