The Glass Slipper By Gilpin25

[gilpin25]

Title: The Glass Slipper
Author: gilpin25
Rating & Warnings: PG-13 for mild swearing and not quite so mild innuendo.
Prompt: The nights are colder now/ Maybe I should close the door/ And anyway the snow has covered all your footsteps/ I can follow you no more/The fire still burns at night/My memories are warm and clear/ But everybody knows it's hard to be

Comments

[got_it_bub]

Fairy!Godmother!Dumbledore made me laugh.
I can just imagine it.

[gilpin25]

Thank you! I think I was a bit mean to poor Dumbledore, but then the charm was supposed to cast you as the part you were most suited to. Glad it made you laugh! :)

[otahyoni]

Ha! The Cinderella story was fanTAStic! :) Very cute story.

[gilpin25]

Thanks very much! It was a lot of fun to write this - and be slightly cruel to certain Order members, as well as eventually kind to Remus and Tonks - so I'm very glad you enjoyed it. :)

[reforzado]

Absolutely fantastic story. I loved the panto box and all the people who ended up in the fairy tale. Fairy Godmother Dumbledore and Prince Siriusly Charming were hilarious. It was just a brilliant idea, really wonderful.

[gilpin25]

Thank you very much. I was a bit worried I was setting up this supposedly romantic R/T story, and then it all suddenly became completely deranged in the middle, so it's both great and reassuring to hear you enjoyed it. I did have far too much fun writing certain Order members in possibly appropriate roles, lol.

Thanks again for such nice comments! :)

[go_veg]

I loved Tonks being stuck with a name she hates even when she's in a fairy tale and Prince Siriusly Charming...ROFL...this story really made me smile :-)

[gilpin25]

Thank you! I was a bit worried that the problems of romance between Remus and Tonks was going to get a bit lost with all the madness of the Pantomime Charm so it's reassuring and very nice to hear it made you smile. And I did think that if Tonks doesn't like Nymphadora she's hardly to be very impressed with being called Cinderella either, lol.

Thanks again - much appreciated. :)

[pinkhairedauror]

... ... ... LOVE!!!!! I absolutely love this! Yes... rewriting the fairy tale would seem about right. Was Ron one of the stepsisters? NICE touch; and yeah, Dumbledore as the fairy godmother just WINS.

Amd him running after her. You so have a point, about the guy running after a girl being romantic, and the other way around - not. I like it that ONCE he's running after her; I also do like that in the overall story, SHE goes after HIM. And that is acceptable, encouraged, and sweet for those who are around them. One cliché less. And I like the way you turned that turning-around around.

Ahem. WELL done, and thank you for sharing, and HAPPY NEW YEAR!

*goes off chuckling over Prince Siriusly Charming*

[gilpin25]

Thank you - it's great to hear you enjoyed it. It was amazing how there did seem to be a suitable role for each Order member in the pantomime when I came to think about the characters, especially Sirius and Dumbledore, lol. I just couldn't resist making the latter the Fairy Godmother and Dung and Snape were the Ugly Stepsisters, for which I'm sure they wouldn't thank me.

I wanted to turn both the R/T story in this, and the pantomime, round the other way to the norm. So that she's apparently chasing him in the first one but, because of what happens in the fairy tale, he chases after her at the end in true princely, romantic fashion. I'm glad you liked that part as a couple of times I was wishing I had more than 5000 words to fit it all in. The twins weren't the only people worried things were getting whizzed through at a rate of knots... ;)

Many thanks again for such nice comments. It's much appreciated and Happy New Year to you as well! :)