Crazy plot bunny. Complex but it could be fun. I am sure it's been done. But.. here it is.

So the first HP book comes out in June of 1997, about a year before the end of the war in canon. The Battle of Hogwarts is on May 2, 1998. So wouldn't it be interesting if the books we all know as fiction were really some expose of the Wizarding World? So now the world knows about the existence of witches and wizards but thinks them to be fiction. So, they could be hiding in plain sight really.

How did JKR find out about/write about the Wizarding world then? She is a muggle right? Maybe she was fed all the information as part of the machinations of Albus Dumbledore. Maybe she was fed all the information by a certain spy in order to provide him an out for after the war. Maybe Severus Snape is sitting pretty off of royalties JKR's sent his way after he hooked her up with the story of a lifetime. She "created" such a vivid world, such a believable world, right?

So, it's now been more than a decade since the end of the war and the Wizarding world is starting to get smarter. They've been picking up on the fact that Muggles apparently know a lot about their world for some reason. But they don't believe it's real. So Hermione is given the assignment of figuring out why Muggles know all that they do.. and why. Her path should lead her to Severus eventually and the shocking realization that a few people have exposed the Wizarding World and gotten away with it.

So that's it. I was stewing this over in my shower this evening, it could be fun to write. Thinking about it.

I'm stuck. Rather, they are stuck. I can't get them to do anything I want them to. Rethinking things. I don't know how to get the plot to move along like I want it to. How to explain things so it doesn't just STALL out. So.. waiting to get a beta until I figure out if I can write more than 1000 words of a story.

I should just stick to drabbles and not try anything more complex.

I'm definitely making progress. Slowly but surely, I will have a story to publish. Today I only got about a paragraph accomplished, as I said, slowly but surely. Though I am not sure how to go about getting a beta. I've been reading and enjoying fanfiction for a long time scattered across a variety of fandoms but I haven't ever written anything. So testing the waters is both exciting and a bit overdue, I'd say.

So. My husband wants to move into NYC. I do too, but the thought of getting all our stuff and putting most of it into storage and moving across the river in a month or so, well that's a bit scary! But it'll be great, if we can pull it off. We have the rest of our lives to live in suburbia, while Mia is still a baby we can live the life in Manhattan.

Mia cut two more teeth today, she now has five. Five teeth. Oy, let's hope she doesn't forget the no biting rule we've been working on.

Sooooo.. Thanks to lulabelle72 giving me a bit of a push, I've been working on making more out of the drabble I posted last month. I haven't had much time to work on it but since I am nearly giddy after seeing HBP I want to go ahead and post it. I'd like to think I could make it an epic SS/HG story but I guess I doubt my skills. Once I get too far into a story the plot always seems to run away on me. But anyways, this is what I've written. And look, I've learned how to do an LJ cut. WOW, impressive I know, right!?

( at least I think this is how you do a lj-cut )

Let me know what you think, please. :-)

*dances* I wrote a drabble, exactly 100 words. As the baby falls asleep, I sit with her for at least 10 minutes before putting her down. This time is good for thinking of bits of dialogue and scenes to write. This evening I rushed out with this in my head and was able to get it down before it flew away.

And this time, I am not so afraid to post it. :)

HG/SS they are not mine but if I ever found Severus I'd keep him for my very own.

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He shocked her, as she turned to go, by pulling her back toward him so she was flush against him. He pinned her arm neatly behind her back.

“Witch, I don’t think you know who you are dealing with.”

“Oh, but I do,” she breathed with a hint of wonder in her voice, “Severus...”

His eyes widened slightly, surprised that she had seen through his glamours and all the care he’d taken to change his appearance the past ten years.

Not wanting the moment to end, she tipped her head up and kissed him, savoring the taste of his surprise.

Ack, I usually stick pretty solidly to HG/SS stories, maaaybe the occasional SS/OFC. But suddenly there is another fandom and ship I have become quite fond of: Sheldon/Penny from The Big Bang Theory. I love them. But when I read S/P fanfic I feel like I am cheating on Severus. LOL.

I like this fic - No Thanks to Waffles and Cast Iron by Fujidom. (I don't know how to do those cool LJ links that show the LJ thing.. I sort of fail at LJ sorry. )

And I've just been informed that there's a whole community of S/P shippers that I need to now scour. sheldon_penny. I need to figure out how LJ works, I feel dumb.

I need to go to bed. Babehbell actually slept through the night last night (5 hours, not like a full night's sleep or anything) but tonight could be totally different. In other good news, my husband is flying home on the red eye tonight so I'll have some help with my wild child of a baby for the weekend! YAY!

Ok.. I am about to chicken out and not post this. But I am going to. I wrote a something and I am going to post it. No one reads this anyways. Just post it. OK I am posting it. I did a free write today while Mia was napping and I wrote enough of something and it has a beginning and and ending unlike most things I ever think to write so here it is...


HG/SS Very short story.
They don't belong to me.
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He was staring right at her, from his seat at the front of the Great Hall. His dark eyes seeming to see right into her soul. While they usually held little warmth, she could feel them burning into her from across the large room. Her stomach did a funny little flip-flop and she stared back, entranced. Her Gryffindor bravery failed her and she did the first thing that came to mind, she fled.

She did not know where her feet took her, so overwhelmed was she with the feelings his gaze had brought about in her. She ran up stairs and down hallways she was not familiar with, finally finding herself in front of the entrance to the Library, unsure exactly how she had gotten there. It was not terribly surprising, she had spent so much time here both recently and as a student, cramming knowledge into her head. Leaning against the stone wall, she tried to still her breath that was coming in short gasps. What had that been about? There was only one emotion his burning look held and she could not deny it: desire. She had seen it in his eyes and her own traitorous thoughts of the past few weeks of working with him could no longer be denied. She desired Severus Snape. How absurd, she nervously chuckled.

She needed to collect her thoughts, she decided, so she entered the hallowed, silent halls of the library knowing it would ground her flying emotions. She walked to the back of the room, past shelves full of tomes she had lovingly poured over and found her favorite table at the back of the room close to the Restricted Section. Settling into a chair, she let her head fall back to stare at the ceiling. She had been sitting for just a few moments when she heard the door open and softly click closed. Her breath caught. Who was there? Was it Madame Pince rushing to shoo her from her cocoon of solitude? She heard no footsteps approaching but she knew she had heard someone open and close the door. Rooted to the spot, she stared at the place where she anticipated someone eventually making an appearance.

"Miss Granger" came the silky voice from beside her, close by. She jumped from her seat, flipping around to come face to face with the man who had caused her to flee the great hall. He was standing beside her imperiously, that strange light still lighting his eyes.

"Professor," She frantically searched for something to say to dispel the tension surrounding them. Why could she not catch her breath? "Did you come to discuss our research? I have made some progress today and..."

He drew himself even closer to her, his gaze traveling down her face to focus on her mouth. Interrupting her, he shushed her errant talking with his finger. "Hermione, shut up." Replacing his finger with his mouth, he captured her lips with his own and drew her into his arms. This was the only sort of research he was interested in at the moment.

Oooh the big reveal has been posted to the HG/SS Exchange. Yes! And am I predictable or what? Some of my favorite stories are indeed by some of my favorite authors who have written some of my favorite fics. Off to read more now! I was in California for two weeks and felt a bit awkward reading smutty fanfiction on a computer where my little nephews could find the links in the history. LOL.

Chapter 18 of Phoenix Song or Hermione Granger and the HBP is up at Fanfiction.net. I really like this story. I can't wait to see where grangerous is taking it, as it's following canon pretty closely. I think my faovrite stories are the ones that are a behind the scenes look at what could have been happening that we don't se in the canon stories. Like Second Life. OMG Second Life is my favorite.