Hogsmeade Camera Club - Chapter Four

Merry Christmas everyone! 

So on this wonderful Christmas Eve we finally come to the end of the 'Hogsmeade Camera Club'. 

Unfortunately, the Ashwinder version is still missing, so it's only on AFF.Net at the moment. Should the Ashwinder version ever return I will add the missing chapters and post links for those who might be interested. In the meantime you can find it here:

Chapter four 


As I said last week I have a few things planned for Christmas, so watch out for further posts in the next few days.

I hope you all have a very happy Christmas and that Father Christmas brings you everything you want. Sadly, Professor Snape isn't real so I'm not getting him, but I'm sure I'll have fun and get something nice anyway. 
  
Dx 

 

Hogsmeade Camera Club - Chapter Three

Good evening everyone,

I'm quite late posting this latest and penultimate chapter (which I have to warn contains lemony goodness) because of late nights at work and several Christmas things that didn't give me a lot of time for posting.

But here we are, I've finally uploaded the AFF.Net version.

There is currently no update for Ashwinder (if you're reading the story on there) as there has been a slight problem with their site this week. They have just upgraded their servers and unfortunately my story (and no doubt many others) seem to have fallen down the back somewhere and got lost. I am currently waiting to hear whether they can retrieve it, or whether I will need to re-post the entire story. Hopefully it will be sorted out before I post the final chapter, hopefully sometime this weekend.

With Christmas coming I have a few things planned for posting, so watch out for posts over the festive period.

As ever, I would love a review or a vote, especially if you're enjoying the story. Think of it as a Christmas present for me :)

Until next week, I hope you're all enjoying your advent calendars!
  
Dx

The Hogsmeade Camera Club - Chapter Two

Hello again,

A short one from me tonight as I need to go to bed as I have an early start in the morning. There's just enough time to let you know that the next chapter of 'The Hogsmeade Camera Club' has been posted - it's time to find out just who it was that requested Hermione to be a model for them.

Here's the link for those of you reading on Ashwinder and the one for AFF.Net.
 
As always I would love a review or a vote, especially if you're enjoying the story.

Until next time, have fun reading
  
Dx

The Hogsmeade Camera Club - Chapter One

Well hello everyone,
 
I actually can't believe how long it's been since I last posted . . . doesn't time fly when you're having fun.  I've actually been busy writing, with NaNoWriMo finishing today - which means another first draft of a story is almost complete.

Today I'm posting the first chapter of a new story which is called 'The Hogsmeade Camera Club'.


The Hogsmeade Camera Club is looking for a new model . . . and Hermione Granger is desperately in need of some money.  It's set five years after the Battle of Hogwarts, and assumes that Severus Snape didn't die.

I'm afraid that as there are some rather lemony scenes later in the story it is being posted at Ashwinder and AFF.Net, depending on which site you prefer to visit, and is therefore for over eighteen's only.
 
I hope you enjoy reading it, and as always would really appreciate a review or a vote. 

Farewell until next week, when we'll be a week into the chocolate advent calendar and a week nearer to Christmas. I love all that tinsel!

Time to go and put up the Christmas tree, I think.

Take care.
  
Dx

The Fugitives

"Snape is a fugitive, on the run for the murder of Dumbledore. Hermione and her friends are fugitives, on the run from everyone - This is my chronicle of the events that led to my earlier story 'Grief'."

The first Harry Potter story I ever wrote was called ‘Grief’. It was written in response to my feelings about Snape’s death (and my anger that he was so badly served in Jo’s story) and featured a relationship between Snape and Hermione, although that didn’t become clear until the very end as I'd purposely kept all mention of his name out of the story (unless you read it on Ashwinder, which was a bit of a giveaway as it's a Snape/Hermione archive). 

It was a very well received story and I had many lovely reviews about it, but one reviewer questioned the timeline as I had tried to keep it canon and as she pointed out there wasn’t much chance for things to play out as they did in my story if you go by the events in Deathly Hallows (mainly because of all that camping). 

To be honest I didn’t dwell on it too much at the time, as by then I was well into writing other stories and really it had just been a release mechanism for my own grief at the Potion Master’s untimely and unfair death (hmmm, guess I didn’t really get over that). However, four years later I suddenly realised that actually, what I had written was entirely plausible, if a little unlikely (but hey, it’s fanfic, right?) So I sat down and wrote the complete story of Hermione and Snape’s relationship (which actually fulfilled another request in the reviews for a prequel). 

I have removed ‘Grief’ from the archives as it now appears as the final chapter of this story and see no point in keeping it up. I mention this as a warning for those of you who read ‘Grief’ in its original incarnation, just so you don’t start getting feelings of déjà vu or think I’m plagiarising someone else’s work. ‘Grief’ was all mine and still is, just with a new name and a lot more background, although obviously the identity of Hermione’s lover is no longer in any doubt. 

I have posted the complete story on both Ashwinder and FanFiction.net as they were where the original story was housed.

As is always the case I am interested to hear what you think of the story, through reviews or via this blog, especially if you read the original story when it was first published. Do you think I managed to tie up all the loose ends? I certainly hope so.

I have a new Draco/Hermione story which I will start posting shortly (probably over the weekend sometime) called 'Changes' which is set post-epilogue. Apart from that there will be a slight break of service while I take part in NaNoWriMo so I won't be around much. But have no fear, I'm actually using the time to write a Lucius/OFC fic rather than anything original as I only decided at the last minute to take part and thought it would be a good time to tackle a story I had been considering for a while but not actually got round to doing anything with.

As ever, enjoy reading. I'll speak to you again soon.

Dx

The Trial

I have recently posted a new short story featuring Severus Snape and Hermione Granger called 'The Trial'. Set post-Deathly Hallows, the tagline is:  How much is Hermione willing to risk to help Severus Snape beat an accusation of being a Death Eater? 

You can find 'The Trial' at Ashwinder or, if you prefer, at AFF.Net

It isn't hugely lemony, but there is a smigeon of smut, so be prepared, if that sort of thing worries you at all.

I did have a moment of panic, as having posted the story on Ashwinder, I had completely forgotten (as I always do on that site) to change the status of the story to completed and received some reviews which whilst positive about both the story and my writing, were also unhappy with where it finished and were looking forward to further chapters when it would all sort itself out to their satisfaction. 

I have been fortunate not to have too much nasty criticism over the years, but invariably when I have it has always been because I've gone for Jo's canon pairings and usually that of Hermione and Ron. I'm not sure why Ron engenders so much hatred in fanfic readers, although perhaps that is the reason they read fanfic because they are so opposed to the canon pairings. Whilst I don't ship Hermione and Ron, any more than I ship Harry and Ginny, sometimes you can't help that things turn out the canon way - however hard you try or may hope that it won't. I look at it in the same way as real life relationships. Sometimes Hermione gets the man of her dreams, sometimes she chooses Ron, who may still be the man of her dreams, even though they have so little in common. Let's face it, who hasn't chosen the unsuitable partner at some time in their life? Just because he's none of the things Hermione is doesn't mean he's not right for her - perhaps he's a great shag.

Anyway, this morning I admitted my error to my reviewers and apologised profusely for ruining their dreams, which I hope won't get me flamed. I have to admit that having seen the reviews I did consider whether or not to write more, but after due consideration decided I didn't want to. The story finished exactly where it was supposed to and to try to force a different ending would ruin the story (for me, at least).

However, that doesn't stop people from using their imaginations, just as we do all the time in fanfic, to create the ending they want in their head. I know I've certainly done that on occasion, when the ending of a story wasn't quite what I'd hoped for.

And on that note I'm off to finish a bit of Snape/OFC fic.

Enjoy reading and talk to you soon

Dx

A Couple of Updates

Not much has been going on recently as my beta is currently on holiday, although I have continued writing. I’ve got about half a dozen stories almost completed, but they all involve scenes that I’m not in the mood to write at the moment so I have no idea when they are likely to get finished.

My love affair with Dramione is still continuing though, with several of the stories being about them. It seems however hard I try to move away from that pairing it’s just not happening.

I have published the second chapter of ‘Some Kind of Wonderful’ on Lumos (it’s currently taking about a week for the chapters to be verified and uploaded to the site, so expect the third this time next week) and have now also added the first two chapters of the story to AFF.Net.

I have to admit that whilst I love the Sycophant Hex archives as they contain a wealth of good quality and well-written stories that I feel happy to be a part of, it appears they no longer attract as many readers as in years gone by and as the point of writing my stories is for people to read them I have to place them on the most popular sites as well. I’m not sure yet how this story will go down on AFF.net as there’s not a lot of sex in it, but it seems to have attracted a fair amount of readers with the first chapter so I can only hope that will continue.

Additionally, the second and final chapter of ‘The Real Thing’ has been added to Ashwinder. This too has now been added to AFF.net.

So as ever, enjoy reading and if you want to review I would be most grateful, especially if it’s nice. And if you have any stories to recommend that I read, feel free to add a link in the comments and I’ll definitely take a look.

Dx   

More Stories Than You Can Shake A Stick At

Well, not really, but I did finally get round to doing some posting.

First up is the first chapter of  'Some Kind of Wonderful', the Draco/Hermione fic I've been promising for ages. It's been posted on Lumos, the general HP site run by Sycophant Hex, which may unfortunately be for over eighteens only. It's a shame really as most of the story is actually kind of tame, but as the final chapter will contain lemons it isn't suitable for FanFiction.Net, especially with their newly enforced policies (I have heard many writers complaining recently that their work has been deleted without reference to them for containing language no longer considered suitable on the site).  

Anyway, Chapter One is here, if you want to go and have a look.

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Secondly, having rediscovered the Sycophant Hex world I posted Chess on Occlumency, the dedicated Severus Snape archive. 

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Finally, in flurry of activity, I have added "The Real Thing' to their Ashwinder site. This is an unashamedly lemony story featuring those old favourites Snape and Hermione. Definitely for over eighteens only and not featuring much in the way of a plot, if you know what I mean ;)

Chapter one has been posted and the second and final chapter is currently going through validation and hopefully should be up in the next few days. 

Chapter One - Desire

Time for me to take a break from posting and get on and do some writing, although I am hoping to get some reading done too. If anyone has any recommendations, I would be happy to hear about them. I would like to recommend 'Finding Remus' by BrownRecluse which I found to be an interesting and well written story.

Until next time. Enjoy reading and please review - I like reviews.

Dx