Current and Future projects:

The Other Side of Hell - One of the first things I ever wrote back when I was a mere slip of a thing. I guess it's a fun fic if you ignore the cringe-worthy plotting, corny dialogue and spotty grammar. I don't think I'll ever post it back here again (I'm a little embarrassed, truth be known), but it's available on my yahoo group (as are my two older fics, which make OSoH look like a work of Shakespeare).

Stained Future- On hiatus. Probably permanently.

What Lies Beneath - COMPLETE! Yes, it's H/Tracey. There has been a lot of talk about a sequel. I'm not going to say never, but at the moment, I don't have any plans for a sequel. My thoughts on the fic itself: in retrospect, I think it's actually a very dark story, not in the usual Dark!Harry sense where there's lots of blood and sex, but the fact that Harry's completely losing himself. For much of the story, he's stuck in a vicious cycle and there are very few moments where he is genuinely happy. As a result, the usual filler found in many fics is absent, making some parts of the story feel 'rushed'. I don't feel it's rushed, but instead, there is the main plot of Harry vs Voldemort with the 'Knights of Walpurgis' sub-plot flitting in and out of the main plot. I initially considered adding a sup-plot for Blaise Zabini and placing more emphasis on Dean Thomas but in the end, my decision was that there would be no focus on any character other than Harry because I thought it would undermine his peripeteia.As for the epilogue, I felt that a detailed epilogue mapping out exactly what happened to everyone and if/how Harry conquered the Ministry would not work; the former because I wanted to keep the focus on Harry right until the very end and the latter because of the epilogue would probably equal the length of the rest of the story if I properly mapped out the fall of the Ministry.

Ruin: COMPLETE! This is the first of a trilogy and reads like a prequel. If I'm honest, I'm not sure when I'll get back to this. I have four chapters written of the sequel ('Recovery') from a couple of years ago, but have lost all the detailed notes I had. This was intended as more of a character study - I was keen on writing about the inner-workings of the Death Eaters (which I see as more like the GoF cosa nostra-style organisation rather than the fairly weak structure we saw in DH). I was particularly keen on writing a three-dimensional Voldemort (something JKR hinted at in HBP but didn't deliver in DH).

Resurrexit: This is the story I'm currently working on with Rob. It's set post-DH (sans epilogue) in a world where Harry's wife is killed and he wants to track her killer down at all costs. It's fairly noir, and about halfway done. In my opinion, it can only be read as an ensemble, so I'm going to post it all when I'm done.

The Minister's Son: I am Inibaz. *gasp* I began writing this a couple of years ago at a time when I wanted a fresh start. But, to be honest, I have enough accounts and passwords to manage at work/in my personal life, I can't monitor more than one account on here as well. So when I'm finished with Resurrexit, I'll bring this story home and work on it in earnest. I've got a lot of plans for it, and am actually quite excited to be writing my first non-dark fic since OSoH. For this one, I'll just post chapters as I write them, it's not the kind of story that needs to be complete first (and I miss immediate feedback). No promise on when this will get started, I'm no longer a student and as such don't have endless hours of free time anymore.

(December 2011)

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Review replies: I've been very lazy about this lately and I apologise. What I'll do is respond to valid questions and reviews that look like they've taken a bit of effort to write.