Comments | hp_holidaygen: fic for <strong class="lj-user"><a href="/read/user/velvetmouse">velvetmouse</a></strong>: That's What Friends Are For (Cho, Roger, PG)

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fic for velvetmouse: That's What Friends Are For (Cho, Roger, PG)

Dec 28, 2006 23:03

Title: That's What Friends Are For
Recipient: velvetmouse
Rating: PG
Characters: Cho Chang, Roger Davies
Summary: Cho runs into an old friend and comes to an understanding.
Length: ~2,200 words
Author's Notes: The request was "Fluff, humor, character studies. I'd love to see some more Ravenclaw fic/art, nothing too dark and angsty; a little dramatic tension ( Read more... )

!2006, character: roger davies, !fic, character: cho chang

Comments 8

velvetmouse December 29 2006, 14:02:00 UTC

Aww! What a sweet, wonderful, realistic scene. I really enjoy seeing Cho as a real person, who has faults, but also clearly has a good side. Too often she gets thrown into the "evil bitch" category and left there. It was really nice to see the other side of her, and it was delightful to see Davies fleshed out as real person as well.

Thank you so much for this beautiful piece!

snorkackcatcher January 2 2007, 17:29:17 UTC

Heh. Thanks, glad you enjoyed it! I can never see why Cho gets bashed either. (Well, alright, I can, she got in the way of other Harry ships. :D)

apostrophet January 1 2007, 01:29:36 UTC

Aw, very nice! Cho comes across here as a teenage girl--that acute self-consciousness, and the blinders that went up after Cedric's death that only start coming down once it's been pointed out to her by someone else...well, it felt very realistic to me. :) The friendship dynamic between her and Roger is written well, too. And her resolve and determination at the end of the story! Nice job!

snorkackcatcher January 2 2007, 17:30:55 UTC

Thank you -- glad it felt right for Cho. As I say, for some reason I quite like both these characters. :)

purple_ladybug1 January 5 2007, 18:33:22 UTC

Very nice. Excellent work on Cho and Roger.

snorkackcatcher January 5 2007, 23:02:05 UTC

Thank you very much.

lazy_neutrino January 11 2007, 21:02:11 UTC

it was probably as much me fancying myself as the big protective bloke you needed

How very perceptive and honest. I enjoyed this. At the start I wasn't sure that Roger would be that honest and open - it's quite an emotional conversation for a bloke - but I guess you would actually know. I had no idea who'd written it, of course!

snorkackcatcher January 12 2007, 02:41:17 UTC

Oh dear -- I was worried I was making Roger too supportive, but I was a bit rushed, and some of us can make an effort sometimes. :)

However, with the line you mentioned I was trying to say that his girlfriend (supposed to be the blonde one he was with in Madam Puddifoots) was the one who had the perceptiveness about what he was doing, and eventually got the idea across to him. :D

I did actually tidy this up a bit a few days later to post at FFN, including a rewrite of that paragraph; that's the version that should eventually end up at FA (possibly elsewhere, I suppose).