Fic: Alternative Therapy, Neville, Harry

[lyras]

So I think I've more or less caught up with LJ, and then over the weekend my friends page goes from zero to skip-360? What are you lot trying to do to me?! I haven't forgotten about those meme questions I need to answer for people, but it may still be a few days before I can answer them. Some of them are hard

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impressed

[londonkel]

So I tried to read some of your fics in the past but generally found that I don't know enough about HP world to understand a lot of the references. But I clicked on this one, and really enjoyed it. Of course, I didn't really need a whole lot of HP knowledge to be able to appreciate this one, but I think I would have enjoyed it even if I hadn't even known who Neville was! I love the simple, direct and yet very evocative way you described how Neville tended to the plants in memory of lost friends. It very nearly brought a tear to my eye ;-).

Must. read. rest. of. HP. series...
Then I'll be able to read your other fics.

But tell me, what does squee mean? And slash/gen and all these other terms that get bandied about like they're common knowledge?? If I look them up on wikipedia will there be a page of definitions?? :-)

Re: impressed

[lyras]

Firstly, thanks for taking the time to read! I really wasn't expecting you to, to be honest, and don't feel you have to.

Secondly, I'm really glad you liked it! I'm actually not all that happy with this story - I posted it in a bit of a hurry because it was late, but people seem to really, really like it, so maybe it's better than I thought.

Thirdly: squee = yay, pretty much. Gen = a story that doesn't focus on the romantic relationships between the characters; this is mostly the kind of stuff I write. Slash focuses on relationships between people of the same sex, usually men. Het focuses on heterosexual relationships. A lot of my LJ friends write Remus Lupin/Sirius Black slash, so you may notice me wandering off in that direction every so often. Feel free to ignore it :).

I'm sure there's a load of info on Wikipedia! There's also a fandom dictionary here, which may either interest or horrify you: http://www.fictionalley.org/primer/dictionary.html