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Intermezzo, Part 5/5

Feb 06, 2008 23:02

Author: irislock
Title: Intermezzo
Challenge: # 16. She dived under the table to retrieve the bowl and emerged with her face glowing like the setting sun. (Chamber of Secrets, UK adult cover page 51)
Rating: Hard R
Summary: Love was the easy part.
Word count: 3,107
Warnings: Harry/OFC, Ginny/OMC, implied Ginny/Luna, explicit sexual ( Read more... )

7th wave, author:irislock, 7th wave:fic, fic warning:adult

Comments 56

cacata February 7 2008, 12:53:25 UTC

I'm glad i will now be 20 minutes late to work so I could read this (now). What he said to her was perfect,
"I can be without you, but I don’t want to be.”

I will reread later.

irislock February 7 2008, 13:20:52 UTC

Oh - sorry you were late for work; I hope it's not too much of a problem. Thanks for taking the extra time to comment - I've been looking forward to your comments in the mornings! (and now I am off to work too....)

lnalvgd February 7 2008, 14:11:14 UTC

OH! *L*!!!

This was perfect!

Harry and Ginny...*le sigh*

I loved the dancing scene. With the "wizard" dance. It reminded me so much of the dancing scenes in Jane Austen movies, were the partners move together and talk then take up another partner for a moment then back to talk again while they dance with and around each other.

And Oooooooooooh! Teh Sex! Freakin' HAWT!

So, now I simply have to pimp this out right? Can I? I really want to pimp this because it is brilliantly written, superbly angsty and simply beautiful at the end!!

Just wonderful!

irislock February 7 2008, 17:36:49 UTC

Sooo glad you liked it! Feel free to pimp away! I am very flattered that you want to.

Teh Sex! Freakin' HAWT!

Thanks! you know this is the first R rated thing I've written - I was nervous about it, but I couldn't have them go through all that and NOT have sex :)

kentish_queen February 7 2008, 14:28:56 UTC

Yay! Its nice to see they worked things out! Such a shame about Scott though...lol

irislock February 7 2008, 17:39:35 UTC

Hee! Well, I didn't dislike him enough to drop him from a building....

Yeah. They belong together - not just because JKR said so, but because they really want to be together.

kentish_queen February 7 2008, 17:49:03 UTC

So true, their perfect for each other.

And I can imagine that Scott's Portkey missed and he landed in the ocean (jokes!)

almond_joyz February 7 2008, 14:35:49 UTC

I've been reading this since you started posting this. I know I didn't leave a comment until now, but I want you to know that this was brilliant. I know everyone expects them to just fall together and everything will be wonderful. Well, even in the wizard world, relationships take work and sometimes people are ready for things when the other isn't. This was a wonderful way to show how human our favorite witch and wizard actually are. Thank you for sharing this with us.

deena_s

irislock February 7 2008, 17:44:55 UTC

Thanks so much for the lovely review! It means a lot coming from an author whose work I have read admired (and who explores many of the same "real life" issues and situations). I was reading a thread the other day where several people had commented that they really liked Ginny, but not with Harry because they didn't think there had been enough build up to them as a couple in the books (which I disagree with)and they didn't think H/G should be a couple just because JKR said so. The basic motivation behind this fic was exploring the idea that, as you say, they didn't just fall together - it was something they worked for.

cacata February 7 2008, 23:46:30 UTC

Oh no. I've just realized I have nothing to look forward to tomorrow morning
:(
How much do I love this story? Too much to innumerate here.
(I'l do it later)
I do listen to David Gray when I read it and it puts me in a certain zone of pleasure.

I did love the dancing scene. Although all i could think about was gay bar dancing Harry :)
What I really loved about this section aside from the Ginny/Harry sex was how honorable Harry is when it comes to Ginny. He was willing to respect her relationship with Scott if that was what she wanted. How did he know where to find her? Does he have an internal Ginny radar?

This fic makes me think about so many different things. As i was rereading it this afternoon I was thinking about the e.e. cummings poem, "I Carry Your Heart With Me", do you know it? When you write do certain songs, poems or other works of literature influence you?

irislock February 8 2008, 17:40:22 UTC

Ooh, I like David Gray! Which one? ("White Ladder" is my favorite I think.)

I'm glad you like the dancing scene.

how honorable Harry is when it comes to Ginny

Thanks. More than once as I was working on this part, I wondered "Why doesn't he just beg her to take him back as soon as he finds her?" or "Why doesn't she just haul off and hit him when he gets to the beach?" They didn't because they are both feeling very tentative here and Harry really doesn't want to hurt her any more than he already has. Harry's noble streak runs pretty deep in spite of his cluelessness earlier in the story.

As for finding her, well, it's a pretty small island, and witches/wizards are concentrated in a small part of it. Harry would have known that Hennessey had checked many places before reporting to Anderson, so he had a pretty narrow search area. If I'd been clever, I would have had him use his wand and a "Point Me" spell to find her :)

"I Carry Your Heart With Me", do you know it? Yes! That's a lovely poem ( ... )