FIC for: mandy_jg

[bewarethesmirk]

Title: The Interview
Recipient: mandy_jg
Fic or Art: Fic
Rating: PG (just to be safe)
Characters: Pansy Parkinson, Fred Weasley (also Dean Thomas and Verity)
Warnings: none
Summary: Pansy applies for a job at...Weasley's Wizarding Wheezes.
Notes: Written for mandy_jg who asked for Pansy, Fred or Dean, post-war. Sorry for the tame rating. I hope this is (

Comments

[humantales]

You captured Pansy's desperation nicely, and Fred's discouragement. Nicely done.

[tajareyul]

*whew* Now that we've had the reveal, I can respond.

Thanks so much. One of the things that (IMO) Fred and Pansy have in common is that they don't let their true feelings show. Fred covers everything with humor and Pansy wears that mask of the duitiful Pureblood daughter. So I tried to let the reader see what was going on under the surface without showing too much to the other characters.

[sellthelie]

Ooh, very nice! You wrote Pansy brilliantly, when I read shippy Pansy/Twins, I love it when she works there. So big points! Thank you ever so much for writing this for me. ♥

[tajareyul]

You are so welcome. I wasn't really sure where to go with this at first. Then I saw in your signup template that you like to write stories about the inner workings of the characters rather than just the action. Thanks for the opportunity to get inside the characters' heads!

[cranberry_crash]

I think a job interview with one of the Weasley twins would be a singularly terrifying experience, especially for someone like Pansy--very interesting dynamic here.

[tajareyul]

Yeah, there isn't much in canon on which to base interaction between Pansy and Fred. The inspiration for Pansy's difficulties came from the struggle I went through to get my passport. I was thinking about how all the heightened security after 9/11 actually makes things very difficult for everyone, not just people who might be plotting something horrible. That got me thinking about how the wizarding world might change after Voldemort and this was the result.

[tacky_tramp]

I like this Pansy a lot. She's clearly a spoiled, wizard-supremicist brat, but she's also human and sympathetic. Likeable, even. I adore this line: Power existed to be used-another principle that guided Slytherin ambition-and Pansy's magic crawled under her skin, searching for a way out.

[tajareyul]

And really, that was one of the most difficult things about writing her: trying to portray her in a sympathetic light without fundamentally changing her.

That's one of my favorite lines as well. Thanks!

[dustthouart]

Very nice! I'd love to see more of this story. :3

[tajareyul]

*sigh* Before Deathly Hallows I might have been able to take this a little farther. Now, I just don't know. I guess I still need more time to process certain events.

Thanks!