A Sirius Affair

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Title:	A Sirius Affair
Author(s):	Carole Estes and Penny Linsenmayer
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Genre(s):	het
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A Sirius Affair is a Harry/Hermione Harry Potter fic by Carole Estes and Penny Linsenmayer.

It contains 18 chapters and was serialized at the mailing list ParadigmOfUncertainty. It was complete as of 2003 or before.

This story is a prequel to Lori Summers' fic Paradigm of Uncertainty.

A Sirius Change by Carole is the sequel to "A Sirius Affair."

Summary from the author: "It's 2001 and Harry and Hermione are struggling to help Sirius Black to regain his freedom in the wizarding community. Things become even more complicated when an attractive muggle enters the picture. Can he risk dragging her into his nightmare? But can he survive the trial without her? Meanwhile Ginny is forced to decide if she can live with all of Harry's secrets... and Hermione, his flatmate. A prequel to Paradigm of Uncertainty."

This Story in Context: Some Powerhouse Harry Potter Fics of Early 2000s

In the early 2000s, Harry Potter fandom was still quite new, and fans were clustering and swarming in many ways that would define much of the fandom later. One of these gathering points were a group of highly admired stories by a group of well-known Harry Potter writers. These stories, posted as serials, had many fans at the edge of their seats waiting for installments.

A fan wrote in 2001:

... I went and read through the files and I found one that has all these posts that our Idols, the Goddesses Lori, Cassie, Penny, Carole and Queen Ebony wrote early in their FanFiction Careers. It was so cool. I've been feeling a bit inferior because I have major writer's block and I just read all this wonderful stuff by our pantheon so.... But Like it has a message that Cassie wrote about posting her first story and she was worried that it wasn't that good or something (never think that Cassie, you're wonderful) And I realized (sorry Goddesses) that they're all human too. I just had to laugh at some of the original ship preferences and ideas and the ideas that were born and then incorperated into their stories.

The Fics

• The Paradigm of Uncertainty Trilogy by Lori Summers
  • Paradigm of Uncertainty (April 2000-September 2000)
  • The Show That Never Ends (October 2000-March 2002)
  • The Hero with a Thousand Faces (May 2002-May 2005, chapters 1-12, March 2008, summary for chapter 13)
• The Draco Trilogy by Cassandra Claire
  • Draco Dormiens (July–September 2000)
  • Draco Sinister (September 2000-July 2001)
  • Draco Veritas (August 2001-August 2006)
• The Trouble in Paradise Series by Ebony Thomas
  • Trouble in Paradise (December 2000-July 2001)
  • Paradise Lost (August 2001-August 2004)
  • ficlets and cookies: Eres Todo En Mí (December 2001), Indecision (August 2001), Rules Of Engagement(September 2001)
• The Sirius Stories
  • A Sirius Affair by Carole Estes and Penny Linsenmayer (July 2000-August 2002)
  • A Sirius Change by Carole Estes (February 2002-March 2004)

Genre

Carole & I did classify ASA as a romance, simply because we perceived our action plot wasn't nearly as central to the fic we were planning as it is in PoU.

Oh, I'll go ahead and 'me too' that... why not (*grins about [it being] the 'H/H Bible' term... I think I remember seeing that.*) While the romance subplot is central to both PoU and ASA neither one of them is "only" romance and I think PoU is correctly classified as a mystery. While ASA has both romance and a mystery plotline, I would probably characterize it as drama since it deals with all sorts of relationships, not just romantic ones... although as Ebony pointed out there are all sorts of love and a story lacking in any sort of love at all would be pretty tedious. There might not be much in the way of romantic love in canon at this point, but there's plenty of other love to keep it interesting... Harry's mother's love for him, Sirius' love for his friends and for Harry, Harry and Hermione and Ron's friendship for each other approaches love IMHO.