Fic: An Inconvenient View
Title:An Inconvenient View
Author: curiouslyfic
Rating: M
Word Count: 6000
Warnings: brief scene of students being hit with crucio
Summary: There is, by Merlin, some Slytherin future that's not all raging fires and death. She knows because she's seen the porn.
Why I loved it: Wow, this fic. It's very different from your typical HD story. It's all Pansy's POV--she's taking divination in 6th year and is getting (real) glimpses of the future. Some scenes she sees we know about from the books, and some scenes take place after the war showing Harry and Draco together (which Pansy is less surprised about than you might think). But it's frustrating for her, and a little bit for us, because she only gets glimpses and can't control what she sees or understand when it takes place and what she should do about it. But it's fascinating. The way the author shows us fractured scenes makes the reader feel just as impatient and eager for more as Pansy. Beautiful, poignant, and hopeful too. And Pansy (and Trelawney!) feel totally in character.
Excerpt:
She wants to think it's who she thinks it is. That they're both who she expects of wild dark hair and ridiculously self-possessed blonds and that this, this is something in their future but it's hard to say. This isn't a class known for producing results and she'd hate to think herself the first in her House's history to actually have one. Embarrassing, a Slytherin good at Divination. Improbable, anyone actually learning it at Hogwarts.
Author: curiouslyfic
Rating: M
Word Count: 6000
Warnings: brief scene of students being hit with crucio
Summary: There is, by Merlin, some Slytherin future that's not all raging fires and death. She knows because she's seen the porn.
Why I loved it: Wow, this fic. It's very different from your typical HD story. It's all Pansy's POV--she's taking divination in 6th year and is getting (real) glimpses of the future. Some scenes she sees we know about from the books, and some scenes take place after the war showing Harry and Draco together (which Pansy is less surprised about than you might think). But it's frustrating for her, and a little bit for us, because she only gets glimpses and can't control what she sees or understand when it takes place and what she should do about it. But it's fascinating. The way the author shows us fractured scenes makes the reader feel just as impatient and eager for more as Pansy. Beautiful, poignant, and hopeful too. And Pansy (and Trelawney!) feel totally in character.
Excerpt:
She wants to think it's who she thinks it is. That they're both who she expects of wild dark hair and ridiculously self-possessed blonds and that this, this is something in their future but it's hard to say. This isn't a class known for producing results and she'd hate to think herself the first in her House's history to actually have one. Embarrassing, a Slytherin good at Divination. Improbable, anyone actually learning it at Hogwarts.