We Shine Like Stars. (Fic, GW/LL, SS/HP, NC17 7/7)

[cluegirl]

Title: We Shine Like Stars 7
Author: Cluegirl
Type: Fiction
Length: Novella -- words.
Main character or Pairing: Ginny/Luna, with a side of Harry/Snape.
Rating: NC17
Canon compliancy: Shooting for canon compliance. If you squint.
Disclaimer: All HP characters are the sole intellectual property of JKRowling, whom I am not. Therefore, I make no

Comments

[ravenna_c_tan]

It's brilliant! Absolutely brilliant. In fact, it really needs to be listed as a Snape/Harry classic as well as everything else. Just amazingly told. You slay me with your descriptive language, stuff like "a crescent moon slipping free of bleak woolen clouds" to describe Severus disrobing... (The White Knight of Slytherin!) Just an amazing job.

[cluegirl]

*Grins and curtseys*

I'm glad. It was quite difficult to stop Snape and Harry from eclipsing the girls in this, and I felt a bit like I was cheating sometimes, when I cut aside from their headier clashes to focus on Ginny's relationship with Luna instead. But I can't say I'm not very happy with how this story turned out.

Thanks for being so patient with me, and giving me that few extra days' slack when I needed it!

[ravenna_c_tan]

It was well worth the wait. :)

[amanuensis1]

still slight from childhood’s hunger

a crescent moon slipping free of bleak woolen clouds.

Mmm, I LOVE your body-metaphors.

Gah, the ritual--the physical parts were lovely, but the giving of elements was beautiful, and best of all, Ginny's picking-and-choosing of what she will give to the ritual, to the child. Not mine to give, fears are all gone, my name wouldn't fit you--I adored every bit of that.

I'm such a sucker for baby Jamie wanting his mama while she's in labour. ^_^

This worked, all of it. The jumps in time were the perfect narrative for this, and I loved how the birth scenes were the frames. Marvelous like all your works!

[cluegirl]

Writing the ritual was a bit freaky -- I didn't know how it was going to go until I was writing it. I didn't know what the two wicks on the candle was for, I didn't know about Luna's possession, I didn't know how Harry's and Severus' sacrifices were going to be undone, and I didn't have the first idea how it was all going to tie together... until it did.

I love writing sometimes!

Anyhow, thank you so much for all the lovely squee! I'm so glad you liked it.

[angelbabe_cj]

Oh wow, I hadn't really got any idea what to expect of this story, from the cards, but it was just fantastic. I really like the structure, how some things are revealed before the scenes actually play out - the Snape/Ginny scene before going to Hogwarts in particular.

The way you've portrayed the relationships here is great, and so utterly believable that they could survive harmoniously together.

And Luna, Luna is love, seriously. It's just how I love to see her, the extension of those hints we get in canon that despite how dreamy and silly she can be she's incredibly intelligent and actually sees things others don't.

The ritual was fantastic too, so haunting. And then how you've looped it all back to fit with the epilogue. *Squee* As little as I like the epilogue I love it when someone can write something which fits with it, but still puts in all this. The slashy stuff and the pairings I enjoy and such great characterisations. (Millie was great too).

[cluegirl]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! You've pegged all the things I was afraid I might not be able to pull off convincingly, so I'm thrilled to hear you say you think they worked!

[ravenclaw_harpy]

I've just managed to have my post slurped into the ether twice! Alas, this one is much shorter, but at least you will receive *some* feedback