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"There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."

&& Frierdich Nietzsche - (1844-1900) "On Reading and Writing" on Love.

"It's a lot like nature. You only have as many animals as the ecosystem can support and you only have as many friends as you can tolerate the bitching of."

&& Randy K. Milholland - Something Positive Comic, 8-16-05 on Friendship.

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effect."

&& Herm Albright - (1876-1944) on Attitude.

"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quiety and safely insane every night of our lives."

&& William Dement on Dreams.

"Character - the willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life - is the source from which self respect springs."

&& Joan Didion - (1934 - Present) "Slouching Toward Bethlehem" on Character.

"The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it."

&& Dee Hock on Creativity.

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Stories

Estranged Memories :
“Nothing is left of the world I once lived in. No one I know and love is there, because the war is over and the dark side won. But I'm not there to view the results. Because I'm stuck in a time fifty years earlier, trying to stop it before it all occurs.”
Ah yes, my very latest creation and my first ever creation when it comes to that of the Harry Potter world, how could I not adore this story? To tell the truth, I've been plotting out writing this for several months but I just never got around to doing it but when you're stuck at home for two full days due to a sprained ankle and you have a large overdose of muse, what else are you supposed to do? So I started it. And I'm happy I did. Because now I truly get to see if I'm actually as brilliant as I'm told I am when it comes to having unique plotlines.

In this story, both Hermione and Tom Riddle are widely different then what others might portray them as. So if they seem a bit out of character, you know why. I don't like the way that Hermione is described in the books. She's far too emotional, too bossy, and less presumptuous for my liking. In the books, she still reminds me too buch of the bookwormish stuck up know-it-all we were introduced to in the first one, qualities that, I daresay, should have diminished over time. Due to the circumstances that the Trio are constantly thrown up against, it is my belief that by this time she would have blossomed into the daring young woman that I picture her to be. It does not help that they chose Emma Watson to play her in the movies. Due to this, many picture her as Emma Watson and that is not who she is at all. Emma is a disgrace to the role of Hermione in my opinion and if you're against this, then I don't care. It's my opinion, I'm voicing it. I think she's an absolute, positive disgrace to the role of Hermione which is mostly why I dislike the movies greatly due to the fact that Hermione is and remains one of my favorite characters from the book.

Tom Riddle, though, is described in the books perfectly well and this image that JK Rowling gives out to us about him, is exactly what I intend to work off and develop him off. He isn't going to be a person who sticks to himself and is overall non social. But I won't reveal anything further outside of the fact, that in the one flashback scene when Dumbledore delivered his Hogwarts letter to him, I refuse to base my version of Tom off of that. In my mind, the way I first began to picture him after the second book, Riddle is too far above stealing and even at that age, he believed himself to be. One thing that I think all can agree on is that Riddle is far too sophisticated to have at one point in his life, even at such a young age, to have resulted in stealing. Because it's my belief that, once more, he was highly aware of the fact that he was different because otherwise, why else would he have distanced himself from the others and been the source of their bullying? It's obvious that Riddle is the type of person that lies down for no one and changes for no one.And that iswhere I shall stop for fear of getting out of hand.

But both might be out of character due tothe way that I see them so warning to all of you who dare to read this story and who view my profile, they shall be out of soon as the story is furthered farther, I shall add more explanation here but for now, I shall leaveyou with this to dwell on.

And also, the inspiration for this story mostly came from the positively brilliant piece of work that Lady Moonglow has created entitled Have You Ever.

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Story Progress

Estranged Memories -
Chapter Three.
Right now I only have the outline done for this chapter but I shall be starting on it later tonight. Really I hope so at least.
The chapter should be up by no later then March 4, Saturday or March 5, Sunday.

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Reviewer Thanks

Estranged Memories Chapter One
s.halliwell24 - My first reviewer of my first story. I'm glad that you enjoyed the chapter and I can't wait to hear from you on the next one. I'm glad you found the story interesting as that was my main objective was that people would be interested in it. And thank you, I try to make it easy for people to imagine the scenery and such although I've had complaints over it on my original works. Anyways, hope you enjoy the next chapter.
Jae - Jazzette! Yeay! I'm glad you loved the story. And chapter two is in the works, love, so no gouging my eyes out. I need those to read your responses to our threads and this story. xD But I'm happy you enjoyed it. =D And I love you too!
LaNi-GoLdFiSh - Haha, I'm glad that you think the story rocks. And the update will be up soon enough. ;D Just hope you can wait long enough for me to get it up. Hope you enjoy the next chapter.

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Forums

Estranged Memories -
I bet people are getting tired of reading that name by now. But the forums have been uploaded, my first forum for my first story. Hearing your guys' criticism through reviews is great but at times I don't check my email account that's hooked up with this account. So leaving comments on the topic discussion of each chapter would be great so that way I could know your thoughts and such. Yeah, so here's the link to it.

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