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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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Reaching Out by watercrystals starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 66]
Severus and Harry wake to find themselves in an unfamiliar place where Lily is alive. The boys could have what they'd always wanted - a home and loving family, but there is one catch: Lily says they are father and son. Will their past resentment ruin a potentially happy future? Is any of it even real?

Takes Place: 4th summer - Snape flavour: None
Tags: Alternate Universe, Snape-meets-Dursleys
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Parental Snape > Stepfather Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Neglect
Chapters: 5 - Completed: No - Updated: 19 May 2012 / 21 Jun 2011
Series: None - Challenges: None
Title: Chapter 5: Disasters at Home 08 Sep 2013
Reviewer: Kirinin (Signed)
    I read this, and I do like it so far. It doesn't look like you're continuing it. If you would allow it, I would love to do my own spin on the same basic idea. I won't without your permission, of course.

    Author's Response:

    Actually, I am most certainly continuing it. I never abandon any of my stories on here; they will all be continued. This one is one of my favourite. Some files I temporarily  can't acess, and others take time, but they will all be finished one day. This story will actually be updated in the coming week or two, if all goes as I plan. I am a professional writer, so it's not in my nature to want to share ideas and concepts, as I try to make my stories as original as possible. Sorry.

    Thank you for reading! I'm glad you like my story. :)


One of Those Days by Anthezar starstarstarstarstar [Reviews - 545]
One unlucky hit with a strange spell. That's all it took to alter the course of Harry's life - and everyone else's life around him. Bound to stay within ten feet of each other, Harry Potter and Severus Snape have to learn to get along or die trying.

But sometimes in the hardest of times, one can learn things never imagined possible. After all, the past doesn't define the future.

Takes Place: 5th Year - Snape flavour: None
Tags: None
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape, Parental Snape > Guardian Snape
Rated: K+ - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 50 - Completed: No - Updated: 12 Mar 2020 / 11 Jan 2014
Series: None - Challenges: Teacher Attack!, Multiple Challenges, Harry's Rant, Joined at the Hip, Secrets
Title: Chapter 16: Sixteen: Butterfly Tears 17 Jan 2017
Reviewer: Kirinin (Signed)
    I'm cool with your Harry-perspective, but some of what you say in the narrator's voice in this and the previous chapter strikes me as strange - e.g. the idea that girls are more volatile than boys at that age (a thousand times, or something is what you say) when it's clear that out of all the characters here, Harry is most volatile, not any of the girls we glimpse. Luna is absolutely constant, Cho is predictable (her behavior is always the same!). Hermione is the only girl who seems mercurial -- logical sometimes, *scary dangerous* other times, weeping over her romances the next -- and that's canon, we're not spying that behavior in this particular story. It's striking that you're expressing a negative idea prevalent in our general culture about girlhood when the girls you've chosen to characterize don't have these qualities.

    Harry dealing with Cho might think girls are hormonal messes, because he isn't sure how to interpret her behavior -- and that's in character -- but there are several other mentions in the narrator's voice about how unpredictable and illogical girls' behavior can be. I found it off-putting, especially in context: you have Harry think to himself how unpredictable and temperamental HE is, and then the next moment it's like, "...the ladies tho, amirite?"

    Digging deeper, this pings me because sometimes the prevailing cultural narrative is so strong that it makes us ignore evidence in favor of our preferred story. The evidence here is that Harry is unpredictable, swinging from rage to fear to cooperative realism, to despair, and that he is a boy. The evidence is that the girls in your story don't behave this way. But the narrative of your story is telling readers, in the author's voice, that girls' emotions are unpredictable and volatile. A few times, now.

    The conclusion we reach at a subconscious level is that men's emotions are Serious Business, and women's aren't. This is a very common trope in fiction: for example, terrible things often happen to female characters not to explore their inner turmoil or show how they learn and grow, but to serve as a source of backstory tragedy for a male character. (They killed his wife. This time, it's personal.) Because it's the male emotions that matter more than the female character's very existence.

    I'm sure some of your readers who see this review may think I've delved too deeply for a few 'throwaway' lines. But it's those throwaway lines, tossed out there so casually like all readers would agree, that is especially unsettling to me. "All girls" don't have any common traits but their girlhood.

    I've been enjoying this story and I still do; and I really wanted you to know as well which lines stood out to me as strange, and why.

    -K

    Author's Response:

    Hi there, thank you so much for your in depth review!

    Wow, I totally did not realize I was doing that. I definitely wasn't going for that meaning. o.o Thank you for bringing this to my attention. Generally, I try to stay from those kinds of stereotypesa. I think I was trying to break Harry's crush on her and that's how everything came about. I'll be more aware of this next time, especially when I'm editing. :)

    Anthy 


Title: Chapter 17: Seventeen: Life Isn't Fair 18 Jan 2017
Reviewer: Kirinin (Signed)
    Great chapter! :D

Title: Chapter 18: Eighteen: Like the Father Before Him 18 Jan 2017
Reviewer: Kirinin (Signed)
    Love it! I love stories where one of the students finds something they're passionate about at Hogwarts. I think if I were there I'd be like Hermione, soaking it all up with a sponge.

Title: Chapter 20: Twenty: Her Last Detention 18 Jan 2017
Reviewer: Kirinin (Signed)
    This has been fun so far, and it's very chilling to imagine Harry being a ward of Umbridge! Perhaps the only recourse Severus will have is to adopt him officially. I'm not sure being a 'ward' is the same as being a 'father'...

    -K

Title: Chapter 12: Twelve: Blibbering Humdingers and Thieving Nargles 17 Jan 2017
Reviewer: Kirinin (Signed)
    As a teacher, I can attest to the fact that this is 110% accurate. Sometimes, you have that one, horrible class, and you've got to be incredibly strict or things explode. I've had students come into other classes to make up a test or a lab and watched their little faces register shock and amazement at the way everyone is doing their job and working quietly... and as a result, I can relax a wee bit, myself.

    This is a fun story and I'm enjoying it a great deal! I'm sorry your health was crappy when you began; I hope you're feeling better, and if it's chronic, I hope you're doing as well as possible given your circumstances. :)

    -K

Love is a Charm by atiaahmed starstarstarstarhalf-star [Reviews - 82]
Harry unexpectedly finds himself being tutored by Professor Snape. And as if that wasn't weird enough, Snape's actually nice to him.
On the other side, Snape cannot fathom why he'd suddenly feel so protective of Harry bloody Potter! What is the reason behind this development and will it last?
They'll find out one thing: love truly is a charm.
completed, sequel completed, First Part of the series "Love is...", no slash, PreGuardian

Takes Place: 2nd Year - Snape flavour: Snape Comforts, Snape is Kind, Snape is Loving, Out of Character Snape, Overly-protective Snape
Tags: None
Categories: Teacher Snape > Trusted Mentor Snape
Rated: K - Warnings: Abusive Dursleys
Chapters: 8 - Completed: Yes - Updated: 09 Aug 2014 / 19 Jul 2014
Series: Love is... - Challenges: None
Title: Chapter 1: Prologue - behind rows and rows of shelves 06 Sep 2014
Reviewer: Kirinin (Signed)
    You've probably heard this already! Your English is very good, but the punctuation makes it rough to read.

    Commas aren't used after quotation marks. "You think it'll work?", Ron murmured when they where far away from the librarian.

    Should read:

    "You think it'll work?" Ron murmured when they were far away from the librarian.

    No comma should be after the question mark and quotation mark. It works the same way if the sentence were to end in an exclamation point.

    If the sentence in quotes were going to end in a period, you'd do it this way:

    "I don't know why we're doing this," Harry said.

    That's the way you do quotations. :)

    -K

    Author's Response:

    Ah! Thanks a lot! I didn't know that and no one told me :( In german you do it like that and as I'm used to doing it that way I just kept it like that. But I'll change it now :)

    Did you read the Sequel to the story? "Love is a haven" has reached chapter 6 (just put it up) and I would appreciate it you read that too. Thanks again!


Equal and Opposite by steph7of7 starstarstarstar [Reviews - 6]
Let's just get this out of the way: Harry is a girl. And Ron is a girl. And Hermione is a boy. And Dumbledore is a girl. And Snape is a girl. And Draco is a girl. And, WTF, Voldemort is a girl. The author plays all of this straight. (Not, like, straight vs. gay. In those terms, the author plays all of this gen.)

Takes Place: 1st Year - Snape flavour: Snape is Stern
Tags: Alternate Universe, Girl!Harry, Slytherin!Harry
Categories: Teacher Snape > Professor Snape
Rated: T - Warnings: Profanity
Chapters: 6 - Completed: No - Updated: 17 Jul 2017 / 08 Sep 2016
Series: None - Challenges: None
Title: Chapter 4: The Second-hand Cleansweep Three 03 Oct 2016
Reviewer: Kirinin (Signed)
    Sorry to see that this doesn't go on. You say it doesn't have much in the way of plot, but I find myself absolutely in love with Serafima Snape as a character. And you're right at the impact of the gender reversal here: it does make it seem abruptly as though there are no men in the world, or at the least no men who are important; and that does make for quite the indictment on the original.

    So many stories are made with the male perspective in mind that this is actually a very interesting take, and I'd love to read more of it. I understand it was an experiment and you may be through with it, but I have really enjoyed it so far!

    -K

Title: Chapter 2: Serafima Snape, Potions Mistress 03 Oct 2016
Reviewer: Kirinin (Signed)
    So interesting! Seraphima Snape may be my favorite kinda-OC in a long while. :D

    -K

Title: Chapter 3: Brooms and Bullies 03 Oct 2016
Reviewer: Kirinin (Signed)
    I love that Ron is still the EXACT same Ron, with a teensy gender tweak hither and yon, but Daisy is a totally different person. One might imagine that the Evanses chided her in this reality by demanding she be more 'ladylike'. I like that she still stands up for Nancy; she was beginning to seem a bit milquetoast before!

    -K


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