Fic: Unlocked by pelespen

[hermionemods]

Title: Unlocked
Author/Penname: pelespen
Artists: treeson & venturous1
Pairing/Characters: Hermione Granger/Sirius Black
Summary: Driven to near-insanity at the hand of Bellatrix Lestrange, Hermione finds her solace and reason to survive in thoughts and memories of her love. How will she find her way out of the safety of her own mind, however, and what does the future

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[pelespen]

Really? WOW. This was an awesome thing to wake up to. And seriously - I read this comment and said "really? with a head-cock. I have too much personal angst associated with this story, I think. It was a LOT of work to get the situation and Hermione's characterization to where I could live with it.

Part of me thinks I should never have tackled it, because all that anguish and pain and indignant anger and hurt was me "protecting" my dear Hermione, if that makes sense. It was stressful as hell, and came at the final realization that something I thought was a friendship was nothing more than a fandom acquaintance. A very incompatable one at that. At least in my efforts to save Hermione's character, what I wrote really was a completely separate story, and with the exception of one or two minor plot points, it's all mine.

And I did learn SO MUCH about my own sense of characters from this. It makes me squee greatly, all the things you said about the female characters, and yeah, everything else! If I'd had more enthusiasm and no time limit, rest assured there would have been a lot more Twins/Hermione action of some sort (probably not sex, but more of a relationship buildup), and she probably would NOT have been a virgin by the time Sirius pulled his head out of his ass. AND he would have actually pulled it out of his ass and learned what he supposedly "loved" about her, instead of Deus Ex Machina in the form of Lily/James. Lots of coulda woulda shouldas there. I don't think I've read it since HBB, so maybe I should, but maybe I'd just get distracted wanting to "fix" stuff.
Ultimately, tho, I think the stress of writing it helped me improve a bit as a writer.

I would completely and totally support you 1000% in a Viktor/Hermione fic. *cough*BulgarianBigBang*cough* If you want more encouragement for how awesome they can be, go to thimble_kiss