Home schooling fun

God help me, I just used Harry Potter to explain adultery and illegitimacy to an eight-year-old.

::shaking head at self::




Edit: OK, so that was completely obscure. It all started when we were listening to an Irish drinking song, Johnny Be Fair. Much adultery occurs in the song. ( If you really want to know... )

hd_worldcup: The Devil's in the Details

Fourth set of fics at hd_worldcup! The prompt is The Devil.

• Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea - Team Fanon
  Wordcount: 14,066
  Rating: R
  Warnings: AU, non-graphic dubious consent.
  Summary: Draco Malfoy always gets what he wants. Only, this time, what he wants is someone he can never have.
  Author's Note: Thanks to my betas J, S and L. Some text was lifted from DH pg. 458. I used the figurative explanation of 'The Devil'-obsession, losing control, and sexual desire.
  
  
• Smile, You’re on Camera -- Team EWE
  Wordcount: ~14,000
  Rating: NC-17
  Warning: A bit of Harry/Ginny but nothing serious or explicit.
  Summary: Harry Potter has lost sight of what it means to listen to himself—he’s depressed and confused, moving through life only to please the Ministry and the press and his friends. One day he wakes up on a train next to Draco Malfoy and that all changes.
  Author's Note: Thank you so much to Team Sheep and all who betaed. Thanks to other people who helped when they didn’t even have a stake on this team.
  
  
• Better The Devil You Know (Mehen) -- Team Epilogue
  Wordcount: ~14,800
  Rating: NC-17
  Warnings: Infidelity, misuse of magic, self-harm(inflicted by another), angst, mentions of character death.
  Summary: Any chain is freely worn. You are enslaved only because you allow it. Throught the passing of time, Harry comes to realise we are each our own Devil.
  Author's Note: Author's Note The meaning of The Devil card can be found Here Thank you to my teammates and to my betas W&W—I could not have done it without you.
  
  
• Shadowplay -- Team Canon
  Wordcount: 5,500
  Rating: NC-17
  Warnings: Imaginary non-con, violence, and bondage. Non-imaginary (in the context of a fictional story) fully consensual but slightly violent sex.
  Summary: Harry knows what he wants, but Draco knows what he needs.
  Author's Note: "Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. At all counts, it forms an unconscious snag, thwarting our most well-meant intentions."— Jung

OK, re. the hd_worldcup... um, ( fandom's gone kinda splodey re. this, yes? )