The Minutiae of Life as a Militant Squirrel

OMG, everyone in the world MUST DROP EVERYTHING right now, and run and read this story!

It's SPN / Harry Potter crossover, and it just . . . I . . . Dean . . . *flails*

I've never even read Harry Potter, and I loved it. Totally and completely, with so much love. This is-- yep, this is definitely Dean at Hogwarts. Without a doubt.

astolat throws some great lines into her stories. Here's the one that made me laugh so hard, I scared the dog:

"Great," Dean said. "I've been mugged by an owl. Shut up, bitch, it's not funny."

Oh, Dean, honey, you're so wrong-- it *is* funny. Also smart and sweet and just so right. I'm now quite convinced that this is canon.

Dean is the way I love him best . . . trying to get along as best he can, the crunchy exterior hiding the heart of a marshmallow, a good man even when he doesn't want or mean to be. And Sam is his usual self, too intense and too dedicated and just too . . . everything.

I think there are a few things that I might understand better if I'd ever read the Harry Potter books . . . for instance, I don't understand why the unicorn loved Dean quite so much. Or the thing about the wands? Or why they can't keep a steady instructor for the DADA course? Or really, the enmity between the different houses?

What I loved best, I think, is the ways that showed the brothers and their relationships with others. How the Slytherins, led by Draco, got Sam off the hook for destroying a boggart; how Dean unifies the Hufflepuffs without even meaning to, just by handling kids the only way he knows; how he becomes an honorary goblin, of a sort.

*squees quietly*

Well, why are you still sitting here, watching my antics? Go and READ!!!!

I think I've re-read this story about fifty times in the last two days . . . and all for just this snippet:

"Don't tell anybody or anything, Rodney," John said sarcastically, walking up the garage steps into the kitchen, "but it's not actually FBI procedure to shoot people in the neck willy-nilly. But we don't like that being too public in case the sheep get restless."

"Well, bleat bleat bleat!" Rodney shouted after him, storming into the kitchen, eyes blazing. "One incredibly malcontent sheep right here!"

*falls down laughing*

It's from Pru's sequel to Hindsight, and I swear to God . . . funniest thing. EVER.

Of course, the problem with reading wonderful stories by excellent authors is that I look at my own, pathetic little attempts and *weep*.