Happy H/D Holidays twistedm!! | A Good Book - R

[zhonnika]

Title: A Good Book
Author: wook77
Recipients Name:twistedm

Summary: Harry reads the end of the book before he buys it. When it comes time to write his own, it’s only natural he writes the ending first. Sometimes, endings are meant to change.
Rating: R
Disclaimer: All recognisable bits from the universe of Harry Potter belong to JK Rowling. The rest are products

Comments

[twistedm]

i am so excited!!! *rushes off to read*

[twistedm]

i enjoyed it so much!
thanks for not putting xmas in, just like i wanted. ;)
i liked the way he wrote one ending at the beginning of your story but a totally different and much better ending for the real book.
i like how it took me a while to figure out who horatio was, draco or harry.
i like how harry tries to take care of dobby while dobby tries to take care of him.
i laughed when draco grabbed the tampon trolley!
i love UST and then RST and a happy ending. thank you so much! what a great gift. :) :)

[wook77]

I'm very very glad you liked this. I know that your request asked for PWP but, err, I'm completely incapable of writing PWP.

I tried to make sure that Horatio seemed like it could be either, just my way of conveying that everyone could bear the scars of war similarly.

Anyway, I'm relieved that you liked this! Thanks so much for commenting!

[sporadic__]

Oh, the ending.

This was just perfect. I love it. Incredible. Totally believable.

[wook77]

Thanks muchly! I'm a big fan of realism so that you think it was totally believable is a huge compliment!

[shiny_crystal]

Ah, lovely. Now, this is one of the few Dracos at work that I can believe. And poor Harry, so broken. I like the dynamics between the two of them. And the way this is written, with a passage from the book and then their story to underline it. Ah, and the ending. Such a lovely, hopeful last line. Well done fic, I really enjoyed reading it!

[wook77]

Thanks. When I came up with the idea for Draco owning a grocery store, my friends thought I was nuts. Heck, I thought I was nuts. But, it stuck and I had to figure out how to make it work.

I'm glad that the passages worked for you! I've been writing in a similar style for most everything lately and sometimes it works better than at other times *grins*.

Now that I'm rambling, I'll cut myself off before I bore you. Thanks so much for your comments!

[aldebaran1977]

I really loved this story with the story incorporated in it. And the ending was just perfect. Even if it wasn`t, in a way.

The only thing that surprised me was that both of them were only in their late 20`s because their voices sounded so much older. But that might be what a war does to a person after all and they both had their (un)fair share of hardships and tragedies then.

[wook77]

Thank you so much!

The older voices were done intentionally. I used my uncle as a reference for it. My aunt remarked when my uncle came back from war that he sounded older, more tired and he'd changed more than she'd thought he would. The first section of "Harry's book" is actually taken from a short story I wrote about my uncle... so in a way, this is my way of paying tribute to him.

[dark0feenix]

What a lovely fic! I really enjoyed the peaceful, bitter sweet feel of it, and the dialogue between Harry and Draco was just hilarious at times. Horatio and Declan indeed. ;)

Just as Draco walked into the store from the back room, Potter walked in the front. Some would call it kismet; Draco called it shite luck

[wook77]

Thank you very much!

Those were my favourite sections, actually. I tried to think of the most ridiculous thing that a woman could have in her cart when Draco went to grab it and the only thing that sprang to mind were the tampons.

Draco, in my head, is quite the snarky git... so I'm glad that I had you chuckling with the exchanges, especially!