lorelaisquared  and I were trading emails comparing Oscar the Grouch to the Ninth Doctor. Squid, this is in response to your last email:

Title: Oscar the Grouch
Author:  Gioia
Characters:  Nine, Rose
Rated: G
Summary: “How ‘m I like a green Muppet livin’ in a trash can?”

( pure crack )

A really, really good one-parter:

With Quill in Trembling Hand by Ciircee
A Neville story set during PoA. Overall winner, First Annual Sugar Quill Fan Fiction Tournament (Category: Drama).

This is a fantastic POV piece from Neville after Sirius Black gets ahold of his list of passwords.  I adore this.  Simply brilliant.

In fact, just read all of ( Read more... )

I hate, hate, hate, hate, HATE when infidelity is shrugged off in stories.  Fanfic, novels, whatever - it pisses me off. Hell, I get pissed every time I hear Uncle Kracker's "Follow Me" lyrics.

So I've been reading this one particular story for awhile and enjoyed it very much.  But in a fit of angst-for-angst's-sake (another major pet peeve of mine ( Read more... )

My friend LittleMissLate emailed me a link to this very short one-parter.  It reminds me quite a bit of C.S. Lewis' "The Last Battle."

The Last Word by The Presbyteer
Post-HBP one shot theorizes on the end to Book 7.  Great reunion piece.  Very sweet.  If JKR were to choose this route, this is the way I'd love to see it played out.

Vanity by wartcap

Hermione travels back to 1977 and the consequences of her time travel may not be as you suspect. Returning to her own era, she is thrown into the events of the 'Half-Blood Price'and the sixth book is re-written from her point of view. Will her visit to the past change the fortunes of Professor Snape?

I’ll admit I was rather ( Read more... )