Hi

.  I'm glad you like my HP fanfic stories!  If you'd like to read one of my original non-HP stories, I have one posted to this site as well: my literary agent is at the moment attempting to get a publisher interested in it, so it may not be  up for much longer.  It's here, if you'd like to read it: http://www.thepetulantpoetess.com/viewstory.php?sid=11932Thanks for the reviews, I appreciate them!Alison

Thank you for that!  This seems to be one of my less-popular fanfics, perhaps because fans like to think of Harry and Ginny living happily ever after, so I'm pleased when somebody takes the time to comment!Alison

Oh, thank you for your comment!  I wrote that one  months ago, back at the beginning of the year; it's nice to know people are still reading the story.  I'm glad you liked it.Alison

Thanks for your comment.  I lot of people have read this story since it was posted, but not many have given me feedback so this is appreciated.  I was beginning to think nobody liked it!Alison

Thanks for that; interestingly, this story has only generated two responses so far, as opposed to quite a few with my other stories.  It seems the 'ship is not a popular one, and I admit it was one I've never thought plausible before, but it's one of those stories that just sort of jumped up and forced me to write it!I tried to convey that Ginny was acting under an enchantment, a sort of very subtle Imperius curse, and when Voldemort said "You will keep my soul safe" he meant that she had become a living Horcrux, one whom Harry could never bring himself to kill.Alison   

Thanks for that comment!  I suppose the story (like most of mine now, unfortunately) is hopelessly AU, but I am still proud of it.  Alison

There is nothing, NOTHING wrong with AU stories. I think some of them are better than canon. Cough cough DH blows cough cough!

Hee, I've gotta agree with you there!  BTW, I was reading an interview with JKR where she said that Professor Snape would get his portrait in the Headmaster's Office on Harry's insistence.  So I decided, since she's no longer in the biz of writing HP, to do a fanfic detailing that particular bit of the story.  It's been posted below:http://hp.adultfanfiction.net/story.php?no=600011745I also hope it'll come out here on Petulant once they've decided I've dotted all the "t"s and crossed all the "i"s!If you wanted to take a look at it,(it's only short) I luuuurve reviews!Bests,Alison 

Thanks for that!  I agree with you, we tend to see him only through Harry's filter, don't we?  I wouldn't think he'd get so many followers unless he was a master at manipulating people.  We saw some rather clumsy examples of that in DH; either he saw no need to still do it, or else JKR just can't write seduction and sexuality (my personal belief).I finally have an lj, but there's nothing there just yet!  I've been too busy (work, family, studies, writing, both for profit and fanfic) to put anything into it!  Hopefully I'll get to it eventually!Alison