Five of Swords by Ravenna C. Tan (FIC, PG-13)

[ravenna_c_tan]

Title: Five of Swords
Author: ravenna_c_tan
Type: Fiction
Length: 3900 words
Main character or Pairing: Draco Malfoy
Rating: PG-13
Disclaimer: Characters belong to JK Rowling & her publishers.
Warnings:
Summary: A few years after the Voldemort war is over, Draco has left England and everyone he knew behind. He's living hard on the streets of New Orleans,

Comments

[sra_danvers]

Wow, I loved this. So deep, so hard, but just the right thing after DH. Because we want the happy end, but things were too hard at the end for our Slytherins. Great!

[ravenna_c_tan]

Thank you! Yes, here I am, trying to "fix" the canon again. :-)

[songquake]

Utterly gripping, C. I had to stop my gchat because I needed to focus my full attention here. I loved the psychology of it, of Draco's trips through his memory, of his mistrusts of the stranger...

And the end was Just Right. I feel like Goldilocks.

[ravenna_c_tan]

LOL! Yay! I think that shall be my new goal, make every reader feel like Goldilocks. :D *happy*

[leochi]

Wow, that's wonderful! I really liked the psychology behind this and the way you interpreted the card. I'm not not at all into teacher/pupil or teenager/adult stories, but it hardly bothered me here, because it was clear that Draco was reflecting about his own inner world.

My compliments, you've written a beautiful and poetic piece. <333

[ravenna_c_tan]

Thank you! The art truly inspired me.

[hd_bigbang_mod]

I felt so firmly inside Draco's head while reading this. Each glimpse of his past was real and true. And I loved the ending. Really beautiful.

[ravenna_c_tan]

Thank you so much! I write so much from Draco's point of view, but so rarely get to go back into the actual canon and try to recreate what he might have been thinking. I'm so glad you found it convincing.

[ravenna_c_tan]

hee! I wondered!

[maunetjeret]

God, these two do it for me so hard every time... And like no other.

[ravenna_c_tan]

Every time I think I've written everything there is about them... I look back into the canon and There's More There! Between the lines.

[drinkingcocoa]

Yes! That happens to me every time! I like that it didn't map out to an exact 5 of something.

[ravenna_c_tan]

That's because Snape was just using the Five of Swords it as an excuse to get Draco thinking about the past... although it does end up mapping out, sort of. Just Snape gets to go twice. :-)