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Sympathetic Magic can also be found on fanfiction.net (although not all the chapters are up yet) here: www.fanfiction.net/~ls269

Here is the order of chapters:

All Is Full of Love ls269.deviantart.com/art/All-i…
The Best of Both Worlds ls269.deviantart.com/art/The-B…
The Vinculus Charm ls269.deviantart.com/art/The-V…
The Hypocritic Oath ls269.deviantart.com/art/The-H…
The Last Night ls269.deviantart.com/art/The-L…
Vengeance ls269.deviantart.com/art/Venge…
Meg and Guillotine ls269.deviantart.com/art/Meg-a…
The Slytherin Common Room ls269.deviantart.com/art/The-S…
Hemlock and Vanilla ls269.deviantart.com/art/Hemlo…
Knockturn Alley ls269.deviantart.com/art/Knock…
Desconfianza ls269.deviantart.com/art/Desco…
Flesh Wounds + Flesh Memories ls269.deviantart.com/art/Flesh…
Blue Satin ls269.deviantart.com/art/Blue-…
Spilt Milk, Part One ls269.deviantart.com/art/Spilt…
Spilt Milk, Part Two ls269.deviantart.com/art/Spilt…
Spilt Milk, Part Three ls269.deviantart.com/art/Spilt…
Spilt Milk, Part Four ls269.deviantart.com/art/Spilt…
Spilt Milk, Part Five ls269.deviantart.com/art/Spilt…
Spilt Milk, Part Six ls269.deviantart.com/art/Spilt…
Spilt Milk, Part Seven ls269.deviantart.com/art/Spilt…
A Single Candle ls269.deviantart.com/art/A-Sin…
Rosura ls269.deviantart.com/art/Rosur…
Rosura, Part Two ls269.deviantart.com/art/Rosur…
Rosura, Part Three ls269.deviantart.com/art/Rosur…
Rosura, Part Four ls269.deviantart.com/art/Rosur…
Rosura, Part Five ls269.deviantart.com/art/Rosur…
Rosura, Part Six ls269.deviantart.com/art/Rosur…
Rosura, Part Seven ls269.deviantart.com/art/Rosur…
Where the Action Is ls269.deviantart.com/art/Where…
Rosura, Part Eight ls269.deviantart.com/art/Rosur…
Splintered ls269.deviantart.com/art/Splin…
Torn ls269.deviantart.com/art/Torn-…
The Green-Eyed Monster ls269.deviantart.com/art/The-G…
The Corona ls269.deviantart.com/art/The-C…
Professor Caladrius ls269.deviantart.com/art/Profe…
Divination ls269.deviantart.com/art/Divin…
The Plan ls269.deviantart.com/art/The-P…
Furious Calm ls269.deviantart.com/art/Furio…
Full Fathom Five ls269.deviantart.com/art/Full-…
The Descent, Part One ls269.deviantart.com/art/The-D…
The Descent, Part Two ls269.deviantart.com/art/The-D…
A Taste of Things to Come ls269.deviantart.com/art/A-Tas…
A Taste of Thing to Come II ls269.deviantart.com/art/A-Tas…
Curly Hair, Feathers and Flame ls269.deviantart.com/art/Curly…
The Porcelain Bitch ls269.deviantart.com/art/The-P…
A Little Corner of Paradise ls269.deviantart.com/art/A-Lit…
A Means to Nothing ls269.deviantart.com/art/A-Mea…
A Beautiful Accident ls269.deviantart.com/art/A-Bea…
Less Broken ls269.deviantart.com/art/Less-…
Two Romantic Reunions ls269.deviantart.com/art/Two-R…
Constructive Agony ls269.deviantart.com/art/Const…
White in the Moon ls269.deviantart.com/art/White…
Lily and the Unicorn, Part One ls269.deviantart.com/art/Lily-…
Lily and the Unicorn, Part Two ls269.deviantart.com/art/Lily-…
Lily and the Unicorn, Part 3 ls269.deviantart.com/art/Lily-…
Monochrome ls269.deviantart.com/art/Monoc…
Foe Fire ls269.deviantart.com/art/Foe-F…
Jaded ls269.deviantart.com/art/Jaded…
Possession ls269.deviantart.com/art/Posse…
A Wife, a Mother, and a Corpse ls269.deviantart.com/art/A-Wif…
Damage Limitation ls269.deviantart.com/art/Damag…
The Viceberg ls269.deviantart.com/art/The-V…
The Cavalry ls269.deviantart.com/art/The-C…
Otherworldly ls269.deviantart.com/art/Other…
The Thaw ls269.deviantart.com/art/The-T…
The Angel in the Ice ls269.deviantart.com/art/The-A…
The Loose End ls269.deviantart.com/art/The-L…
Spinning Plates ls269.deviantart.com/art/Spinn…
Spinning Plates, Part Two ls269.deviantart.com/art/Spinn…
The Fall ls269.deviantart.com/art/The-F…
The Rise ls269.deviantart.com/art/The-R…
Sympathetic Magic ls269.deviantart.com/art/Sympa…
Once Upon a Time ls269.deviantart.com/art/Once-…
The Soulless Redhead ls269.deviantart.com/art/The-S…
Happily Ever After ls269.deviantart.com/art/Happi…
Sanctuary ls269.deviantart.com/art/Sanct…
Never, Never, Never Land ls269.deviantart.com/art/Never…
Day and Night ls269.deviantart.com/art/Day-a…
Smoke ls269.deviantart.com/art/Smoke…
Shades of Red ls269.deviantart.com/art/Shade…
The Man who Lived ls269.deviantart.com/art/The-M…
Rosemary ls269.deviantart.com/art/Rosem…
Pandora's Box ls269.deviantart.com/art/Pando…
The Witch and the Wardrobe ls269.deviantart.com/art/The-W…
Smouldering ls269.deviantart.com/art/Smoul…
Miss Morgan ls269.deviantart.com/art/Miss-…
Notes on the Bad Guy ls269.deviantart.com/art/Notes…
The Nightmare Guide ls269.deviantart.com/art/The-N…
Creepers ls269.deviantart.com/art/Creep…
Another Argument ls269.deviantart.com/art/Anoth…
Darkling ls269.deviantart.com/art/Darkl…
The Cavalry Again ls269.deviantart.com/art/The-C…
Medicine ls269.deviantart.com/art/Medic…
The Silver Lining ls269.deviantart.com/art/The-S…
Dittany ls269.deviantart.com/art/Ditta…
The Furies ls269.deviantart.com/art/The-F…
Danae ls269.deviantart.com/art/Danae…
Memento Morry ls269.deviantart.com/art/Memen…
Accio Heart ls269.deviantart.com/art/Accio…
At Death's Door ls269.deviantart.com/art/At-De…
Bleeding the Witch ls269.deviantart.com/art/Bleed…
Paint it Black ls269.deviantart.com/art/Paint…
The Pure-blood Prince ls269.deviantart.com/art/The-P…
The Garden of Eden ls269.deviantart.com/art/The-G…
Two More Romantic Reunions ls269.deviantart.com/art/Two-M…
Like Waking ls269.deviantart.com/art/Like-…
On the Sidelines ls269.deviantart.com/art/On-th…
Resurgam ls269.deviantart.com/art/Resur…
The Ghost of Christmas Past ls269.deviantart.com/art/The-G…
The Black Widows ls269.deviantart.com/art/The-B…
The Liberus Charm ls269.deviantart.com/art/The-L…
Cupboard Love ls269.deviantart.com/art/Cupbo…
Tabula ls269.deviantart.com/art/Tabul…
Mrs. Malfoy ls269.deviantart.com/art/Mrs-M…
The Coast Road ls269.deviantart.com/art/The-C…
The 'No Contest' Contest ls269.deviantart.com/art/The-N…
Impressions ls269.deviantart.com/art/Impre…
Tea and Sympathy ls269.deviantart.com/art/Tea-a…
The Red Queen ls269.deviantart.com/art/The-R…
Worlds Away ls269.deviantart.com/art/World…
A Travelling Doctor ls269.deviantart.com/art/A-Tra…
Down Among the Dead Things ls269.deviantart.com/art/Down-…
Death and the Maiden ls269.deviantart.com/art/Death…
A Conspiracy of Idiots ls269.deviantart.com/art/A-Con…
Narratively Speaking ls269.deviantart.com/art/Narra…
Angels with Runny Noses ls269.deviantart.com/art/Angel…
Accidental Grace ls269.deviantart.com/art/Accid…
Before the Plunge ls269.deviantart.com/art/Befor…
Supper-time ls269.deviantart.com/art/Suppe…

One-shot fics:

Always Winter, Never Christmas ls269.deviantart.com/art/Alway…
Potions ls269.deviantart.com/art/Potio…
The Goddess of Death ls269.deviantart.com/art/The-G…
The Goddess of Waking ls269.deviantart.com/art/The-G…
Scars ls269.deviantart.com/art/Scars…
Comfort and Joy ls269.deviantart.com/art/Comfo…
Days of Dunder ls269.deviantart.com/art/Days-…
Northern Comfort ls269.deviantart.com/art/North…
Northern Comfort, Part Two ls269.deviantart.com/art/North…
The Maltese Hippogriff ls269.deviantart.com/art/The-M…
Memos from Purgatory ls269.deviantart.com/art/Memos…
A Kind of Potion ls269.deviantart.com/art/A-Kin…
Night Ramblings ls269.deviantart.com/art/Night…
The Dark Snitch ls269.deviantart.com/art/The-D…
Yesterday's Slug Club ls269.deviantart.com/art/Yeste…

Essays:

Musings on the Muse ls269.deviantart.com/art/Musin…
Tragic Consolations ls269.deviantart.com/art/Tragi…

Spinners--End Challenge entries:

Days of Dunder ls269.deviantart.com/art/Days-…
Northern Comfort ls269.deviantart.com/art/North…
Northern Comfort, Part Two ls269.deviantart.com/art/North…
The Liberus Charm ls269.deviantart.com/art/The-L…
The Maltese Hippogriff ls269.deviantart.com/art/The-M…
A Kind of Potion ls269.deviantart.com/art/A-Kin…

Writing fan-fiction is a bit like falling in love with somebody else's husband. You have no rights – your every moment of joy is stolen – and everybody assumes as a matter of course that you're a selfish, maladjusted bitch.

The problem is, I'm in love with the wife too. I adore J.K. Rowling's writing, but I'm so scared – stupidly, stupidly scared – that, when she releases all this new material on the Harry Potter universe, everything I've been writing for the past three-and-a-half years will be rendered obsolete. Or worse, irrelevant.

And it wasn't just a hobby. It wasn't just a laugh. I poured my soul into that three-and-a-half years. I took a job that depressed me fifty-nine per cent of the time, just so that I could have a flexible schedule to allow for creative writing. (Don't mistake me; a job that depresses me fifty-nine per cent of the time is the best depression to non-depression ratio I've ever found in a job. The point is, I was supposed to keep looking. But I didn't want to keep looking. I just wanted to write stories.)

You should never write fan-fiction. It's a wretched emotional state to live in. It's like being in a doomed relationship where you're desperately spinning stories to put off the inevitable break-up. It's like being Scheherazade – you know you're going to be executed in the morning, but you think: 'If I could just keep people interested, maybe I could put off my death for another day'.

Am being slightly melodramatic, aren't I? And selfish – god, you couldn't get more selfish than this! So many people are devoted to her writing and thrilled that she's bringing out new material – I am, for heaven's sake! When I saw her YouTube video introducing Pottermore, it brought back so many wonderful memories of reading her stories. I was so miserably conflicted that I burst into tears!

(Again, I should provide some context, gentle readers. You see, it isn't hard to make me burst into tears. Anyone who manages it should not think the worse of themselves, because they're joining a club that is as over-subscribed as the new Pottermore website).

Anyway, it's been a bad week, that's all. Will keep writing Sympathetic Magic, don't worry. But I am disillusioned with fan-fiction. I need to find my own characters and worlds and ideas. I need to find myself my own 'husband'. It's just that ideas aren't attracted to me. I put them off. Possibly by self-involved rants like this.

Anyway, going now. Sorry.

© 2011 - 2024 ls269
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Helonzyz's avatar
I just wanted to say that I discovered you fan fic the other day and I must admit to begin with I was unsure about it, no offense intended! ^^; But as I've continued to read it's really grown on me and I've found myself today reading it for the majority... Is this still an on going thing? Am I eventually going to be awaiting new chapters?

Either way I hope it continues for a while because it's really really good! :D