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anonymous
January 29 2015, 00:46:24 UTC
So, clearly this is Ferggirl.
OH MY FRIEND. You know I started in Harry Potter world, right? I wrote for a few years - mostly stuff I didn't share, and a few bigger ones I did, but my knowledge is encyclopedic and I READ so much.
This is really lovely, because it's not even as incompatible with the shiny happy-ever-after we got (so many years later). That happy ending she jumped us to was always going to be hard, hard work to reach. The scars might fade, but they're always going to be there. And you've captured these deeply personal fears and doubts that were there BEFORE the war, that were made worse by the trauma they went through / were part of, and that will always be there.
But the optimist in me says - this was a few years after. Not long enough. Maybe Harry gives an interview and admits a little of his own pain and maybe the world doesn't fall apart. Maybe Hermione winds up sharing a room with Ginny at a holiday and finally has a friend to tell - and Ginny admits that none of them sleep. That she's not the only one. Maybe she gets up the courage to talk to Neville, who tells her about the little things that have always soothed his mother, and she drinks more chamomile tea and she IS grateful to see the sunsrise and know it for what it is. Maybe Angelina and George run into each other at the memorial on the anniversary of winning the stupid quidditch cup - the one he and Fred had been so proud of - and they cry together and he feels just a hint more alive. Maybe Ron puts his "how to" book away and just turns up and doesn't push, because Ginny pulls him aside and says it's not him, it's bigger and darker and Hermione still needs him. Maybe he in turn tells Ginny that Harry can't hide behind her forever, and they go get ice cream and don't invite anyone else along. Maybe Draco starts working with his hands just to not think - makes muggle things that he hides in the attic and doesn't admit to his few remaining family members, and maybe Astoria tells him one day that she likes his calluses and maybe it eases that pain just a touch. Maybe McGonagall gets a new batch of troublemakers that take up so much of her time that she has less of it to spend watching ghosts.
OH MY GOD I miss Harry Potter so much. And I love this. Did I say that yet ?
OH MY FRIEND. You know I started in Harry Potter world, right? I wrote for a few years - mostly stuff I didn't share, and a few bigger ones I did, but my knowledge is encyclopedic and I READ so much.
This is really lovely, because it's not even as incompatible with the shiny happy-ever-after we got (so many years later). That happy ending she jumped us to was always going to be hard, hard work to reach. The scars might fade, but they're always going to be there. And you've captured these deeply personal fears and doubts that were there BEFORE the war, that were made worse by the trauma they went through / were part of, and that will always be there.
But the optimist in me says - this was a few years after. Not long enough. Maybe Harry gives an interview and admits a little of his own pain and maybe the world doesn't fall apart. Maybe Hermione winds up sharing a room with Ginny at a holiday and finally has a friend to tell - and Ginny admits that none of them sleep. That she's not the only one. Maybe she gets up the courage to talk to Neville, who tells her about the little things that have always soothed his mother, and she drinks more chamomile tea and she IS grateful to see the sunsrise and know it for what it is. Maybe Angelina and George run into each other at the memorial on the anniversary of winning the stupid quidditch cup - the one he and Fred had been so proud of - and they cry together and he feels just a hint more alive. Maybe Ron puts his "how to" book away and just turns up and doesn't push, because Ginny pulls him aside and says it's not him, it's bigger and darker and Hermione still needs him. Maybe he in turn tells Ginny that Harry can't hide behind her forever, and they go get ice cream and don't invite anyone else along. Maybe Draco starts working with his hands just to not think - makes muggle things that he hides in the attic and doesn't admit to his few remaining family members, and maybe Astoria tells him one day that she likes his calluses and maybe it eases that pain just a touch. Maybe McGonagall gets a new batch of troublemakers that take up so much of her time that she has less of it to spend watching ghosts.
OH MY GOD I miss Harry Potter so much. And I love this. Did I say that yet ?
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