fic for lottelita: One Way Only (The Cattermoles, PG)

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Title: One Way Only
Author: lazy_neutrino
Recipient: lottelita
Rating: PG
Character(s): The Cattermoles
Author's Notes: The third scene draws heavily from Chapter Twelve: 'Might is Magic' of Deathly Hallows; some text is lifted directly, while the rest of that scene tells the same events from a different point of view. Thank you to my wonderful, and very rapid, beta

Comments

[snorkackcatcher]

Good treatment of a rather chilling missing moment.

[lazy_neutrino]

Cheers!

[tacky_tramp]

Ooooh, I love this!

a poster of Harry Potter, emblazoned with the caption UNDESIRABLE NO 1 and adorned with a pink sticky note decorated with a kitten

This is such a great detail, and it's so her. The fluffy face of fascism.

'You have the following rights,'

Rights, my left foot! A suggestion of the way political principles get twisted in service of something terrible. I got chills.

And the last scene is so dreamlike. *snuggles Stan*

Thanks, mystery author!

[lazy_neutrino]

I'm glad you liked it and I hope it fitted your request, which was a lovely one to get. I wish I could take credit for the sticky kitten note, but that's JKR. Sigh! But I loved writing the 'reading the rights' bit. As you say, rights indeed!

And I love Stan. Stan needed a happy ending.

[tulleskirt]

Brilliant, wow. That opening scene is just chilling.

[lazy_neutrino]

Thank you!

[redshoeson]

LOLZ to the very last bit. Stan Shunpike = ♥ This piece fills that missing moment just perfectly. I have indeed been wondering about poor old Reg. Nice Umbridge, too - very in character!

Excellent work, Mystery Author!

[lazy_neutrino]

Umbridge is a foul creation, isn't she? JKR's so deft with her minor characters. And I love Stan to bits. I wanted him to have a happy ending after having such a rotten book 6.

[lyras]

Phew - thanks for giving them a hopeful ending. I do worry about what happened to the Cattermoles. The Stan moment at the end is a lovely piece of comic relief in what is otherwise a tense and disturbing story. Thank you for exploring this bit of backstory!

[lazy_neutrino]

Thank you! I'm not convinced the Cattermoles really got away in the book - they don't seem bright enough. But then people aren't at their best when their terrified, I suppose.