I turn away reluctant from your light, And stand irresolute, a mind undone...

I was just thinking about the trio having to break into a magical bank in order to steal a magical artifact (read: Horcrux), and it occurs to me that they would have had a much easier time by asking a House-elf to pop in, get the artifact in question, and pop back out of the bank with the artifact, because house-elf magic (and non-human magic, really) is beneath the Ministry's radar. The only type of magical power ever tracked is human. (Don't remember if Harry got in trouble in CoS when Dobby the House-elf appeared and floated that cake in Privet Dr. I think the first time Harry got in trouble was in PoA, when *he* himself blew up his aunt by expaning her volume.)

Now I am wondering why the trio even had to visit the bank and have such a hard time of it, when, really, asking a house-elf nicely would have gotten them what they wanted.

An Ode to Google Translate

Thank you for existing
Thank you for being so multi-faceted
Or should I rather say, 'multi-lingual'
Well, whichever it is...
In a very confusing world
Full of miscommunication :(
You do your very best
To improve communication
As best you can
By breaking down walls
And gaps in translation
And for all that
And more :)
I want to say--
THANK YOU!

=) I have just discovered Google Translate. C:

Google ROCKS!!!!!

TITLE: A Walk in the Forest of Dean.
AUTHOR: ensnarryed
RATING: PG-13. Gen.
WARNINGS: none
PAIRING: pre-slash, as only canon can be. :P
DEDICATION: This is the first drabble set I wrote where each segment is exactly 100 words (it was a machine counting for me, but she tells me that it is so^^). So I would like to dedicate this to the person who told me that drabbles have to be tweaked until they are exactly 100 words. (And if it is you reading this dedication, know that I wrote this FOR YOU. :)
SUMMARY: Re-writing Snape's and Harry's history... one DH scene at a time... C:
DISCLAIMER: The standard one applies.
COUNT: 34 drabble segments. 100 words each. For now. XD

( A Walk in the Forest of Dean. )

Here is my result:
You are eccentric, and slightly deranged. You enjoy overdramatizing everything you say and being the constant center of attention. Friends are just people you end up having to rescue. If anybody gets too close to you emotionally, you just dump them off in some random village to fend for themselves. You are the smartest person you know, and ever will. You have no patience for stupidity or ignorance. You will marry a travel companion who will resent you, do occasional voice over work and cameos, but always be fondly remembered as being, "The Best.


You are the Fourth Doctor
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I have no idea what a Kindle(TM) is for, but I know that it can never be put to better use than to have it stuffed full of snarry fic that can be read at one's leisure! :3

Sadly, this means that I will never get around to reading Macbeth. At least, not so long as I read snarry. :P

As for what will be put into said kindle first, well...
-Everything and anything by tiranog (mmmm.... Nocturne...^^)
-"Battle for Hogwarts" by asecretchord (recent favorite!)
-Cum Aege Cingere series by schemingreader (and cruisedirector, I *think*, also)
-"Ch-ch-changes" by... snapesgirl (I *think*). Because I just love the idea of very!turned!on!Harry wanting to fcuk feminine!damsel!Snape. (:

...Sadly, I'll probably turn into one of *those* people whose work computer is full of porn. Even if, y'know, it's not *actually* porn that I'd be collecting, if judged by the severity of the kinks collected within. XD

If you love hp/ss, go read "Battle for Hogwarts" by asecretchord over on Dreamwidth. If you need proof of how good the story is, know that it is SO GOOD, it's been searched for over on snarryficfind.

Link to asecretchord's DW journal!

Yes! Yes! Go read right now!!!!

In Harry's 5th year [OotP], Snape never explicitly told Harry that he was not allowed to look into his Pensieve. That means that, if he never wished Harry to look, he should have told him so. Harry *is* quite dense at times, even without quite meaning to be, and would do things on the spur of the moment without thinking too much about it.

Snape is an idiot. Didn't explain a thing and then proceeded to get bent out of shape. XD

This is a warning, I am sure...


I am Red/Green
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Title: Is this to be our end?
Author: Ensnarryed
Word Count: 400.
Rating(s): PG.
Challenge: 280 – Good News.
Warning(s): (if needed) * What if IRL it really *would* be snermione and not snarry? What is it that the two of them really *have* in common? With snermione, at least two nerds are getting together. They could geek over books together, old AND new. What is snarry, when faced against the practicalities of two people who have a lot more in common?*

( Is this to be our end )

SUMMARY: Jesus and Judas. Judas is not a nice man.
COUNT: 721.
WARNINGS: Dark. Character death. Angst

( Seeing Jesus tortured was the worst moment of Judas' life... )

Title: What If?
Author:ensnarryed
Other pairings/threesome:*none*
Rating: PG, with hints.
Word Count: ~4K.
Warning(s):*none*
SPOILERS/What you are fixing:*This begins when Harry is attempting to find Voldemort, and then finds him in the Shrieking Shack boathouse.*
Summary:Harry takes back some of that recklessness that's been a part of him all this time, and would certainly have played a part when he was hunting down Horcruxes.
A/N:I wanted to write this. It occurred to me as I was watching Radcliffe and Grint in the DH2 movie (Grint is a genius! No wonder he was my first favorite back when I picked up my first HP book!^^)

( What if...? )

Title: In the Very End 1/2
Author: ensnarryed
Other pairings/threesome: HP/GW, HG/RW, AD/GG, JP2/LP2
Rating: NC-17.* hurt/comfort, romance, instances of het, time travel, bottom!Snape, mpreg (not necessarily in that order).*
Word count: ~10K per part; 20K total
Warnings: *HP/GW in the first part, instances of het, genderbending (femme!Snape!), bottom!Snape, mpreg, characterdeath (sorta O_o)*
Spoilers/Fixing: *The distinctive lack of Severus and Harry post-war, one very significant event in the life of Albus Dumbledore, as well as Voldemort’s… everything, really.*
Summary: Harry Potter has always wanted a family....
A/N: I am my own beta. (Trust me, it's fun. I get to re-read, fall in love all over again, AND add stuff on. YaY!^^)



( In the Very End [This Is Probably What Happened…] )

The epilogue...

In it, Harry fulfills James Potter's dream, Severus Snape's dream, recreates the family he himself would have had, AND has his own family.

19 years later -- is all of their happily-ever-after's.

Harry quite literally makes Snape's dream come true with the family that Snape would have had....

Why is it then, that I wish Snape were standing right behind Harry, as the Hogwarts Express pulled out of the station?

Are there any stories detailing Ariana Dumbledore's story -- for example, stories that explain just what happened between her and those three non-magical boys? (Canon does not even give the ages of those boys -- though Ariana was apparently...six?)

I just read this case of wedding planning seemingly gone wrong, on the basis of an e-mail that a (step)mother-in-law-to-be had sent her future (step)daughter-in-law.

This letter was forwarded by the daughter to all her friends(?), one of whom sent it to the newspapers.

Initially, I had thought that this letter was truly monstrous, rudely put together, and worded in such a way that it said, "Stay away from my family," in the worst way imaginable.

In other words, I had expected the letter to be a personal attack on the bride-to-be.

It wasn't. It was almost a bullet-list of things the mother-in-law noticed about her stepson's girlfriend, and sent it.

It's not full of compliments, but it is hardly awful. Mostly, it's just what the girl should pay attention to and improve.

Here is the excerpt.

from: Carolyn Bourne
to: heidi withers
subject: your lack of manners

Here are a few examples of your lack of manners:

When you are a guest in another's house, you do not declare what you will and will not eat - unless you are positively allergic to something.

You do not remark that you do not have enough food.

You do not start before everyone else.

You do not take additional helpings without being invited to by your host.

When a guest in another's house, you do not lie in bed until late morning in households that rise early - you fall in line with house norms.

You should never ever insult the family you are about to join at any time and most definitely not in public. I gather you passed this off as a joke but the reaction in the pub was one of shock, not laughter.

You regularly draw attention to yourself. Perhaps you should ask yourself why. No one gets married in a castle unless they own it. It is brash, celebrity style behaviour.

I understand your parents are unable to contribute very much towards the cost of your wedding. (There is nothing wrong with that except that convention is such that one might presume they would have saved over the years for their daughters' marriages.)

If this is the case, it would be most ladylike and gracious to lower your sights and have a modest wedding as befits both your incomes.

One could be accused of thinking that Heidi Withers must be patting herself on the back for having caught a most eligible young man. I pity Freddie.

I can see that the last sentence was out of line, and should not have gone along in the email. The rest, though, is just a list of things that the mother noticed, not intended to offend, but just something to note.

But perhaps I am missing something.

Is there anything I have missed in reading this excerpt?

Title: Cookery or, Show and Tell
Author: ensnarryed
Prompt Number: #387 - Cookery or #269 - Show and Tell, snape100 or snarry100, respectively.
Genre: Established relationship,
Rating: This is almost R. But instead it's PG-13.
Pairing(s): Hm. Hem-hem. Hem-hem-hem-hem-hem-hem. (No, not Umbridge.)
Summary: Harry is not doing anything about Snape. His wife is not amused, however.
Warnings: *HET hints, bottom!Snape, a bit of angst *
Word Count: 400. It doesn't divide into 4x100 partitions. Try it and you'll hurt yourself. (Please don't try it!!!!!!)
A/N This is getting written b/c I am not sure if the whole version of this is EVER getting written, and I would like to at least see an attempt of this being done. Sometimes I wonder if I should even be going there, however.... ;_;
Disclaimer: I do not own HP and am not making money off of any of its likenesses. -_-

( The Prequel. [Established Relationship. 400 words.] )