March Featured Author

[margotlefaye]

Thank you to everyone who voted to make me one of Hawthorn & Vine’s featured writers for the month of March. Herewith a bit of an introduction to me and to my writing. As I said in my HV biography, I’m an older fan, in my mid-fifties, married, with an adult child. We share our suburban home with a rescue cat. Or, she shares it with us, since

Comments

[akashathekitty]

I don't actually have a question for you, I just want to say congratulations, I'm so happy that one of my favorite people got the honor of being the first H&V featured author ♥

*big smoochies*

[margotlefaye]

Awww. {{{{{HUGS}}}} and ::return smoochies:::

[margotlefaye]

Enjoy. *G*

[margotlefaye]

Thanks so much for the lovely compliments. I'm really glad you enjoy the stories.

[dianoram]

Congratulations! :-) I've been following your work since Buffy times and your HP fics are just as brilliant!

Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

Just one thing:
"In canon, I always thought Hermione was better matched to Harry than Ron, and thought Harry’s attachment to Ginny was unhealthy, as it seemed more about wanting to belong to her family than about Ginny, herself."

Ok. With this you've about summed up every subtle, nagging feeling I couldn't quite pinpoint.

[margotlefaye]

Thank you. Glad you like both sets of stories.

The weird thing about Harry/Ginny in canon is that JKR introduced Ginny's crush on Harry in the second book, where she seems to be star-struck by Harry's fame as The-Boy-Who-Lived just after we've been told how uncomfortable Harry is with that fame/notoriety. It seemed to me at the time that it was simply a signal of how pervasive Harry's fame was, how everyone knew him and had expectations of him, even in the family of Harry's best friend. The idea that Ginny's crush at 11 years old could be the basis of anything remotely resembling mature, life-long love was...a little far-fetched, at best, and downright creepy, at worst. Or, so I thought, anyway.

Suffice it to say, I'm not a Ginny/Harry fan.

[akashathekitty]

*butts in* What? I stalk you, you know that.

I think the ship could have worked if she'd put some thought into it and made it clear that Ginny wasn't just some star-struck Lily look-alike that happened to be a Weasley as well (ok, ew on all that), but actually had developed the relationship between them to go beyond that and become something real.

I distinctly remember being disappointed in HBP that we didn't get to see any interactions at all between them during the summer holiday and then BAM, he was all possessive of her. There was this HUGE chunk missing of how the hell we ended up there. I know the books are hardly romance, but come on -- she could have given us something!

I actually sort of wanted them to get together somehow (yeah, sorry, I always saw Harry/Hermione as almost incestuous >_> Yes, I'm aware there's irony to be had), so I think -- don't know, but think -- that maybe some Harry/Ginny shippers/ficcers are trying to fill that canon hole and make the ship work in that healthier way that JKR just never did

[margotlefaye]

That's exactly the point. The pairing could have worked if the author had done something to develop it. But, she didn't, so all we are left with is the "ew" stuff

[borax38]

I have to say I love your stories and I think this feature on Hawthorn and Vine is fabulous! It's great to see how you work and where you come from (sort of). And maybe it's just me, but you mentioning that you'd like to do a fic about Harry, Ron and Hermione getting sorted in Slytherin got me ridiculously excited.

[margotlefaye]

Thank you. I only hope I can find the time to flesh out that idea. I do have something started and stored on my harddrive, but nothing I want to post, because it'll be years before I have time to do anything significant with it. I can only hope that things move along well, and I get most of my fanfic wrapped up between this year and next