A Beach in Ireland
Bambu53 Reviews | 53 Ratings, 0 Likes, 137 Favorites )
Eight years post-Voldemort, Hermione decides to celebrate her birthday quietly at home, but serendipity takes a hand.
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Bambu
Member Since 2005 | 27 Stories | Favorited by 542 | 117 Reviews Written | 1,029 Review Responses
I have loved the written word since watching my mother’s fingers trace the lines of a book, luxuriating in riveting tales and well-turned phrases. Many a night I read until dawn, a plastic flashlight hidden under the covers to light the pages as I raced the rising sun to finish my latest must-read.
Since joining the HP fandom, I've been privileged to receive more than 50 awards, including Best Author (Quill to Parchment Awards) and Best Classic Author (Most Potente Passions). Among others, my stories have won awards for Best Hurt/Comfort (Spoils of War, Morning Has Broken), Best Novel Length (Calling Card, Guard…Check…Mate), Best One Shot (A Beach in Ireland), Best WIP (Saving a Death Eater, The Summoning), Favorite Overall Story (Complexities), and Readers’ Choice (A Quest of Paladins).
Aside from a judicious polish for formatting and egregious typos, I don't plan on revising my early work. Those stories are the stepping stones of my writing journey. Please note some stories contain adult content. None is more graphic than equivalent scenes in the television shows True Blood or Game of Thrones, and age appropriate warnings are posted.
I no longer write fanfiction prolifically. Like many fanfic authors, my focus has shifted to original work. A member of the Romance Writers of America and the Southern California Writers Association, I write under my name: Lin Thornhill.
My original story Verisimilitude published in Thoroughly Modern Monsters (Story Spring Publishing, 2013) reached the top 100 fantasy anthologies and broke into the top 10 in the UK the first month of release. Ben and Christine’s story will continue in 2016.
Fixation, my latest short story, slated for publication in J. Aldis’ anthology Immanence, with a winter 2015-2016 release, is particularly exciting as it anchors the Messengers of Inari novel series I’ve been developing for the past year.
9/2015
Reviews for A Beach in Ireland
Another well crafted delight!
Bravo
Beautifully written, thank you! It was very sensual.
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very well written
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What a lovely thing to say. Thanks.
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What a lovely thing to say. Thanks.
lovely, completely romantic
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Absolutely perfect! Thank you.
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Beautiful. Classy. Erotic... A great testiment to your literary skill. I could read this story again and again and I have. O, to be Hermione on her birthday, in Ireland, with Him... Sweet dreams are made of these. I'd like to say more but I can't. It's so perfect there is nothing else to say. Well done, Dearest and Finest of authors.
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What a spectacular review -- thank you very much. I'm rather giddily basking in its light.
If that wasn't a wondeful birthday! So many good ideas about post -war -magic -world and revolution. and much much more...very good story!working your way from neutral to meeting to intimacy without seeming cheap or sentimental or anything. good! wonderful lemon-squeezing business. yummie!! the girl is definitely no chicken.thank you for sharing!
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My apologies for replying so late to your generous and wonderful review. Life's been rather hectic this last year.
What a lovely story! Thanks for sharing your creativity.
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You're very kind to have left a review, and thank you so much for enjoying the story.
Excellent, I really enjoyed the last third of the story the most LOL. Every Severus fans fondest Birthday wish realised :)
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Sorry for the very belated reply, but thanks nevertheless. I'm delighted you enjoyed the rather lemony dessert!
I am certain I am not the first person to beg you for more of this incarnation of Severus Snape and Hermione Granger. The anticipation, after enjoying some of your other skilled offerings, caused me to wait for two days before I was able to get past the visit on the couch. I kept getting interrupted by annoying people at my home and wanted to read what I knew would be coming without interruption. I wasn't disappointed. (No pun intended, actually.) The maturity of these characters was compelling. You are also an exquisite story teller and As I read I frequently wonder at your skill in conveying little gestures and other small details that make the events so vivid and plausible. And let's face it, you write incredible erotica because of your ability to put your reader in the room and into the characters minds and bodies. Well done!
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What a spectacular compliment -- and I'm a little embarrassed to be responding so late to it; I've been working backwards on my unanswered reviews, but my thanks is no less heartfelt for the delay.When I first began to write prose fiction, I had a tendency toward hyperbolic description. With practice I've managed to tone it down until I think there's a nice balance between action and exposition. I want readers to be able to insert themselves into the story, so that it becomes a visceral experience rather than merely a visual one. You've let me think I'm managing to do that! Thank you again.
Dear Author,Could you give me the precise address of that beach in Ireland please? I'm turning 30 in january, and I KNOW exactly what I want as a gift, better that the original Ploynesia trip I'd thought.Thank you so much for your help.Snitchette
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Many happy, belated, birthday wishes for you. I'm afraid, I don't know the address of that beach in Ireland. Having said that, however, I'm afraid if I knew that address I would keep the secret very safe ... and wholly for myself. Selfish, I know. Thank you for your very kind review.
That was beautiful and brilliant! Their words, tentative, chosen so carefully, read like the reunion of two souls who were meant to have been together. After Severus had declined her invitation to dinner, I thought "Oh, no! Don't let him get away." Yay! for birthdays. And I don't think it hurt that he figured out her bedroom was the "Restricted Section."In spite of popping logs on the fire and some residual shyness, they figured out how to say what they wanted to say and the rewards were out of this world.
Your story was such a happy read, and I thank you for sharing it with us. I'm so glad Harry couldn't make it. 
Beth
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I'm so pleased you liked it, and that you were caught up in the emotion of the story. Thank you very much.
more people added this to thier favs than reviewed..wtf. great story. for a one chap story, ss and hg had good character depth and i really felt their connection. thank you for writing and sharing.
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That anyone likes it enough to favorite it marvelous, and I appreciate your kindness in being irked by that fact. I'm also basking a bit in the glow of your compliment. Thank you on both counts.
that was delicious. thanks and smoochies
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You're most welcome, and thank you, too!
This was absolutely beautiful. Not only does it form a very plausable work around the EWE situation, but it addresses one fo the most irksome questions I have about muggle borns - just how do they get into Diagon Alley?The story was beautiful and breathtaking. Well Done!
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What a gorgeous compliment. Thank you very, very much.
What an extraordinarly good idea Hermione had, if they had any intelligence the school would have had a good curriculum for defense! A striking idea and one I have not encountered before in fan fiction.
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Thank you very much. I was quite incensed with Dumbledore at various points post-book 2, and frankly, I understood Lucius Malfoy's wanting Draco to have a better education. Hagrid, for all that he was gentle and kind, was thoughtless and not a terribly good teacher. It perturbed me that Dumbledore short-changed his students in such an unstable time.
best birthday present ever!
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I think I quite agree. Thanks.
First, I love Ireland. Second, I love Snape. Three, I love that Hermione got chocolate and Snape for her birthday. What a way to celeabrate. Great story.
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I'm very happy to offered things you love! Thank you for enjoying it and telling me so.
Ooooooooooooooooooooooooo, Wow that was sooooooooooo HOT!!! I really love it!! Fantastic, and I'm so glad he is staying!!! Whoohooooooo!!!!
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::offers you a fan::Thank you.
Now, that is the way it is supposed to be.
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I couldn't agree more. Thank you,
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That was absolutely beautiful. I'm still slightly jealous of Hermione, though. ;)
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I'm very jealous of Hermione! Thanks!
Do you know what touched me the most in this encounter?Their freedom of choice. In your story, both of them are free from all and any obstacles that could prevent a blind leap into a relaxed relationship with no and all strings attached. I loved it. They have their own lives, but in this story, they could merge them absolutely freely.
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I was so struck by your comment I had to call one of my betas and read it to them. Thank you. I strongly believe in the freedom of choice (about everything, actually) and it's so nice to see that you found it carried over into my story.
I loved this - there's such a beautiful mood suspended throughout the whole story - from the setting itself to Hermione's life in her cottage alone to meeting Severus on the beach to the food itself. I love post-war Snapes at peace with themselves, and Snapes that wear Muggle clothes and cut their hair. Hermione's impulsiveness and her observations of this Severus were wonderful to read, and you wrote the tension between them really beautifully.
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I am so pleased you thought I captured the mood and kept it throughout the story, and that it enhanced the scenes between the two. Thank you!