The pit of voles is being its usual link-eating self, so I am posting these here for reference and so I can make a single link pointing at this post instead of trying to make this whole damn list appear on my ff.net profile ( Read more... )

Summary: A week after Dumbledore is removed as Headmaster, Minerva McGonagall, Pomona Sprout, and Rolanda Hooch go drinking and debate ways to solve the crisis Hogwarts is laboring under. (1,800 words)

Note: This is a sidestory for Secrets, my retelling of CoS from Ginny's perspective. I'm not sure when I started writing it -- probably early ( Read more... )

Secrets Epilogue: Isis Alone: The Weasleys in Egypt, summer of 1993. (3,625 words) [ff.net version]

For this one, there are no differences between the AO3 and ff.net versions. (Well, okay, they use different line breaks, but that's a purely cosmetic issue.)

Thank you to pencildragon11 and nnozomi for beta-reading, and to lady_songsmith,
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And here we go!

Secrets 15: Open Doors: In which Ginny continues her string of awkward apologies before returning home and starting to reclaim her life. There are no magic solutions, no shortcuts to recovery, but sometimes happiness sneaks up and ambushes you when you least think you deserve it. (9,000 words) [ff.net versionPlease read it on AO3 ( Read more... )

I finally got off my ass and made the edits based on lynati_1's and uminohikari's beta responses. Thanks, you two!

Chapter 14: Making It Better. In which Ginny attempts to make amends and regain something approximating a normal life, with varying degrees of success. If you pretend hard enough, can you make something true? (10,650 words ( Read more... )

Two months is a much less ridiculous interchapter gap than a year and a half.

Chapter 13: Shattering. After Harry kills Tom and the basilisk, Ginny faces her complete failure to either solve her own problems or keep Harry safe. She does not cope well, but at least not everyone blames her for helping Tom. That's a good thing, right?

lasultrix and snaegl, thank ( Read more... )

It's snowing in Ithaca, and has been off and on all day. Currently it's shifted to a lighter, fluffier snow -- earlier bouts have been much denser, faster, and verging on sleet -- but in an hour or so I'll most likely have to go back outside and shovel the sidewalk again. Bah ( Read more... )

In an effort to comfort Ginny, Sir Vladislav has suddenly decided to start retelling the ending of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. In very badly spelled and slightly awkwardly phrased English ( Read more... )

It has been more than a year and a half since chapter 11 (in other words, I suck), but here, at last, is chapter 12 of "Secrets"!

Chapter 12: Into the Dark. In which Ginny wrestles with moral dilemmas and fails to reach any satisfactory conclusions. Attempting to protect Harry and claim responsibility for what she unleashed, she recovers Tom's ( Read more... )

I got lasultrix's beta of ch. 12 back today, and have made the relevant changes. snaegl says she'll send her beta sometime tomorrow morning, so... unless she's found a problem that's really tricky to fix, I should be able to post the chapter tomorrow evening! *crosses fingers ( Read more... )