The Potion

[kerrymdb]

Title: The Potion
Author: kerrymdb
Summary: She just needed to drink the potion and it would be all over.
Rating: T
Word Count: 2,945
Author’s Note: The prompts were "Search and Destroy" by The Stooge, First mistake and Envy. Envy didn't get worked into the fic nearly as much as I originally planned. In fact…you might need to get out a magnifying

Comments

[lady_bracknell]

I really liked this. Is completely believable to me that Lily would have felt like this - it's not the best time in the world to have a baby, and it stirkes me she'd know that under any other circumstances they'd be over the moon, but the reality of their situation changfes things. And I thought you dealt with that really well.

I loved this bit:

Or perhaps, Lily wondered as her hand ran unconsciously over her flat stomach, they could have the child. Defy Voldemort in the most natural way possible, by showing the world that life, that love, could go on even in the midst of such terrible chaos.

Because this child would know love.

Because I think that's kind of the truth of what they did - defy voldemort with nothing but love on their side, damning the consequences because that was enough.

I really loved the moment of Remus coming out of his shell, too, being where he's most needed and saying exactly the right thing, and I very much enjoyed Snape's cameo, too (and for some reason, the line about Sirius buying inappropriate gifts and Peter fretting about dropping the baby really amused me - because that's so them).

Great stuff.

[kerrymdb]

Gah! Sorry for the deleted comment. LJ is being all funny on me today. Here's the non-funny looking reply...

I've always wondered why the Potters (and the Longbottoms and even the Malfoys) choose to have kids when they were on the front line of a war. So I guess it just made sense to me that it wasn't really a choice but maybe more of an accident. (Wonder how Harry would react if he ever found out!)

The concept of defying was really signifigant to me. Beause the prophecy doesn't say that the Potters escaped or fought the Dark Lord. It say they defied them. So I liked bringing that back full circle. :)

Thank you for reading! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Now that I've written Lily, I may have to try it again. She's fun to write. :)