SnorkackCatcherhide bio
 Author has written 38 stories for Harry Potter, and Torchwood. Hi there. I'm Maurice, known as SnorkackCatcher on various Harry Potter sites. A computer programmer by trade, HP fanfic writing is among my hobbies. Oh yes, concerning that HP fanfic -- here's a complete list of my fics including the ones that aren't on FFN (all oneshots except for one novel-length "Tonks's First Case" mystery story, with a fairly broad range of subjects and characters). |
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Where My Thought's Escaping reviews
Cho had enjoyed visiting Guangzhou. She wasn’t sure she wanted to live there. But when her parents moved the family due to the war, she found herself trying to build a new life in China, and struggling to reconcile it with unfinished business in Britain.
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 20,964 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 22 - Published: 6/1/2009 - Cho C., Michael C. - Complete
A Law of the Medes and Persians reviews
Harry's hopes of a little time for reflection after the Battle of Hogwarts are dashed by unexpected threats to his godson and to Kingsley's position as Minister, and once again, he and his friends find themselves in a courtroom taking on an old enemy ...
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Drama/Romance - Chapters: 4 - Words: 32,271 - Reviews: 22 - Favs: 69 - Follows: 22 - Updated: 1/18/2009 - Published: 11/19/2008 - Harry P., Dolores U.
Solving the Clues reviews
Kingsley Shacklebolt had never expected his habit of solving Daily Prophet crosswords to uncover a security leak. But when Potterwatch passwords started to appear in them as answers to clues, he had little choice but to investigate who was behind it ...
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Mystery/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 9,194 - Reviews: 33 - Favs: 124 - Follows: 14 - Published: 8/11/2008 - Kingsley S., Lee J. - Complete
Repercussions reviews
Severus Snape has bad hygiene - to Sirius Black. who pointedly tells him so. Severus Snape has dirty blood - to Regulus Black, who unwittingly tells him so. One telling leads to the other - and both have surprising repercussions once they all start school
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 8,077 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 18 - Follows: 4 - Published: 4/30/2008 - Severus S., Regulus B. - Complete
In The Bleak Midwinter reviews
Hermione Granger had grown to dread the winter. The season seemed almost to have a grudge against her. And so as she and Ron flew from summer in Britain to winter in Australia to search for her parents, she had both old and new issues to resolve.
Harry Potter - Rated: M - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 9,758 - Reviews: 16 - Favs: 55 - Follows: 9 - Published: 3/20/2008 - Hermione G., Ron W. - Complete
The Sleeper Awakes reviews
It's been coming on for a while," said Percy ... "But I had to find a way out and it's not so easy at the Ministry, they're imprisoning traitors all the time." DH, ch30 . This is Percy’s journey to that point.
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 10,606 - Reviews: 80 - Favs: 393 - Follows: 68 - Published: 1/12/2008 - Percy W., Dolores U. - Complete
Catching Wild Geese reviews
A peeved Torchwood team return to base to find out exactly why Jack sent them on what seemed like a wild-goose chase. Crossover with Doctor Who, various eras.
Torchwood - Rated: M - English - Humor/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,400 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 10 - Follows: 3 - Published: 1/10/2008 - Complete
The Four Laws of Golpalott reviews
A Ravenclaw student explains to his housemate why the Potions textbook contains no mention of Golpalott's Fourth Law.
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,741 - Reviews: 18 - Favs: 46 - Follows: 8 - Published: 1/4/2008 - OC - Complete
To Dwell in Dreams reviews
There is danger in dwelling on past mistakes ... Missing moment from the first book with Dumbledore, Snape, and the Mirror of Erised, written postDH.
Harry Potter - Rated: K - English - Tragedy - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,161 - Reviews: 9 - Favs: 19 - Published: 1/4/2008 - Albus D., Severus S. - Complete
A Measure of Danger reviews
I suppose it's a sign of growing up when you realise that your parents can be wrong, isn't it? An adult Luna Lovegood talks about her part in the war.
Harry Potter - Rated: K - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,424 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 10 - Published: 1/4/2008 - Luna L. - Complete
The Dark Side of the Moon reviews
Remus Lupin has a ... particular interest in Luna Lovegood. But purely paternal, of course! Naturally.
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 10,149 - Reviews: 24 - Favs: 72 - Follows: 12 - Published: 12/27/2007 - Remus L., Luna L. - Complete
Nymphadora Tonks and the Liquor of Jacmel reviews
Newly qualified Auror Nymphadora Tonks puts her Metamorphmagus talents to good use on her first case when investigating the trade in a highly dangerous potion, while dealing with the complications caused by her very Black family history ...
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Mystery/Adventure - Chapters: 29 - Words: 286,277 - Reviews: 62 - Favs: 77 - Follows: 27 - Updated: 7/18/2007 - Published: 3/11/2007 - N. Tonks, Kingsley S. - Complete
Twenty Shipping Drabbles reviews
Twenty unrelated drabbles about some rather rare pairings. Characters not named as a challenge, list given at the end!
Harry Potter - Rated: M - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,425 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 1 - Published: 7/18/2007 - Complete
Desperate Measures reviews
The Trio resort to kidnapping. And they rope Neville in to help. But sometimes desperate times call for desperate measures, which may be understandable when the reasons are known ...
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,709 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 15 - Follows: 4 - Published: 7/18/2007 - Harry P., Neville L. - Complete
Unmarked reviews
Participation in the game of power has left Lucius Malfoy with many marks. Marcus Flint has none, and Lucius finds this appealing. But there are many complications in the course of their six year relationship.
Harry Potter - Rated: M - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 14,530 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 10 - Follows: 2 - Published: 7/18/2007 - Lucius M., Marcus F. - Complete
The Open Sea and the Sky reviews
The first ever Atlantic broom crossing [was] by Jocunda Sykes in 1935 [Kennilworthy Whisp, Quidditch Through The Ages]. Jocunda tells the story in her own words.
Harry Potter - Rated: K - English - Adventure/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,738 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 13 - Follows: 1 - Published: 6/1/2007 - Horace S. - Complete
That's What Friends Are For reviews
Cho runs into an old friend and comes to an understanding.
Harry Potter - Rated: K+ - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,344 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 5 - Published: 1/3/2007 - Cho C., Roger D. - Complete
Battles with Basilisks reviews
AU. Harry and Ron visit the office of the Defence Against the Dark Arts Professor to tell him where the Chamber of Secrets is. Everything Gilderoy Lockhart writes about himself is actually true.
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 6,241 - Reviews: 49 - Favs: 247 - Follows: 57 - Published: 12/28/2006 - Gilderoy L., Harry P. - Complete
Preventive Medicine reviews
Two students visit Madam Pomfrey with an embarrassing problem. The cure may possibly be worse than the disease.
Harry Potter - Rated: M - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,318 - Reviews: 18 - Favs: 23 - Follows: 3 - Published: 11/17/2006 - Poppy P., Severus S. - Complete
Blood Lines reviews
On the Recent War, the Purity of Blood, and the Historical Context: text of keynote speech by Griselda Marchbanks to the Ministerial Conference on the Development of Magical Society in the New Millennium, March 2000.
Harry Potter - Rated: K+ - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,265 - Reviews: 10 - Favs: 22 - Follows: 1 - Published: 9/8/2006 - Complete
Twenty Sibling Drabbles reviews
Twenty unrelated drabbles about people related by their parentage. Characters not named as a challenge, list given at the end!
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,418 - Reviews: 9 - Favs: 10 - Published: 8/29/2006 - Complete
Dangerous Driving reviews
To his horror, Knight Bus driver Ernie Prang is invited to become a Ministry informer at the beginning of the second war. As the months pass, Ernie finds he has to decide which roads are the most dangerous.
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 12,252 - Reviews: 2 - Favs: 5 - Follows: 1 - Published: 8/29/2006 - Complete
Change For Me reviews
Remus has an unusual request for Tonks regarding his old love. She doesn’t really know how to react to it.
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,261 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 3 - Follows: 2 - Published: 8/24/2006 - N. Tonks, Remus L. - Complete
The Wolf Covers Its Tracks reviews
Ten years after the end of the war, everyone thinks Fenrir Greyback is dead. Everyone except Remus Lupin, that is. When Remus follows his maker's trail to the Canadian wilderness, their confrontation reopens many old wounds.
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Adventure/Suspense - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,463 - Reviews: 12 - Favs: 29 - Follows: 4 - Published: 6/7/2006 - Remus L., Fenrir G. - Complete
The Hunter reviews
Luna Lovegood goes in search of Crumple Horned Snorkacks.
Harry Potter - Rated: K - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 935 - Reviews: 9 - Favs: 5 - Published: 6/7/2006 - Luna L. - Complete
You Tell Her reviews
As the Trio begin their quest, Hermione has an uneasy feeling Harry and Ron aren’t telling her something important. As it happens, she’s absolutely right. But some things aren’t that easy to tell even to your best friend ...
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Suspense/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 8,922 - Reviews: 11 - Favs: 12 - Follows: 2 - Published: 6/7/2006 - Hermione G., Harry P. - Complete
Sleeping With The Enemy reviews
Hermione, Ron, and Lavender triangulation, set during HBP.
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Romance/Angst - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,199 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 8 - Follows: 1 - Published: 6/7/2006 - Hermione G., Lavender B. - Complete
Not Given Up Yet reviews
Halfblood Slytherin Millicent Bulstrode reflects on her time at Hogwarts, the years of wasted effort she put in trying to be accepted by the popular students of her House, and what she intends to do about it.
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,450 - Reviews: 9 - Favs: 14 - Follows: 2 - Published: 6/7/2006 - Millicent B., Dolores U. - Complete
Indistinguishable reviews
Successful young entrepreneurs Fred and George Weasley, whose products sometimes seem almost magical, are interviewed by the Sunday Times Magazine.
Harry Potter - Rated: K - English - Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,941 - Reviews: 12 - Favs: 42 - Follows: 5 - Published: 6/7/2006 - George W. - Complete
Honour Amongst Thieves reviews
Mundungus Fletcher provides expert help on Muggle security measures for a theft of the Crown Jewels. Unfortunately, with Dung there’s no guarantee things will go smoothly ...
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Humor/Adventure - Chapters: 1 - Words: 4,479 - Reviews: 25 - Favs: 21 - Follows: 1 - Published: 6/7/2006 - Mundungus F., Kingsley S. - Complete
Whatever Gets You Through the Night reviews
So how do you cope with losing Sirius Black again? Remus Lupin tries different ways. Because whatever gets you through the night is all right.
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Angst/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,454 - Reviews: 9 - Favs: 8 - Follows: 1 - Published: 6/7/2006 - Remus L., Hestia J. - Complete
Something's Happened reviews
The Prime Minister of Muggles receives a visit from Rufus Scrimgeour in the wake of Dumbledore's murder.
Harry Potter - Rated: K - English - Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 682 - Reviews: 13 - Favs: 22 - Follows: 1 - Published: 6/7/2006 - Rufus S. - Complete
Second Thoughts reviews
A student tries the Sorting Hat on again, and finds it in the mood to chat about the Founders, the factors it really considers when making decisions, and students whose Sorting it has or hasn't had second thoughts about ...
Harry Potter - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,196 - Reviews: 16 - Favs: 32 - Follows: 3 - Published: 6/7/2006 - Ron W., Percy W. - Complete
Conspiracy Theory reviews
In 1972, a British Auror hears strange case histories about Muggle politics from his American counterpart over a drink or six. The truth is out there, or something ...
Harry Potter - Rated: K - English - Humor/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 5,694 - Reviews: 12 - Favs: 24 - Follows: 1 - Published: 6/7/2006 - Complete
Can’t I Like Girls Too? reviews
Tonks tries an experiment while talking to Remus at 12GP. Features various Order members past and present, onstage and off ... [Refers to slash, which may offend some people. Refers to het, which may offend some other people.]
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Romance/Humor - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,260 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 5 - Published: 12/3/2005 - Remus L., N. Tonks - Complete
A Really Bad Idea reviews
Harry. Ginny. Hermione. Love potions? Moments missing from your copy of book 6. Because some things are just a really bad idea. Special guest appearances by the Half Blood Prince and Horace Slughorn.
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Humor/Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 2,481 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 10 - Follows: 2 - Published: 12/3/2005 - Harry P., Ginny W. - Complete
Different Paths reviews
Madam Pomfrey visits the Restricted Section of the Hogwarts library and is reminded forcefully of her own schooldays.
Harry Potter - Rated: K+ - English - Romance - Chapters: 1 - Words: 878 - Reviews: 12 - Favs: 8 - Follows: 1 - Published: 8/12/2005 - Poppy P. - Complete
Toujours Pur reviews
Mrs Black sits in her private box at the Quidditch stadium, and reflects on the importance of Black family values, her sons Sirius and Regulus, and the new star Chaser of the Kenmare Kestrels ... Set five years after the end of the first war
Harry Potter - Rated: T - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 3,832 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 9 - Published: 8/12/2005 - Sirius B., Regulus B. - Complete
