Cuttle Feesh: Anthologie Vampire malgré lui (French Edition)

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There are many veins in the French character. It is this last which pulsates so strongly in Corneille; and in Victor Hugo the blood begins to course in it again. If we compare Hugo in his stateliness with other poets, we shall find that there is probably not one in the whole world whom he resembles so much as he does old Corneille. The drama which makes Hugo famous is Hern ani, Spanish in its subject, and permeated by the spirit of Calderon's code of honour.

But in both these dramas it is heroism pure and simple which is inculcated and exhibited. They are schools for heroes. The story of the first performance has often been told. Adherents of the old school listened at the doors during the rehearsals, and picked up single lines, which they caricatured ; and a parody of the play was acted before the play itself. The author had a hard struggle with the censor ; he had to fight for his play almost line by line.

There was a long correspondence on the subject of the one line: Hugo was determined to dispense with the paid claque, but he arranged to have three hundred places at his disposal for the first three nights. The most faithful of his followers, young men who, according to their own confession, spent their nights in writing " Vive Victor Hugo!

The moment the curtain rose the storm burst, and every time the play was performed there was such an uproar in the theatre that it was with the greatest difficulty it could be acted to the end. The fact may seem unimportant, yet it is worthy of observation, that France is the only country in which such esprit de corps, without the existence of any tangible corps, such unselfish devotion to the cause and honour of another, has ever been witnessed. The enemy took boxes and left them unoccupied, in order that the newspapers might report an empty house ; they turned their backs to the stage ; they made disgusted grimaces, as if the play were more than they could stand ; they affected to be absorbed in the newspapers ; they slammed the box doors, or laughed loud and scornfully, or hooted and hissed and whistled ; so that a resolute defence was absolutely necessary.

The hero is a noble-minded man of genius, the genius and noble-mindedness being of the type which exists in the imagination of a young man of twenty. His genius impels him to lead the life of a brigand chieftain, and out of pure high-mindedness and contempt for ordinary prudence he does the most foolish things — betrays himself, lets his mortal enemy escape, gives himself up again and again. As chieftain he exercises unbounded power over other men, but it seems to be his courage alone which gives him this, for all his actions are as unreasoning as a child's.

Nevertheless there is life and reality in the play. This noble and disinterested highwayman, who lives at war with society and is the leader of a band of faithful enthusiasts, reminds us of the poet himself, the literary outlaw, who filled pit and gallery with a band of young men quite as remarkable in appearance and attire as his brigand troop. They knew that Hugo bad received an anonymous letter in which he was threatened with assassination " if he did not withdraw his filthy play," and, improbable as it was that the threat would be literally fulfilled, two of them accom- panied him to and from the theatre every evening, though he and they lived in the farthest apart quarters of Paris.

Amongst Hugo's papers of this date there is a quaint note from the painter Charlet, which expresses the feelings of these youths. I send them to prostrate themselves at your feet, begging for four places for this evening, if it is not too late. I answer for my men ; they are fellows who would gladly cut off heads for the sake of the wigs. I encourage them in this noble spirit, and do not let them go without my fatherly blessing.

I stretch out my hands and say: God protect you, young men! The cause is a good one ; do your duty! They rise and I add: Now, my children, take good care of Victor Hugo. God is good, but He has so much to do that our friend must in the first instance rely upon us. Go, and do not put him you serve to shame. The dullest materialism made life colourless. France was as regularly ordered as the avenues of the gardens of Versailles ; it was ruled by old men, who patronised only such young ones as had written Latin verse to perfection at school, and had since qualified themselves for office by absolute correctness of behaviour.

There they sat, these correct, faultlessly-attired youths, with their neck- cloths and stiff standing collars. Contrast with them the youths in the pit, one with locks reaching to his waist and a scarlet satin doublet, another with a Rubens hat and bare hands. These latter hated the powerful Philistine bourgeoisie as Hernani hated the tyranny of Charles V. They gloried in their position ; they, too, were freebooters, poor, proud — one a cherisher of Republican dreams, most of them wor- shippers of art.

There they stood, many of them geniuses — Balzac, Berlioz, Thdophile Gautier, G6rard de Nerval, Petrus Borel, Pr6ault — taking the measure of their opponents of the same generation. They felt that they themselves were at least not place-seekers, not tuft-hunters, beggars, and parasites like those others ; they were the men who a few months later made the Revolution of July, and who in the course of a few years gave France a literature and art of the first rank. We know how they regarded Hernani. What did they see in the second great character, King Charles of Spain?

He repels at first. We cannot place much faith in this cold, cautious monarch's ardent love for Donna Sol ; and he, moreover, employs violent and dishonourable means to get her into his power. But the poet soon raises him to a higher level, and makes us feel the great ambition which fills his soul. It was Charles's tremendous monologue at the tomb of Charlemagne which decided the fate of the drama that even- ing. And this much criticised and ridiculed monologue is in reality the work of a young master.

It is easy to perceive, even if we did not know, how untrue it is to history, how impossible it is that Charles V. This is the historical,! Listen to Don Carlos' s description of Europe: A building with two human beings on its pinnacles, two elected chiefs, to whom every hereditary monarch must bow — the Emperor and the Pope. Almost all the states have hereditary rulers, and are, in so far, in the power of chance ; but the people are at times able to elect their Pope or their Emperor ; chance corrects chance, and the balance is restored.

The Electors in their cloth of gold, the Cardinals in their scarlet, are the instruments by means of whom God chooses. It must not be forgotten that men's enthusiasm for Napoleon in those days by no means implied that they were Bonapartists ; it only signified that they belonged to the party of progress. The Napoleon they worshipped was not the tyrant of France, but the humiliator of kings and of hereditary authority.

The Emperor, as compared with the King, was regarded as the personified people ; therefore the young generation was deeply moved when Charles in his monologue exclaims: Miroir ou rarement un roi se voit en beau! At the grave of Charlemagne he matures into the popular Emperor who has been so often dreamed of in modern times, and his passionate ambition is purified by his intense desire to solve gigantic problems and accomplish prodigious tasks.

The man who was, to begin with, so obnoxious to the youthful part of the audience, whose brutal desire made him so inferior to his noble-minded rival Hernani and the proud lady they both love, ends, when he is Emperor, by renouncing his claims and showing mercy — and suddenly the two happy lovers seem small and in- significant beside him.

With his hand on his heart he says softly to himself: Laisse regner Pesprit que toujours tu troublas. Tes amours desormais, tes mattresses, helas! Cest l'Allemagne, c'est la Flandre, c'est l'Espagne! A la place du coeur, il n'a qu'un ecusson 1 " Such words as these produced a powerful effect on the ambitious young men who were the real audience of the play. The drama, the tragedy, of ambition moved them as deeply as the drama of independence. They knew that great public aims are attained, great tasks accomplished only by manly resolution nourished upon the intensest emotions, longings, and joys of the heart, which have been offered as a burnt-offering on the altar of the aim — therefore they understood Carlos.

Nevertheless the fifth act, with the duet between the lovers, is in its purely lyric excellence the gem of the play. Here was love as those young men felt it and desired to have it represented. As a drama Hernani is extremely imperfect ; it is a lyrical, rhetorical work, containing much that is extravagant. But it has the one, all-important merit, namely, that in it an independent and remarkable human soul has expressed itself unrestrainedly.

From such a work it is possible to learn much of its author's mental idiosyncrasy. He is there with his genius, his limitations, his character, his whole past — with his conceptions of liberty and authority, of honour and nobility, of love and of death. And the work presents to us not only Victor Hugo and a bit of the Spain of 15 19, but the young generation of its own day and a piece of the France of Hernani is the essence of the spirit which inspired the youth of France at the time of the Revolution of July ; it is an image of France which, seen in a romantic light, expands into an image of the world.

We shall detain them to compare them with one another and see in what they agree, by this means attaining to a certainty of what the fundamental characteristic of the age is ; then we shall let them pass before us in historical succession, and try, by carefully observing in what they differ from one another, to discover the law which produces these differences ; we shall watch, as it were, the flight of the arrows which indicate the direction of the spiritual currents.

Their host was a man who in point of age belonged to the previous generation he was born in , but who in his mental attitude had anticipated the nascent literature, which he consequently at once and without hesitation took under his protection. His name was Charles Nodier. Nodier's life had been one of strange vicissitudes ; he had been an Emigre in the Jura, a newspaper editor in lllyria, and now he was a librarian in Paris.

Is it the agrarian law? No, it is the contract of sale, drawn up by intriguers and partisans who have desired to enrich themselves, which delivers a people into the hands of the rich. You are master over my money. I am master of your life. Give me the money and you may keep your life. The most natural thing about him is that he wears gold earrings, and this realistic trait Madame Nodier had almost succeeded in eliminating.

Nodier allowed himself to be, as a rule, guided by his wife's taste and wishes. But when he once in a way felt inclined to rebel, and, to excuse himself, pled his submission on all other occasions, Madame Nodier always said: Men had forgotten the existence of such a book as Jean Sbogar, when Napoleon's memoirs came out and informed them that he had had it with him at St.

Helena, and had read it with interest. The little novel belongs to Nodier's transition period. It was written before he had developed his characteristic individuality. This he did about the time of the formation of the Romantic School proper. He stood then, so to speak, at the open door of literature, and bade that school welcome. It was the beginning of the warm friendship between the two authors. The appre- ciation of Hugo is so marvellously correct that in reading it to-day one can hardly believe that its writer was un- acquainted with all the master's later works.

The stories which Nodier now began to write possess a charm and attraction unique in French literature. They are distinguished by a mimosa-like delicacy of feeling. They treat chiefly of the first stirring of passion in the hearts of youths and maidens ; the fresh dew of the morning of life is upon them ; they remind us of the woods in spring.

It is a well-known fact that there is some difficulty in finding French books of any literary value which are fit for young girls' reading ; but such tales as Nodier's TMrise Aubert, or the collection of stories entitled Souvenirs de Jeunesse, meet both requirements. The only risk run would be the risk of imbuing the young readers with fanciful platonic ideas ; for these tales are as sentimental as they are chaste ; the love which they describe may be a friendship with little of the sexual element in it, nevertheless it completely engrosses the little human being. It owes its charm to the fact that as yet no experience has made these minds suspicious and that no false or true pride prevents these hearts from revealing their emotions.

As all the tales are founded on reality, on memories of their author's youth, the terrors of the Revolu- tion form the dark background of them all, and they all end with a parting or the death of the loved one.

To the end of his days he remained a big, unworldly child, with a girlish shrinking not only from the impure, but even from the grown-up standpoint. Above this groundwork of naive freshness of feeling there rises, as second story, a wildly exuberant imagination.

Nodier possessed such a gift of extravagant invention that one can hardly help believing that he must have been sub- ject to visions and hallucinations ; he had the dangerous quality peculiar to a certain type of poetic temperament, that of scarcely being able to speak the truth. No one, not even he himself, ever knew for a certainty whether what he was relating was truth or fiction. Jest is the mean between the two. On a tour which he and Hugo, accompanied by their wives, made together in the south of France, they arrived at an inn in the little town of Essonne, where they were to breakfast.

It was in this inn that Lesurques had been arrested, a man who was executed in for a murder of which he was afterwards proved to have been innocent. Nodier, who had known him, or at any rate said he had, spoke of him with an emotion that brought tears into the eyes of the two ladies, and disturbed the cheerfulness of the repast.

Noticing Madame Hugo's wet eyes, Nodier promptly began: Pressed for an explanation, Nodier related with much gusto how, two years previously, a coachful of wet-nurses, coming from Paris with children who were to be reared in the country, stopped at this very inn. That they might break- fast in peace, the nurses deposited their charges for the time on the billiard-table.

But whilst the women were in the salk-A-tnanger some carriers, coming in to play a game of billiards, lifted the children off the table and laid them at random on the bench. When the nurses returned they were in despair. How was each to recognise her own nursling? The children were all only a few days old, and indistin- guishable one from the other. At last, merely making sure of the sex, each took one from the row ; and now there were in France a score or so of mothers who discovered a like- ness to beloved husbands or to themselves in children with whom they had no connection whatever.

The world of probabilities was not his ; he lived in the world of legend, of fantastic fairy-tale and ghost story. If a fairy has ever stood by the cradle of a mortal, that mortal was Charles Nodier. And in this fairy he believed all his life ; he loved her as she loved him, and she had a part in all that he wrote. What though he was married by law and in earthly fashion to Madame Nodier! The marriage had no more spiritual significance than Dante's with Gemma Donati ; his true bride and Beatrice was the fairy Belkis, once the Queen of Sheba, whose praises he and G6rard de Nerval so often sang.

The world in which he lives is the world in which Oberon and Titania dance, in which strains from the Thousand and One Nights blend with the melodies of Ariel's celestial orchestra, in which Puck makes his bed in a rosebud, whilst all the flowers perfume the summer night. It is a world in which all the personages of real, wide-awake life appear, but grotesquely magnified or grotesquely diminished, to suit the comprehension of the child and the requirements of the fantast.

Here, as Nodier himself somewhere says, we have Odysseus the far-travelled, but he has shrunk into Hop-o'- my-thumb, whose tremendous voyage consists in swimming across the milk-pail ; here is Othello, the terrible wife-mur- derer, only his beard is not black but blue — he has turned into the notorious Bluebeard; here is Figaro, the nimble lackey who flatters the grandees so cleverly, only he is trans- formed into Puss in Boots, a less entertaining personage, though almost as interesting from the psychological point of view.

Any one who does not know his works may form some idea of them by recalling Sir Walter Scott's ghost stories and Hoffmann's audacious fantasies. But these, of course, do not convey an idea of Nodier's artistic indi- viduality. His peculiarity is, that in his representation of Romantic subjects he is not what we are in the habit of Digitized by Google CHARLES NODIER 37 calling Romantic, but, on the contrary, severely Attic, classi- cally simple, sparing in the matter of colour, and devoid of passion ; there is none of the Scotch mist we are conscious of in Sir Walter, or of the fumes of the Berlin wine-vaults which we inhale in reading Hoffmann.

His peculiarity as a stylist is that, whilst the young Romanticists around him were sensualising language and supplanting the idea by the picture, he himself transcribed his wildest Romantic fancies into the clear and simple language of Pascal and Bossuet. Enthusiastic champion as he was of the new tendency in literature, in the matter of style he remained old-fashioned, and expressed the fantastic imaginations of the nineteenth century in the severe, perspicuous language of the seventeenth. Audacious to the verge of insanity in his fantasies, he is sober and clear in his style.

As Prosper M6rim6e has cleverly said, a fanciful tale by Nodier is like " the dream of a Scythian, told by an old Greek poet. The horror produced by the unaccountable appari- tion is blent with the admiration aroused by the supernatural visitant's gentle grace ; these feelings do not neutralise each other, but act in combination with a peculiar power ; and it is this combination which is the secret of Nodier's effects.

It is a pity that he has spoiled the beautiful story by a trivial and improbable conclusion, which explains away the ghost in the most commonplace manner. The apparition seen in the old castle at midnight is not the ghost of the young dancing-girl, murdered years before, but a living Spanish maiden who happens to bear the same name, and whom a fantastic and incredible concatenation of circumstances has led to dance there, dressed in white.

There is genuine Latin rationality in this solution of the mystery, but it is offered to us, as it were, ironically. La Fie aux Miettes seems to me the best of Npdier's fantastic tales.

There is undoubtedly too much of it; it is not without an effort that one follows all the wild twists and turnings of a fantasy which occupies quarto pages, even though much of it is both interesting and charming. A poor, harmless lunatic in the asylum of Glasgow tells the story of his life.

This is the setting of the tale, but we forget it altogether in the marvellousness of the events related. All the chords of human life are touched, jarringly and wildly. It is as if life itself passed before one's eyes seen wrong side out, seen from the perfectly permissible standpoint of the dreamer or the delirious fever-patient. In the little town of Granville in Normandy lives a worthy, simple-minded young carpenter, Michel by name. In the same town lives an old female dwarf, shrivelled and ugly, who, because she gathers up the scraps of the school-children's breakfasts, is called "la fee aux miettes.

This being is assisted by the young carpenter with small sums of money, and she in return assists him with all manner of wise advice. She always speaks to him as if she were passionately in love with him, and she begs him to promise to marry her, so that by this means his money may in time return to him again. She gives him her portrait, a picture which does not resemble her at all, but represents the fairy Belkis, who in olden days was the Queen of Sheba beloved by Solomon. The youth falls in love with this picture of a beautiful, dazzling, bewitching woman.

Wherever he goes her name meets him ; when he determines to try his fortune in a foreign country, the ship he sails in is called the Queen of Sheba. He wanders about the world dreaming of Belkis, as we wander, one and all of us, dreaming of our castle in the air, our ideal, our fixed idea, which to our neighbours is madness. He is carried through a hooting crowd to the gallows. There proclamation is made that, according to old custom, his life will be spared if any young woman will have pity on him and take him for her husband.

And behold, Folly Girlfree, a merry, pretty girl who has always liked him, approaches the scaffold, prepared to save him. But he asks time for reflection. He likes Folly Girlfree, and she is both good and beautiful, but he does not love her; he has only one love, his ardently, secretly adored ideal, the Fairy Belkis. He looks tenderly and gratefully at Folly, deliberates, and — requests to be hanged. This deliberation with the rope round his neck, this conclusion that, as Shakespeare puts it, "many a good hanging pre- vents a bad marriage," is described with delightful humour, with a naive philosophy which is unforgettable from the fact that some such idea has occurred at one time or other to all of us.

They are proceeding to hang Michel, when loud cries are heard, and the Crumb Fairy, followed by all the street boys, arrives breathless, bringing proofs of the prisoner's innocence. He marries her out of gratitude, but hardly has the door on the wedding night been hermetically closed between him and his aged wife, hardly has he shut his eyes than Belkis in her bridal veil approaches his couch.

Belkis, I am married, married to the Crumb Fairy. The Crumb Fairy has none of it. The Fairy never gave me this. This is madness, no doubt, but it is marvellous madness — madness instinct with soul. Who is this crumb-gathering fairy? Is she renunciation and duty?

Is she the inexhaustible patience which suddenly reveals itself as genius? Is she fidelity turning into the happiness that is the reward of fidelity? She is probably a little of all of this ; and therefore it is that she can transform her- self into youth and beauty and bliss. In some Such fashion Nodier has thought out, or dreamt his story. At its maturity his imaginative faculty is more wanton and bold. No longer contented with producing shapeless, unordered material, he presents his material to us with a grotesque, loquacious, satirical explanation. No Frenchman comes so near having what Englishmen and Germans call humour as Nodier.

At times he seems to be positively possessed by whimsicality. Then he not only turns the everyday world topsy-turvy in his stories, but plays with his own relation to the story, satirises contemporaries, makes a thousand innuendoes, philosophises over the illusions of life. He takes even the art of the printer into his service to heighten his fantastic effects ; or, more correctly speaking, in order to prove the absolute power of his personality over his material, he leaves not a single thing, not even the purely mechanical means of communication, untouched by his mood. At his command the letters become so long that they stretch from top to bottom of the page ; he commands again, and they dwindle into the tiniest of the tiny ; he screams, and they stand up on end in terror ; he becomes melancholy, and they hang their heads all along the lines ; Digitized by Google CHARLES NODIER 41 they are inseparably mixed up with illustrations ; Latin and Gothic groups alternate, according to the mood of the moment ; sometimes they stand on their heads, so that we have to turn the book upside down to read them ; some- times they follow the narrative so closely that a descent of the stairs is printed thus: Hereupon our hero went dejectedly down the stairs.

It is interesting to trace in the account of Nodier's life written by his daughter, the foundations of fact upon which he built his fantastic tales. It rarely happens that, as in Inis de Las Sierras, something real in this case an old castle which Nodier had visited in the course of a tour he made with his family in Spain in forms the groundwork. Sometimes, as for example in Trilby, the point of departure is a legend ; and it is significant that this particular legend should have been told to Nodier by Pichot, the French translator of Scott and Byron.

The idea of Smarra Nodier got from hearing the old porter of his house in Paris, who was too ill to sleep anywhere except sitting in his chair, relate his night- mares and dreams. The model for the F6e aux Miettes was an old woman who served in his father's house when he was a child, and who treated his father, a man of sixty, as if he were a giddy youth.

This old Denise maintained that before entering the Nodiers' household she had been in the service of a Monsieur d'Amboise, governor of Chateau-Thierry.

The very slightest element of fact — a landscape, a legend, a dream, a lie, a mere mote — was enough for Nodier. The amiable, clever man, whose house was for a number of years the rendezvous of the men of letters who made their dibut about , the place where all the talented young beginners repaired to seek encouragement and, if possible, permission to read a ballad or a little piece of prose before the select company which assembled there on Sunday afternoons, this man in his proper person represents the extreme of Romantic fantasticality in the literature of the period.

The fantastic supernaturalism which was the main characteristic of German Romanticism, is only one of the poles of French Romanticism ; or, to speak more cor- rectly, it is merely one of its elements — in some of the most notable men of the school a weak and subordinate, in others an important element, but an element always present. In Victor Hugo's case it announces itself at once, in his Ronde du Sabbat, and makes itself forcibly felt in the great Ugende des Sticks, though in this latter the legend is only naive history ; we have a glimpse of it even in the rationalistic M6rim6e half explained away in La Vinus dllk, more dis- tinct in La Vision de Charles XL and Les dtnes du purgatoire ; it reigns, half-seraphic, half-sanguinariiy sensual, in Lamar- tine's La chute dun ange; it pervades Quinet's pantheistically vague Ahasvere; it appears in George Sand's old age in the pretty fairy-tales she writes for her grandchildren ; it occu- pies even the plastic Gautier in the many tales in which he allows himself to be influenced by Hoffmann ; and, as Swedenborgian spiritism, it actually, in a romance like Seraphitus - Siraphita, completes Balzac's great Comtdie Humaine.

But in no other author has it the naive origi- nality and the poetic force which distinguish Nodier. As has already been observed, the older foreign literature which had hitherto been kept out of France, and the new, which was captivating men's minds by its novelty, were simultaneously seized on and assimilated by the young generation, with an eagerness exactly proportioned to the vehemence with which the works in question repudiated the rules adhered to in earlier French literature.

Before the eyes of the young school there was, as it were, a prism, which refracted all rays in a certain uniform manner. The rays which passed through changed their character in the process. The name of Shakespeare early became the great rallying cry of the Romanticists. August Wilhelm Schlegel had pre- pared the way for Shakespeare ; in his famous Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature, which were published in French as well as German, he had been the first to extol and expound him.

Mercier, the French " prophet of Romanticism," eagerly took up the cry ; Villemain and Guizot followed suit; imitations and translations, the latter more faithful than those of the previous century, did what in them lay to popularise the name and art of the great Englishman. At the beginning of the Twenties, the pro- gress that had been made was not sufficient to prevent a company of English actors who tried to play Shakespeare in the Porte-St.

Martin theatre, being received with a shower of apples and eggs and cries of: Down with Shakespeare I He was one of Wellington's adjutants! Racine et Shakespeare, p. In the interval Beyle had made his determined effort to procure Shake- speare due recognition ; the Globe published first three times a week, then daily had made its appearance as the organ of the younger generation, and its ablest contributors had conducted the campaign of the new cause with remarkable skill.

Beyle who, in spite of his paradoxicalness, is one of the most clear-headed and original writers of his day, expresses profound admiration for Shakespeare without being guilty of any lack of piety towards Racine, whom he represents as the Englishman's antipodes. He shows that the moments of complete illusion which ought to occur during the course of every theatrical performance, occur more frequently during the representation of Shakespeare's than of Racine's plays, and also that the peculiar pleasure imparted by a tragedy depends upon these same seconds of illusion and the emotion which they leave in the spectator's mind.

Nothing hinders illusion more than admiration of the beautiful verse of a tragedy. The question we have to answer is: What is the task of the dramatic poet? Is it to present us with a beautifully evolved plot in melodious verse, or is it to give a truthful representation of emotions? In his own answer to this question Beyle goes farther than Romantic tragedy, exemplified by Victor Hugo and Alex- andre Dumas, subsequently did ; for he unconditionally rejects verse as a vehicle for tragic drama. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Jan 05, Emma Valieu rated it really liked it Shelves: Il faut de tout pour faire un monde et c'est aussi le cas chez les vampires!

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Not that he's complaining when he gets a new older brother out of the deal. Old alliances are tested and new ones are forged as this wizard makes his own way in the underworld! The Black Bunny by Windseeker reviews Harry's had it with his destined role after the Order does something he can't forgive. Now he's done with both sides of the war and wants to be left alone. But since when have his wishes ever counted for anything? Harry was supposed to be your regular half-blood wizard.

Yet Harry could control magic wandlessly and wordlessly at the age of four. As Harry begins Hogwarts and the dark lord rises, Harry finds it hard keeping his power and intelligence hidden, especially from his parents. An Alpha's Chance by slayer of destiny reviews When Fenrir comes to kill Harry Potter he isn't expecting what he finds there.

Taking the teen with him, is the offer of a new life and safety something that Harry can really trust? What will become of it? What will Dumbledore do when his defender is no longer controllable by him? What will the magical world do with a confident Harry Potter who becomes aware of his own power and position? Who is the mysterious warrior? But when he gets there, he finds that he can't do it. The Dark Lord quickly learns that the teen is far too valuable to kill, because Harry Potter belongs to him.

In more ways than one. Title and summary subject to future change. In Another Time by animeotaku20 reviews During his newest adventure, Harry Potter discovers that not all of his accidents have bad consequences, and a long-held wish is finally granted. Parental Guidance by foxgloves reviews It was always a possibility that Jiraiya had fathered a few children in his travels.

He never knew she existed; Kagome's been looking for him for years. When she finds herself in Konoha, a struggle to get to know each other ensues. Can You Protect Me? Harry comes into a creature inheritance and finds out that he has not one, but two mates. Will they be able to protect him from anything else happening to him? Will they be what he needs to flourish and lives happily?

Love and War by DianaMoth reviews There is a time and place for everything. The battlefield isn't where Yoshino will find love, but afterwards Shikaku certainly doesn't seem to object. Wei on pixiv, id ] Naruto - Rated: Fascination by Laurenke1 reviews Harry had always been fascinated by Slytherins but he couldn't suspect that they would teach him about caring on Christmas Eve.

Shield by manapohaku2 reviews Non - Magic AU. Why did he choose to become a therapist again? At a school none the less! What was he drunk at the time? Hibari, Lambo, Mukuro R. Princess by Emmabeth27 reviews Kinktober Day 2, dirty talk day! What better way than to have a little phone sex? Naruto is using the day alone in the apartment to have a little "special time" when his boyfriend Kakashi calls. Naruto isn't sure about the whole thing but when Kakashi calls him "Princess" Naruto is willing to do anything.

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Breaking the Sky by sakurademonalchemist reviews Left behind by her callous and idiotic father after he unexpectedly takes her mother on a year long cruise, Kiseki Sawada finds herself with an unexpected talent in a game called Dragon Drive. Except it's not all sunshine and roses Slip Up by wolfsrainrules reviews Skull wonders sometimes, what they would think of him if they ever found out. He had lied for over 30 years to them after all.

But they had never noticed. And then he doesn't have to wonder anymore. Hear me Roar by Chimebelle reviews For friends, Harry will do anything. So it's no surprise that when Regulus Black calls her, she goes to help him without even a bit of hesitance. She didn't know that from then on, her life would be quite Inspired by breather's Indebted. Equus by sakurademonalchemist reviews Harmony Potter prefers the life of a simple horse rancher after she left England.

Too bad fate has other plans, as she meets Dino Cavallone who is more than a simple man. He's the don of a mafia familigia! Harmony finds herself married into the mafia, but that's only the start of her chaotic new life. And she wouldn't have it any other way! Ascension by nwyd reviews After the Dursleys dump her on a train headed for Namimori, a chance meeting with the Hibari family pretty much knocks her intended future off course. Harry finds that she doesn't mind that much, though between the multicoloured flames and crazy-weird hitmen, her life has gotten decidedly strange lately. Little Mockingbird by BlueRowley reviews Sirius babysits two-year-old Harry Snape for an afternoon while Severus sells potions to different apothecaries.

When Sirius lets slip a few curse words, little Harry begins repeating them. Will Sirius be able to make Harry stop saying those naughty words before Severus returns?

A one-shot in the Second Chances Reality. Rated T for language. The world at large seems to take this as a sign it can treat her however it wishes. Familial Blessing by ImmemorialMemory reviews Harry only wanted to meet his cousin. He didn't expect to get saddled with her blue-eyed, whiskered-cheeked, recently-orphaned baby. Yet in accordance with his Potter luck, he wasn't going to get what he wanted at all.

One Handed Applause by Barrel of Monkeys reviews The world of sports can always change due to one wild card. Harry Potter is a wild card that will change the Japanese middle school tennis scene. After all what's a better present than a little brother? Ouais, comme quoi la vie d'une voleuse c'est pas toujours si simple It is 'That' time of Month for our dear Decima, and her Famiglia know what that means. It's just unfortunate that not everyone is as up to date with the warnings. Wrathful Skies by sakurademonalchemist reviews She never had a real family, at least until her brother's Rain found her.

Now she's learning to be Quality while dating a homicidal exiled Prince and trained by Viper. The Wizards won't know what hit them, and neither will the mafia. And things only get more interesting when her brother finally returns to his rightful place. Can the two learn to get along?

The Fairest Shield by Strigi reviews Runa Fair-Shield never thought she would live to see the day that she would regret being adopted by the Dragonborn. However, playing the pivotal role as the rebellious teenager has Runa resisting the Dragonborn's widespread wealth and influence as she strives to make a name for herself in the Companions and rule the matters of her own heart without her adopted mother's iron rules. Wizard Kingpin by Odin reviews Harry Potter meets some very interesting people in his youth, they help him grow to be someone the Wizarding World never expected.

Dumbledore will realize sometimes the best plans don't go how you want them to. The balance of light and dark wavers through time and only Harry can maintain the balance. Done with his dying world Harry sends himself to another in hopes that it will not be as boring as his own. HEA Adopted from yaoi fangirl K - English - Romance - Chapters: Country Road by Cissnei69 reviews Learning that she wasn t a Potter by blood won't have happened if she hadn't taken Divination.

And in the end, Harry ended finding more than her biological family. Strictly Speaking by Flare Warrior reviews Harry is instructed to meet his soulmate to prevent an untimely outburst should they meet sometime in the future. Unfortunately, he meets Dean a few short seconds after he meets Eggsy. An Unexpected Meeting by LenaTheProfessionalStudent reviews Vilkas had spotted a lone figure battling a dragon, being a companion and a Nord, his sense of pride leads him to join the fight.

However, he soon discovers this lone warrior is no ordinary person, but the fabled Dragonborn. Shocked and tongue-tied by her presence, he has no idea the DB is actually the whelp he hates. DB in disguise Elder Scroll series - Rated: What he hadn't expected though, was the boy already having a Guardian. But who really is Narukami Haruka? Lui, le terrible Mangemorts Severus Snape What color do you like? Dating Problems by Lady Hallen reviews Harry needs to continue the family line. The thing is, she can't seem to keep a date beyond an hour.

Summoning herself a partner seems to be an excellent solution. But they didn't need the help of the Byakugan to know that there was something special about their heiress. Harmonic Symphony by sakurademonalchemist reviews A single event can change anyone's life. For Tsuna, it was finding a violin after being locked up in an abandoned music room.

With no friends and no reason not to try, music quickly becomes his life, opening up new doors and some unexpected new allies. His life quickly begins to change long before a baby wearing a fedora appears to train him. He leaves his friends in search of a safe place to raise the child. Dragonborn's main quest, "Filial Bonds," and "Retaking Thirsk"; also the Companions' questline and the conclusion of Skyrim's main quest. A Chance of a Storm by slayer of destiny reviews Harry is getting ready to go back to Hogwarts, but with it comes facing Dumbledore.

What's a girl to do? Fluffy follow-up to Awakenings. Awakenings by EmbersOfAmber reviews He picked up one of her sleeping yukatas. His nose was assaulted by a powerful smell, sweat and the smell of a woman's arousal. Sleepwear Tips by Flare Warrior reviews Eggsy stumbles in on Harry wearing very little and has trouble leaving. Our Boss is a Yanki!

Sawada Tsunade was the textbook stereotype of a delinquent. To think this girl is slotted in to become the 10th generation boss of the Vongola Famiglia Reborn has his work cut out for him with this one, that's for sure.

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Tsuna] Katekyo Hitman Reborn! Silver Lining by Chai Em Lee reviews [Hiatus] [Rewrite Ongoing] Skull met a lonely and injured little boy in a park one day and vowed to help in any way he could. Harry met a strange and pushy tiny adult that just wouldn't go away. Drabble fic featuring an Overprotective! Skull and a Cute! The Purrfect Life by misteeirene reviews Harry learns the truth about his heritage after he is rescued by his godfathers.

Can his family keep him safe from Dumbledore and all the dominates? The first lilacs of spring by shadowleaves reviews Harriet Potter-Black never wanted this. But that's where she is now, so she'd better deal with it. And sadly, most of them belonged in a mental asylum, but she too gets no room to complain. Unexpected developments by slayer of destiny reviews After different events in The Department of Mysteries Harry gets some shocking news.

His whole life is about to change course, and Lucius Malfoy gets a second chance to love.

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Assembly Required by indraaas reviews "natsu you fuck, I sent you to build a wardobe not marry my fucking sister" - they probably have the movie rights to this one. The Hunter and the Wizard by slayer of destiny reviews Dean has been keeping secrets for a while now, from everyone, including Sam. However a Demon is going to spill the beans on him, and he will have to explain two new someone's to John, Sam and Bobby. Lost and Better Off Not Found by phoenixmaiden13 reviews Missing for 8 years Harry Potter is finally found and returns to the wizarding world and he is taking them by storm.

Bitches better watch out, this Harry Potter doesn't take no shit from nobody. OOC, Mild references to slash. In which Tsuna can't believe the hottest guy on campus agreed to the crazy plan his friends devised to get him away from his 'ex' who was really a stalker and Reborn who has no idea what to make of Tsuna and his crazy friends or why he makes a good fake boyfriend aside from his father's power.

OR the AU where Reborn is the lonely normal one. Hariel Potter wakes up in another world, with a dying mother dragon and four baby dragons to provide for. M - English - Adventure - Chapters: Little White Lies by Laetus Fabricor reviews Did you know that in , an experiment proved that adults on average lie at least once every ten minutes per conversation. The adults Harry had met far exceeded that average. Maybe he was just unlucky? Watch as he lives and attempts to avoid liars A Marriage Courtship by slayer of destiny reviews After the defeat of Voldemort Harry receives a letter requesting a courtship from King Rhaegar, he agrees to the courtship and gets swept away in courtship, romance and a different world to the one he is used to.

The Musician of Death by Rose the Wary Wolf reviews Harry Potter was fond of the red haired man who escaped death and debt collectors at every turn. But, when the man picks up a scarred and nameless child, Harry very nearly falls in love. Joining hands with Marian Cross to raise Allen Walker was just the beginning.

So of course she ends up with wolf shifters and vegan vampires as neighbors. Then Voldemort starts corresponding with her. Parallel Worlds by alonelynight reviews Mai works at a library where she met a tall brooding man. This meeting changed her life forever cliche right? When before, the only problem she has is money, now, she has obsessed ghosts, strange dreams, and dark haired men making her life more chaotic.

Hunter x Of x Flames by sakurademonalchemist reviews The Association and the Underworld have always had a tentative truce between them. But that agreement is thrown into question when the last heir of the Vongola decides to become a Hunter to escape the mafioso that chase him. Too bad he doesn't have much of a choice, but he won't bow to their whims so easily. The Vongola will either rise from the ashes of their mistakes, or fall.

Obliviousness runs in the Family by UnknownRegion reviews After millennium of only Death as company, Harry's common sense became pretty skewered. A bored Harry made his way to the Human Realm, and even after his death, his Potter luck doomed him into being the Sky Arcabaleno. Coping Mechanisms by sakurademonalchemist reviews Everyone has a way to cope with the stress of everyday life. Some just have more unusual methods than most. A minor joke Nana plays on her son takes a life of it's own as Tsuna finds an "out" of his everyday life that makes everything better for him. It just comes at the cost of his gender identity and whatever chance for normal he had.

Gender-fluid Tsuna Katekyo Hitman Reborn! Starts after Sherlock is resurrected S3E1: The Sign of Three. He wasn't the charitable sort. He was the type of boy who kicked stray dogs when they came begging for scraps from him and his mother. Who bared his teeth at the other homeless kids when they looked at him. But this time, he extended a hand to the soaking wet scrap of fluff hidden in a box. And for what was probably the first time in his life, his hand was taken.

This takes place a year and a half after Harry's turning. Carlisle is concerned after Harry starts exhibiting some strange behaviors. Even after all tests prove that his mate is healthy. Carlisle is still worried. Handprint On My Heart by tlyxor1 reviews A series of unrelated ficlets in which fem! Harry meets her soulmate. Or, alternatively, that one in which fem!

Harry has a different name in each ficlet. To Kill a Bull by Discoabc reviews "At least the other clan kids of the series had something to protect themselves with practically from birth. Sakura was blessed with the oh so helpful gift of a larger than average forehead. I refused to be that remedy. Grimm Nights by slayer of destiny reviews Harry fell in love with Nick when he was in Portland, but he left when Juliet started regaining her memories.

Now though he is forced to return for Nick's help. But how does the Grimm feel about Harry, and their baby? What will happen now that Juliet is showing her true colours? Cirrus Cloud by silenceia reviews In which you are Acacia Potter who becomes Skull de Mort and makes tons of awesome friends along the way. Almost completely angst-free, isn't that great? An equally bored Voldemort decides to write back. And thus, a summer of secrets is born, and the enemy named boredom is fended off.

It's not her husband turning into a dragon? What's bigger than that? Found by Nyteflyer35 reviews Odin levies an unusual punishment on Loki when he is returned to Asgard after his defeat on Midgard. When Harry Potter opens his door one morning to find a baby abandoned on his doorstep, he is reminded forcefully of his own childhood. He swears this child will grow up knowing he is loved and wanted. Father by FinalXFantasy91 reviews One shot. In which Tsuna accidentally calls his tutor-turned-father-figure 'Tou-san' and wants to dig a ten-meter hole to die from embarrassment.

Reborn just finds it amusing. K - English - Chapters: Altair by StillWatersAreDeep reviews At Hogwarts all 7th year students are allowed to sign up for new elective classes, called Altair's subjects by the students. What will happen when Draco and Harry become partners? The Sweet Werewolf by ScarletRedfox reviews Farkas has been known to be a bit of a 'icebrain' and a little slow when it came to the problems of the world and the political side of the war raging on.

His brother was the tough bookworm and Farkas was the headstrong warrior rushing straight into battle without a plan. She used to have a something of a soft spot for Farkas, but with the revelation of October 12, Potty Training: How is this my responsibility? Jasmine Flowers by ImmemorialMemory reviews Kushina beamed at her daughter. She was such a pretty thing, her eldest. Minato's face and personality but Kushina's hair and eyes. And all awesome of course, just like her kaa-san! Harry is reborn as Namikaze Hanari, the Hokage's only daughter. Couper les cheveux de Squalo.

Inscrire Xanxus aux alcooliques anonymes K - French - Humor - Chapters: Heritage by White Angel of Auralon reviews Harry Potter is more than a wizard, he's descended from two powerful clans of the Elemental Nations. Thanks to his parents taking precautions he will work on training both sides of his heritage. And people better didn't try to stop him. Will contain some bashing, see summary, no pairings yet. Rekindled by Insanity-Red reviews When phoenix tears aren't enough down in the Chamber of Secrets, Fawkes is forced to take drastic measures.

This results in a Fem! Harry with new powers and no control. In a new place, separated from all she knew, how will Harry cope - with her situation, and her new abilities? And what will happen back at home while she's away? At least the local fauna seems friendly. Eggsy Unwin is an unstoppable force of good. They like each other more than is expected. Luckily, most of them are weirder. Unluckily, Eggsy is not. Sanguinary by Tsume Yuki reviews Vampire venom has a way of eating through human memories. Having lived one life and remembered another before being turned, it's no surprise Lucy has a bit of a problem trying to remain focused.

I was planning to wait and see when you were ready but if you're so eager and ready then let's just do it now. The Path Less Traveled by CatsTales reviews Slytherin is known for being the House of deceptions and secrets but Gryffindors have plenty of secrets of their own and mastered deception before Godric Gryffindor ever left the halls of Hogwarts. Gryffindor is the House of the creature races and their resident celebrity - the famous Boy-Who-Lived - is not as human as everyone expects. Protection Detail by Whitsie reviews Dealing with Harry Potter was always guaranteed to leave Nick Fury with a headache and a worldwide crisis to deal with.

Roller Coaster by LittleLawLover reviews Neo Lyn is stuck on a roller coaster with a tall, black haired man wearing a spotted hat. She finds him handsome and his voice sexy.

But the real ride of her life starts when she finally realizes who he is. And that he has his eyes on her. And he's not letting her go. Hadrian Phantomhive by DarkeningBlur. Will the Potters want him back? Will Dumbledore use him? Can Ciel, Sebastian, Sirius and Remus protect him? Nights Tale by V1ct0r1a-Bar3ll0 reviews AU Harry has a different past, one that ties him directly to one of the founders, but when his parents aren't even Lily and James he will be forced to go through the biggest change of his life. And the sharpest turn in the war.

It doesn't take long to see the family resemblance. Partners in Crime by sakurademonalchemist reviews She was an exiled Princess, and he was a Warlock from two ancient lines. Under any other circumstances they never would have met, let alone joined forces.

Found by Xanxus, the two make the most terrifying duo the Varia has ever seen Will the wizards survive their return, or will Belphegor's past catch up to her? While he was human, Carlisle had a baby son but when he was turned he had to give him away. Now, over years later, its time for Carlisle and Harry to be reunited! However, things aren't as easy as they seem. Contains swearing, child abuse and violence. Papa, pourquoi tu pleures? Mais c'est dur d'apprendre la trahison. What if the child prodigy Thomas Riddle had tweaked the horcrux spell before creating them?

And what happens when they discover that nothing is exactly what it seems? Mai becomes closer to a certain monk, while they attempt to figure out why a dark entity is haunting a seemingly innocent man and his lover. Naru finally gets told off for his arrogance, and the truth about Bou-san's past finally comes out. All isn't as it seems. When Iku Gets Pregnant: Library Wars Baby Edition by Whimsical Tea Party reviews "Iku let out a shriek loud enough to be heard down the hall, out the window, and around the whole vicinity of her apartment.

Library War - Rated: P-chan reviews An unexpected visitor arrives at Vongola HQ. Just another day for the Vongola. Notre cher Harry aurait-il quelques soucis? M - French - Humor - Chapters: Perfect examples of self control and discipline her little half-blood ass! Oc Naruto - Rated: Sakura by Darkpetal16 reviews Dying and being reborn into Sakura Haruno's body at the start of Naruto can really put a spin on a girl's perspective. Something is happening to him, something new and unfamiliar.

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Is he losing control over his inner wolf, or perhaps there is another explanation? The owl seems to be pleading for help, and Voldemort makes the sudden decision to get Harry and bring him to the manor. But when he reaches Privet Drive, he finds that things with his enemy aren't what they seem to be.

With the truth comes a new life for Harry because it brings him a whole new family. Or at the very least, a new father. Join Harry as life as he knows it is turned upside down. Eventual OC for Sev. A Vision of Loveliness by FatesMistake reviews Severus has a premonition about someone being in very real danger, even after the Dark Lord has gone. In typical Gryffindor fashion, Severus finds all his preconceived notions turned on their head as Potter makes himself at home. After dying of old age, Death decides his mistress' next great adventure should be special. So Violet Potter is reborn as Uzumaki Sachi, and her story writes itself anew.

Rated for a couple of swears. Like becoming Xanxus' Cloud Guardian, among other things. One shot for now - might be more depending on popularity and urge to write. Sugar Daddy by OfPaintAndOil reviews He was ten years her senior and liked nothing more than buying her expensive things.

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