"Before leaving for school, my mother warned me about wandering off alone with strange, temporally entangled boys, Mr. Potter," she said, mock-seriousness in her voice, "Said I'd come back magically attuned to snakes. At least, I think she might have said that. I wasn't really paying attention."
Harry Potter and the Witch Queen has a fairly standard time-travel-from-a-dark-future start, but takes an abrupt turn for the awesome in Ch6, the above quote being from near the end of that, just after forming a familiar bond with a large, magical, black and silver adder, one which might have been rather more familiar to mulligan-Harry if they'd discovered all of Voldmerde's horcruxes in his first trip through.
I think it was already linked in the New Fic Recs thread at least, but here's another:
http://m.fanfiction.net/s/8823447
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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
Harry Potter and the Witch Queen has a fairly standard time-travel-from-a-dark-future start, but takes an abrupt turn for the awesome in Ch6, the above quote being from near the end of that, just after forming a familiar bond with a large, magical, black and silver adder, one which might have been rather more familiar to mulligan-Harry if they'd discovered all of Voldmerde's horcruxes in his first trip through.
I think it was already linked in the New Fic Recs thread at least, but here's another:
http://m.fanfiction.net/s/8823447
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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