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Darkness Is Not the Absence of Light - Team Canon

Apr 06, 2008 14:11

Title: Darkness Is Not the Absence of Light
Team: Canon
Author: janicechess
Prompt: Justice
Wordcount: 13,500
Rating: R
Warnings: None
Summary: Harry only wants what's fair for Narcissa Malfoy. But Narcissa has other plans, and Draco is willing to go along with just about anything to stay out of Azkaban.
Author's Note Many thanks to my betas and teammates for ( Read more... )

prompt: justice, r, round i, fic, team canon

Comments 66

frayach_nicuill April 6 2008, 23:57:28 UTC

I just have to tell you that I am madly in love with this story. You took the challenge to write in-canon and knocked it out of the park. This may be one of the most in-cannon stories I've ever read, actually. Absolutely fabulous and hilarious and heartbreaking all at once. Whoever you are, mystery writer, you are a fucking geniusOf course, I'm also a bit biased because I'm a public defender and so your take on "justice" in this story was right in keeping with my take on it in RL. You wielded satire so deftly and so well, that I didn't even realize how deep the cuts went until I was a fountain of metaphorical blood. Which reminds me, the scene of Draco feeding the ornamental pool sharks may be a new fandom favorite for me ( ... )

nonajf April 7 2008, 01:33:22 UTC

Really well done! I was hooked from the start, and the characters were really well drawn and in character. The ending was great! So in character for each of them, and makes Harry ending up with Ginny believable. (Also makes me believe the marriage won't be smooth.)

pervyunitwins April 7 2008, 02:23:00 UTC

How sad. I will tell you this: you managed to write half of the story that I have been dying to read, but that no one has written. At least not no one I have found. I can see why you ended it as you did, and see this as a segue to what happens to the epilogue, but I wish it was not so. Stupid Malfoy Pride and family responsibilities and all that rot that Draco was upholding. You should have said, "To hell with all that and to the crypt we go."

nqdonne April 7 2008, 03:41:32 UTC

Oh, that was just fantastic! Amazingly enough, I haven't read that many "immediately after DH" canon-compliant stories, and that was just the kind of thing I secretly have been looking for. I loved that you had the guts to give it the canon ending, as well -- with them not being together. The crypt scene was unbelievably hot, *fans self* and just... poor Harry! I could feel his confusion and anger, poor dear. I also really liked the way you dealt with Ginny -- she was behaving as she does in canon, but Harry was seeing her differently, and I thought you played his feelings about her very naturally (when something someone normally does used to make you love them, suddenly drives you crazy and you don't know why). All-around brilliant use of the card, and I really enjoyed reading this.

Oh! Almost forgot -- and as someone who is a real sucker for clever, multi-layered and apt titles, I thought this was brilliantly named. :D

oldenuf2nb April 7 2008, 05:22:26 UTC

Beautifully written, for all of the reason's already stated above. They are both so completely in character, and while I find the ending sad, it makes perfect sense. Well done.