The Paths Chosen (Luna/Ginny, PG)

[holyfant]

Title: The Paths Chosen
Rating: PG
Pairing: Luna/Ginny
Word count: ~5,000
Summary: It's a winding road, life.
Notes: written as a pinch hit for thinkxpink in the 2012 femmefest exchange. Thanks to bluemermaid for the read-through :)

Comments

[holyfant]

Heh. Well, divorce and all. I haven't got a clue. Tried to reason my way out of it, which is what I do best, as you know.

[uniquegrl7]

This was so wonderfully written. I loved that you made Harry and Ginny more mature and older than they were in the books, because so many fics just leave their characters as they were in school.

[holyfant]

Thanks! Yeah, I can't imagine them not being any different fifteen years down the road. In a lot of ways we left them still as children - though of course they'd already had a lot of emotional development, especially Harry - and I think that they would have changed a lot in the years after the war, trying to get a handle on all of that, trying to find direction. It's the one blank spot in the series because we get them being very happy and "all was well" ten years after, which is great and a good ending for the story the way it was structured, as far as I'm concerned, but realistically I don't think all would be well, or it least it wouldn't have been for all of the time between the final scene and the epilogue.

*rambles*

Thanks for reading this :)

[saintgilbert]

Oh. Oh.

That was wonderful. Slightly sad, but blameless and uplifting still, if that makes sense.

But... Luna! Still seeing things that others can't but in a more... emotionally in-tune way. I don't know how to explain it (you probably could!) but this is one of the better older!Luna characterizations I've seen.

My favourite bits, I won't bore you with why:

"Life doesn't always allow itself to be handled."

"... a Ginny who was just a bit heart-broken over Harry Potter not noticing her instead of a Ginny whose heart was stretched in different directions..."

"“Making friends,” Luna responded in a low voice, and her face was painted in high contrasts of fire and night."

And, off topic, but: Rothko mood theme? Yes.

[holyfant]

Thank you so much! :D I love it when people pick out their favourite bits; it's interesting to see which things resonate with someone.

I'm really glad to hear you think Luna works here; this was a pinch hit and I rather had to rush to get it out, and I really haven't written a lot of Luna and find her quite hard to get a grip on. But maybe a bit less so right this, when she's a bit older. I'm really happy to hear this worked as an older Luna for you.

And hahaha, my mood theme! I'm glad you like it. I made it three years ago or something, and spent a stupid amount of time on it :p but I still really like it.

Thanks so much!

[saintgilbert]

I like doing that, so that's good!

She is quite hard, yes. I think the things I have read and felt Luna was true in have been because the author obviously believed that was how she was, so it rang true even if they had trouble writing her (and I haven't spoken to a single person who doesn't have trouble writing her) if that makes sense?

Oh, I love Rothko and will defend him to the death. :P

On a side-note, how would you feel about being friends?

[holyfant]

I love Rothko too, so much. I wonder how he'd feel about my reductionism in making his paintings my mood theme, haha. :p

I'm always for friends-making! Let's be friends! :D

[mickawber_fics]

I'm astonished that I missed this. Unbelievable. I think this might be one of my favorite Ginny/Luna fics - one of my favorite H/G/L triangle-not-threesome fics for sure. Not including "Triangle," of course. :points to icon"

Saw the rec over at crack_broom which I rarely spend much time on these days. Here's what I told woldy:

Wow.

Thank you so much. She's one of my favorite fic authors - one of my favorite G/L authors (present company excepted of course), and this was gorgeous. None of the usual demonization of the ex, and so we got to watch Ginny suffer with her decision, and got to watch Luna patiently wait.

Thank you. Two years late, but thank you.

[holyfant]

Oh, wow, thank you so much :-)