The 1 Year After collection continues...

[avonlea_dreamer]

The next part of 'What Happened Before the Wedding'.
A short chapter because it's so hard for me to write Ginny in a non-snarky, relatively sympathetic sort of way (and I don't think I succeeded terribly well.) More UST in this chapter.

Comments

[utkari02]

Awesome. I can't wait for more!! :D

[avidbeader]

For what it's worth, I don't think you wrote Ginny in a snarky manner, but neither did you write her in a sympathetic manner. You showed us the Ginny of the last books, and she's not a sympathetic character. She is that shallow and that blind to the emotions of others. But I think you did very well with Harry in that scene...almost as upset and panicky as he was way back when with Cho, but mature enough to know that it was the right thing to do.

The rest of it was lovely. Looking forward to more!

[madderbrad]

she's not a sympathetic character. She is that shallow and that blind to the emotions of others.

You bet. This is the Ginny who displayed jealousy in almost every scene in which she appeared in DH ... the Ginny who was more concerned about Harry's accompanying Cho to the Ravenclaw common room than the imminent arrival of the Dark Lord and his aim to kill her putative boyfriend.

[avonlea_dreamer]

It's worth a LOT to know you think so! I find it really hard to write Ginny but then, I suppose that's because JKR's given us such crap to work with and it's hard to see Ginny as a fully-developed character when she was such a nonentity for the first 4 books anyway.

Thank you, dear.

[sweet_iolanthe]

::keyboard smash::
of course he could love her, duh!
>_<
wonderful as always. cant wait for the new instalment.

[madderbrad]

... he couldn’t deny his reaction to the light touch of her fingers on his bruised face ... this desire was a gentle thing-although he’d never before thought that desire could be gentle. And yet somehow, this feeling was. ... it was gentler than that. (He wondered if she had any idea how very… seductive… gentleness could be, wondered how he’d never before known how seductive gentleness could be-because he was attracted, was seduced in an odd, lazy sort of way.)

... He looked at her and wondered what it would feel like to kiss her, not passionately, not heatedly, but softly, just brush his lips over hers…

Oh, very nice! A great contrast between this gentle flowering of the deep friendship between Harry and Hermione versus the "hard, blazing" harshness and raw but superficial hormonal attraction of H/G. Connecting emotionally rather than just physically. Love/attraction starting to be layered on top of everything else that Harry and Hermione share. Good stuff.

[leonhart_17]

very tense...it's all very realistic - they are complex characters (excepting Ginny and ignoring how they are poorly developed in canon) and you present them as such...