I am Responsible for My Rose by
Lilian_ChoRating: G to PG-13, Gen
Characters: LittlePrince!Harry, Narrator!Snape, and WhiteRose!Draco.
Estimated length: 200-400 pages, 27 chapters
Spoilers: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s
The Little Prince, all Harry Potter books
Warning: potential gay subtext (Two males will proclaim their love to each other. You may choose to read this platonically or romantically.)
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Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, J.K. Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Harcourt, Inc., G.K. Hall, Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books, Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made, and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
About the Author (F-locked)
Dedication Chapter one:
“C’est un chapeau.” (“That is a hat.”)
Back-story to Chapter one:
“Un Chapeau Blanc” (“A White Hat”)
Chapter two:
Mais je fus bien surpris de voir s’illuminer le visage de mon jeune juge. (…a light break over the face of my young judge.)
Chapter three:
“Droit devant soi on ne peut pas aller bien loin...” (“Straight ahead of him, nobody can go very far...”)
Chapter four:
J’éprouve tant de chagrin à raconter ces souvenirs. (I have suffered too much grief in setting down these memories.)
Chapter five:
…car brusquement le petit prince m’interrogea, comme pris d’un doute grave. (For the little prince asked me abruptly--as if seized by a grave doubt...)
Chapter six:
“Attendre que le soleil se couche.” (“For the sunset. We must wait until it is time.”)
Back-story to Chapters five and six:
“Les Couchers de Soleil” (“Sunsets”)--not public yet
Chapter seven:
“Ce n’est pas important la guerre des moutons et des fleurs?”(“Is the warfare between the sheep and the flowers not important?”)
Chapter eight:
Chapter nine:
Chapter ten:
Chapter eleven:
Chapter twelve:
Chapter thirteen:
Chapter fourteen:
Chapter fifteen:
Chapter sixteen:
Chapter seventeen:
Chapter eighteen:
Chapter nineteen:
Chapter twenty:
Chapter twenty-one:
Chapter twenty-two:
Chapter twenty-three:
Chapter twenty-four:
Chapter twenty-five:
Chapter twenty-six:
Chapter twenty-seven:
Harry Potter vocabulary Literary debts:
• Sam’s well-adjusted!Harry and world-weary!Snape in
Stealing Harry/
Laocoon’s Children universe
• Maya’s passionate!Draco and Slytherins in
Underwater Light universe
• Of course, the wonderful Antoine de Saint-Exupéry himself. Read the Little Prince (1944 English translation)
online.
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