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Kirinin [Contact] Better be Gryffindor!
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Hi!  My name is Kirinin, and I've been writing fanfiction for over ten years, now.  My initial fandom was Ranma 1/2.  After having a lot of fun with this fandom for around five years, I decided to branch out.

My first completed Harry fic is Secret of Slytherin, which was initially on fanfiction-dot-net.  I have to say that writing and posting this story has been one of the most fun and interesting literary experiences I've had.  For one thing, the tale started off as a bedtime story, meant to be shared with someone verbally, so it had to have a certain cadence.  Then, when I initially posted it, the feedback was thoughtful and thorough - to the point that people brought up and argued issues I'd never even thought of.  Some or the reviews themselves are works of art, and I've met a lot of great people through their analyses of the story. 

It's wonderful to be able to share SoS with a new fanfiction community here, and give the story some more life.  :)

Secret of Slytherin now has a sequel called Geas of Gryffindor.  While Severus and Harry are very important characters in that tale, they are no longer its sole focus, which is why I have chosen not to post it here.  Please check it out on fanfiction.net, or on Archive of Our Own, where I am posting Secret of Slytherin and Geas of Gryffindor under the same penname.

I tend to like many if not all of the canon characters in the HP Universe, and really dislike it when an author is willing to demonize one set of characters to make the others look better.  My favorite characters to mess with are the Trio, Draco Malfoy, Severus Snape and Remus Lupin, but I'm willing to read anyone, so long as they're written thoughtfully.

As a final note, I tend to recommend stories I've enjoyed in my Author's Notes; I also have a C2 for Harry Potter fics on my fanfiction-dot-net account.  That is all.

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Post-OOTP, Snape must blow his cover as a spy to save Harry from Voldemort. Now they hate each other more than ever, but if their side is going to win, old enmities must be cast aside.

Takes Place: 6th summer - Snape flavour: None
Tags: None
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Character Death, Torture
Chapters: 30 - Completed: No - Updated: 22 Apr 2010 / 22 Jan 2005
Series: None - Challenges: None
Title: Chapter 1: The Beginning of a Very Bad Day 05 Oct 2006
Reviewer: Kirinin (Signed)

    Wow!  I'm really liking this so far.  Great that you didn't magically transform the Dursleys into the Evil Dursleys - it's almost funny the way that they all show their 'concern' for Harry in this chapter.

    Good description of how Harry feels.  I think it fits.  :)

    You're Jocemum from ff-dot-net, eh?  Glad to see another tale of yours after reading T&S and C&E.

    -K


Title: Chapter 2: Disaster on Privet Drive 05 Oct 2006
Reviewer: Kirinin (Signed)

    Ah!  Looks like this one's shaping up to be even better than your last (at least, the last one I read).  A couple of lines stand out in their amazing-ness, lol: when "the last living Marauder looked back" I nearly started crying right then!  Also, Petunia's statement about Lily, calling her "my sister" in such a context was really moving. 

    Of course, when Vernon died, I nearly started crying, too... which just goes to show what good writing can do, because I didn't give a hoot for him before I read this story... likewise, your tactic of Harry taking the Dursleys through one at a time created a lot of tension and really tugged at the heartstrings.  Good work!

    -K


He didn't care about him anyway.

Takes Place: 5th summer - Snape flavour: None
Tags: None
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: None
Chapters: 1 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 25 Sep 2004 / 25 Sep 2004
Series: None - Challenges: None
Title: Chapter 1: Denial 24 Sep 2006
Reviewer: Kirinin (Signed)

    Oh... don't I just wish Harry had woken.  This is a great one-shot.  Thanks!

    -K


Harry needs help, and the one sent to the rescue is Snape. But what are Snape's true intentions? Help or Humiliation? Completed!

Takes Place: None - Snape flavour: None
Tags: None
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 19 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 12 Feb 2007 / 25 Jan 2005
Series: None - Challenges: None
Title: Chapter 2: Get out of Jail Free? 13 Feb 2007
Reviewer: Kirinin (Signed)
    Hmm. The first chapter seemed way over the top - mostly because the Dursleys abusing Harry has never sat well with me. However, your assertions that this is the first summer where it had happened made me click that 'next' button.

    This chapter is much better. You don't have Snape sweeping to Harry's rescue and immediately changing his opinion of Harry, which is what most do. And that is making me hit the 'next' button again. :)

    -K

Title: Chapter 3: Warm Cider and Cold Words 13 Feb 2007
Reviewer: Kirinin (Signed)
    This is a v. good line: "Apparently your relatives seem to lack conviction. Laziness runs in the family does it not?” I didn't know whether to laugh aloud or punch Snape's lights out. Maybe one, followed directly by the other?

    You're managing to keep Snape inscrutable, which is all to the good. ;)

    -K

Title: Chapter 4: Booties? 13 Feb 2007
Reviewer: Kirinin (Signed)
    "It would only be a matter of seconds before he was shoved away into some tiny space intended for soup cans and jarred peach preserves." You seem to have a talent for these lines that provoke both laughter and some other, darker emotion all at once. That's a very wry, amusing tone of voice, but poor Harry truly believes that Snape will stuff him in a cupboard - and really has no reason not to believe so.

    (While you, me, and the rest of the world's Snape fans are perfectly certain of his inherent goodness, Harry is not.)

    Nice job. :)

    -K

Title: Chapter 5: Loose Thoughts 13 Feb 2007
Reviewer: Kirinin (Signed)
    Hmm, I wonder: Veritaserum? Or just a relaxant?

    -K

    Author's Response: It's not veritaserum... just something Snape has that loosens one's inhibitions. :)

Title: Chapter 10: A Terrible Mistake 13 Feb 2007
Reviewer: Kirinin (Signed)
    ...and yet in this chapter, it seems like Severus has gone more than a little over the top. Up until this chapter, where we switched to Snape's POV, I had been pretty certain that what Snape was waiting for was cooperation, which is only understandable - that Snape isn't willing to care for someone who is in general surly and basically refuses to allow Snape to aid them.

    Then you came out with the line where you say that even if Harry asks, Snape isn't certain whether he will help him or not. That doesn't really seem consistent with everything else that's gone on. If Snape isn't willing to give help to an incredibly ill child who asks him for it, he's worthless as a human being and suddenly unpredictable as a character. Now, instead of Harry coming to the realization that Snape is a responsible adult who will care for him no matter how foolishly he acts, we have the dynamic that Harry must somehow *win* Severus's affection - and that Severus's affection is quite possibly conditional.

    -K

Shortly before his fifteenth birthday, Harry receives a letter from the past that alters his entire life. Now it is up to him to reveal the truth to the other whom it concerns. But will he find the courage to do so or will he repeat his mother's mistake and wait until it's too late?

Takes Place: 5th summer - Snape flavour: None
Tags: None
Categories: Parental Snape > Biological Father Snape > Severitus Challenge
Rated: T - Warnings: Character Death
Chapters: 10 - Completed: No - Updated: 20 May 2007 / 29 Jan 2005
Series: None - Challenges: None
Title: Chapter 1: Package of Confusion 02 Jan 2007
Reviewer: Kirinin (Signed)

    OMG!  What I think about the story is that it's in one, unreadable mass!  Please separate your work into paragraphs...

    -K


At the end of Harry's fifth year everything changed. And when Snape answers a call for help during the summer afterward, everything changes again.

Takes Place: 6th summer - Snape flavour: None
Tags: None
Categories: Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: None
Chapters: 15 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 25 Nov 2005 / 06 Feb 2005
Series: Harry Potter and the Long Summer Series - Challenges: None
Title: Chapter 1: Chapter 1 02 Jan 2007
Reviewer: Kirinin (Signed)

    This looks intriguing so far!  I am impressed.



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