The Sacrifices Arc by Lightning on the Wave (NC-17)

[dreamsparkle3]

Title: Sacrifices Arc
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy
Categories/Genres: Spy, War
Length: 3,069,375 + extras
Warnings: Dark, Child Abuse, Character Death, Maiming, Slavery

Author/Artist on LJ: lightningwave

Summary: Saving Connor begins an AU of Harry Potter's school years, the Sacrifices Arc, where Harry's twin Connor (bearing a heart

Comments

[semisilence]

I remember reading this several years ago! It took me about two weeks, and I enjoyed it very much, but it is TOUGH. Highly recommended.

[sablin27]

I think the relationships between people is where the series really shines. The world-building is nice, but so much of seemed like "Take That!"s to the original series that I was always scanning for the implied insults.

The people, however, tend to follow their own world-view and emotions, without reference to the story's world-view. It makes the interactions between people feel natural and predicting the outcome of minor character's deliberations very hard.

[connorblond]

This is a brilliant thing, I agree :) Thanks for reminding me.

[thistle_chaser]

I haven't read a HP fanfic in years, but this one sounds like a good match for me. Thanks for the rec!

[idhren24]

I read the last two and a half books of this series as they were being updated, and I remember the pace of those updates - I think there was a chapter a day? It seems hard to believe now - and the way keeping up with the reading expanded them into a low background hum of my life for months. To finally come to the end when the final chapter of the final book was released felt like the end of the era.

The characterization is extraordinary. The act of reading them is a compressed decade of living of occasionally brutal, occasionally transcendent experience.

Do I recommend doing so? 'Recommend' is an inadequate word. To reread them now would take me two months, or three weeks if I used every spare moment to do so. (I suspect I'd do the latter - the series is gripping.)

It will change you, to read this. You will be deeper for it.