I fell into love with Fic from reading Turtledove's alternative history fiction. I'm a huge Harry Potter fan.

Generally speaking, I prefer AU stories because canon has way too many senseless deaths and the one big happy Weasley family feels like a saccharine tack on. Yes I know it's a children's story and the things that Rowling didn't need to take into account when tying it together for young adults leave the holes that we have fun with.

A conversation with my wife that involved having Vincent Crabbe making Silent Bob type profound observations ended with her suggesting a canon compliant parody of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead with Crabbe and Goyle in place of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. I'm not a good enough writer to do this justice.

My Favorite Harry tends to be one that is a lot rougher than the cannon. If life keeps throwing these kinds of situations at you, floating along and having a positive outlook doesn't save you. When I saw Scream 2, I thought 'if they make a third one, Neve Campbell's character better be armed and dangerous.'

One Trope that I've found myself falling into is addressing Harry's health. I can't figure how nobody in canon thought that Harry being six inches too short and twenty pounds underweight wasn't something that needed addressing.

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I hope you enjoy the products of my imagination.

Sex: Note on sex and Harry Potter characters: IMO, you have the students at Hogwarts in a boarding school with little to no adult supervision. They live in a society with next to no consequences, a muggle sees you do magic, obliviate them. break mom's heirloom china, reparo, near fatal injuries, in most cases you'll miss dinner but you will be at breakfast the next day. Given these realities, do I think that Hogwarts students would be having sex. Yes. Are my stories going to contain explicit sex scenes, only when I choose to but don't expect anything too hot and heavy.

Money: Harry Potter and money, I can't find it now, but I read a really well worked out analysis of the exchange rate. JKR has said "about 5 pounds to 1 galleon," she has also said that she isn't great at math. If the 5:1 exchange stands, which is derived roughly from a 1 knut to 1 pence ratio (493 knuts to 1 galleon), then the most expensive item for which a price is given for first years is the wand at 7 G, or £35 , this doesn't make sense then for the Weasley's and others to be using family wands and other hand-me-downs.

One of the only items where there is a direct comparison is the Daily Prophet which we see as costing 5 knuts. in the early 90s, depending on the paper, a British news paper was between 25p and 60p (any Brits want to jump in on this please PM me, I'm basing it off searchable things like google images of mastheads for the Guardian, the Times, the Telegraph circa 1991-1995) so we have a 5-12p to 1k ratio. I've chosen to use 10 because it works for me.

This number also works for me when you look at the issue of hand-me-down wands and the twins starting a shop. if a wand cost £350 then yes it would make sense that there would be families that sent their kids to school with hand me downs. In 1994 when I went to college, I had used a good chunk of money I'd saved and graduation gifts from family on a new laptop, all 4mb of ram and, I want to say, 80mb hard drive of memory to the tune of about $1400 (after the $200 upgrade for a 26k modem), about £900 but I had plenty of friends who either didn't have their own computer and relied on school computers or had hand-me-downs from relatives. This number makes sense when you look at 1000G being enough to start a business.

Magical Power and Prowess: It is pretty evident in canon that magical education is to the lowest common denominator, the marauders all achieved animagus transformations while students, "There are only eight registered in the last century," and created more than one permanently enchanted magical items. The Weasley twins, are able to achieve ridiculously advanced magic in the form of pranks, starting in their third year. The patronus charm is an incredibly difficult piece of magic that most adults can't do and Harry is an utter prodigy for being able to cast it until the DA forms and then suddenly every student in the DA can cast a corporeal patronus. The Ministry six: yes the Death Eaters were hindered by trying not to kill Harry, but six students, none of whom had passed their O.w.L.s, held off ten of the Dark Lords inner circle for an extended period of time. So if Harry or Harry and his friends focus and apply themselves then I don't see magic well above the school norm as that odd. Plus Harry is ridiculously over powered in canon when the chips are down so a powerful Harry makes a lot of sense to me.

Canon factoid, Harry learns the Patronus in third year but doesn't learn protego until he is preparing for the TWT.