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[Feb. 19th, 2005|04:54 pm] |
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Just because I feel badly about being so slow to update:
Ask me anything you want: about any part of my fics, already written or not.
(No time limit. Whenever you might happen to wander over here, feel free to ask away.) |
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| A tiny little sample from Unbalanced Equations chapter eight |
[Oct. 10th, 2004|02:57 pm] |
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( very much 'spoilery' ) |
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| Icons! |
[Oct. 8th, 2004|06:43 pm] |
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Probably no one but me will ever want to use these, but I have to share them because they're so cute.
Anna and Anna/Remus icons. |
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| Room of Requirement (NC-17) |
[Oct. 4th, 2004|10:13 pm] |
Contains (in varying degrees): bestiality, bondage, breathplay, Teh Cardigan ;), chocolate, handcuffs, house-elf interruptus, howling, leather, neck-kink, Polyjuice, sexy lingerie, spanking, wandsex, and a wild stuffed boar.
( Room of Requirement (NC-17) ) |
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| Lust Letter (R) |
[Oct. 4th, 2004|10:13 pm] |
Lupin/Vector; not quite NC-17, but a hard R; Set during OoTP, when Remus is out on the road and Umbridge is making life difficult for all of the teachers.
( Lust Letter ) |
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| What makes me laugh? |
[Feb. 20th, 2004|10:45 pm] |
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Lots of things make me laugh. Sometimes, the hardest thing is not to laugh when I want to but shouldn’t. Students can come up with the funniest things when they’re confused, but it wouldn’t help if I laughed at them. I usually manage to keep it contained, but it can be very difficult at times.
The Weasley twins make me laugh. They remind me very much of Bill, who made me laugh when I was a schoolgirl. Bill, however, was a bit more restrained than Fred and George are. Neither of those two will ever be made Head Boy. (Although if they were, that would make me laugh, too.) I suppose I can afford to be amused by them, as they don’t take Arithmancy and I don’t have to deal with them in the classroom, but I think they really liven this place up. Minerva, I’m sure, would beg to differ, but I’ve seen her mouth twitch at some of their antics. For her, that is as good as outright laughter.
Remus makes me laugh; you probably wouldn’t think so unless you knew him well, but he is very funny. He has a rather odd sense of humor that I don’t always understand, but I think he’s funnier when he isn’t trying to be, anyway. (Please don’t tell him I said that. It might hurt his feelings.) Even when I don’t understand his jokes, he makes me smile because he’s trying to make me laugh. It’s hard not to love a man who wants you to laugh at him.
Severus makes me laugh, too. He’s so entrenched in his grouchiness; I can’t help but find him funny. (Seriously, don’t tell him I told you this. He is a little bit scary when he’s really grumpy, and he hates to be made fun of.) |
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| If you could have dinner with anyone in all of history, who would it be, and why? |
[Feb. 6th, 2004|05:20 pm] |
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That’s easy, although I’m sure the questioner is expecting an answer like Shakespeare or Queen Victoria or Merlin. But the one person I would most love to have dinner with is my mother. I miss her.
I have a million questions to ask her, things I didn’t think to ask when I had the chance. Did she love any man other than my father? What was she like when she was a young woman? Did she ever want to do anything with her life besides marry Dad and run the shop with him? Why did she only have one child? Did she want more children after me? What would she have named them, if she did? Would she be horribly disappointed if I don’t have any children at all? Did she know that I loved her?
I was fifteen when Death Eaters killed my mother. She was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, and it cost her her life. It cost me my mother. I will never discount the power of simple bad luck, and I know there is evil in the world.
I’d like to have one more meal with my mother, if only to tell her what I learned from her death: if you love someone, tell them. Because they might be dead tomorrow. It’s a statistical certainty. |
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| My favorite guilty indulgence. |
[Feb. 1st, 2004|10:54 pm] |
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To be perfectly honest, I spend far more money than I probably should on books. I love books.
I love the way they feel in my hands, so full of the promise of entertainment or information. There is nothing so tantalizing as the weight of an unread book, waiting to be opened and consumed and, hopefully, enjoyed.
I love the way they smell, especially old books. To my mind, the scent of an old book is the scent of history. There is nothing sweeter than the musty, dusty fragrance of a library or a secondhand bookshop.
I love the look of a well-loved book. I don’t really have the time to do it now, but when I was a child, I would read my favorites over and over again, until I could almost recite them from memory, even now. I can find those books on my shelves without even reading the titles: they are the ones where the lettering of the covers is no longer legible, and the corners have been worn to smooth curves.
“Get your nose out of that book, darling. Go out and play,” my father would say. I would go outside to please him, but I would often take my books with me. In the pages of Treasure Island, Pride and Prejudice, or He Flew Like a Madman, I was no longer myself: I became a pirate, a Muggle girl looking for a husband, or the fearless Quidditch player Dai Llewellyn. Even now, I can lose myself for a little while in the pages of a novel. That is well worth a few Galleons, if you ask me.
Muse: Professor Vector
Fandom: Harry Potter
Word count: 272 |
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| How did you lose your virginity? |
[Jan. 25th, 2004|04:18 pm] |
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Well, It was the night before I left Hogwarts. I won't mention the boy's name, because you all know him and he might not appreciate me sharing this personal moment with everyone. I do so love red hair, though.
Anyway, it was his first time, too. He was very sweet, and what could have been horrible and awkward turned out to be a nice memory...
( (NC-17)I snuck up the staircase to his dorm... )
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| Love |
[Jan. 11th, 2004|03:10 am] |
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Do I believe in love at first sight?
Honestly? I’m not sure. Lust, certainly. That’s easy. But love? That’s never easy.
I used to think it was, but that was before my heart was stomped into the ground by people I willingly gave it to. ( Read more... ) |
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| New Year's Resolutions |
[Dec. 26th, 2003|05:46 pm] |
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There’s something intimidating about a blank page in front of me, waiting for me to fill it up with promises for the New Year. I don’t usually do this, because I hate the idea of coming to the end of a year and realizing that I failed at something. So, in an effort to prove that I am at least as good at procrastination as some of my students, I looked up the word resolution in the dictionary:
1. Firm determination.
2. A course of action determined or decided on.
I think I prefer those definitions of the word much more than thinking of resolutions as promises to myself. Determination I can do.
In the upcoming year, I am determined to see that all of my students do as well as they possibly can on their O.W.L.s and N.E.W.T.s. I am determined to focus more on whatever is actually happening around me and less on the (admittedly more entertaining) goings-on in my head. I will not spend all of my time at school worrying about home, and I will not waste my time at home by worrying about anything to do with school. I will enjoy whatever time I can spend with my father, because he might not be around much longer. (I am determined to face the truth about that, no matter how much it hurts and frightens me.) I also resolve to always tell Remus how much I love him and appreciate him, mainly because it’s true, but also because he needs to hear it from someone. I am determined to do whatever I have to in order to get the Ministry of Magic to change its mind about the rights accorded to werewolves.
And I really think that’s enough for now. No need to set impossible goals for myself. This time next year, I want to look back and see that I have accomplished something. I think that shall be my New Year’s resolution. |
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| My introduction |
[Dec. 23rd, 2003|05:45 pm] |
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Sometimes, even I can do things that are not expected of me. Like right now, I'm posting my introduction after I already answered this week's question. How wild and unconventional of me. (What is it people say online? LOL? I don't really spend a lot of time with Muggle things.)
( So, how to tell about myself so that I don't bore you all to pieces? I'm just an ordinary witch. )
So there you have it. Me, Anna Vector, in a nutshell. Largeish nut, I suppose. I'll use that "lj-cut" feature to spare anyone who'd rather not bother. It's nice to meet you all. |
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| (no subject) |
[Dec. 23rd, 2003|10:19 am] |
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Predetermined role in life? That's a tough one. You see, we can figure out a lot of things from the numbers around us: who we are, what we might become, and how people and things affect each other. Numbers don't lie, but they do change. They don't always seem to make sense on the surface, but you just have to know what to look for.
That's what I do. I teach my students what to look for. I love teaching Arithmancy, and I love living at Hogwarts. The concept of fate or destiny or whatever never really entered into any practical decisions in my life, but I believe that I am who I was born to be.
We don't have control of the world we are born into, but we do have control over what we do with the gifts we are given. I wonder sometimes: what sort of person would I be if I weren’t a witch? My mother was Muggle-born, and her side of the family is very, very different from my wizarding relations. Would I be a very different person if she hadn't died so horribly? If I hadn't seen it? There are so many things that make us who we are that are out of our control that I can't help thinking that some of them, at least, are part of a larger plan. Call it destiny, if you will. I just try to find the patterns in it.
~Professor Anna Vector
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry |
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