Author's Notes:
Chapter 13 of Jewel of the Harem is up-- but not here.
Due to my disagreements with ff.net's policies, I am no longer updating stories here. Another one of my fics (The Confessions of Harry Potter) was removed without warning. Which meant that the reviews also disappeared, all because they apparently couldn't be bothered to have the simple common courtesy to warn me it was going to happen. Fictionalley (where it's also posted, same version too) felt that the story fit under an R rating, but evidently it was all too much for the sensitive ff.net souls.
I am not interested in participating at a site that practices arbitrary censorship. More and more authors are feeling the same way (Sharon Armstrong just left too, check her out on FA, she's amazing) and if we ever do reach a critical mass and get tired enough of this to all quit posting here, ff.net's behavior may come back to haunt them. Until then, they can keep right on doing their thing without me (and I'm not the only one who's decided this.) I don't know if I'm going to go to the trouble of removing what's already up, but from now on Jewel of the Harem will only be updated at:
http://www.schnoogle.com/authorLinks/Anise/
Chapter 5 is up there, which is the next chapter and the equivalent of 12 + 13 (they're longer on Fictionalley.)
That specific chapter link is at
http://www.schnoogle.com/restrictedsection/fic.php?fic=sch:/authors/anise/JHGCBO05.html
The NC-17 chapters (and there will be some) will be posted at restrictedsection.org when the time comes. If you're on my mailing list, you'll know about them! There's so much coming. StarEyes is now doing fanart (you've got to see her LeatherBoots!Draco,) and yes, it's true-- I'm a filmmaker and I'm working on short fanfilms for next year. So sign up on the mailing list, already!!!
And thanks for being JOTH readers...
I'll leave you with a quote from legendary Czech director Milos Forman (Amadeus, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The People Vs. Larry Flynt.)
When the Nazis and the Communists first came into Czechoslovakia, they declared war on "pornographers and perverts." Everyone applauded them; after all, who wants perverts running around in the streets? But then, suddenly, Shakespeare was a pervert, Hemingway was a pervert... It always starts in that innocuous way, but then the door is opened wide to all sorts of persecution.
So think about what you want freedom of speech to be in this information society we call the Internet. Like so many other freedoms, it can so easily be taken away.
To learn more, check out the Blue Ribbon Internet Freedom of Speech Campaign at:
http://www.eff.org/br/
And there's:
http://forms.aclu.org/
http://free.freespeech.org/unlimitedfreedom/
http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/comm/free_speech/default.html