MetaFic

I love those fics where the writer praises their beta and then you get to laugh at the howlers that said wonderful beta has let through.

Here's an example from http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4212747/1/Just_One_of_the_Guys

'The two headed off as Ginny waved her goodbyes to the shocked filth years'

Any others?

Has started the beta process.

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If there was one thing that the 18-year-old Harry Potter had become used to in his life, it was being lied to. Even those who called him their friend or, Merlin forbid, his family, regularly kept vital information from him for, as they described it, his own good.

And today, sadly, was no exception to that rule.

As he sat in the faded, but comfortable, high backed red leather chair opposite his godfather, he didn't know whether to laugh or cry at this latest occurrence. Or better still, just get up and leave.

Ginny looked over her shoulder and watched Harry head towards the door. Throughout the morning she had been aware that Hermione had felt somewhat on the periphery of events. She found it hard to suppress a feeling of satisfaction that the relationships that were important to Harry now, were not the ones on which he had relied in Hogwarts.

This is a bit rougher than the rest of the chapter. Comments welcome.

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It was funny, thought Harry as he surveyed the chattering witches and wizards of him, how things never really turn out how you thought they would.

I'm in the process of posting this... with a little help.
Surprisingly I enjoyed re-reading it and managed to avoid making any major changes. It is a unique version though. I won't post 12M here cos the early, pre-sherry chapters would require too much editing.

 PS Thanks to Phil for additional beta bits :-)

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here is the next bit.Its slow progress but progress nonetheless. The problem with being able to focus and concentrate once more is that there are so many thing you want to do.

Any way, here it is in all its unbeta'd glory.:

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“Mum?” called Ginny as she poked her head into Harry’s fireplace. “Are you up yet?” She tried to make her voice sound as upbeat as possible so that her mum wouldn’t assume the worse. The loud crash and the scurrying of feet told her that she hadn’t succeeded.

I've worked on a few things this week; bits of 12Ms and more on Sins of the Fathers.

Thanks to those who offered to help. Three of my existing beta people came back and said they were ok to look at Sins. One hates Au, one loves it (but only if it involves Snape and Hermione) and the third is Sherry who we know is an all round good egg.

I would hope the first chapter of Sins would be in beta by next weekend not so sure about 12M.

As most of you know, I'm slowly working my way back into writing. I find myself in need of a beta as I work on Sins of the Fathers. I do have an existing beta team for the stuff I post at PS but none of them, as far as I know actively read AU fics.
So if you'd like to help comment below and we'll have a chat.

Thanks

I am really.... 

Slytherin Harry is a more common beast than Slytherin Ginny and as part of my exercise earlier in the read to rewrite fanfic clichés this was one I delved into.

I must admit that I found it harder to write Slytherin Harry than Ginny because .... well I struggled to make him realistic. However, I persevered and the result was Sins of the Fathers which is now a fully plotted but unfinished story. I wanted to write the story in full before publishing it but I'm now tempted to start with what I have and continue.