Comments | iamisaac: 5th Day of Christmas

iamisaac

5th Day of Christmas

Dec 30, 2006 12:10

On the fifth day of christmas, someone wrote for me
Five AUs
Four crossovers
Three serenades
Two smutty drabbles
And a fic that's rather angsty

Um... welcome to genfic day...

CS/HP
Charles Maynard gets the Hogwarts letter
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96 words

( the letter )

harry, peter pettigrew, harry potter, 12 days of christmas, genfic, crossover, chalet school, sirius black, albus dumbledore

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lycoris December 30 2006, 22:33:15 UTC

1) Awesome last line. Just awesome. I love it. Poor Joey!

2) Nicely done with a wonderfully chilling feeling to it. Poor Peter.

3) Poor Sirius! Sensible idea of Peter's - get Sirius out of the way. Another quite chilling ending - Sirius at Snape's mercy is not going to be good ...

4) *scolds Harry gently* I nearly wrote one like that but decided that I wasn't going to. Good thing too, we don't want to clash too often! Very succicnt, I like it.

5) So sad. *hugs Albus* Again, short but with feeling.

iamisaac December 31 2006, 08:37:52 UTC

1) I think there's a fairly big suggestion in the CS books that Charles might become a priest, but couldn't help feeling he'd make a great wizard :)

2) If it's an AU, then it probably IS Sirius. The alternative is that it's not an AU, just the way that Peter was forced to give in - because someone was using polyjuice potion and pretending to be Sirius....

3) Last time in the 12 days challenge, in the 5 OTPS, I wrote one that started with Sirius chained up at Snape's mercy. Writing this one, I couldn't help thinking that it might well be the stage directly before.

4) It had to be done, didn't it? Because it could so easily have happened.

5) Very short. But another 'what if...' moment. :)

maelwaedd December 30 2006, 23:31:27 UTC

Hehehe. Joey's wonderful. :) The others are grand, too--especially the Harry one. Actually, no, all of them are. *shivers happily*

iamisaac December 31 2006, 08:39:49 UTC

I think I might turn into a CS/HP crossover writer. I'm loving it :) But it's definitely weird the way the Chalet School way of phrasing takes over. Somehow, I'd find it hard to write Charles Maynard's first day at Hogwarts because it would require a Potter tone, and I'm not sure I could do that with a Chalet character... (*is now tempted to try*)

maelwaedd December 31 2006, 08:44:17 UTC

Do iiit! Pretty please? *flutters eyelashes and stuff*

Now I really want a 'The Triplets Go To Hogwarts' fic. Or 'Hogwarts and Jo'.

Hehe. Pomfrey versus Matron. Rock. :)

I wonder if I can convince one of my leet icon-making friends to make some sort of a 'English school stories whore' or 'I <3 English school stories' icon. Not that CS is exactly English, what with all the locations, but it goes well with Mallory Towers etc.

Did you ever manage to read the analysis of the Chalet series? It was published alongside the others, and I found it at a library a couple of hours north when I was a teenager staying with my grandparents. It talked about all the massive language errors she made, and other bits of craziness. Like how all of the popular stories of the times had their heroines having twins, so she wrote Joey having triplets and it blew everybody's minds. So cute.

iamisaac December 31 2006, 13:06:10 UTC

Oh hell yeah. In fact, you're talking to someone who's writing a thesis on the chalet school and gender (well, actually, on maternity and sickness break for two years, but it's bubbling in the background). I LOVE love love the Chalet books and all the analysis and stuff. Do you know "Virtual World of Girls" (http://users.netmatters.co.uk/ju90/start.htm) because it's someone else's thesis on English girls' school stories and is fabulous!

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la_localfreak December 31 2006, 14:16:31 UTC

Great stuff. I love how quickly and neatly you get your information across it makes for really great reading!

iamisaac January 1 2007, 08:41:04 UTC

*blushes*

Thank you. It's only because I have very short inspiration before it dries up but I'm glad it works :)

versipellis December 31 2006, 17:45:54 UTC

1) Great last line XD

2) If I were Peter, I'd faint :( poor guy.

3) Uh-oh. *glomps Sirius*

4) Brilliant - so succinct!

5) Ouch.

You're really good at actual drabbles!

iamisaac January 1 2007, 08:42:06 UTC

Thank you.

I do go for very short a lot of the time. Actually, today (day 7) has some longer bits in, but sometimes there's just a snapshot of something happening, and I write it, and that's all there is...

versipellis January 1 2007, 19:24:05 UTC

Probably best for a challenge this big.

I'm impressed you can do snapshots with so few words! I always overwrite.

iamisaac January 2 2007, 09:23:43 UTC

I almost always underwrite, which is probably why I manage so many...