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Fic: Air Heart

May 28, 2010 11:00

Title: Air Heart
Characters: Minerva McGonagall/Rolanda Hooch (background Minerva McGonagall/Walburga Black)
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 7,800
Warnings: None
Summary: A young Minerva McGonagall takes flight.
Notes: Written for leela_cat at hp_beholder and originally posted here.. Thanks to Leela for inspiration, bethbethbeth for patience, and S for reassurance and a critical eye. ( Read more... )

femslash, rolanda hooch, my fic, relationships, friendship, minerva mcgonagall

Comments 26

glass_icarus May 28 2010, 15:19:24 UTC

Oh, M, this is spectacular! &hearts

magnetic_pole May 30 2010, 16:23:20 UTC

Thanks, Y! *beams* M.

kellychambliss May 29 2010, 01:42:44 UTC

*sighs happily* -- Just as good, if not better, on third reading. Little touches like "old sayings" from the wizard world add such density and texture.

magnetic_pole May 30 2010, 16:23:03 UTC

Thanks so much, Kelly! It was a real push to write this during the semester--I don't have your organizational skills yet--but I spent many an hour daydreaming about this world. M.

lolaraincoat May 30 2010, 09:02:09 UTC

Lovely! So canonical, and with such a great sense of Muggle historical context - Minerva M. here has a real 1930s young woman's voice, to my ear. What an amazing story! Wow!

And (I say this with the glee of great-minds-think-alike! rather than the spirit of niggling) it is especially nice to see the Amelia-Earhart-as-witch idea so gorgeously developed here, as I wrote a drabble on that theme ages back, and always wished for more ... and look! my wish is granted!

magnetic_pole May 30 2010, 16:21:49 UTC

Oh, fabulous about the drabble! Would you link me? This whole story took shape after I was talking with some students--women in their very early 20s--about the concept of "post-feminist." It got me thinking about why I saw change happening more slowly than they did and about women role models, and, well, one thing let to another. I love the idea that there might be a whole genre of Earhart-as-witch fic out there!

Both the fic writer and the historian in me are delighted to hear you enjoyed. Thank you! M.

lolaraincoat May 30 2010, 16:44:20 UTC

Here you go:

http://www.the-archive.net/viewstory.php?sid=252

This is series of linked drabbles but the Earhart one comes early on - maybe #6?

magnetic_pole May 30 2010, 17:13:08 UTC

That's so funny! Great minds think alike. *g* And clearly, Amelia does things wholeheartedly.

I adore the other drabbles, as well. (How could I pass by drabbles with footnotes?) Ginny interrupted. "Oh, no, Mum told me why. When they made it, everyone figured the first-years couldn't count up to ten." Hee! M.

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onehundredmoons May 31 2010, 04:59:49 UTC

I *love* this fic, Maggie. It reads to effortlessly - and I say that to you in particular because I know sometimes the writing doesn't feel that way when you're in the thick of it. But really, it reads like it just came out all in one thought. Gorgeous narrative.

Minerva's backstory with Walburga certainly lends a different light on canon events. And Myrtle! And the war! And Hooch's dad covering Essex with semi-detached houses out of grief! So much to enjoy here. Thanks!

magnetic_pole December 14 2010, 04:53:42 UTC

L, I can't believe that I'm responding more than six months after the fact, but someone just left a comment on this fic that made me realize I hadn't replied. I'm so glad you liked it! I actually enjoyed writing this one (or at least never went through my usual period of hating it). More Minerva/Walburga coming up this fest season, by the way.

Thanks for always being so supportive! *hugs* M.

rose71 June 1 2010, 02:50:52 UTC

This is wonderful, and I'm so impressed that you managed to write such a rich, gorgeous story in the middle of the semester. I was going to say some of the same things as dear onehundredmoons above, so I'll just repeat... the war! the backstory! the semi-detached houses!

I love the way you dramatize the subtle interplay between friendship and erotic love, for Minerva/Rolanda and Minerva/Walburga. It's a friendship fic and a femmeslash fic, and I wouldn't even know which to put first.

Also, I'm intrigued by the theme of running away from the wizarding world to the Muggle world, which I've often seen in your fic (recently in Sirius's fantasies of escape in the small_gifts fic), and which plays into my own earlier dabblings in thinking about (if not actually writing) HP fic. Why are we drawn to this alternate magical world, and why does our own world come somehow to seem like a more attractive escape afterward? (Food for thought... doesn't have to be answered now.)

magnetic_pole December 14 2010, 05:00:42 UTC

R, I can't believe I'm responding six months late--this is a first, even for me. But someone left a comment the other day that led me over hear and made me realize I'd never finished replying.

I love the way you dramatize the subtle interplay between friendship and erotic love, for Minerva/Rolanda and Minerva/Walburga. It's a friendship fic and a femmeslash fic, and I wouldn't even know which to put first.I love that you said this; it's exactly what I was trying to get across. To be completely honest, I probably don't know enough lesbians to generalize with any authority, but I feel as if I've seen this dynamic over and over with f/f couples--this fluid back and forth between friendship and romance--and I was trying hard to recreate it here ( ... )