The One With Everybody Stuck in Second Gear

[fics_by_fumph]

Title: The One With Everybody Stuck In Second Gear

Author: Fics-By-Fumph

Rating: PG

Length: 4278

Summary: A runaway bride shakes things up. Harry Potter in the style of Friends.

Warning: Quite possibly crack!fic. And romance rears its ugly head eventually, but it’s not the main focus of the story.

Author’s note: First half of story borrowed very heavily

Comments

[romanesca08]

Cute fic! :) I probably would've had Hermione as Monica, Ginny as Rachel, Harry as Ross, and Ron as Chandler, but I guess it all depends on how you look at it. Luna as Phoebe was awesome though.

[fics_by_fumph]

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it! You have the honour of being my first ever LJ feedback!

The main reason I had Ginny and Ron as Monica and Ross was because of the sister and brother relationship, though I guess that would have worked in a figurative sense with Hermione and Harry.

[fbo66]

Oh i'm a huge fan of Friends! This was really good, and a great idea for a fic! Although, is it sad that i knew all of their lines? I friended you by the way.

[fics_by_fumph]

Thanks for commenting, and thanks for friending me! I'm a huge fan of Friends too, though writing this reminded me that I haven't watched enough of it recently.

[aggiebell90]

This was really well-written, I think. Very poignant and bitter-sweet in parts, with enough humor to keep it from bogging down in the angst. What I really liked was seeing Ginny's thoughts and feelings as things were happening around her. You don't get that
when you watch things as opposed to reading them.

I haven't seen the Friends' episode you based this on, so everything that happened in the story was new to me.

Poor Hermione. What a horrid choice to have to make. I loved seeing Harry come back to himself, and to see he and Ginny reconcile. It was just lovely and left me with a calm, happy feeling. :D

Very nice. I hope you keep writing, because I'd like to read more from you (which is why I friended you).

~Julie

[fics_by_fumph]

Thanks, Julie, I'm glad you enjoyed it!

You're actually beta over at PS.net for a story I'm co-writing under the pen-name Felix-Felicitas (chapter 11 should be on its way to you at some point!), so it's nice to see you here.

[aggiebell90]

See, I thought the style was familiar, and I wondered after you reviewed The Wishing Tree (I'm getting to those responses right now!) and friended my fic journal. But then I thought I might be crazy. Nice to know I'm not totally losing my mind. :-)

And yay for chapter 11! I'm biting my nails here, waiting to see what happens next.

Erm...if you want, you could post both of these stories at PS, too, either under your own name or under the F-F name. You're already published there (and I'm already your beta), so it'd be no trouble.

(That was a not-so-subtle hint, btw. :P)

~J

[fics_by_fumph]

Oh, I forgot that ps.net takes Remus/Tonk stories too! I was planning on submitting this fic when submissions opened again, but I'm so used to thinking of that site as Harry/Ginny that I hadn't even thought of sending Beautiful Boy in!

I'll send you the word docs then, if that's ok!

[verogeller]

Great!! Friends and Harry Potter is the best convination, hehehe I'm a huge fan of both, and I see why you chose each character to be who they were, because of Ron and Ginny being brother and sister.

Would you mind if I friend you?

[fics_by_fumph]

I'm glad you enjoyed it, it was so much fun to write!

And I'd love it if you'd friend me.

[fics_by_fumph]

Oh, thank you! I like Neville as Joey, too.

It's funny, I wasn't sure if this fic would work when I was writing it, but people really seem to have liked it.