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Not that many new ideas at the moment, but I thought I would post this as I'm toying with what idea to take up when the stories that are currently running are done.

Providence will have 7 more chapters to go. After that, I'm not entirely sure what novel-length story I'll take up to replace it. I could just not do a novel-length story and write one-shots instead, but for some reason, when I intend to do that, it never happens. (My novels seem to work best in pairs). One problem is that I want a light, somewhat comic story- the replacement for Inter Vivos will not be at all comic- but very few of my longer ideas at the moment are like that. Probably none, in fact.

Inter Vivos has either seven or eight more "chapters": the three parts of Chapter 29, three or four parts, depending on length, of Chapter 30, and an epilogue. Its replacement will be Intoxicate the Sun, the revolutionary/political/spy/magical/thriller/romance novel I've been planning for months now. You can see why I'd like a light story as a counter to it.

A second

hds_beltane fic, a pinch-hit, is done and awaiting beta.

A reviewer named SP777 on AFF has suggested a story based on Quidditch, where Draco, infuriated at constantly losing to Harry, studies moves based on Muggle sports and improves his game that way. I really like the idea, though at the moment I don't know enough about any Muggle sports to make it happen. I also don't have a title or any idea how long it would be, so this will need to wait until it's more fully formed.

"Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves": Harry loses Ron and Hermione in a freak magical accident, a few years after Ginny and the newborn James die under similar suspicious circumstances. The release of the power during this accident enables the Aurors who come rushing to the rescue to notice something that might have been undetectable otherwise. Harry's under a curse, an ancient one he may actually have been born with (or suffered as a side-effect of the Killing Curse when he was a baby) that ensures the people he loves will die. It's probably responsible for slaughtering Sirius, Dumbledore, and now his friends, wife, and child. Harry grows deeply paranoid, afraid of what could happen to people still alive like the other Weasleys and Hagrid, and does his best to withdraw from the world while also going on a research campaign to destroy his magic. The curse is linked to his magic. Destroy one, he gets rid of the other.

Enter Draco. He's fascinated with the Dark Arts and esoteric magic, and wants to study the curse operative on Harry. Harry says, "Oh no you don't!" because retaining the curse for Draco's study would mean it has a chance to kill someone else. But Draco tells him that with enough study he could discover a way it might be removed, thus sparing Harry's magic and his friends' lives- and that maybe its undoing would even raise the dead. (That last part is a lie. Draco is deeply unscrupulous in this story). So Harry allows him to stay. Draco happily gathers his knowledge, but also picks up knowledge of Harry along the way, and grows quite fond of him. Meanwhile, Harry is fighting to keep from growing fond of Draco. Because, if he does...

(This is not a light story either).

It's possible that my replacement for Providence will be Incandescence, my story about Draco as a novelist who writes books based on thinly fictionalized accounts of war heroes' lives and now wants to write one about Harry. But I don't know if it would provide enough of a contrast to Intoxicate the Sun, especially since the first letters of their titles are rather similar and could be confused by readers.