May. 29th, 2007

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I've decided, since Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be published in less than two months, to officially give up on finishing two HP stories that I essentially abandoned last year. I'm posting the fragments here; if, for some reason, anyone is interested in continuing either of them, be my guest.

"Aphrodisia" is a Ginny/Neville story I started writing before HBP was released. (That explains any canon inconsistencies; I honestly don't remember if Neville made it into Advanced Potions or not, and since I'm not going to finish the story, I don't much care.)

I don't really remember where I was going with this -- maybe something about Neville having undiscovered side-effects from the incident when he was a baby... maybe he'd been put under Cruciatus too, and no one noticed, but it affected his nervous system? I think I had something like that in mind. Anyway, it was meant to be a friendship story as much as a romance, with Neville finding some social self-confidence and Ginny getting over Harry after her relationship with him imploded, and Ginny and Neville negotiating how to have a relationship when Neville had, effectively, no sex drive.

(ETA, 1/24/2010: Looking back at "Aphrodesia," I think one reason I drifted away from it was because I had conceived of Neville's asexuality as a result of actual neurological damage, which started to bug me after a while. Someday I may try rewriting it without that problematic background; possibly I could even finish that story.)

Aphrodisia )
edenfalling: headshot of a raccoon, looking left (raccoon)
I've decided, since Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows will be published in less than two months, to officially give up on finishing two HP stories that I essentially abandoned last year. I'm posting the fragments here; if, for some reason, anyone is interested in continuing either of them, be my guest.

"The Grace of God" is an AU story in which things started to change in the year before Harry was born. The upshot is that James and Lily lived, Voldemort's disembodied essence was captured in a bottle, most of the Death Eaters were imprisoned, and Peter Pettigrew is a pardoned spy, like Snape. There are several other differences, and a long, involved explanation for why and how this world diverged from canon, but "The Grace of God" is basically the story of an Evans family reunion. Petunia and Lily bring their families to visit their parents (who are also alive), and some of the backstory gets revealed during the rather strained day.

It's a rotating POV story, but I never got past the first two sections.

The Grace of God )

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