Femgenficathon Story: Mind Killer, Part 2 (Charity Carpenter, The Dresden Files)

[gehayi]

Title: Mind-Killer
Author: gehayi
Fandom: The Dresden Files (bookverse)
Characters: Charity Carpenter, Charity's parents, Gregor, Siriothrax, Michael Carpenter
Word Count: 11,543
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: I most emphatically do not own The Dresden Files. They belong to Jim Butcher, ROC Books, New American Library, the Penguin Group, and-for the next

Comments

[emmiere]

So good!

This fic is so many of the reasons I adore Charity. The books being all first person, it's such a lovely thing to get her perspective and I was never happy with Harry's idea of her as the one who buried and betrayed her gift. Here, she couldn't have made any other choice and stayed herself.

[gehayi]

Here, she couldn't have made any other choice and stayed herself.

Thank you! Yes, that's it exactly. She doesn't see it as betrayal at all; to her, turning her back on her magic is a moral stand. (And Harry is never, ever going to understand that.)