Also, the possesive of words and names ending in 's' is an apostrophe after the 's'. So many author's don't understand that one.

 

I like it when Harry isn't a cardboard cutout. There is more to him than being the Boy Who Lived, but even in the stories where he says exactly that, he rarely steps outside that role.

Also, Harry is a smart and somewhat cynical character at times. I like stories that show off his sarcastic streak without necessarily resorting to allcaps tantrums and pettiness, and ones that remind us of the guy who was usually the first to realize something wasn't right, and solved the Sphinx's riddle without any help.

LOL

Drusilla: "I'm naming all the stars."
Spike: "You can't see the stars, luv; that's the ceiling... Also, it's day."
Drusilla: "I can see them. But I've named them all the same name, and there's terrible confusion."

 

You lack the post count to be ironic, friend.

I spent my lunch hour editing a paper one of my subordinates is writing. Between that exercise and this post, I am convinced that in contemporary American English, an apostrophe means, "Hey, pay attention: an 's' is coming."

 

Sort of reminds me of River Tam, only when she's more...lucid.

Actually, I don't think I've ever seen a story where some of the HP characters (specifically the girls) were that fucked up like Drusilla/River.

Oh, I could see potential with Tonks on that.

Edit:

Tonks suddenly giggled, the high pitch making them all wince.

"Oh, I see your face, Harry - your other face, that of the Lion and the Snake and the..." Her eyes widened, slowly shifting from their soft purple to a brilliant green that mirrored Harry's own. "Oh, and your eyes...such a startling shade of green..." She tilted her head slightly, appraising him. "So handsome..."

 

This is good. I would read this.

 

Be very difficult to pull it off in such a way as to avoid a straightforward adult!Luna in Tonks, and making it look like a cheap rehash. That said, I'd read the shit out of an all-nine-degrees-of-badass RiverTam!Luna.

Edit Oho, a bunny;

After years of hard fighting in the mirky underworld of Magical Britain, aware that the Unspeakables are subjecting her to prolonged magical experimentation, Xenophilius Lovegood finally succeeds in breaking out his wife Miranda from the Department of Mysteries. A desperate and injured couple on the run, Xenophilius has no other option than to hide his fugitive wife at Hogwarts under the guise of quitky, quiet 'Luna', the daughter they've always dreamed of. While Xeno's on the run, or 'hunting for Snorkacks', desperately trying to find a cure for his wife in the world's most tempestuous magical locations with the Department of Mysteries' special forces on his tail every step of the way, 'Loony' Lovegood begins to come into an awareness of her surroundings, the magical indoctrination she suffered at the hands of the Unspeakables peering through at the cracks, and though her father knew she'd at least be slightly safer hidden at Hogwarts School, assuming she'd keep her head down, he'd discounted the fact that she was... really quite the extraordinary witch.

I've put it in the plot bunny thread. Someone please write this.

 

http://www.reddit.com/comments/65hz7/the_apostrophe_key_does_not_mean_holy_shit_here

Goog god, three years ago.

 

By any chance, did your underlings even pass English in high-school?

 

I saw his transcripts; he was a straight-A student in high school and university. (I don't waste my time on anyone with lesser credentials). They don't teach writing anymore, apparently--not with any rigor.

I know it's fashionable to bash Strunk and White nowadays, and post-modern sentence syntax tends to be much more cumulative and modifier-ridden than the classic reference deems proper, but this is literally the first thing the authors address in their The Elements of Style. I can't help but think that folks would be better off taking this simple grammatical lesson to heart.