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The Buffista Book Club: the Harry Potter iteration  

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DavidS - Aug 21, 2007 8:57:19 am PDT #2506 of 3301
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

What's everybody's fic wishlist then?

We've already seen desire for:

Neville, Ginny & Luna at Hogwarts during DH
Harry, Ron & Hermione returning for their 7th year
Dudley's daughter Petunia going to Hogwarts with Lilly

What else?


Laga - Aug 21, 2007 8:58:50 am PDT #2507 of 3301
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.

I want to read Luna's blog.


Glamcookie - Aug 21, 2007 8:59:54 am PDT #2508 of 3301
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

More on Teddy's life, the poor dear.


lisah - Aug 21, 2007 9:00:24 am PDT #2509 of 3301
Punishingly Intricate

I want to see George getting on with life without Fred.

Because I like pain, evidently.


Dana - Aug 21, 2007 9:00:59 am PDT #2510 of 3301
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Remus and Sirius, romping around in the afterlife. Or hell, any sort of fix-it fic with Remus, Sirius, and/or Tonks. Those are the deaths I think I'm least satisfied with.


Glamcookie - Aug 21, 2007 9:01:05 am PDT #2511 of 3301
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister

Kreacher's tale of what happened after Harry, Hermione, and Ron left Grimmauld Place.


Sue - Aug 21, 2007 9:01:38 am PDT #2512 of 3301
hip deep in pie

I want to see George getting on with life without Fred.

Oh yeah.

Harry and Ron's adventures as Aurors.


Trudy Booth - Aug 21, 2007 9:03:21 am PDT #2513 of 3301
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart

Fred ghosting it up at Hogwarts.

And then moving on when George dies... rules, more like guidelines really


Dana - Aug 21, 2007 9:03:29 am PDT #2514 of 3301
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Draco and Harry's first awkward meeting, post-battle.


Fred Pete - Aug 21, 2007 9:30:23 am PDT #2515 of 3301
Ann, that's a ferret.

I'm not sure how Dudley or Petunia would have reacted to any magical offspring of Dudley. I'd like to think of Dudley's acknowledgement of Harry when he left the house as the beginning of a closer relationship between the two. At least at the level of exchaning Christmas cards each year. I doubt such a Dudley would have been scared or angry with a magical child. Maybe not thrilled, but not scared.

I doubt Petunia would react well. Vernon wouldn't react any better than he reacted to Harry -- he's so obviously cast as the Muggliest of Muggles.

I suspect their 7th year was studying for leaving exams

I think I misspoke when I said, "during 7th year." I was actually talking about two different stories. "7th year" = what happened at Hogwarts while Harry, Hermione, and Ron sought horcruxes. How did everyone react to Headmaster Snape (including Snape himself)? How did they deal with the Carrows?

Then, "the year after Voldemort was defeated" would involve the rebuilding of Hogwarts and wizarding society generally. How did the building get put back together? Who ended up in Azkaban, and what kind of Azkaban existed afterward? A lot of alumni came back to take part in the fight -- what happened to them? Did they stay on to help rebuild? What happened to Draco after Harry saved his life (twice) other than fathering Scorpius and losing his hair?