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It's two in the morning, and Ginny's alone in the Grimmauld Place kitchen: "Looking at the whitewashed wall opposite her, Ginny sighed, sensing the ghosts of the place--real ghosts, imagined ghosts, metaphoric ghosts--swirling around the damp, heavy pile above her head."

People know things about war. Of course they do. Statistics come in every day. Thousands fight, hundreds die. Who was the thirty-sixth to die? Who was the hundredth? No one knows. But people know things about war. Don't they?

Sometimes you read a summary and it feels like a poem. In a good way. 

 (with a small rant about "Someone's Gotta Go" inside)

"The Golden Age" by Arsinoe de Blassenville:
"Post DH. In the wake of victory, Harry struggles with life, love, and the reform of the British wizarding world. He learns that life is complex, and that happy endings are fleeting."

A very beautiful book version can be downloaded (or read online) from Red Hen Publications (the last of the fics there).

Summery Executions 11.

 
Vernon Dursley Kills Harry, But Harry Doesn't Die. Instead He Wakes To Find Dumbledore And Snape Hovering Over Him, And He Is Pissed. The Story Of His Quest To Rid The World Of Dumbledore.

It was probably a bad idea to get pregnant by Draco Malfoy. But what's done is done, and she is sure they can both be adults about it. Not like this is some melodramatic romance novel, or anything. M/F, Preg

Poetry:

More than a year ago I found 2 wonderful Harry Potter poems about Harry and Draco by an unknown author. After googling I found they (and many others) were written by Judy Nathanson, a retired theater arts teacher, who has written poetry all her life. On her site you can find both HP and not HP poems.

My favorites among HP poems are still the first 2 poems, which I found long ago. As for not HP poetry, I haven’t decided yet. A few examples are:

If We Took The Time

Where Are The Children? (about her former students)

Secret Dreams of The Heart

Guardian Angel


Summery Executions 9:

What can evil stem from, if not from cruelty? How does Molly decide to congratulate her son for being promoted to a high rank in the Auror business? What are the dangers of a wild snowball fight down on the grounds of Hogwarts and why is Narcissa furious at Bellatrix? Read to find out.

Note: My criterion for choosing summaries is their being funny, not the fic's badness. If I am highly amused by a summary, I think probably other people will enjoy reading it too for one reason or another. Since a summary is supposed to make people want to read a fic, its' being funny is a plus (if it’s intentionally funny, of course). Sometimes there can be summaries of wonderful fics. I read only a very small part of those fics, but if I read a fic and like it, I will give a link (this post has 3). I will never link to a fic I didn’t like, since that would be a sort of flaming.

* Now that the Wizarding world is safe, Fudge needs a job. So when he's offered the opportunity to host the new Wizarding reality show, 'England's Got Evil', he realizes that it is a chance he can't miss. But will he be able to keep it together during the final episode where Bellatrix Lestrange, Amycus Carrow, and Fenrir Greyback compete to add a hot tub to their Azkaban cell? And who in the name of reality shows everywhere are the Stage Handz?

And I thought some RL reality shows were unethical…

* Draco is depressed. He shuts out everybody who cares for him. He's getting weaker and weaker. When he's strolling around the castle, he faints... (H/D Friendship)

HBP in AU?

* Evil doesn't always start out as cruelty. Sometimes it's simpler than that. Sometimes it begins with something as simple as

 The current UK election campaign reminded me of this wonderfully funny fic, inspired by… UK election   

Swinging the Vote by Wormykins (Chapters: 1)

Rating: PG - Spoilers: PoA - 882 hits - 1084 words
Genre: Wizarding Society, General - Main character(s): NarM, RL, SB - Ships: None - Era: 1970-1981 (Including Marauders at Hogwarts)
It's election time again, and Remus Lupin has a reputation for being a tough voter to win over. Why is this, and will anyone ever succeed? Inspired by UK election canvassing, of all things.

Summery Executions 7 : Do you know what is wrong with the saying that Narcissa persuaded Lucius not to send Draco to Durmstrang? What is the real moral of Tom Riddle's back-story and how will Dobby save Harry from V's clutches? And, most importantly, why Harry & Ginny had to be together?  Our writers will tell you everything!

"It seems to be common knowledge that I persuaded Lucius not to send Draco to Durmstrang. Actually, that's not quite true - Draco was always going to attend Hogwarts. All I did was to remind Lucius of that." Let Narcissa tell you how.

They were outnumbered, they were outclassed, and they were led by Harry Potter.

The third sentence is merely a coincidence, of course. (This quote is my favorite with the first one.)

 

"You can choose your friends, but you can't choose your relatives," goes the saying. How unfortunately true. An OotP-compliant look at the Black family, affectionately nicknamed as "why canon extrapolation is so much fun."

Harry sees a chance to be a hero, but Lord Voldemort sees the chance to regain everything he lost during the war.

Guess who dies in the end of the fic… 

One of my favorite plants in bloom: 

I have just finished 4 Pratchett's books and so far like most "Wyrd Sisters", the first book I have read. I really liked the plot with originally twisted references to numerous fairy-tales, the 3 mutually completing witches' personalities and his sense of humor, which is closer to mine than Rowling's. I laughed a lot reading this book and while JKR's books are supposedly filled with jokes, I don't remember laughing at any of them (may be 1 or 2, which escape my memory now). Btw, this isn't criticizing Rowling – different people find different things funny and each writer has his/her unique style, of course. I decided to write about the book since during its reading 3 (in fact more, but those are the most memorable) passages leapt from the page at me, reminding of JKR's books and their problems.   

1- Granny's sister Lily, an evil witch, turned 2 snakes into women to punish "criminals" in the city she rules. Coming into the city Granny saw the women and

" was prepared to believe that there was something very unpleasant in that house. Not evil. The two not-exactly-women weren't evil, in the same way that a dagger or a sheer cliff isn't evil. Being evil means being able to make choices. But the hand wielding a dagger or pushing a body over a cliff could be evil, and something like that was going on."

2 – "Lily raised a hand… Silver fire leapt across the room.

Baron Saturday thrust out his cane. The magic struck, and coursed down him to earth, leaving little silver trails that crackled for a while and then winked out.

…

Lily backed away. She raised her hand again and sent another fireball towards the Baron. It hit his hat and burst off it like a firework.

'Stupid, stupid!' muttered Granny. 'She's seen it doesn't work and she's still trying it!'

'I thought you weren't on her side', said Magrat.

'I ain't! but I don't like too see people being stupid. That kind of stuff's no use, Magrat Garlick, even you can… oh, no, surely not again…' "

3- (seeing what they think is unconscious Lily and really is Granny):

" 'Let's throw her off the tower,' said Magrat.

'All right,' said Nanny. 'Do it, then.'

Magrat hesitated. 'Well,' she said, 'when I said let's throw her off the tower, I didn't mean me personally throwing her off, I meant that if there was any justice she ought to be thrown off-'

'Then I shouldn't say any more on that score, if I was you,' said Nanny "

I don't really know what exactly I liked in the last passage, but it stroke a chord with me. Not talking about the abstract idea of Justice; taking personal responsibility for one's actions and not trying to leave one's soul pure, while other people throw somebody off the tower for you; morality and mercy, etc. All those words don't seem to be enough... 

I have been lurking at ru_proda [like McTabby's Summery Executions only in Russian] for a long time & wanted to share with you my favorite comments to enable you enjoy them too. Specially, since they were originally in Russian, so you certainly have never read any of them. Please, write whether somebody is interested in the continuation & feel free to comment.