Drabblage
I'm not ready to post any of the longer items that I mentioned in my last entry. So...here are some hp100 drabbles. Sorry if you've seen them before.
Title: Eye of the Beholder
Words: 100
Rating: G
Characters/Ships: The Black Sisters, Ted/Andromeda
( Eye of the Beholder )
Title: Eye of the Beholder
Words: 100
Rating: G
Characters/Ships: The Black Sisters, Ted/Andromeda
( Eye of the Beholder )
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Tin Man showed up as a result of word association. I wanted to do something based on the tenth anniversary of James and Lily's deaths, so I looked up the names of anniversaries. The tenth is tin. And then I got started thinking about the Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz, and that got me thinking about Oz the Great and Terrible...
And then I just started writing.
Also, if you like Oz...check out this site, which has book covers, synopses and online texts in English:
The Famous Forty Canon of Oz
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I love Peter having a character. You know, with motives and that. I also, odd as it sounds, love the Petunia on for the same reason. They all have to have reasons, after all.
And that sounds like a sentence from a drabble. *sigh* Will they never leave me in peace?
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::blush:: Thank you!
I love Peter having a character. You know, with motives and that. I also, odd as it sounds, love the Petunia on for the same reason. They all have to have reasons, after all.
It's the grey characters that interest me. And they do have to have reasons. Peter seems to have been desperate for attention, constantly underestimated and belittled by teachers and friends alike. Petunia has to deal with a boy who is, in essence, a living ghost of his hated father. (I wonder if she would feel more kindly toward Harry if he were the image of Lily?) Snape is an angry, bitter, sarcastic man who hated James Potter and his crowd--and yet, for the sake of honor, and to repay a debt to James, he keeps fighting for this boy whom he also strongly dislikes.
Such characters seem far more realistic, and far more believable.
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These...these are fabulous. They make me reconsider reading HP fanfic.
One tiny thing, though:
Each year, Lily would scream at those preternaturally green eyes that were the image of Lily's own
I believe you mean "Petunia" for the first Lily :)
-josie
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That bitch of a mother is like every bad relation I've ever had, ever. Thank god Andromeda eventually got out of that toxic family. I'm dying to read more stories about her, as well as storis about Regulus, the one who likely didn't escape. Will you be writing any in the future? Know anyone who will? ;)
And I love the theme of transformation and metamorphisis into some grander and more forgiving that seems to run through most of these drabbles. From Andromeda to a great beauty, from Peter to James to James' ghost, From Snape to Sirius, from Harry to Lily... you navigated these shifts wonderfully. Thanks for the drabbles. :)
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The Regulus Arc--the Midnight Conversations-verse AU in which Regulus did escape his poisonous family and eventually became a decent person--is continuing. thistlerose, rynne and eumenides1 are currently writing stories for it, as am I. (Actually, thistlerose is currently writing two stories for the RA-verse. I'm trying to write three.)
Andromeda, as well as her Muggleborn husband Ted Tonks and their daughter Dora, will likely be appearing in the RA-verse stories in the future. I don't know when. The characters haven't told me yet.
And I love the theme of transformation and metamorphisis into something grander and more forgiving that seems to run through most of these drabbles.
I can't believe I didn't notice that...but you're right. You're absolutely right.
And I'm very glad you liked them. Thank YOU.
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I did read some of it so far-- it's going along very well. Regulus is just a wonderful creation-- a little shit of an annoying brother you can't help but root for anyway. Hell, I'm already more fond of him than I am of the Sirius in OoTP. And I'm so waiting for "Dora" to make an appearence too. :D Will she get her metamorphogous (sp?) characteristics from her mother's or her father's (though-- they're muggle...) side of the family?
And I love the theme of transformation and metamorphisis into something grander and more forgiving that seems to run through most of these drabbles.
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I can't believe I didn't notice that...but you're right. You're absolutely right.Wow... you mean you didn't plan that ( ... )
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I love young Regulus. I really do. He can be a thorough rotter, but there's a decent side to him that's slowly getting stronger. And he genuinely does love his brother. (Though I had to tear the boy apart, physically and emotionally, before he would admit that to Sirius or to himself.)
Will she [Nymphadora] get her metamorphogous (sp?) characteristics from her mother's or her father's (though-- they're muggle...) side of the family?I think it's just a question of the right recessive genes combining. So Dora's metamorphmagus characteristics would be at least partly due to Muggleborn Ted Tonks ( ... )
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The Ted/Andromeda one is perhaps my favorite, actually. I loved all of them, I felt pangs of sadness at some of them, but that one gave me a silly grin and made me straighten my back, because yeah, I have brown hair and brown eyes, too, and *I* don't need to be blond to be beautiful, either. Gah.
Wonderful job on all of them. :)
Vixy
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And I'm glad you loved them. Thank you.
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