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 )
"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 )