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Call me: Lesley McKenna (female) Member since: 12 Dec 2007
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Hi there.

I am a 55 year old mother of five grown kids and a grandmother of a beautiful 6 month old granddaughter.

I discovered fan fiction about 18 months ago, but had been writing my own stories before then. I just didn't know that there was such a huge market out there of people who like to read amateur works like mine.

Mind you, some are not so very amateur in content. There are some brilliant writers out there.

I have been obsessed with Harry Potter since buying my then 8 year old son the first three books in the series. I wasn't going to read them but a friend who loves fantasy ( and is even older than me, if you can believe that) encouraged me to do so and an addiction was born.

By the way, I come from Victoria, Australia.

I hope I can give a little bit of pleasure to a lot of people.

Thanks for reading this bio.

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Final Confrontation by Nilla starstarstarstarhalf-star [Reviews - 17]
Harry is spending the first Christmas since Voldemort's downfall alone at Hogwarts. He needs some time for himself to think. Snape who survived the war has been almost invisible to everyone ever since. How long is confrontation between the two avoidable?

Takes Place: 8 - Pre Epilogue (adult Harry) - Snape flavour: None
Tags: None
Categories: Misc
Rated: T - Warnings: None
Chapters: 8 - Completed: No - Updated: 17 Jan 2010 / 13 Jan 2008
Series: None - Challenges: Christmas
Title: Chapter 1: Forgiven or forgotten 14 Jan 2008
Reviewer: wrappedinharry (Signed)
    Very interesting, though it is sad that HArry feels he has to be on his own and away from the people who love him.

    Obviously, your Harry needs time out

Title: Chapter 2: What's rightfully yours 14 Jan 2008
Reviewer: wrappedinharry (Signed)
    I was sorry to read that you are obviously one of the people down of DD.

    I don't think Harry was at the end of DH. He couldn't wait to speak to DD's portrait and it was not to abuse him.

    Plus, he called one of his kids Albus.

    Harry had a terribly hard time at Hogwarts, but DD kept him as safe as he could whilst doing everything that he could to make sure Harry was ready for the final confrontation and that his chances of survival were very high.

    DD had it right, even though it was not an easy road for Harry.

    Sorry, just my opinion.

    Author's Response:

    Thank you for reviewing!  :)

    I know what you mean and I agree with you. It will just take some time for Harry to understand Dumbledore. The war is still fresh in his mind and he does't really know what to feel.

     Nilla


No Difference by Attackfish starstarstarstarhalf-star [Reviews - 192]
After Harry talks to Dumbledore in Deathly Hallows, he takes a little detour to Spinner’s End, back before it was Snape’s house, back when it belonged to a woman named Eileen Prince. Snape couldn’t be angrier that Harry is his father.

Takes Place: 8 - Pre Epilogue (adult Harry) - Snape flavour: None
Tags: None
Categories: Reverse Roles > Parental Harry
Rated: T - Warnings: Alcohol Use
Chapters: 31 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 28 Sep 2008 / 15 Jan 2008
Series: No Difference - Challenges: None
Title: Chapter 1: Beginning at the End 12 Jul 2009
Reviewer: wrappedinharry (Signed)
    Interesting. I wonder how much of the story is set in the past.

    Author's Response: Thank you!  Lol, just a little bit.

Title: Chapter 2: Not Half so Pretty 12 Jul 2009
Reviewer: wrappedinharry (Signed)
    I was wondering if it was a coincidence that Harry arrived in Eileen's living room a year to the day before Snape was born?

    Great chapter, very informative. Eileen isn't the nicest of people though, is she? Why can't she brew simple potions that will help people rather than harm some poor unsuspecting person? I imagine that there a any number of wizards who cannot even brew a Pepper-up potion or a Burn salve, which I imagine are easily enough brewed.

    And Harry thinks he likes Eileen too much for her to be Snape's mother. But this has happened after he saw Snape's memories, so he should be a little more accepting of the man. And it didn't strike him as strange that Eileen hated her future husband, just as his own mother once hated her future husband. Though Lily did finally fall in love with James. It seems Eileen married Tobias because she is pregnant.

    Author's Response: Eileen makes her bread and butter making the sort of potions people don't want to be seen buying but are technically legal.  No one minds if people know they're buying pepper-up.  If it's any consolation, she also makes venereal disease treatments.

    For Snape to be born on his birthday (or in the time he'd have to be born to go to school with Harry's parents) she'd have to fall in love with Tobias pretty damn quickly (three months) and Tobias lacks the charisma and good looks James Potter had, and is an abusive, controlling drunk.  It took Lily years to reverse her position on James Potter, and Eileen only would have months.

    Snape might not be evil, he might have been a friend of Harry's mom, but he's still extremely unpleasant and outright nasty to Harry.  Harry likes and gets along with Eileen (in spite of her questionable morals) as opposed to just not thinking her to be evil.

Title: Chapter 3: Foxes, Nightingales, and Larks 12 Jul 2009
Reviewer: wrappedinharry (Signed)
    I found this chapter a bit confusing in places, but it was very well written. One minute I like Eileen and the next, I don't. LOL. I just wonder how Harry knew how to do that Glamour charm as I am sure he never has done it before. and that would have had to be one powerful spell to last 38 odd years. And he didn't appear to even have his wand.

    And to meet DD near the forest. I suppose he had to tell him what had to happenin the future. Though, it has happened! It seems that everything is going to keep going around and around in circles. The concept boggles my mind.

    So, Harry is going to go all the way through Hogwarts knowing that Snape is his son. See, I am totally confused.

    Still, am looking forward to reading how things transpire.

    Lesley~

    Author's Response:

    Harry learned it in class.  With as few spells we know about from canon, they have to be learining others.  I just filled in.  Harry does have his wand, and I think power has more to do with the wizard, and Harry's quite powerful.

    Harry's meeting with AD made it possible to avoid a paradox.

    No, AD isn't going to tell him, he will know nothing.

    Thank you!


Title: Chapter 4: The Snake Foiled 12 Jul 2009
Reviewer: wrappedinharry (Signed)
    Ah, Severus...near death has done nothing to improve his disposition, has it?

    It doesn't seem as if there are going to be any reprisals for snape. I hope this is true. Most of the post DH stories I have read where Sev survives, he is given hell and even with Harry's testimony at trials, no one believes that he wasn't a DE and everyone still believes he killed DD.

    I hope that if Harry and Ginny remain a couple that he isn't pining for Eileen the whole time as you stated that he had not thought that he would miss Eileen so badly. Sounds like he might have loved her. Will he love Ginny or just be with her because it's easy and familiar.


    Can't wait to see Sev's reaction to the revelations he is going to view.

    Lesley~

    Author's Response:

    A little thing like nearly fatal snake bite?  Mellow Snape out?  Yeah right.

    Erm, you get to find out a bit of that later in the story.  I shan't say more.

    Familiarity breeds comfort, and that's enough reason for many people to stay together.  He certainly likes her.


Title: Chapter 5: Into the Pensieve 12 Jul 2009
Reviewer: wrappedinharry (Signed)
    Well, he knows now. He took it better than I thought he would. I love the pin comforter coming to light in Snap's past and him using it and wondering where it had come from.

    I wonder if he will want to remove the glamour.

    The mass funeral seemed a touch impersonal. I would have thoughmost of the families of the dead would have wanted to bury their own. Were Remus and Tonks part of that? Why wouldn't Andromeda have wanted to at least bury her daughter in a place of her own choosing. Though I would hate to think that she would separate remus and Tonks in death.

    Harry still doesn't seem to chuffed to be Ginny's boyfriend.

    Lesley~

    Author's Response:

    Snape's in shock, poor man. 

    Snape?  Want to remove glamour?  Oh Hell no.

    It's a bit impersonal, but they're being buried as war heroes.  Their funeral is a state event.  Lupin's body wasn't claimed by family, and Andromeda couldn't, so she wanted them to be buried together.  Besides, I doubt anyone there thought it was impersonal.  They were all a bit overwhelmed.

    Harry isn't.  He doesn't want to tell her anything and can't think of anything to tell her if he didn't get back together with her.


Title: Chapter 6: Self Deception 12 Jul 2009
Reviewer: wrappedinharry (Signed)
    'Most fathers, Harry thought resentfully, had at least the advantage of age and supposed experience, and most fathers had nine months warning. Their sons didn’t spring fully grown and old enough be their fathers!' This was very clever.

    'Snape descended on him like a walking, raging, ink stain.' And this was very funny.

    Great chapter. Will father and son ever find a modicum of positive feeling for each other, I wonder.

    Loved the confrontation between Andromeda and Harry. Teddy was very cute.

    Why isn't HArry, almost an adopted son, with the Wesleys? Why wouldn't he want to be at Fred's funeral. It seems strnage to me that he is not at the Burrow.

    Lesley~

    Author's Response:

    Thank you!  I wanted to keep parts of this light.

    The journey to whatever the two of them come to as an emotional status is the point of the story.  You get no freebees.

    Isn't he though?  He appears later and I was worried I'd have to warn for kidfic.

    They'd certainly have him go with them if he wanted to, but he doesn't want to intrude.  He's almost but not quite part of their family, and he feels the almost stronger than they do. 


Title: Chapter 7: Binns, Bodmin, and Balderdash 12 Jul 2009
Reviewer: wrappedinharry (Signed)
    Hmm, why are Harry and Ginny not snogging if they are an item? seems a little strange. Is it still the memory of Eileen getting in the way for Harry?

    I know Harry would hate me for even bringing it up, but it is like he hasn't done anything as significant as kill the most evil wizard ever. Any other story has him having to hide from admirers and he hated the recognition, I know. But he did do it and it is like it never happened except that the school is in ruins and they have buried a lots of people killed in the battle.

    Author's Response:

    Ginny has unacknowledged post traumatic stress disorder, and Harry has his own issues.  Everything right then is still very tentative, so they're both reluctant to take it quickly.

    Everyone wants to forget Voldemort even existed, and part of the reason he hasn't left the school is that unconsciously he realizes the school is a bubble, inside of which, no one will mention it to him if he doesn't want them to.


Title: Chapter 8: Bombarding McGonagall 13 Jul 2009
Reviewer: wrappedinharry (Signed)
    God people are horrible. Perhaps if Harry made a public statement vouching for Snape then all would be well, or at least better.

    Can't wait to read how Severus looks.

    Lesley~

    Author's Response:

    Poor Snape.

    Speaking as someone with no fame but loads of small town notoriety, nah, they wouldn't buy it.



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