The Harry Potter recs of doom!!!
Title: Five Women Who Hate Fleur Delacour
Author:
snegurochka_lee
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: PG-13
Words: ~7,300
Link: here
Genre: mostly gen
Pairing: vaguely Fleur/Bill
Why should you care: because it’s a good genfic about an interesting character used way to rarely and badly. It manages to be good but in a very weird way that will make you hate Fleur only to feel like “crap, she’s right” in the end. Interesting. overall 8/10 given by a picky judge.
Quote: She imagined Fleur had followed the same path as so many girls before her: Molly Prewett, the best in her year at Muggle Studies who married Arthur and then let him fiddle around with television sets and windshield wipers; Narcissa Black, who spoke flawless French and German and lived secluded away in that manor like an aristocratic woman of ancient Athens; Nymphadora Tonks, the cleverest witch of her age who had endless talent, a brilliant job, and completely lost the ability to get out of bed in the mornings anytime a man she fancied refused to ask her out.
Minerva hated women like that.
Title: The Boy Who Lived
Author: PigWithHair
Fandom: Harry Potter
Link: here
Genre: gen + character death
Why should you care: in the last months I think I read about all the DH-compliant fics out there. I will say this once OMG!!! Now that that’s out, lets continue: basically this takes place 90 years in the future. Harry’s old. Ginny’s old, heck their kids are old and as for Ron and Hermione… let’s not go there. This is very canon compliant and for me it’s as close to an ending as HP could get for me. An advice : READ IT NOW!!!
Quote:
Should she mention his title as head of the Auror office for all those years? Should she include that he’d been a Triwizard Tournament champion in his youth? There were so many great things to say about him, but thinking back she remembered Mr Potter as he had appeared when she had first caught sight of him that day at his home, dressed in too-large trousers, an old housecoat and bedroom slippers. After two more attempts, she sat back and sighed, reading over what she had written.
Dedicated to the memory of
Harry James Potter
The Boy Who Lived
Title: unsticking the shadow
Author:
pogrebin
Fandom: Harry Potter
Link: here
Genre: AU
Rating: PG-15 for the philosophical themes
Why should you care: have you ever wondered what would happen if the muggleborns were blamed for everything? If nothing read for the authors sheer brilliance. 10/10
Quote: Situational irony was used to great effect by a playwright by the name of William Shakespeare, and Hermione thinks there is something almost Shakespearian in the way that Voldemort begins his article by confessing his name and his heritage and ends it by using his own example to prove his point. Mudbloods are evil bastards, wizards and witches of the wizarding world- take look at how I turned out. Phrases like: a generation of crossbreed Dark Lords a coiled serpent of suppressed Muggle rage a sinister foe that walks among you and slowly drinks your blood.
The word “you” is what disturbs Hermione most about the entire piece.
“You” and “we”
“Them” and “us”
Voldemort has just placed himself on the side of the Muggleborns.
Hermione smiles suddenly.
It is beautiful and unspeakable.
Hermione meets Harry’s eyes and says, “Voldemort has just destroyed us.”