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Happy H/D Holidays, a4_letter!

Dec 16, 2008 19:42

Author: grey_hunter
Recipient: a4_letter
Title: Grand Prix
Pairing(s): Harry/Draco, past Harry/Ginny
Summary: Snippets and titbits from the heroic age of Wizard Racing, including but not limited to: exciting battles for the Championship title, exotic places, fan lore, and salacious facts about the no-less-salacious private lives of the first contributors to this fine ( Read more... )

ewe, rated: pg-13, [long/chaptered fic], rated: nc-17, [fic], round: winter 2008

Comments 81

coffeejunkii December 17 2008, 03:44:21 UTC

completely and utterly brilliant! i love the idea of wizard racing and the entire culture you've created around it. even though i don't enjoy the quidditch commentary in the books, listening to roy and mac was funny [especialy after reading at the end who exactly they were!]. i also loved all the little details, from the ice hotel to guns and handcuffs [!!!], the flying carpet from ikea [LOL], and the flailing sock puppet. harry and draco were most adorable, too, especially in their need to believe in a love potion to finally cave in to their attraction to one another. this is certainly one of the most original h/d fics i've read in a very long time.

grey_hunter January 11 2009, 15:45:10 UTC

Thank you for this comment and also for reccing! ♥

To be honest, I didn't like the Quidditch commentary in the books all that much either, so I thought I should do something different here - hence the actual racing part happened more or less off-screen. ;) And I had fun writing Mac and Roy - it was a real challenge to make them sound a little like they did in canon but not overdo it in order to keep their identities secret until the end. I have a special love for crazy details. *snickers* And the love potion-twist was something I had wanted to write for a long time now. I'm glad you enjoyed it. ^^

zephre December 17 2008, 03:47:01 UTC

hilarious! wonderful build-up of the AU, lovely dialogue.
the reveal of Roy and Mac at the end made me laugh out loud.

grey_hunter January 11 2009, 15:45:54 UTC

Thank you! I like creating alternate universes and making people laugh. ;)

otakuangel December 17 2008, 05:35:43 UTC

AMAZING!!! I love, love, loved the whole idea of professional broom racing in the wizarding world- especially with MacLaggen and Lockhart as the the sportscasters! I personally really enjoy sports commentating, and yours was spot on! Brilliant! I also enjoyed that Draco and Harry weren't really under a love potion at all! Denial is a long river in Egypt, boys! This was a ridiculously enjoyable read. Thank you!

grey_hunter January 11 2009, 15:53:16 UTC

Thank you!

To be honest, those two were more based on the commentators I heard when I used to watch F1 than their canon characterisations but it was fun making those two ends meet somewhere halfway. Denial is also one of the most used clichés, I think, so it was fun to deny denial by way of masking it with inevitablity of a love potion. :P

beatnikspinster December 17 2008, 16:09:09 UTC

I love the idea that the love potion didn't exist! Yay! The announcers were hilarious. And the flaying carpet from IKEA--HILARIOUS! I also really enjoyed the Egyptian glyphs as their name! Nice! :)

grey_hunter January 11 2009, 15:55:46 UTC

Thanks. :D

For some reason, IKEA features a lot in my fics. :P I think I just like the hilarity of making up wizarding variants of thoroughly Muggle things. I'm glad you liked the hieroglyphs - I was not sure people wouldn't find them more annoying than funny.

acromantular December 17 2008, 17:00:32 UTC

This was utter brilliance!
Everything from the names, the locations (ice hotel FTW!), and the ridiculous little details was as near perfect as I can imagine. Trelawney's cameos were excellent as well.

Great story, lovely build-up, amusing plot, great view into racing culture, and some hot scenes, even in cold places.

Loved it, and can't wait to see who you are!

grey_hunter January 11 2009, 16:03:11 UTC

Thank you! I'm always happy when I see you commenting on my fics. I also really enjoyed reading your rec -- and the summary you gave of the fic.

What should I say? I like weird locations and unexpected turns, and making up new magic and giving weird names to the inhabitants of the wizarding world are probably two of my more annoying hobbies. *G* I'm happy you thought the "sex" scenes were hot - I'm not very good at writing them -- or perhaps I should just stop telling myself that and then I'd get better at it. heh

acromantular January 13 2009, 01:33:09 UTC

;)
Does anyone think they write good sex scenes? I suspect we should all just forget about doing them well, and just write them on the theory that more = practic = better. Slightly goofy sex scenes are the best, in my book.