FIC: Light in the Walls (Blaise Zabini/Neville Longbottom)

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Title: Light in the Walls
Author/Artist: themaohour
Characters: Neville/Blaise; hints of Neville/Ginny; Pansy, Theo
Prompt number: 82
Word Count: 2500
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Bellatrix Lestrange.
Summary: The quietest of sufferings leave the deepest scars.
Disclaimer: Harry Potter and all henceforth mentioned franchises belong to their respective owners.

Comments

[alley_skywalker]

I don't usually read things with Blaise and Neville (either together or seperately) but I'm really glad I read this. It was really well written and I really, really liked the structure and your descriptions were lovely.

[captainraychill]

This is one of my favorite fics of this fest. It is pitch perfect. I hope you know that you are a wonderful, powerful writer.

I've come away with strange mix of loss and hope. Neville did so much but he will never think he did enough, the plight of the Hero.

I love: "his family had been pieced together with money and timing", "shale-colored rain", "the blade of the world", "afraid to search for truth amid ruin", and most of all, "Righteousness is your north."

You should be really proud of this story!

[snegurochka_lee]

I absolutely love this! The quiet mood of it, the sparse prose, it's all just so elegant and gorgeous. That one gaping thing in canon is what the other students were doing at Hogwarts during Harry's 7th year, and I think this story does a great job of supposing some of that. We know what Neville did at the end, but not really how he felt about it, and we don't know anything about Blaise at all. I love how you filled them in here, and put them together. And defied all cliches about relationship fic! If they were different people, it would be sex, tangled and sticky and sad, that follows their departure from the pub. Instead, they lie quietly on Neville's couch, in his dreary Hogsmeade rental, struggling not to be alone. --- that right there is so perfect and beautiful. ♥ !!

[secretsolitaire]

This is really nicely done -- I like how you string together these sparse vignettes to tell the story.

If they were different people, it would be sex, tangled and sticky and sad, that follows their departure from the pub. Instead, they lie quietly on Neville's couch, in his dreary Hogsmeade rental, struggling not to be alone.

I agree with Lee, above -- some really great lines here.

[venturous1]

what a beautiful tale, filled with a poignant sadness.