A few more kids from LG, which is here: http://fanfiction.portkey.org/story/6766

Bios for four of the kids from Looking Glass, my Sequel to Harry Potter and the Circle's End, both are on Portkey, under Madscientist, these just happen to be the first four we meet. 

The Kids for Looking Glass….

Click the cut to see them

 

Author: bladeandwand
Titles: Harry Potter: Beyong the Looking Glass (Prologue)

Characters: Most every named HP character and a whole lot of OCs.

Ships: Harry/Hermione and the others would be telling.

Genre: Drama/Action/Romance

Rating: NC-17

Summary: The Dark Lord is destroyed, but the cost was beyond measure. Harry and Hermione survived, but their hearts were shattered in the process. Now years later, they have recovered to an extent, and gone on. The war is over, but a new threat is arising, one that could destroy all they have accomplished in the interim. What you know to be fact, might just be illusion, and illusion, fact. A sequel to Harry Potter and the Circle’s End, Harry Potter and the Circle's End so go read that first…along with all the one shots and stuff that are related to it.
Links:


Click here, you know that you want to : Harry Potter: Beyong the Looking Glass Rating NC-17


Notes: Series is a nice long read on Portkey. All works were beta'ed by ladybluestar

Got to work today, sometime before the sun managed to meander its way above the horizon, to find that one of my mass specs took a shitter and blew the vacuum system...10K later, I'm over budget for the month and I'm probably waiting until after Christmas for parts.

Sigh, Its not like I wanted to do anything today anyway. My to do list is only 3 pages long in Outlook, after all.

On another front, I really miss having a story running on PK (and yes, I know that Shadows is still running), so look for something(s)...soon. Also I'm currently deep into a Christmas one-shot for the HiH Christmas exchange, and it keeps going, and going, and going...There will be Christmas presents for my fans up there, that I promise, one way or another, and very possibly here.

On that note, once again, if there are any artists out there that have nothing better to do, Circle would dearly love some fan art....Please, pretty please....

I'm cautiously optimistic about Eargon, there have been a few panning reviews, but I'm hoping they are mostly from the crowd that only has a vague knowledge of the existence of books.

Anyway, I'm tired and I still have like an hour and a half, at least to go...

It seems like it's a slow day, so just because, I thought I'd throw up the song list for my current little HP year 7 replacement fic Harry Potter and the Circle's End Rating NC-17

Anyway, these are just suggestions for listening to while reading, I'm sure that there are a few more out there...

Recommended Listening for Harry Potter and the Circle's End.

In no particular order...

Love Walks In - Van Halen
Dreams - Van Halen
Let Love In - Goo Goo Dolls
Immigrant Song - Led Zepplin
Duel of the Fates - John Williams
Hedwig's Theme - John Williams
Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
Broken - Seether, fet. Amy Lee
Far Away - Nickelback
Saving Me -- Nickelback
When I See You Smile - Bad English
Do the Hippogriff - Weird Sisters*
Magic Works - Weird Sisters*
Falling in Love is Hard on the Knees - Aerosmith*
Here by Me - Three Doors Down
Sweet Sacrifice - Evanescence
The Long and Winding Road - The Beatles*
Fix You - Coldplay
The Reason - Hoobastank
Will I Ever Make it Home - Ingram Hill
Accidentally in Love - Counting Crows
Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf
Stay with Me - The Faces
Dirty Little Secret - All-American Rejects


*Song was mentioned in text. 

See Ya'll later

Well, actually I've read a lot of books that aren't fanfic. But I've really fell in love with the Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher recently. A couple of reviewers described the series as Harry Potter as if it were written for an adult audience. I don't know if I'd go that far as I consider HP to be written for adults, probably even more so than kids, at least the subtext...Possibly even the subtext that the author forgot or ignores she's written.

The protagonist is named Harry though...

On another note, back on the Fanfiction front, I'm really impressed with Forever Knight on Portkey. Normally, I'm a little leary of the change the main characters to Vampires/Werewolves/Giant Squids, not because I don't think it's a valid plot choice, especially in the magical realm, but that it's often done as a gimmick without using it to its upmost.

It's not in this one, this one uses the device to develop the characters, to give them depth and color. And besides, the fic has a lot of sex and violence, and both are handled and written well.

Back in my universes, which have spun onto the other side of the sun from their mother, work progresses. Except for a few inane reviews, Circle's End is doing pretty good. There are many secrets there, we'll see how many are found.

SeYa

This is most a rant about SciFi/Fantasy/Fanfic so if you don't read that, just ignore me.

Well as of a day or so ago, my current opus, HP and the Circle's End, http://fanfiction.portkey.org/story/4941 , is done barring the completion of one added scene. 60 chapters, 410K words later, the cesspool of insanity, hormones and love potions that was HBP is fixed.

With that, when I posted the latest chapter I got a flame...now it wasn't the only one I've ever gotten, by any means, but he basically insulted my beliefs, talent, sanity, whatever...who cares, he's an asshole...

But it bring up one point that I wish to question. One of his "points" was that it was improbable, unlikely, insane, whatever, that I made the main characters powerful.

What is this fear that I often see with making the characters powerful enough to do what they need to do, I've seen it with so many fanfics in HP where Harry is frankly a wimp, and wins through luck, luv or some asinine plot device. What's wrong with a little arse kicking? It's the same thing that was seen in many of the Expanded Universe Star Wars novels, in that so many of the authors seemed afraid to use Luke to what his abilites should have been...People, Jedi, mages (I.E. Dumbledore/Voldemort/Harry/Gandalf),whatever are supposed to unbalance the field. They are the BFG (That's Big Fucking Gun for those of you not in the know) of the universes they are in.

You Modify the plot, use superior numbers, whatever to balance them out, you don't neuter them...

Just my thoughts, feel free to disagree.

I haven't posted in a bit, but thought I would, especially after the nasty ass storm that went through last night.  It spiked a friend of mine's house and shocked/scared the shit out of his wife. 

Anyway,ladybluestar was posting some of her icons that she had made up, with H/HR and R/LL and alluding to making some for The-Sequel-That-Does-Not-Exist  AKA HP and the Other Side of the Looking Glass, the sequel to HP and the Circle's End, my current year 7 book, so I thought, hey...How about a cookie from Looking Glass...

If you are paying attention, this could give away a touch of the end of Circle.  Which is linked here:
http://fanfiction.portkey.org/story/4941
 and here's the cookie: