Hi,

NEW! Authors or readers! Need help with Britishisms? Still think we have graduations in schools in Britain? Can't understand why Brits can be pissed without being angry or make head or tail of the British educational system. See the guide to British language and culture at http://www.thesiteofbrian.com/cultural/

I have a Yahoo Group (brigrove) about my stories http://groups.yahoo.com/group/brigrove/

My name is Brian and I'm a 47 year old widower from England, presently living in an animal refuge in Argentina. (www.rescueddoggies.com) Do visit the page and like all refuges donations are always needed.

As I used to work in a couple of those outsourced callcentres taking calls from the U.S.A., you might even have spoken to me. (I'm the one that can actually speak English - that is a joke - I only wish I spoke Spanish half as well as my colleagues spoke English.)

I got hooked on Harry Potter fairly recently, and only read the books shortly before the fifth film came out. I've read them so many times since I used to get teased about it at work.

In my stories I try to keep the actual characters as close to canon as possible, bearing in mind of course that experiences change us, so the events in my stories may cause the characters to change somewhat, most notably in my "Bond" fic, The Harmony Bond.

Apart from in The Harmony Bond, which has Harry and Hermione soul-bonded (you couldn't really have guessed from the title, could you?) all my other stories have Harry paired with Ginny and Ron with Hermione. Prophecy Repeated is set in Harry and Ginny's old age and introduces a new young "Chosen One", putting Harry in Dumbledore's shoes as the headmaster trying to help him.

If you make a story/author alert, please make it a favourite story or make me a favourite author as that way people reading your page can be guided to my stories - I've found many great stories that way myself.

In the meantime I hope you enjoy my little efforts. I usually try to update fairly frequently, but bouts of depression, which have plagued me since my wife's sudden death just over two years ago, tend to leave me without ideas or enthusiasm sometimes.

Brian