Springfic: "Impossible Things" for plaidphoenix

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Title: Impossible Things
Author: velvetmouse
Recipient: plaidphoenix
Character(s): Ginny, Lily, cameos by Bill, James and Griphook.
Rating: G
Word-count: 6,372 words
Warnings (highlight to view): Unabashed crack!fic, unapologetic time travel, drunken Goblins and the obligatory Sirius/serious joke. One mild curse word.
Summary: Due to a slight miscalculation involving

Comments

[anonymous]

I really enjoyed this! the details about Lily Potter's job with Grigotts as well as the insider info about goblins and the bank all seemed so plausible that it made what happened later also seem almost plausible within the wizarding world. I especially liked these lines:

We shared a grin that would have sent the boys running for the hills and would have impressed the hell out of my goblin supervisors. It was a grin that promised mayhem, destruction and probably something undignified for those on the receiving end.

[werewolfsfan]

Sorry something happened to my signature there.

[velvetmouse]

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[eeyore9990]

Oh, this is wonderful and beautiful and so heartbreaking all at once. Wonderfully done!

[velvetmouse]

Thank you!

[plaidphoenix]

Ok, I have to give you double, or is it triple, full marks. It's total crackfic, which is what I was looking for. It's brilliant!

Secondly, full marks for being inspired by A Stitch In Time, I don't even know how you got your hands on a copy of it as I don't think I have it archived online anymore. Well done for that!

I very rarely say this, but I hope you'll consider writing either a continuation of this, or a sequel, because this is so incredibly brilliant, it deserves to be more then just a one-shot.

[velvetmouse]

Yay!! I'm so glad you enjoyed it! :-)

And golly, I hadn't even thought about what happens next. Guess I'll have to consider that and see what I can come up with. :-)

[woldy]

I really enjoyed this, both because it's great to see the similarity between the women acknowledged and explored and because you write them as such interesting yet distinct characters. I loved the idea of drawing one's way out, and the dual-identity portrait, and the exchange between them at the end. Like the commenter above I would love to see this story continued!

One tiny suggestion, which is that people in the UK almost always take milk not cream in their tea - if Petunia has cream in hers then she isn't anywhere near as 'normal' as JKR leads us to believe ;-), although there might be a story in that too...

[velvetmouse]

Thank you! I'm glad you felt that Lily and Ginny were distinct enough - that was one of my biggest fears while writing this, that Lily would sound like she was talking to herself!

And oops, cream is easy enough to change to milk. Thanks. :) (I was just going by my experience when I spent a couple months in England - I was almost always offered cream with tea. *shrug*)

[shogunsquirrel]

Yow! Your icon made me snarf coffee!
Also, good fic- your Ginny fic is the only HP fic I read. Love it.

[shiiki]

Oh wow! I love the conversational feel of this. You pulled the first-person narrative off wonderfully here, for which I applaud you!

I very much enjoyed all of Lily's interactions - with James, with Ginny, with Fabian/Fred, with the goblins. Her interest in goblins and her occasional forays into explanations of goblin culture helped to add flavour to this story. It was also wonderful to see her together with Ginny, highlighting their similarities but also, more strikingly, their differences.

[velvetmouse]

Thank you so much! I definitely had fun randomly wandering into goblin culture throughout the piece...