TTo begin with, I was going to write about Memorial Day, a weekend these days whose origin has been mostly forgotten, that to honor our hallowed dead, whose sacrifice over the years has kept many of you free to complain about how things are run.  Be very, very grateful that you can.  For many in the world, they are just now gaining that right, and still others have yet to gain that right. But I find that I can not without degrading this into a rant against asinine and unthinking liberalism...

Not that I agree with many of the points of view of the other side as well...

So I will not go there now, so lets talk about one of my other favorite topics, the vagaries of fiction, and lets look once more at HP, as it is the topic of the moment, and I have a vested interest in it, having written a few books there.

Ok, those that don't care about Potter and the universe therein tune out.

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

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

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

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: