Blind Leading the Blind -- Team Epilogue

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Title: Blind Leading the Blind
Team: Epilogue
Author: nqdonne
Prompt: The Magician
Wordcount: 25,249
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: clubbing, drinking, frottage, toys, desk sex, accidental voyeurism
Summary: Harry catches wise to a series of blind items in the Daily Prophet's gossip pages that sound suspiciously like him. Except no one knows that he's gay, do

Comments

[coffeejunkii]

utterly fantastic. i thoroughly enjoyed this from start to finish, and the last blind item made me ridiculously happy. good for them to start a new life together :D. i adore all the names you came up with, from the nosy niffler, to whips and giggles and wizards and wands. also, the gareth+cardiff combo makes me think someone has been watching lots of torchwood ;)

also, this bit of dialogue cracked me up:

"You've watched them?" Harry asked, honestly quite agog. She was a girl.

"Of course. Why do you think I work here? Nothing like some good wizard-on-wizard." Charity winked at him. "Beaux Batons is quite good, as well. You should have got that one."

hahaha! oh, harry, you have lots to learn. also, nice shout-out to all us fangirls.

i'm such a sucker for al and scorpius being together, so i went "awww" over this line: Scorpius reached a hand over to Al, gently entwining their fingers, and Albus immediately relaxed, and i liked the repetition of that movement when draco takes harry's hand just a few lines later. the last

[outofthisplace]

So, this was pretty darn fabulous.
Your characterizations of all the next-gen characters is great. I love James being all bookwormish...to get a girl. And Teddy. Oh god, Teddy.
There is so much hilarity here: the sex shop.... Beaux Batons.... Harry "fast-forwarding" through the cheap porn dialogue... so funny! (and so difficult to read at a leisurely pace on a public computer at school, headdesk)
I love the way you drew out the plot, that Draco was writing about himself, Harry's marriage mutually needing to come apart, the letters between Harry and Draco, the blind items... Oh, and I especially loved how Harry's letter to Draco ended with "I wouldn't mind fucking seeing you again." Freudian slip much?
In reading the tarot definition you linked again, I can see a lot of sly Magician influences in the fic. Well done indeed!

[painless_j]

I loved it! And I had so much fun reading it! Giggled and clapped hands and awww'd. Teddy was a star of untimely appearances, wasn't he? The episode when he walked in on Harry made me say "OMG!" out loud and laugh like crazy. I also loved everything to do with sex here. That it's Draco's first time too, how awkward is he, how he snatched the porn from Harry. The sex was really hot, too. I loved the kids: James trying to impress that Ravenclaw girl, Lily adding up her age. Al and Scorpius were lovely. Gosh, I really, really enjoyed the story! Thank you very much!

There's one thing I'd love to know: why was Ginny so supportive? What's her agenda? Just curious.

And one tiny insignificant nitpick: "per say" is actually "per se", Latin, meaning "in and of itself".

I feel the urge to keep gushing :) I'll stop here and save some words for the upcoming rec. Aww, such a wonderful story!

[djinniyah]

This is, hands down, my favorite world-cup story of those I've read thus far. :) It was absolutely charming, flowed perfectly, and all the characters had me smiling and laughing from beginning to end. Harry was such a lovable goof, Draco still a bit slinky for all his adult mellow-ness, Ginny being so relieved... and the kids! Gah. Fawning!Scorpius and pseudo-intellectual!James (haha) were my favorites.

Best parts:
The gay, white elephant. :D :D :D
The CLUB SEX and desperate, horny wet-kiss necking. Guh. *fans*
Draco and the frustrating bottle of lube (and his groan into Harry's mouth).
Draco, in general. And adorable Harry, too.

Great, great job! ♥

[elsie]

I don't have it in me at the moment to leave an intelligent comment, but I will say that I really, really enjoyed this story and have recced it on my journal as the most fun story I've read so far in this fest.

And I also wanted to mention this line from The Climactic Sex Scene: "Oh, fuck, I can, I can feel you, I-ohmygod," Malfoy cried out
... see, I've read quite a lot of pornfic in my day, and I have never seen anyone write about that particular sensation AND have a character articulate it. And I was so glad to see it, finally, because ... well, this might be TMI, but isn't that that just the best sensation EVER?

Oh, and when Teddy walked in on Harry, I convulsively shut my eyes, clapped my hands over my face, and sat there making horrified squeaky noises for half a minute before I could continue reading. Poor Harry ...

Thanks for sharing your wonderful story!