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 (with a small rant about "Someone's Gotta Go" inside)

"The Golden Age" by Arsinoe de Blassenville:
"Post DH. In the wake of victory, Harry struggles with life, love, and the reform of the British wizarding world. He learns that life is complex, and that happy endings are fleeting."

A very beautiful book version can be downloaded (or read online) from Red Hen Publications (the last of the fics there).

Summery Executions 11.

 
Vernon Dursley Kills Harry, But Harry Doesn't Die. Instead He Wakes To Find Dumbledore And Snape Hovering Over Him, And He Is Pissed. The Story Of His Quest To Rid The World Of Dumbledore.

It was probably a bad idea to get pregnant by Draco Malfoy. But what's done is done, and she is sure they can both be adults about it. Not like this is some melodramatic romance novel, or anything. M/F, Preg

But first, Happy Birthday, anthimaeria!

I have just found stoney321's review of the entire 4-book Twilight series in 4 posts, ala DeathToCapsLock, and enjoyed it despite not reading the books. I was very disturbed by the birth scene and especially by the werewolf imprinting on Angela's newborn girl. I read many critical essays about HP, but that "imprinting" (meaning she'll be his future wife, when she graduates high school, just like children being promised in the previous centuries & even today in some countries) is so creepy that you can't even criticize it.  

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[	music	|	Everybody Chooses for Himself.	]

I was reminded of a wonderful song a couple of days ago and after searching the Internet even found its' English translation. Enjoy!

Everybody Chooses for Himself.

Everybody chooses for himself
His religion, loyalties and women.
Service to a prophet, or a demon,
Everybody chooses for himself.

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\\Part 1 is here.\\

Seeing both of them at the parlor's door, Narcissa stopped smiling and quickly rose from the table. The guest rose too. He was a thin, tall old man with a very arrogant face.

Lucius was lost. If he really was a lover, it had to be acknowledged that Narcissa had quite peculiar taste in men.

Anyway, the guests had to be introduced.

Author: valley
Translator: elanor_x

Beta: anthimaeria</a></span>
Summery: Lucius, Narcissa, Snape. New Year's Eve at Malfoy Manor.  A situation comedy.</span>

Link to the original fic in Russian: http://www.snapetales.com/index.php?fic_id=1733

On New Year's Eve.

 "Sev! Quick, think of something! I've already told him that I'm a widow!"

 "Did you write that explicitly?"

 "Sure.  Wrote that I'm a widow, my husband perished, and my son and I practically starve… And suddenly such unpleasantness! Who knew he'd be freed on New Year Eve?"

 "Hmm…  Nobody knew, of course," the Professor answered meditatively. "Does Draco know about it? Is he ready to represent a poor orphan?"

The rules of the game are simple – everybody can add his/her ideas in the comments, both about the already mentioned characters and the new ones.

emerald's lj (Russian) . If you remember, I have translated Part1 and Part2. This is the final part, which I decided to translate, since some people loved the game and were sorry they couldn't read everything in emerald's post. Enjoy!

Barty Crouch Jr. For a while had 2 ljs – one open with tl;dr-s and abstract musings on Japanese poetry, and another locked with angsting about his miserable life and the cold distant father. Created a special group for Bella, where in one half of the posts he declares his love, and in another half – is jealous of her. After getting a virtual slap from Bella, begins suffering again. When his second lj was found and hacked, Barty was forbidden to use computer, but Voldemort gave him access to it again and Barty started writing in his old lj, private posts only. At the same time, with Voldemort's and Pettigrew's help he hacked Mad-Eye's lj and writes there under Moody's username. After each posts goes to his lj and complains there, hoping one day to open those posts at least for Bella.

Umbridge. Soft pink design. Writes about something elating, like kittens or classical music. In userinfo – a long list of what must not be done in her lj under the threat of immediate ban. Used to moderate the community "Hogwarts", but through joint efforts was driven away since she banned all otherwise-minded. 

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I have been in HP fandom for more than 5 years and while most people are native speakers, I've seen many others like me, for whom English is a foreign language. I've come into English lj completely by accident and started wondering lately how other people have got there. So I wrote this language meme. 

If you do the meme, please, give me a link.

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Chapter 16: Godric's Hollow.

* After Apparating to a different place, Hermione broke down sobbing, so Harry had to cast the protecting spells himself for the first time. I was surprised he could do it. The kids don't seem to study such things at school & Hermione supposedly cast them nonverbally. May be I had too low opinion of Harry's competence.

* The next few days Hermione keeps silently crying at nights (interesting how significantly less she'd suffer if not for being in love with Ron), while Harry's reaction is of hurt and anger. He keeps dwelling on Ron's sharp rebuke ("we thought you had a real plan!") and is sometimes unsure whether he is angrier with Ron or with D.

Hee, it returns me to the old game of anger pinball in OoTF & the fans being confused whom Harry hated more in the end. Apparently Harry is still confused too. Has he sorted it out by the epilogue or has the mystery stayed intact? I know he's forgiven Snape & D by then, but I can't imagine Auror!Harry without any new enemies to hate.

* The hell has frozen over – Harry's new hobby is looking at Ginny's name on the Marauder's Map at night. H\D fans can only sign wistfully, remembering the good old days of HBP when Harry looked at Draco day & night, while H\G shippers die of squee.

* Sorry, imo they can't quite die yet. Harry originally brought out the Map to search for Ron's dot in the castle. Only after several days, when Ron didn't appear, his attention switched to Ginny.

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Happy birthday, sistermagpie!



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I have recently watched a pretty interesting program "Caution: Reality" about the history of the Reality television, its' rules & influence and began thinking about the subject & what it tells about our society. If some info is wrong, feel free to correct. Israelis watch adaptations of numerous American shows, such as Survivor, The Bachelorette, Beauty and the Geek, The Biggest Loser, etc., and this post is relevant for both societies.

The first part tells a short history of reality TV, only slightly touching upon the ethical issues, which will be dealt with in the second part together with trying to understand the charm of those shows for wide audience and the lessons they teach.

Reality shows are probably as ancient as humanity itself. In the program they gave Roman gladiators as an example. The rules of the game were similar to contemporary ones: the select few rose to celebrity status and earned the admiration of rich women, while everybody else ceased to exist from the public's pov, if not literally, immediately after the game's end. 

The first modern reality show,

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[	music	|	Fleetwood Mac - Tell me lies (*1980s Hit*)	]

                      Chapter 18: The Life and Lies of Albus Dumbledore.

                                                 

In which we get a glimpse of the end of an iceberg of D’s life and lies, or should I say life of lies?

* A short reminder to the readers where we are: In the previous chapter “Bathilda’s Secret” Harry’s wand was broken in the flight by Hermione’s rebounded curse, while she was saving unconscious Harry from V’s clutches. Ron left them 2 chapters earlier.

* This chapter begins with the description of sunrise:

“The sun was coming up: The pure, colorless vastness of the sky stretched over him, indifferent to him and his suffering”.

Well, it begins with JKR’s description of sunrise,