Rating:
R
House:
The Dark Arts
Characters:
Severus Snape
Genres:
General Humor
Era:
Multiple Eras
Spoilers:
Philosopher's Stone Chamber of Secrets Prizoner of Azkaban Goblet of Fire Order of the Phoenix Quidditch Through the Ages Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Stats:
Published: 08/01/2005
Updated: 08/27/2006
Words: 21,098
Chapters: 18
Hits: 4,264

Our American Cousin

Lady Gray

Story Summary:
Sometimes to win a war you need to make your own luck, or at least import it. Harry’s class gets an import from across the pond in their seventh year. She’s rude, dangerous, and doesn’t like the cold. In the end she might also be the last moment leg up they need. From here on out the rules are different as love, money, belligerence and violence take center stage.

Chapter 01
08/01/2005

Sometimes to win a war you need to make your own luck, or at least import it. Harry’s class gets an import from across the pond in their seventh year. She’s rude, dangerous, and doesn’t like the cold. In the end she might also be the last moment leg up they need. From here on out the rules are different as love, money, belligerence and violence take center stage.

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Chapter 02
08/09/2005

How do you sort someone who doesn’t really fit anywhere? A new year at Hogwarts and we discover why the hat was never meant to sort people who are nearly adults.

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Chapter 03
08/09/2005

How’s a modern girl to live in a stone tower without email? And what are American wizerding schools like? Probably a little different.

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Chapter 04
08/09/2005

The first breakfast of Harry’s seventh year brings stress for the Weasely Family and a nice surprise. Someone who doesn’t know who he is!

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Chapter 05
08/09/2005

A Full Course Load Is Road to a Full Heart. Or so someone foolish once said. Watch as Hogwarts new import butts heads with teachers and Snape does the unthinkable.

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Chapter 06
08/09/2005

The first wave of Sara’s letters go home none of them telling the whole truth. What don’t Mom and Dad know and who’s going to supply the lawyers guns and money?

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Chapter 07
08/09/2005

Nightmares haunt Harry’s sleep. Memories of sixth year disturb the dreams of Ron and Hermione as well. And the three are linked in ways they had never planed.

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When is a Broom not just a broom? And what does it take to get an interesting meal out of the Hogwarts Kitchen. And just where did Harry learn to curse like that?

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Chapter 09
08/27/2005

Just what happened to the Gryffindor 3 after escaping from Voldemort, what in the universe could possibly make Hermione screw up a potion? Plus someone very unexpected is speaking Parseltongue

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Chapter 10
08/28/2005

A long distance phone call in the dead of night tells us all might not be as it seems.I stole a line from Will & Grace for this chapter. Will and Grace is produced by NBC, KoMut Entertainment, Three Sisters Entertainment, Everything Entertainment and New Dominion Pictures Inc. It is properly foot noted at the bottom.

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Chapter 11
09/01/2005

What can get Binns upset and what could possibly make history entertaining.

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Letters and packages from home bring memories, mysteries, and possible evidence of Draco’s humanity. Even if he won’t admit it.

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A Gryffindor wanting extra help in Potions? Stranger things have happened.

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Everyone's life needs a good sound track. Even wizards.

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Hex's start flying in the Slytherin Common room and an engagement is called off. Draco learns to fear a woman scorned and Snape informs his students of some of the realities of the world.

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Always be cheerful with, but careful of, your friendly neighbourhood arms dealer.

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The pot calls the kettle black, Harry embraces his artistic side, and Sara tells us a story of madness and a Very Bad Man.

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The first Quidditch game of the season reveals new infatuations and begins to heal old grudges. Plus Ginny gets Quidditch move named after her.

Words: 1,609
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