July Recs - Harry Potter

[alley_skywalker]

Another round of HP fic recs! Very late this month because of my computer problems (long story).

As always, pairings are varied (mostly slash, femslash and gen in this batch), ratings are varied, please always check fic headers and tags for warnings. Etc.

Comments

[my_thestral]

Thank you, that was unexpected and exceptionally kind of you! I'm happy you enjoyed it and sorry about the gloomy character of the fic in the first part - it fit well with the fest, but if one reads it outside of it, I imagine it's hard to digest. I'm glad you still gave it a shot, though! :) *would totally attempt to glomp you but I don't know you well enough and it might want to make you run away screaming* ;)

[alley_skywalker]

Aww no I totally think all that angst fit and it's not like I don't read a LOT of angst anyway. I think I was just a little unprepared for exactly how bad Draco's situation was and also for some of the other things (like the breakdown he has in front of Bill and stuff.)But otherwise the fic was wonderful :)

[my_thestral]

Thanks, you're my champ! :) You know, I often wonder on how many wonderful stories am I actually missing out, because I don't fancy the pairing or I don't like something in the warnings or the introduction - so I make it a point of going out there every once in a while and read something I wouldn't normally do (like a Drarry, LOL, I know, sometimes I feel like I'm the only person who's not into Drarry on the planet!) - and I often find myself very pleasantly surprised. I'm glad you were able to make it through the mental imagery - I tried not to make it too explicit, but on the other hand, it had to be persuasive as well - and I'm very happy that Ron's humour managed to level the story out, that was the intention. :) So you get buckets of House points for pointing that out! *blushes and shares her last chocolate frog with you*

[alley_skywalker]

Aww chocolate frog! Thanks, you're sweet :)

But, yea, I totally get the feeling of wondering what I could be missing out on. For me it's that I'm a very slow reader with a limited amount of time to read fic so I'm super picky about what I start reading and I'm sure I've passed things up which I would have enjoyed.
And lol, I don't ship Drarry at all either, so you're definitely not alone there :)

[starfishstar]

Oh, wow, thank you for this rec! How lovely!

[alley_skywalker]

Thank you for writing some lovely Albus/Gellert :)

[starfishstar]

:-)