I did it! I wrote a post-DH fic!

Jul 22, 2007 14:59

Title: The Hawthorn Wand
Author: Scrtkpr
Rating: PG
Pairing: (pre-)Harry/Draco
Word Count: 1,160
Summary: Draco has issues.
Disclaimer: I am not J.K. Rowling and do not own these characters. No money is being made from this story, and no copyright infringement is intended.
Warning: Spoilers for book seven. Currently pre-beta.

Deathly Hallows spoilers!! )

h/d, fic, pg

Leave a comment

Comments 71

libby_drew July 22 2007, 22:54:20 UTC
:) I really liked this. I'm going to have to come to terms with this canon Draco JK's left us with, but if I read more fics like this, I think it won't be as hard as I believe.

Thanks for sharing.

Reply

scrtkpr July 22 2007, 23:13:50 UTC
Thank you! :)

Reply


blindmouse July 22 2007, 23:01:51 UTC
I liked :-)

I have some trouble with the new wandlore - I think it'll need thrashing out in fanfic a bit. A successful Expelliarmus shouldn't be enough to change a wand's allegiance - otherwise people, especially students, would be forced to get new wands all the time. But as I said, I liked this.

Reply

scrtkpr July 22 2007, 23:15:24 UTC
Yeah, I had some problems with the wand stuff too, but...I figured in the case of Draco here, it could all be psychological. ;)

Reply

blindmouse July 23 2007, 03:04:06 UTC
This is a good point. Especially as you had Draco's wand not respond for him at all, rather than simply not being as effective.

Reply

scrtkpr July 23 2007, 16:05:35 UTC
I've been incredibly grateful that you brought the wand issue up in comments so soon after I posted the fic, because it got a lot of other people talking about it too, and it's really helped me to clarify my ideas in some of my responses. I'm really enjoying the discussion.

Right now my working theory is that if wands are "alive" in a sense (that's canon now) and rather sentient, it would probably depend on the circumstances whether or not a wand actually switched allegiances. I clarified in more detail down below, but I think a forceful Harry in a life-or-death situation might have been enough to win the wand entirely away from Draco, who had been paralyzed by fear for quite some time. I now hypothesize that the wand was disgusted with Draco! lol

But I love leaving it up to interpretation how much of Draco's difficulties are all in his head. (I'm sure that's at least partly what's going on.)

Reply


mama_rana July 23 2007, 01:07:21 UTC
I liked this! And I'm tres impressed how quickly you got it out! Congrats!

I keep stumbling over this sentence: You may have no need for it, but it is now of even less use to me. I know exactly what you mean, but somehow it leaves me thinking every time I read it. Not sure ...

Blindmouse has a good point. Perhaps the wand--if it has as much "brain" as DH suggests--understands the diff between student games and real combat? Of course, didn't Arthur teach us not to trust anything whose brains we can't see? Or something like that?

Hmmm, on the other hand, didn't LV expelliarmus (forgive my turning this word into a verb here) Harry's wand in the graveyard, and then just hand it back and battle ensued? tsk, JKR is sloppy. :(

Reply

scrtkpr July 23 2007, 01:31:33 UTC
Well, I don't think we have any canon instances of wands changing allegiances and not working at all once they are recovered, so I was kind of going out on a limb here.

I guess I was thinking...Harry was extremely forceful when he captured Draco's wand, and Draco was extremely powerless. If anyone could be forceful enough to get a wand to change allegiances that extremely, it would be Harry.

And Draco could have enough issues about Harry taking and then returning his wand in the way he did that he could find himself completely incapable of using it for that reason. I was trying to explore how big of a hit to Draco's sense of self worth the whole thing might have been...

Reply


luredbyvenus July 23 2007, 01:28:05 UTC
Yay, new H/D fic. I'm going to have to go back and read parts of DH again to figure out the wand stuff.

JKR can't bring us down with her silly epigag, but changing the rules of wands is not on.

Reply

scrtkpr July 23 2007, 01:36:09 UTC
I'm mainly just trying to explore Draco's sense of self worth (which would be extremely low, imo) following the book's events, and also the wand thing, of course.

I intentionally tried to leave it a little ambiguous how much of this is the wand actually changing allegiances and how much is just Draco's Issues, because these are things I'm still trying to puzzle out for myself (how common is this mastering of other wands thing, is it possible for it to happen to such an extreme degree in extreme circumstances, etc.).

Reply

luredbyvenus July 23 2007, 01:46:52 UTC
Ya, I'd agree with you, I actually thought it was just the one Hallows wand, not all wands.

I'm sure Draco was feeling pretty down after everything, including being saved twice by Harry, but Harry knows how to lift Draco's spirits. ;)

Reply

scrtkpr July 23 2007, 03:25:33 UTC
Well, Hermione did have difficulty with Bellatrix's wand, which was explained because of the wand allegiance thing.

Reply


twistedm July 23 2007, 02:36:43 UTC
I actually thought it was just the one Hallows wand, not all wands.

no, i disagree. didn't hermione have trouble with bellatrix's wand, which she did not win from bellatrix? didn't harry have trouble with all the wands he tried until draco's which worked fine for him, as he'd "won" it from draco?

i hate all this new "canon" wandlore shit. sloppy, sloppy pulled-it-out-of-her ass canon.

BUT! i really really liked your story, scrtkpr! the end was just fabulous! crabbe's funeral was perfect! and draco's constant pain and humiliation was just SO well done. brava, honey. :)

Reply

scrtkpr July 23 2007, 03:21:32 UTC
I'm glad you liked it, and thank you for reading! I feel bad I never got back to your workshop fic, but I'm still planning on reading that. DH has eaten my free time the last few days!

I owe a lot of e-mails to people, too. *tears at hair* I will catch up eventually!

Reply

owens_mom July 23 2007, 14:23:42 UTC
I believe he found Draco's wand to feel "friendly" compared to the others, that is why he chose it.

Reply

scrtkpr July 23 2007, 15:31:34 UTC
He did like the way Draco's wand felt best, and I loved the subtext! Haha. But one could argue that as Harry didn't win the other wands directly from their owners that Draco's might be the only one that actually changed allegiances.

Reply


Leave a comment

Up