I'm a Brit, and proud to be. Long live the Queen!!!!

I love Harry Potter fanfiction, and my favourite pairings are Harry/Lucius, Harry/Severus and Harry/Hermione.

I'm ok with cannon pairings and stories where Harry gets trained by Dumbledore, but they aren't my favourites, so I don't read them as often.

I think Dumbledore is a manipulative sod, though he seems to have the most honourable reasons, and the later books, especially OotP and onwards, are a waste of space. They may be what JK decided she wanted, but I think that in them Harry is a wuss and way too trusting, especially after what happened in the first four books. Any story mentioning Harry training himself as well as deciding to get together with someone who isn't Ginny Weasley, is likely to make me very happy. I know JK chose Ginny for Harry but I can't see them together, not without Harry being fed love-potion or being hit over the head and suffering amnesia. All those people who say that Harry would go for Ginny because she is a redhead like his mother, are making the story seem like a fairytale, I know that it is a work of fiction, but it could at least be a little realistic.

Sorry for the rant, but it needed to be said.

Homophobia is wrong:

I am the girl kicked out of her home because I confided in my mother that I am a lesbian.
I am the prostitute working the streets because nobody will hire a transsexual woman.
I am the sister who holds her gay brother tight through the painful, tear-filled nights.
We are the parents who buried our daughter long before her time.
I am the man who died alone in the hospital because they would not let my partner of twenty-seven years into the room.
I am the foster child who wakes up with nightmares of being taken away from the two fathers who are the only loving family I have ever had. I wish they could adopt me.
I am one of the lucky ones, I guess. I survived the attack that left me in a coma for three weeks, and in another year I will probably be able to walk again.
I am not one of the lucky ones. I killed myself just weeks before graduating high school. It was simply too much to bear.
We are the couple who had the realtor hang up on us when she found out we wanted to rent a one-bedroom for two men.
I am the person who never knows which bathroom I should use if I want to avoid getting the management called on me.
I am the mother who is not allowed to even visit the children I bore, nursed, and raised. The court says I am an unfit mother because I now live with another woman.
I am the domestic-violence survivor who found the support system grow suddenly cold and distant when they found out my abusive partner is also a woman.
I am the domestic-violence survivor who has no support system to turn to because I am male.
I am the father who has never hugged his son because I grew up afraid to show affection to other men.
I am the home-economics teacher who always wanted to teach gym until someone told me that only lesbians do that.
I am the man who died when the paramedics stopped treating me as soon as they realized I was transsexual.
I am the person who feels guilty because I think I could be a much better person if I did not have to always deal with society hating me.
I am the man who stopped attending church, not because I don't believe, but because they closed their doors to my kind.
I am the person who has to hide what this world needs most, love.
I am the person who is afraid of telling his loving Christian parents he loves another male.

Re-post this if you believe homophobia is wrong. Please do your part to end it.

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If you could read that put it in your profile.

List twelve characters from your favourite story, in no particular order.

1. Harry Potter

2. Fred Weasley

3. Lucius Malfoy

4. Minerva McGonagall

5. Poppy Pomfrey

6. Hermione Granger

7. Severus Snape

8. George Weasley

9. Charlie Weasley

10. Luna Lovegood

11. Arthur Weasley

12. Draco Malfoy

1. Have you ever read a Six/Eleven fic? Do you want to?

I haven't read one, and would only do so if it was well-written or was about a father/daughter relationship

2. Do you think Four is hot? How hot?

I am female so don't know how to answer that one.

3. What would happen if Twelve got Eight pregnant?

If male pregnancy was possible then the baby would be a red-headed ferret.

4. Can you recall any fics about Nine?

I can't think of the titles, but I have read quite a few with him as a main character.

5. Would Two and Six make a good couple?

Fred/Hermione? Yes, most definitely.

6. Five/Nine or Five/Ten? Why?

5/9. Luna is too flighty.

7. What would happen if Seven walked in on Two and Twelve having sex?

If Severus walked in on Fred and Draco, he'd want to drown himself in a bottle of Firewhiskey.

8. Make up a summary for a Three/Ten fic.

Luna sees him as a horrible, Grinch-style villain, but Lucius proves that even though he has the public persona of a cold, unfeeling bastard, he does have a heart.

9. Is there any such thing as One/Eight fluff?

There might well be, I've never seen any though, not without the other twin involved.

10. Suggest a title for a Eight/Twelve hurt/comfort fic.

The Twin's Anguish, The Ferret's Shoulder?

11. If you wrote a songfic about Twelve, what song would you choose?

No idea.

12. If you wrote a One/Six/Twelve fic, what would the warning be?

bad language, Slash, het, threesomes.

13. When was the last time you read a fic about Five?

I have not read any that are exclusively about her, but she has been in many of the fics I've read.

14. "(1) and (7) are in a happy relationship until (7) runs off with (4). (1), broken hearted, has a hot one-night stand with (11) and a brief unhappy affair with (12), then follows the wise advice of (5) and finds true love with (3).”

Harry Potter and Severus Snape are in a happy relationship until Severus runs off with Minerva McGonagall. Harry, broken hearted, has a one-night stand with Arthur Weasley and a brief unhappy affair with Draco Malfoy, then follows the wise advice of Poppy Pomfrey and finds true love with Lucius Malfoy.

15. Would 3 and 7 make a good couple?

Hell yes, Luc&Sev would so definitely make a good couple.

16. How would 9 react if 11 died?

Charlie would be depressed if his father died.

17. Who would most likely join the Order of the Phoenix, 6, 3, 9, or 10?

Hermione, she's closer to Harry and the action.

18. Who would most likely become a death eater, 2, 5, 8, or 11?

None.

19. Who would make a better couple, 6 and 9 or 2 and 4?

Hermione/Charlie would be way better than Fred/Minerva.

20. Who would you rather have as a sibling, 3, 6, or 7?

Hermione. Sev & Luc are not sibling material, especially not if I want them in my bed.

21. Who's more likely to watch TV right now, 6, 9, or 11?

Hermione, though the others are Weasleys so I don't know.

22. Who would you rather marry, 1, 4, 6, 8, or 11?

George.

23. Write a summary for a tragedy fanfiction about 5 and 9.

He'd watched from afar as she patched up his friends and family, but when he admitted that he loved her, it was too late. She was gone.

24. For a fanfiction about 2 and 8, what would the genre(s) most likely be?

Family/Humour.

25. Who would most likely kill who, 1 kill 2 or 9 kill 5?

Neither.

26. Who would make the best Auror, 6, 9, or 3?

Lucius, though I'm sure he'd have to arrest himself.

27. Who's most likely to have more kids than the Weasleys, 4, 6, or 10?

Luna, she probably wants more, I can't see Hermione having many, and Minerva's too old.

28. Who's better looking, 6 or 9?

Charlie, especially with his scars.

29. Would you rather adopt 1, 5, 6, or 12?

Draco. Harry and Hermione are too independent, while Poppy's too old.

30. Which of your answers would make the most sense to 8, that's about them?

Probably number 24.

To the well-organised mind, death is but the next great adventure. Albus Dumbledore.

Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak! Albus Dumbledore.

If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals. Sirius Black.

Do not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and, above all those who live without love. Albus Dumbledore

IF YOUR LIFE WAS A MOVIE, WHAT WOULD THE SOUNDTRACK BE?

1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don't lie and try to pretend your cool... and a lot of the songs fit with the setting

Opening Credits: Metallica - The Frayed Ends of Sanity (...And Justice for All)

Waking Up: Collide - The Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum (Vortex)

First Day of School: Anathema - Sleepless 96 (The Silent Enigma)

Falling In Love: Alestorm - Of Treasure (Captain Morgan's Revenge)

Fight Song: Priestess - Run Home (Hello Master)

Breaking Up: Anathema - Closer (A Natural Disaster)

Prom Night: Lunatica - Two Dreamers (New Shores)

Life: Nightwish - Slow, Love, Slow (Imaginaerum)

Mental Breakdown: Black Label Society - Stronger Than Death (Kings of Damnation: Era 1998 - 2004)

Driving: Collide - Wings of Steel (hEADaCHE Mix) (Vortex)

Flashback: Nightwish - Song of Myself (Imaginaerum)

Getting Back Together: Down - Beneath the Tides (Over the Under)

Wedding: Tyr - God of War (How Far to Asgaard)

Birth of a Child: Gotthard - Right From Wrong (Need to Believe)

Final Battle: Nightwish - Last Ride of the Day (Imaginaerum)

Funeral Song: Tyr - Hail to the Hammer (Eric the Red)

Final Credits: Tyr - Valkyrjan (The Valkyrie) (Land)

I am the girl ... that does go to school dances, and when I do go, I sit in a corner and read a book or write. I am the girl that people look through when I say something. I am the girl that spends most of her free time reading, writing, or doing other activities that most teenagers wouldn't call normal. I am the girl that people call weird, and a freak either behind my back or to my face. I am the girl that doesn't spend all her time on My Space, or talking to a girlfriend on a cellphone or a regular phone. I am the girl that hasn't been asked out in a year. I am the girl that has stopped to smell the flowers and jump and splash in the rain.

But I am also the girl who knows and is proud to be who she is, doesn't care if people call her weird, who loves reading and writing and doing the things that no one seems to have the time to do any more, who can express herself better with words, and knows the importance of the little things.

Copy and Paste this onto your account, and add your name to the list, if you are anything like me, so the girls who are different and unique can know in their weakest times that they are unique, but not alone.

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For all those who like 'characters reading the books' stories, here is something to boost your spirits.

Harry Potter author JK Rowling has given her blessing to fans who write their own Potter stories online.
Thousands of fans have written their own stories based on the world of Harry Potter, which are published on the net. The release of the third Potter movie is expected to boost the already hugely-popular fan fiction phenomenon. A spokesman for Rowling's literary agent said she was "flattered people wanted to write their own stories" based on her characters. Websites such as FanFiction.net and SugarQuill.net carry thousands of stories inspired by Rowling's global best-sellers. The Potter writers have invented a wealth of new adventures, developed new relationships and taken the characters in directions perhaps never imagined by Rowling herself.

'Concern'
The spokesman for the Christopher Little literary agency said: "JK Rowling's reaction is that she is very flattered by the fact there is such great interest in her Harry Potter series and that people take the time to write their own stories.
"Her concern would be to make sure that it remains a non-commercial activity to ensure fans are not exploited and it is not being published in the strict sense of traditional print publishing." He said writers had to ensure that the stories were not obscene and were credited to the author and not to JK Rowling. He said: "The books may be getting older, but they are still aimed at young children. "If young children were to stumble on Harry Potter in a an x-rated story, that would be a problem." Fan fiction is a genuine online phenomenon, but its roots go back decades.

'Visibility'
Dr Matt Hills, lecturer in media and culture studies at Cardiff University and author of Fan Cultures, said fan fiction had always been part of fan culture. "It's something that fan cultures have always been involved in. "The arrival of online means it has a greater visibility. Before the age of the internet, it was only circulated between fans."TV programmes such as Doctor Who, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Star Trek are among the most popular sources of fan fiction. But recent films such as Pirates of the Caribbean and video games such as Halo have also inspired people to write their own stories. Dr Hills said for a lot of fans it was about being more than just a "passive spectator". "Fans have a great affection for their objects of fandom. They love these films and programmes and characters and this spurs them on. "It's a fascination with characters who are central to programmes and fans want to explore the afterlives of these characters and explore their back stories." Dr Hills said fan fiction began with early science fiction but took off when fans of Star Trek began writing their own stories. But not all authors are as happy to have their work used as the basis for amateur writers' own musings.

'Policy'
Xing Li, editor of FanFiction.net, said the website had received a number of requests from authors to remove work. He said: "It is our long standing policy of fanfiction.net to respect the wishes of original writers and will remove or ban fan fiction categories at their request." Authors to have contacted the website include Anne Rice, Anne McCaffrey and Raymond Feist. The spokesman at the literary agency stressed that copyright in the Harry Potter series and characters remained with Rowling and trademarks with Warner Bros. "Hopefully the fan fiction will help people become writers in their own right," he said.

J.K. Rowling wants us to write about Harry Potter and to give our own twists to the stories, so unless her lawyer goes against us writing character reading the books stories, am I going to continue these stories. ALL THOSE SUPPORTING ME COPY AND PASTE THIS TO YOUR ACCOUNT PAGE!

I support everyone who writes and enjoys 'characters reading the books' stories, and will, when I think I've got it to the point where I think it's at least vaguely decent, upload my own. It takes time.