Harry Potter and the Time of Good Intentions

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Zine
Title: Harry Potter and the Time of Good Intentions
Publisher: Complicated, see links below
Editor:
Author(s): Barb (B.L. Purdom)
Cover Artist(s): Leela Starsky
Illustrator(s):
Date(s): published on Fiction Alley September 2001 - March 2002, released in print format May 2005
Series?: yes
Medium: online fic, print zine
Size:
Genre:
Fandom: Harry Potter
Language: English
External Links: online version
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Harry Potter and the Time of Good Intentions is a het Harry/Ginny novel in two volumes by B.L. Purdom. It is part of a series and covers Harry's sixth year. The total page count is 476. It was first published online and then reprinted as a zine.

Summary

During Harry's fifth year at Hogwarts, Professor Trelawney did a Tarot reading for him. She told Harry he would have to make a choice that could “change the world as we know it." Now, at the beginning of his sixth year, Harry chooses, and the world does change. Does it change for the better? If he wants, can Harry change it back? Or is giving Harry exactly what he wants Voldemort’s ultimate revenge? [1]

Psychic Serpent "Trilogy"

The total page count of all three volumes is 670. Each volume continues the pagination from the previous one. For example, the third volume ("Triangle Prophecy") contains pages 442-662.

The main three volumes are:

Prequel and related:

  • The Lost Generation (The Lost Generation is a prequel, i.e. it was published after the others, though chronologically it happens before. But the first in the series is Psychic Serpent. [2])
  • Replay (While the story is not directly part of the Psychic Serpent series, the novel Replay takes place in the setting created by the author.)

About Its History with Agent With Style

This series of zines has a complicated history with its one-time publisher, Agent With Style. See: Blueprint(s) for Disaster - The Saga of Me and Agent with Style (AWS), Archived version, accessed 5.11.2011

Cover Gallery

  • Cover Vol 1, Artist: Leela Starsky, originally printed as interior art in Millennium #2 in 2004

    Cover Vol 1, Artist: Leela Starsky, originally printed as interior art in Millennium #2 in 2004

  • Cover Vol 2

    Cover Vol 2

The Author Looks Back

At any rate, in observance of the tenth anniversary of the first fic, starting on the day I began posting it in 2001 (somewhere around the third week of May--I'll check the exact date before I begin), I'll post about what I posted on that day on the day I originally posted it. Sort of an annotated version of the fic without putting in footnotes or scribbles in the margins. Now, I expect to be doing a fair bit of face-palming during this process. When I was interviewed about the trilogy by the Potterfic Weekly folks last year I replied perfectly honestly, "Yeah, when I reread some of the early chapters I do wonder now, 'What was I thinking?' about some things." I'm the last person to believe anything I've written is sacrosanct. That was part of what made it such a valuable learning experience for me. And now I can look back and laugh and marvel at what an innocent I was. (Oh my GOD, chapter five. CHAPTER FIVE. WHAT WAS I THINKING?)... [3]

Reactions and Reviews

Early 2000s

The 'Psychic Serpent' Series - And here's another long-ass story that's so complicated that you'll lose track of little details until they appear 30 chapters later. Seriously-this whole story is so intricate and moving and just wonderful. I wasn't hooked at first-I'm not a big fan of Hermione/Harry, and that's practically the first paragraph. But once you get into it...wow. This is a bit of a spoiler, but they don't *stay* together-Hermione ends up with who she really belongs with (in my opinion, of course). The entire story focuses on Harry's POV (like canon), and Barb has the excellent ability to keep him completely in character. Be forewarned-only go here if you enjoy a long story. I mean, really long-you won't finish in one sitting. Each chapter is, as I think she put it once, 30 Microsoft Word pages long. The first three stories are part of the trilogy, and 'The Lost Generation' goes back in time to the MWPP years. Everything fits so perfectly, too-her OC's are all blended very well with the established canon characters. Really, if you have loads of time, go and get into this. I found myself thinking about this story when I was in the middle of 'Time of Good Intentions' (my favorite part of the trilogy), and that, my friend, is the sign that a story has really got you by the balls. If, of course, you have them. :) [4]

References

  1. ^ from Agent With Style
  2. ^ Also all of these were first published as online fanfic, and only reprinted as zines. While published it was a fairly popular series, e.g. The Psychic Serpent trilogy has a yahoogroup maintained by the author dedicated to it that has over 6,300 members. Psychic Serpent
  3. ^ Psychic Serpent Live Journal, accessed 5.11.2011
  4. ^ from Midnight Musings
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