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I'm only just an Englishman; from North of "the Wall," but South of "the border." The bit that most of England doesn't know is theirs.
I've been a fan for years, ever since I read book one, which is also when I suspected that Harry and Ginny would, eventually, be a couple. This was confirmed to me in the opening Chapters of CoS. I cannot read Dramione, Drinny, slash or, for that matter, any major non-canon pairing. If JKR says that's what happens, that's good enough for me. Why bother re-imagining?
I like action, rather than fluff, though I seem to write a lot of fluff.
I appear to be writing several stories. In fact, I’m only writing one. In chronological order (of events, not writing) my stories are:
Killers: 1940 & 1946 (COMPLETE)
Molly and her Daughter: 1990-1999 (in progress)
Nott, Father & Son: 1990-2002 (COMPLETE)
The Hufflepuff late 1996 (COMPLETE)
Vituperation July/August 1997 (COMPLETE)
Summer of '97: August 1997 (COMPLETE)
Locket: November 1997 (COMPLETE)
Fred and George's Busy Day: August 1997-May 1998 (COMPLETE)
The Pencil Portrait Problem (a Theodore Nott mystery): September-October 1997 (COMPLETE)
Tales of the Battle: May 1998 (COMPLETE)
Grave Days: May-September 1998 (COMPLETE)
The Badly Fitting Coat: June 1998 (COMPLETE)
Aurors and Schoolgirls: September 1998-June 1999 (Progressing)
What Luna Sees: December 1998 (COMPLETE)
Spontaneity: Sunday 28 March 1999 (COMPLETE)
The Mind of Arthur Weasley: Monday 29 March 1999 (COMPLETE)
Mistletoe Kisses: 31 December 1999 with flashbacks to 1995 (COMPLETE)
The Girl From DRaCoMC September 1999 (COMPLETE)
Players Rites September 1999 (COMPLETE)
Hunters and Prey: February-March 2000 (in progress)
Disharmony: June 2000 (COMPLETE)
Zionks: October 2000 (COMPLETE)
April Fool: April 2001 (COMPLETE)
Angelina: April 2001 (COMPLETE)
Endings and Beginnings: April-June 2001 (notes and jottings)
Swimsuit Quidditch: August 2001 (COMPLETE)
The Question: February 2002 (COMPLETE)
MIT: Muggle Liaison Team?: July 2002 (in progress)
The Professor and his Landlady: July 2002 (COMPLETE)
The Secret Diary of Hermione Granger: July 2002 (COMPLETE)
After Breakfast: 7 September 2002 (COMPLETE)
MIT: Haunted House: Dead: November 2002 (COMPLETE)
Epithalamium Spring 2003 (In Progress)
MIT: Hampstead Heath Corpse August 2003 (COMPLETE)
It takes Two: February 2004 (COMPLETE)
E.C.C.E.N.T.R.I.C. April 2004 (COMPLETE)
Unspeakable: 2004 (COMPLETE) (co-written with C A Campbell)
First Sight: October 2004 (COMPLETE)
Bare: October 2004 (COMPLETE)
Exsanguination A vampire story: September-November 2004 (notes and jottings)
Conceptions: February 2005 (COMPLETE)
Conversations: March 2005 (COMPLETE)
Moon: March 2005 (COMPLETE)
Brown: April 2005 (COMPLETE)
Yggdrasil: June 2006 (COMPLETE)
Sleepless Night: December 2006 (COMPLETE)
Beard Hunters: December 2007 (COMPLETE)
Dennis: February 2008 (COMPLETE)
Ginny’s Rival: March 2008 (COMPLETE)
Strangers at Drakeshaugh: September/October 2009 (in progress)
Sports DayJune 2010 (in progress)
The Drakeshaugh Dragon: August 2010 (COMPLETE)
Moons: July 2010 (COMPLETE)
Xmas Daze: December 2011
Owl Post: July 2016 (COMPLETE)
Zygosis: August 2026 (COMPLETE)
James and Me: August 2027 (COMPLETE)
Centuries: 2080-2081 (COMPLETE)
The Hufflepuff by Northumbrian
Rated: 3rd-5th Years [Reviews - 12]
Summary: Hannah Abbott is a typical Hufflepuff, isn't she?
This is Northumbrian of Ravenclaw writing for the Great Bannermakers Hall Challenge
Aurors and Schoolgirls by Northumbrian
Rated: 3rd-5th Years [Reviews - 173]
Summary:
The Wizarding War is over.
Auror training has begun and Harry and Ron find that their lives are centred round London and the Ministry of Magic.
For Ginny and Hermione there is the inevitable return to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Their lives are centred round schooling in Scotland.
Do these divided duos have different destinations and divergent destinies? When, where and how can these parted pairings meet? Opportunities are limited to holidays, Hogsmeade visits and school Quidditch matches.
Nominated for: Best Post-Hogwarts (Chaptered) story - Quicksilver Quills 2012
Is Draco Malfoy a Git? by Northumbrian
Rated: 3rd-5th Years [Reviews - 19]
Summary: This important question needs to be answered. Reputations are at stake.
Ginny's Rival by Northumbrian
Rated: 3rd-5th Years [Reviews - 16]
Summary: There is a new girl in Harry's life, and Ginny needs Hermione's help.
M.L.T.: Muggle Liaison Team? by Northumbrian
Rated: 3rd-5th Years [Reviews - 13]
Summary:
He was John “Pen” Parker. He was twenty-two and recently engaged to Naomi Nolan, the nineteen-year-old mother-to-be of his unborn child. He worked for Howard Building Contractors. There were fifteen other people on the closed and secure building site when he died. Was he murdered? The police weren’t sure. But what did they know? Whose was the cigarette, and what happened to the ring?
This is Northumbrian of Ravenclaw failing to meet the deadline for the 2011 Mysterious May Challenge in the Great Hall, Prompt #2 – The Trained Professional.
Unspeakable by C_A_Campbell, Northumbrian
Rated: 6th-7th Years [Reviews - 22]
Summary: Unspeakable, Michael Corner, is researching time, events, and probabilities. While testing his newly-invented RANDOM system, he stumbles upon an unspeakable possibility. Former supporters of Voldemort, all acquitted for their crimes, are dying of so-called natural causes. Intrigued by the possibility that these events might be connected, Michael investigates farther. But what he discovers will test him and raise questions that all his probabilities cannot answer for him.
What is justice? And what is unspeakable cruelty?
Spontaneity by Northumbrian
Rated: Professors [Reviews - 68]
Summary: Hermione (and Ginny) chose to return to Hogwarts to study. Harry and Ron joined the Auror Office. It's the Easter holidays, two weeks home from school for the girls, but their boyfriends are both working. The all important NEWT exams are approaching, Hermione's revision schedule is already carefully planned. Will she find time for Ron? What about Harry and Ginny?
Players Rites by Northumbrian
Rated: 3rd-5th Years [Reviews - 23]
Summary: Ginny Weasley is about to play her first ever professional Quidditch Game. Why aren't her team mates ready?
M.I.T.: Muggle Interface Team by Northumbrian
Rated: 6th-7th Years [Reviews - 12]
Summary:
When the magical world meets the Muggle world, who do the Auror Office call on?
Nominated for: Best Post-Hogwarts (One-Shot) story – Quicksilver Quills 2011
Tales of the Battle by Northumbrian
Rated: 6th-7th Years [Reviews - 272]
Summary:
Over fifty people died at the Battle of Hogwarts. There are dozens of stories of loss, betrayal, heroism and sacrifice. These are some of those stories.
Nominated for: Best General (Chaptered) story – Quicksilver Quills 2011
E.C.C.E.N.T.R.I.C. by Northumbrian
Rated: 1st-2nd Years [Reviews - 15]
Summary: E.C.C.E.N.T.R.I.C. is the second of four loosely connected stories I think of as the “Potter Family” series. In order, the stories are: It Takes Two, ECCENTRIC, First Sight and Sleepless Night.
Ginny takes a trip to Tibet with an eccentric companion.
The Question by Northumbrian
Rated: 3rd-5th Years [Reviews - 27]
Summary: Ron is on his way to ask Hermione a question. He thinks that Hermione knows everything, but will she be able to answer this question?
The Girl from DRaCo MC by Northumbrian
Rated: 3rd-5th Years [Reviews - 15]
Summary: Office work is, in the main, boring and monotonous. But sometimes something unexpected happens.
Swimsuit Quidditch by Northumbrian
Rated: 6th-7th Years [Reviews - 50]
Summary:
It is Ginny’s twentieth birthday, and she wants to play a game with Harry.
Moon by Northumbrian
Rated: 6th-7th Years [Reviews - 24]
Summary:
**WINNER in the BEST ORIGINAL CHARACTER (Mark Moon) – Quicksilver Quills Awards 2010.**Meet Mark Moon, a bailiff in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement (Scottish Office). Mark has girl problems, or a problem girl, he isn't certain which. The girl is named Lavender.
The Secret Diary of Hermione Granger by Northumbrian
Rated: 3rd-5th Years [Reviews - 20]
Summary: Four years after the Battle, a strange desire draws Hermione Granger. What could possibly make her visit Malfoy Manor?
Summer of '97 by Northumbrian
Rated: 3rd-5th Years [Reviews - 13]
Summary: On a fine day during the school summer holidays two Hogwarts students meet in a small market town in the north of England.
This is Northumbrian of Ravenclaw writing for the Madam Pomfrey One-Shot Triathlon - Round Three: Original Characters, Prompt 2 (summer holidays).
Fred and George's Busy Day by Northumbrian
Rated: 3rd-5th Years [Reviews - 33]
Summary:
WINNER of the BEST GENERAL story – Quicksilver Quills Awards 2010.
In the weeks and months after their eldest brother’s wedding Fred and George Weasley continued to run their business. Two decent honest and respectable businessmen, they had no involvement at all in any illicit conduct. They certainly didn’t get involved in any anti-Voldemort activities. Definitely not. No. Not them. Never. They wouldn’t. Honestly.
Bare by Northumbrian
Rated: 6th-7th Years [Reviews - 12]
Summary:
All I ever wanted to do was fit in and be normal. I wanted friends, a nice boy, marriage and kids, the usual stuff. It wasn’t much to hope for.
Fighting a war can leave scars, and you can't always hide them.
This is Northumbrian of Ravenclaw writing for the Madam Pomfrey One-Shot Triathlon - Round Two: Minor Canon Characters, Prompt 1 (encounter with a mythical creature).
Grave Days by Northumbrian
Rated: 3rd-5th Years [Reviews - 100]
Summary: Front page: THE DAILY PROPHET 4 May 1998
TOM RIDDLE “ THE SELF-STYLED LORD VOLDEMORT
Editors Note: At the request of the Ministry for Magic this Official Statement issued by the Office of the Minister is produced full and unedited.
OFFICIAL MINISTRY STATEMENT
This official statement has been compiled with the assistance and co-operation of Mr Harry Potter.
“Lord Voldemort” was, in fact a man named Tom M. Riddle, son of a witch, Merope Gaunt and a Muggle, Tom Riddle Senior. The Ministry has decided that in all future official publications Riddle will be referred to by his given name.
There has already been much speculation and wild rumour regarding the events at Hogwarts School. The Ministry can confirm that Tom M. Riddle was killed at dawn on the morning of Saturday, 2 May. Riddle was disarmed by Harry Potter while in the act of firing a killing curse at Mr Potter. The curse killed Riddle rather than its intended target.
Continued on page 4
WHERE IS HARRY POTTER?
Despite the Official Ministry Statement (published above) we are no closer to receiving an answer to the question on the lips of every witch and wizard in the country. Where is Harry Potter?
It appears that Mr Potter left Hogwarts School early yesterday morning, apparently in the company of his close associates Hermione Granger and Ronald Weasley. An attractive young Ministry clerk, who did not wish to be named, told The Prophet “He’s at the Ministry, having an important meeting with the Minister. My friends and I saw him. He asked us out to the pub, but we had to turn him down.” This statement is at odds with a report from the Portkey Office that Mr Potter has fled the country, travelling to Australia with his companions.
Continued on page 2
The days after the battle were days of grief and mourning. Grave Days.