Roxie Snape writes mainly slash, but her Shake Me is a reasonably good het HP AU - Harry ran away from the Dursleys at five, and stayed hidden until he was fifteen. He's had a mentor/tutor in that time, made freinds of some powerful magical creatures, and has something of a bad attitude, but the only "Harry Sue" aspect he really has is drawing girls like bees on honey. The grammar is a little wonky here and there, an' some'a the characters use slang ya'd never 'spect, but over all it's amusing, and satisfyingly long if kind of abrupt in how it ends. There's also a 900-something word coda that completely failed to get her muse going on a promised sequel.
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ETA: Though he has four other long-to-very-long stories I haven't read yet, Old Crow's No Thanks is good enough that I reccomend all of them, without major reservation. No Thanks does have strong HP/HG and no-conscience-manipulator-Bumbledore themes, but with those premises accepted, is easily one of those fanfics that makes HBP look like a steaming load.
Actually, it's kind of like The Muggle Way only not a crossover, and complete - itself always a point in a story's favor.That which does not kill us... has made its last mistake.
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
" It's crazy to try to spell out all the mega-nooks and hyper-crannies of a Borg contrivance." - Doug Drexler
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
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ETA: Though he has four other long-to-very-long stories I haven't read yet, Old Crow's No Thanks is good enough that I reccomend all of them, without major reservation. No Thanks does have strong HP/HG and no-conscience-manipulator-Bumbledore themes, but with those premises accepted, is easily one of those fanfics that makes HBP look like a steaming load.
Actually, it's kind of like The Muggle Way only not a crossover, and complete - itself always a point in a story's favor.That which does not kill us... has made its last mistake.
SERVO: Loook *deeeeply* into my eyes... Tell me, what do you see?
CROW: (hypnotized) A twisted man who wants to inflict his pain upon others.
" It's crazy to try to spell out all the mega-nooks and hyper-crannies of a Borg contrivance." - Doug Drexler
--
"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows