Things Invisible to See (Harry, Regulus, PG)

[thistlerose]

Title: Things Invisible to See
Author: Thistlerose
Characters/Ships: Harry, Regulus
Rating: PG
Word Count: approx. 800
Summary: For the Dialogue is Good Practice challenge. Regulus wants to help Harry find one of the missing Horcruxes, but he wasn't a particularly charitable person in life, and in death he's not much better.

Comments

[kethlenda]

Love it! Reg is just how I like him--snarky and jaded. I love he, being a dream, can only tell Harry what he already knows. Good job!

[thistlerose]

Thanks so much! *g* This isn't the Regulus I used to write, but I got kind of tired of the sweet, lost boy. This one's likes being a brat.

[hibernater]

Oh god, I want to know more. Please write more. Such character Regulus has. And I want to know why Regulus wants Harry to survive. Well, you gave me ideas, but I want to know. Please don't say you wrote/though about this and no more. Please be writing a history for this, as well as a future. It's unspeakably good, and the pace is extraordinary- such a rushed-ness to it, such an unspoken desperation. I love this, love it.

[thistlerose]

*blush* Umm, okay, I won't say there's no more. Even though there isn't. At the moment. I don't know. I'm not really interested in Regulus these days, but I like the voice I have going here. I used to write him rather different.

I'm so glad that you enjoyed this story! Thank you so much for your lovely comments. THey're really appreciated. :)

[hibernater]

*facepalm* Sorry. I din't mean to sound that desperate. I love your fic, but seriously, I'm not asking you to write more or less of a thing.

So, Regulus. I noticed he was different than usual, but I thought that was cool. There was one of your stories he was quite like this in, though. I can't remember the name- it had Sirius in it and Reg was an arse- not the Midnight conversations universe, something else. That was really nice too.

In any case, yeah. His voice was fantastic. I am curious, but that's just the response to an interesting story. It's why fan fiction exists, after all. We're curious about JKR's universe :)

[thistlerose]

Oh, it's okay! I hope I didn't sound grouchy. I didn't mean to. *g* I'm so glad that you liked the fic. I wrote it pretty quickly, and I wasn't really sure what it was going to turn into when I started, but I'm pretty pleaed with it.

Reg is frequently a bit of an arse in my stories, though not usually this snarky. Hmm. Maybe Brothers? He's kind of a beast in that one.

I got tired of the stories that have Regulus as this beautiful fallen angel. Please. I don't think he was evil, but he was hardly innocent. Of course, that's just my interpretation. I'm really looking forward to Rowling's.

[stephanometra]

The voices in this are wonderful, and I love the mesmerizing aspect of the locket.

But the Latin plural for Horcrux(,-crucis) would actually be Horcruces. Third declension and all. *hides*

[thistlerose]

Thank you! :)

Uh, I'm not going to hurt you. I was actually poking fun at the people in fandom who insist that the plural isn't Horcruxes. I thought they insisted on Horcruci, but I keep out of those debates so it was just a guess. *fixes*

[stephanometra]

It really wouldn't surprise me if Horcruci were the spelling they preferred. Not knowing a language has never, ever stopped people from being Nazis about spelling or grammar in said language. Ha.

♥

[thistlerose]

Hee. I did a google search, and found people insisting on both spellings. It's Horcruxes. Rowling says so. End of debate. *g* People are so funny.

[lyras]

Tell me she’s not a Weasley.

Such a great line! I loved this - it's a lovely way to bring Regulus into things, and I like that you made him uncompromising in a lot of ways. Harry's initial confusion of him with Tom Riddle was particularly interesting. Excellent!

[thistlerose]

I thought about what Regulus probably looked like, and realized that - given what he'd be wearing - Harry was more likely to mistake him for Tom than young!Sirius.

Thanks so much! :)

[lilacsigil]

Very nice indeed! I loved the concept of Regulus the ghost (or dream) unable to tell Harry information he didn't know, only drag things up from his sub-conscious. I wonder if portraits are the same?

Also, after reading the thousandth "Regulus was the nice Slytherin Death Eater" story, I really appreciated the not-nice but not-evil Regulus here.

[thistlerose]

Oh, I'm so tired of nice!Regulus. I even used to write him like that. To an extent. So, this was sort of refreshing. :)

I'm so glad that you liked it. Thank you!