I'm Rachel; I live in North Carolina, though I hate it here. Yes, I'm 18 and a freshman in college and I should have better things to do in my spare time, but I love reading and writing -- fanfiction as well as original work. Harry Potter is my obsession; although I read other things too. The stories I read most often are Harry Potter (Lily/James, Draco/Hermione) and Life With Derek (Dasey). I suppose there's just something about the whole love/hate thing that appeals to me. I've been reading fanfiction for about five years now, but I've never really gotten around to writing much. Let alone actually posting anything. Until now.

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Ships I like:
Jim/Pam (The Office)
Derek/Meredith (Grey's Anatomy)
George/Lexie (Grey's Anatomy)
Alex/Izzie (Grey's Anatomy)
Bella/Edward (Twilight)
Bella/Jacob (Twilight)
Jacob/Renesmee (Twilight)
Cappie/Casey (Greek)
Casey/Derek (Life With Derek)
Rory/Dean (Gilmore Girls)
Rory/Jess (Gilmore Girls)
Luke/Lorelai (Gilmore Girls)
Phil/Keely (Phil of the Future)
Zoey/Chase (Zoey 101)
Logan/Dana (Zoey 101)
Mia/Michael (Princess Diaries)
Troy/Gabriella (High School Musical)
Pacey/Joey (Dawson's Creek)
Elizabeth/Will (Pirates of the Caribbean)
Jack/Rose (Titanic)
James/Lily (Harry Potter)
Remus/Tonks (Harry Potter)
Frank/Alice (Harry Potter)
Harry/Ginny (Harry Potter)
Hermione/Draco (Harry Potter)

Quotes!

Life With Derek
Derek:Have you seen the new mailman?
Edwin:Yeah, she's a chick!
Marti:The mailman is a chicken?

Zoey 101
Chase: (to Logan) We're writing a song about our lives here at PCA.
Michael: I'm doing the music.
Chase: I'm writing the lyrics.
Logan: Oh, so I guess it goes, "I love you Zoey, from my head down to my toe-y"?
Chase: (snickers) No.
(Logan leaves, Chase grabs notebook and proceeds to write)
Michael: Don't write that down.
(Chase sets aside the paper)
Michael: You were gonna write that down, weren't you?
Chase: Maybe.

Gilmore Girls
Dave: What we need is a name.
Brian: I made my suggestion.
Zach: Yeah, and we vetoed "The Harry Potters." Next.
Brian: So yours is better?
Zach: "Follow Them to the Edge of the Desert" is memorable and classy.
Brian: I run out of breath every time I say it.
Zach: You've got asthma, dude. You run out of breath saying your name.
Dave: Yeah, Brian, we can't work our name around your respiratory illnesses.
Brian: Even without an inhaler, "Follow Them to the Edge of the Desert" is too long.
Zach: Yeah, but when we get famous, our fans will shorten it to F-T-T-T-E-O-T-D.

Harry Potter
Snape: Do you remember me telling you we are practicing nonverbal spells, Potter?
Harry: Yes.
Snape: Yes, sir.
Harry: There's no need to call me 'sir,' Professor.

(Talking about Inferi in DADA...) "When we come face-to-face with one down a dark alley, we're going to be having a look to see if it's solid, aren't we? We're not going to be asking, 'Excuse me, are you the imprint of a departed soul?'"

Why Are You Worrying about You-Know-Who?
You SHOULD Be Worrying About
U-NO-POO -
the Constipation Sensation That's Gripping the Nation!

Harry looked around; there was Ginny running towards him; she had a hard, blazing look in her face as she threw her arms around him. And without thinking, without planning it, without worrying about the fact that fifty people were watching, Harry kissed her.
After several moments - or it might have been half an hour - or possibly several sunlit days - they broke apart. The room had gone very quiet. Then several people wolf-whistled and there was an outbreak of nervous giggling. Harry looked over the top of Ginny's head to see Dean Thomas holding a shattered glass in his hand and Romilda Vane looking as though she might throw something. Hermione was beaming, but Harry's eyes sought Ron. At last he found him, still clutching the Cup and wearing an expression appropriate to having been clubbed over the head. For a fraction of a second the looked at each other, then Ron gave a tiny jerk of the head that Harry understood to mean, "Well - if you must."
The creature in his chest roaring in triumph, he grinned down at Ginny and gestured wordlessly out of the portrait hole. A long walk in the grounds seemed indicated, during which--if they had time--they might discuss the match.