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I read and write Harry Potter fanfic.

My current fic is being posted at http://imuptonogood.livejournal.com, and is a Post DH story following Harry, Draco, the Weasleys, and a few others, after DH (ignoring the epilogue).  It is canon compliant, but I managed to rescue Snape.

 I am an omnivorous reader when it comes to Harry Potter genres, but I prefer those where Harry and Snape can reconcile... eventually.

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Resolution by wellyuthink starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 234]
The time has come to go back to Hogwarts, but is Harry ready? Struggling to deal with the loss of Shadow, the alarming discovery of his paternity and the problems created by a newly risen Voldemort, the coming term proves to be the most difficult one that Harry has ever faced. Sequel to 'Know Thyself'

Takes Place: None - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Alternate Universe, SuperPower! Harry
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Alcohol Use
Chapters: 27 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 18 Nov 2012 / 31 Jan 2009
Series: Evolution - Challenges: None
Title: Chapter 19: Fire and Flame 03 Feb 2011
Reviewer: ImUpToNoGood (Signed)
    Very much enjoying this! Can't wait to read more... Your plots are unique and intricate. I love the way Harry and Snape are with each other.

Past Featured Story Life as Dictated by a Talking Hat by RhiannanT starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 922]
Before Harry arrives at Hogwarts, the faculty have a meeting and decide that Harry will need a mentor to help him adjust, keep him out of trouble, and make protecting him easier. They decide that this person should the Head of the House into which Harry is sorted, presumably Minerva McGonagall. But things, of course, don't turn out as planned, and Harry is harder to deal with than anyone expected. Nobody asked him if he wanted a mentor, after all...

NOTE: This story has a prologue. It is not necessary to the plot of the story, but if you wish to read it, it is called(predictably enough) 'Prologue to Life as Dictated by a Talking Hat'

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Alternate Universe, Slytherin!Harry, SuperPower! Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: 16+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys, Profanity
Chapters: 35 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 24 Jul 2010 / 15 Mar 2009
Series: Life as Dictated by a Talking Hat - Challenges: None
Title: Chapter 8: World War II - part 2 30 Apr 2009
Reviewer: ImUpToNoGood (Signed)
    Oh! I like the humor in this chapter. And your description of the gunk is ...visceral.

    Best parts:
    Harry accidentally frees a house elf, and then bonds her! Snicker.

    And the When pigs fly bit, understated and still understood by both of them. A beginning of understanding between them?

    Author's Response: Woot. Thanks! Yeah, poor, confused Harry. But he's seen another side of Snape, so...maybe things are looking up?

Title: Chapter 9: Axis and Allies 06 May 2009
Reviewer: ImUpToNoGood (Signed)
    And you've got me in tears again.

    Good job.

    Loved the scene with Tonks! Loved Snape, the old softie, letting Harry go play for ONE HOUR.

    And standing in the corner really is a trial for Harry.

    And his thoughts during the lines were very good.

    "Hey Voldie! Those robes make you look fat!"

    Of course, maybe more accurate would be: "Hey Voldie: Those robes make you look dead! Oops, my bad. Its not the Robes." Wait... isn't the DL non-coporeal at the moment?

    Any way, most enjoyable.

    Author's Response: lol yes the DL in non-corporeal, but that doesn't mean Harry can't make fun of him. Actually...that leaves room for lots more fun, in my opinion. I HOPE Harry's survival instinct will stretch to not openly insulting the corporeal DL, if I ever get that far, but who knows? He seems a TAD impulsive... Thanks a lot! Did I really make you cry???

Title: Chapter 14: Bad Blood and Bad Attitude 13 Jun 2009
Reviewer: ImUpToNoGood (Signed)
    Poor Snape. He really has his work cut out for him.

    Harry is going to figure it out eventually, isn't he? There will be warm fuzzies at some point? Snarky warm fuzzies?

    Hoping...

    Author's Response: Don't worry on the warm fuzzy front. Harry's a little slow sometimes, but he'll figure it out. As long as the fic is, we're still only a month into the school year - give the kid a little time! :-) Thanks for reviewing!

Title: Chapter 15: A Dog, a Cat, a Harpy, a Bat, a Friend, and a Freak 19 Jun 2009
Reviewer: ImUpToNoGood (Signed)
    He definitely handed him Macbeth. And Harry was reading the Taming of the Shew for the first one.

    I adore how Snape (and, frankly, everyone) is handling Harry. I love Harry's potential.

    The interactions in this chapter are so very well done. *glee*

    K

    Author's Response: Yup, and the other play was Twelfth Night. I'm glad you liked the chapter so much. I'm not real confident about it, for some reason. Thanks for the review!! :-)

Title: Chapter 18: Honesty 27 Jul 2009
Reviewer: ImUpToNoGood (Signed)
    I love Severus' compromise. It really is an uphill battle for Severus to get through to Harry. I am still very much enjoying this.

    A few notes:

    Which Pasadena did you mean? If you mean Texas or California, it is spelled Pasadena, and I suspect Severus would not be using that as an example. I suspect he'd go for Greece or Spain or the French coastline. It just struck me as it's at the end of the chap.

    Also: you have a habit of writing conversation like this:

    '“Yup.” Confirmed Blaise.'

    This feels awkward and halting. The punctuation currently recommended is:

    '“Yup,” confirmed Blaise.' or '“Yup,” Blaise confirmed.' (Also lowercase after the comma, unless it is a name, as it is here.)

    Even exclamation points and question marks use lowercase for a dialog tag ("You!" he said.) The only time you use a capital letter after quoted text is for stage directions ("I'm leaving." She stomped through the door.) In that last case, the stage direction happened by the same person, but are not related to her talking. Note, if the stage direction is combined with a sentence tag, it is again lowercase: ("I'm leaving," she yelled, as she stomped through the door.)

    I hope that helps. The choppiness of the dialog sentence structure as it stands kept distracting me from what is really a fabulous, fun, enthralling story.

    I can't wait to read more!

    Author's Response: Glad you liked the chapter, and thanks for the tips. I changed Pasadena to Tuscany, and I'll work on the dialog. :0)

Broken Wings by Snapegirl starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 844]
Desperate to escape his guilt and nightmares after the third task, Harry transforms into a hawk by accident and ends up breaking both wings and suffering partial memory loss. He is found by Snape, and while the professor nurses him back to health discovers the truth about Severus and who are really his friends and enemies at Hogwarts.

Takes Place: 6th summer - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Alternate Universe, Azkaban Character, Creature!fic
Categories: Healer Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Character Death, Profanity, Torture, Violence
Chapters: 34 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 18 May 2009 / 20 Mar 2009
Series: Broken Wings - Challenges: Animagus Accident
Title: Chapter 23: The Toad At Bay 23 Jun 2009
Reviewer: ImUpToNoGood (Signed)
    I have been so caught up in the story so far that this is the first review, for all the chapters leading up to now.

    I love the story. I love the interaction between Snape and Freedom, and I cried my way through 5 kleenex when Severus and Harry were at odds. Very well done.

    I did want to make a suggestion regarding one of your writing habits: You add "or whatever", "or whatnot", "and stuff" to the end of sentences. This throws me out of the story when the phrases are used by characters that would not use them. I can deal with Ron saying it, because he's a sloppy thinker. Neither Hermione nor any of the Professors would. Harry might, depending on his mood, but I believe he is learning to think. Deleting the phrase from each of the following sentences would turn a weakened sentence into a much stronger one:

    Examples:

    "He is an irresponsible teenager, Albus, no doubt he cooked up this scheme in order to get more attention from the press (and whatnot)...." Chapter 2

    Severus [...] considered it the worst timing in the world that Potter had to go missing (or whatever) right then. Chapter 4

    Crabbe glared at the other. "So what? It's better than hexing them till they die (or whatever)." Chapter 11

    Here, out in the sun and the wind, no memories (or whatever) could find him. Chapter 12

    "[...]I mean, it isn't as if You-Know-Who's going to send out a ransom note (or whatever)." Chapter 13

    Why don't you go and brew a potion (or whatever)? Chapter 13

    "If you are determined to sulk, (for whatever reason), I shall go and work in my lab" Chapter 13

    No way was he going to miss this opportunity to listen and learn more about the Headmaster's secret agenda (or whatever). Chapter 14

    Merlin, this playacting (or whatever) is bloody hard. Chapter 14

    what had made Severus come down here at this hour, when he was supposed to be grading papers (or whatever)? Chapter 15

    It might not kill or maim (or whatever), but it leaves other scars, dammit!" Chapter 15

    They all needed the Boy Who Lived (or whatever). Chapter 20

    Harry [...] and hoped Ron would get over his jealousy (or whatever). Chapter 23

    "Oh, Harry! What a wonderful opportunity to learn new recipes (and stuff)!" Chapter 24

    Please take this comment as it is meant, as a fervent desire that such a great story not be marred by a pattern of language that does not belong to the characters speaking.

    Thanks so much for writing. And now, I can go on and read the next chapter! Yay!

    Author's Response:

    Thanks for reading and enjoying my story and for pointing out those few times when I tend to overuse that phrase.  Some of that is deliberate, when Harry is Freedom, he has a lapse of proper grammar and can't always come up with proper words to describe things or feelings, so that is why he uses it so much.  And Crabbe too doesn;t have an extensive vocabulary, so I think he would use that on occasion and even Hagrid, and the part with Severus as a teenager, well there he hasn't discarded casual speech for his professor mannerisms yet.  But there are a few places where I can take out that phrase or maybe substitute a new one. 

    Hope you enjoy the rest of it.


Title: Chapter 30: Snaring Darkness 24 Jun 2009
Reviewer: ImUpToNoGood (Signed)
    The battle was intense, and chaotic, just like a battle should be.

    Crossing my fingers, pressing my thumbs, etc, for Sirius.

    One bit that was off:

    Two hawks flying . . .this means me and Severus. But how can this be?

    By now, WE know that Severus is the other hawk, but Harry doesn't know Severus is a Hawk Animagus at this point. Perhaps something like this:

    Two Hawks flying... Harry knew he was one of them, but who was the other? And what role did Severus play in this prophesy?

    I am really enjoying this story, and the alterations you are making.

    Harry's relationship with Severus is lovely.

    Thanks for writing.

    K

    Author's Response:

    If you hurry and read the next chapter you might find out a way that Sirius can be saved. 

    That bit about Harry pondering the prophecy. . .he knows Severus is involved because of the tag on the globe which says Severus, Harry, and Voldemort.  So he reasons that obviously Voldemort is the darkness and therefore that must mean the "two hawks" refer to him and Severus.  Himself he can understand, but he doesn't know that Severus is an Animagus and that's why he says "How can this be?" Although the symbolism of the prophecy might not be taken literally . . .he knows it can be.  Sorry if that felt unclear.  Harry will eventually discover Severus's Animagus form.

    Thanks for reading!


His Son by November Raine starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 37]
Remus, Sirius, James and Snape all take a paternity test. Entry in the 2009 Challenge Fest. In response to the Whose Son? Challenge by ObsidianEmbrace.

Takes Place: 0 - Pre Hogwarts (before Harry is 11) - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Alternate Universe, Baby fic
Categories: Misc > No category on the site fits, Misc > All written in Snape's POV
Rated: T - Warnings: Alcohol Use, Profanity
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 04 May 2009 / 04 May 2009
Series: None - Challenges: Whose Son?
Title: Chapter 1: His Son 20 May 2009
Reviewer: ImUpToNoGood (Signed)
    OK... here is my Logic... the Obliviate makes it clear that it is NOT James' son. If it were, no one would have cause to cast it, as A) James, Padfoot and Mooney would all be happy that it was James', and Severus would not gain anything from an Obliviate (except for sheer pettiness, which, come to think of it, is not beyond him. But I am going to discount that.)

    Given that Harry is not James', we are left with options.

    If Severus were the father, then he would NOT have cast the Obliviate. Sirius or James would have. Mooney would not, just as he was staying out of the fight between Sirius and Severus. He might have done it to protect James, but knowing it would harm Severus makes it less likely for Remus. Sirius would have cast it to protect James, and James would have done it to protect his family, which he already loves. My guess is that if Severus is the father, that James cast the Obliviate.

    If Mooney were the father, I think Mooney would have cast the Obliviate. I think Mooney here is gay, and that he is dealing with not only sleeping with his best friend's sweetheart (now wife), but also sleeping with a woman!! He would not have been ready to deal with it, so he would have cast to protect himself and the Maurader closeness.

    If Sirius were the father, James or Sirius might have cast Obliviate, to protect their friendship and James' family. Sirius was certainly not ready for a son, even though he loved being the godfather.

    It seems the most likely is Severus being the father, and James casting Obliviate.

    But ... other options are possible. Only the author knows... (eery music here.)

    Well, actually, whoever cast the Obliviate knows. Mooney would need to know to watch for Werewolf sign in his child. James would maybe not want to know, but casting Obvliviate on yourself is not a good thing.

    Loved the story. Loved how true you were to the characters in such a situation. Good ending, even if it did leave me frustrated. And Analytical. Caught up in the story.

    Really good job.

Past Featured Story Running Away by Bil starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 55]
DEATH EATER KIDNAPS BOY WHO LIVED! read the newspaper headlines across magical Britain. SS, HP/HG. Entry in the 2009 Challenge Fest. Response to the Unmagical Harry Potter Challenge by Jan_AQ.

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Adoption, Alternate Universe
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape, Misc > All written in Snape's POV
Rated: K - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 05 May 2009 / 05 May 2009
Series: None - Challenges: Unmagical Harry Potter
Title: Chapter 1: Running Away 20 May 2009
Reviewer: ImUpToNoGood (Signed)
    This was one of the few Magical-Britian-Is-Too-Stupid-To-Live stories that did not have a vindictive feel to it. Harry, Severus, and Hermione just left. And lived happily ever after.

    Since I really hate vengeance stories, this worked well for me.


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