ProfessorWannaBe
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Joined 08-31-04, id: 663716, Profile Updated: 03-30-11
Author has written 6 stories for Harry Potter.

It took me over thirty years to figure out what I wanted to be when I grew up - a teacher at Hogwarts. There's just one problem - REALITY! Instead, I've settled for teaching college math in the midwest US. Believe it or not, I still have to grade essays but, thankfully, they aren't 12 inches long.

My daughter won't allow me to ship anything but Ron/Hermione and Harry/Ginny when it comes to the Trio. I'm okay with that since I'm more interested in the adult characters for fan fiction anyway. My pet peeve in the shippings I see is the pairings of characters who have had a student/teacher relationship at some point. I suppose it's my professional take on things and just can't believe it as easily as other ff writers do. There have been a few that used a setting far enough removed from the original relationship that I can go along with a well-written match.

Looking at my stories, you may have guessed that my favorite characters are Minerva McGonagall and Severus Snape. The first because I think she's a great teacher, a good mentor, a loyal friend and a brave woman. The second because he has a mysterious past, he had the courage to turn on LV and he keeps doing the right thing even when he doesn't want to.

Update March 2011

It has been suggested that I change my screen name to ProfessorGonnaBe or ProfessorSoonToBe. There haven't been any story updates for a long while because I took the plunge and went back to school in search of those all-important little letters to put behind my name: PhD. Five (long) weeks left of coursework then the dissertation fun begins. I hope I get my fiction-writing brain back after all this scholarly junk!!

Btw, the middle-school daughter who got me interested in HP fan fiction is now a college freshman and doesn't care in the least about shipping speculations. ;-)

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Box on the Stool by DriftWood1965 reviews
Harry offers to free Kreacher. I've been told this is a good sad story. Enjoy. This is the only canon/pairing story you'll ever find in my written stories.
Harry Potter - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 831 - Reviews: 125 - Favs: 437 - Follows: 112 - Published: 8/20/2009 - Harry P., Kreacher - Complete
The Owl and the Pussycat by andromeda527 reviews
Based on the poem by Edward Lear.
Harry Potter - Rated: K - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 824 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 3 - Follows: 1 - Published: 9/2/2004 - Albus D., Minerva M.
About Remus by Abegweit reviews
How do you know when you're in love? When do you know? Can you tell me?...
Harry Potter - Rated: K+ - English - Romance - Chapters: 4 - Words: 5,550 - Reviews: 13 - Favs: 3 - Follows: 1 - Updated: 9/2/2004 - Published: 7/28/2004 - Remus L.
Summer Love by true-elven reviews
Set immediately after Book 5. Harry has a gorgeous nextdoor neighbor on Privet Drive and when Hermione comes to visit for the summer he is torn between two beautiful girls.
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 15 - Words: 52,528 - Reviews: 503 - Favs: 264 - Follows: 57 - Updated: 8/25/2004 - Published: 4/27/2004 - Harry P., Hermione G.
A Tabby and Her Kit by uber grasshopper reviews
Minerva stubbornly defies Dumbledore's command and rescues baby Harry Potter from his uncaring relatives. How will she handle raising him without the help of Hogwarts? REFORMATTED bask in the italics!
Harry Potter - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Romance - Chapters: 29 - Words: 99,157 - Reviews: 963 - Favs: 1,081 - Follows: 282 - Updated: 1/10/2004 - Published: 3/3/2003 - Albus D., Minerva M.
Sleeping Beauty by Laura Kay reviews
Arthur reflects on the first time he and Molly slept together not that way you sick little kids!
Harry Potter - Rated: K+ - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,555 - Reviews: 40 - Favs: 25 - Published: 9/18/2003 - Molly W., Arthur W. - Complete
The Lesson by HomemadeMagic reviews
Snape explains his actions towards Harry in OotP. I wrote this mainly to explore an interpretation of Snape's character, but the result was that I really don't like it anymore. The interpretation, not the story. Still, it was fun to play. Pre HBP.
Harry Potter - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 2 - Words: 3,217 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Published: 8/8/2003 - Severus S. - Complete
Learning Curve by Nomad1 reviews
Set during OotP. Snape muses.
Harry Potter - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 875 - Reviews: 37 - Favs: 41 - Follows: 3 - Published: 6/27/2003 - Severus S. - Complete
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Burns Night reviews
Severus Snape fulfills his annual obligation to attend a Burns Supper with his employer. He runs into a former teacher and that gives him an idea.
Harry Potter - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,869 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 1 - Published: 1/10/2010 - Severus S., Minerva M. - Complete
Wonders Never Cease reviews
The Grangers are amazed by the invitation to Hogwarts that their daughter receives. --first two chapters also posted on The Sugar Quill--
Harry Potter - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 2 - Words: 6,675 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 5 - Follows: 7 - Published: 8/10/2009 - Hermione G.
The Valley of Unrest reviews
A Muggle hiker finds the valley that holds Hogwarts. Seeing only the crumbling ruins, he is reminded of Poe’s poetry and sits to sketch it under the gathering storm which then ruins the drawing. The verse and title are borrowed from Edgar Allan Poe (1831)
Harry Potter - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,439 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 2 - Follows: 2 - Published: 4/23/2005
A Stunning Recovery reviews
1 - MM wakes up at St. Mungo's lucky to be alive after taking four stunners to the chest. 2 - Not yet fully recovered, she receives an emotional stunning at the news of Sirius Black's death. 3 - She is not so stunned at the sudden departure of Umbridge.
Harry Potter - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 3 - Words: 5,399 - Reviews: 10 - Favs: 9 - Updated: 3/17/2005 - Published: 3/14/2005 - Minerva M. - Complete
The Boy Who Didn't Laugh reviews
When HP sees a broom incident in Professor Snape's memories, he's missing quite a bit of information - take it from Sirius' Uncle Alphard.
Harry Potter - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 966 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 3/7/2005 - Severus S. - Complete
Solitude reviews
A poemfic inspired by Lord Byron's poem of the same name and the question of what the Potions Master does with his holidays.
Harry Potter - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,568 - Reviews: 2 - Published: 2/25/2005 - Severus S. - Complete