A fic rec - Tetleybag's "Goodwill"
http://www.fictionalley.org/authors/tetleybag/goodwill01.html
Professor Grubbly-Plank takes a walk in the Forbidden Forest and finds a young girl beating seven bells out of Draco Malfoy. The reason why shows perfect sense and a real understanding of the teen-age experience. These are children doing as children do, not, as so often in HP fiction, shortened adults: in fact, I would not be surprised if it was based on some painful personal memory of early teen embarrassment. And while the point that Tetleybag has to make could, in the wrong hands, be controversial and even offensive, the truth to life of the story places it beyond argument. It is written with delicacy and elegance, with not one word too many, without any attempt to make any point except what arises from the story itself. In short, it is a lesson in every aspect of short story writing.
Professor Grubbly-Plank takes a walk in the Forbidden Forest and finds a young girl beating seven bells out of Draco Malfoy. The reason why shows perfect sense and a real understanding of the teen-age experience. These are children doing as children do, not, as so often in HP fiction, shortened adults: in fact, I would not be surprised if it was based on some painful personal memory of early teen embarrassment. And while the point that Tetleybag has to make could, in the wrong hands, be controversial and even offensive, the truth to life of the story places it beyond argument. It is written with delicacy and elegance, with not one word too many, without any attempt to make any point except what arises from the story itself. In short, it is a lesson in every aspect of short story writing.