Faces of Pride, Feelings of Fear (eight Harry Potter women, PG)

[catsintheattic]

Title: Faces of Pride, Feelings of Fear
Autor: catsintheattic
Fandom: Harry Potter
Rating: PG
Warnings: none
Prompt: 35) We were all developing the same stubborn pride, behind which our frightened selves hid, pretending everything was all right. Esmeralda Santiago (born May 17, 1948), Puerto Rican author, co-founder of film and media production company

Comments

[insaneformality]

This was wonderful! I really enjoyed this because I love stories that are from someone else's than Harry's PoV of the Deathly Hallows, and this was so well done. My favorites were Narcissa and Minerva's parts, and Molly's lines All her life as a mother, Molly had been trained for battle. and She was still Molly, mother of the Weasley clan, and protecting her children was what she did. really got me. Great work!

[catsintheattic]

Thank you! It made me so happy that you enjoyed my female take on Deathly Hallows.

[lareinenoire]

Oh, I love this. I love the threads that run through all the vignettes -- women facing their greatest fears and following their instincts even still. McGonagall's was a particular favourite; I always wondered how she felt, watching Harry use an Unforgivable Curse. I love how what we know of their various characters shines through in these moments.

[catsintheattic]

Thank you! I'm pleased to hear that the thread of fears and overcoming them came through. McGonagall - I couldn't believe that she wouldn't at least have an impulse to reprimand Harry, not after watching her teaching him to play fair through six books.

[13oct]

Brilliant, brilliant writing. The different POV's and the emotion that you conveyed thru your characters come thru so clearly. I really enjoyed reading this.

[catsintheattic]

Thank you! :-)

[kellychambliss]

Impressive! I really, really like this. You have presented all these characters at such perfectly-chosen, key moments and provided striking insights in just a few, tightly-constructed words

[catsintheattic]

Thank you for such a generous and detailed comment!

Minerva and Pansy were my favourite scenes, too, the first because I never believed that McG wouldn't at least feel the impulse to say something when I read that scene in the books, the second because of the continuously unfair way we are told "Slytherin equals bad" in canon.

I'm incredibly pleased that you found my take on Minerva believable, because I know that you like her a lot, this is a very high praise. *happy dance* This is the first time I wrote her, but she is a truly intriguing character, so ... who knows?

Fleur and Tonks would have been wonderful to make more points about being a woman who gets put back to child bearing and household stuff, but they didn't even have lines in DH, which is why I didn't use them in the end.

[miss_morland]

Wow, I love this! I love how believable every character's pov is -- not only have you provided an explanation for McGonagall's behaviour (which bothered me a lot when I read the book), but you've also given characters such as Petunia and Umbridge humanity and understandable motivations, even as they're being their canonically unsympathetic selves. My favourite section is probably Pansy's -- I loved the way you've tackled 'the Slytherin problem'. Thank you!

[catsintheattic]

Thank you! I'm pleased that you found the characters' POVs believable. I wanted to use the full spectrum of "good" and "bad" to explore the range of what it might mean to overcome one's fear.

Yay for Pansy-love! :-) I don't like how canon continues to tell us "Slytherin = bad" - it's too one-dimensional. There had to be more behind Pansy's reasoning that just "Lets kill Harry and move over to the dark side."