Holiday Drabbly Bits: Happy Hanukkah to TREE00FAERY!

[katmarajade]

Title: An Act of Rebellion: Eight Nights of Hope
Author: katmarajade
Written for: tree00faery
Characters: Anthony Goldstein and a cast of fellow Ravenclaws
Rating: PG
Word Count: 909
Prompt: someone trying to sneak Hanukkah candles past the Carrows during DH.
Summary: During the Carrows' reign of terror, Anthony decides to bring his House together in a surprising way

Comments

[thimble_kiss]

This is a lovely holiday story! It honestly made me a bit misty-eyed. :) And so much love for Ravenclaws! They're the neglected house of HP, even more so than Hufflepuff, and I always feel that it rounds out the whole HP 'verse a bit when they're given more substance and presence. Also, it was great to see Anthony's Jewish background being emphasized - with Goldstein as a family name it's highly likely that he would be Jewish, and yet I rarely see his culture or ethnicity given any attention in fics where he's a part of the cast.

Also, a random happy bounce for inclusion of Lisa Turpin - she's one of my rpg babies and it's so rare to see her in a fic that it I always squee a bit when she's included. :)

[katmarajade]

Thank you so much! I'm so glad it was so effective. :) Definitely much love to the Ravenclaws. I agree about Anthony, and I don't think I've ever read a fic that deals with his culture or ethnicity either, though I have not done an exhaustive search for Anthony fic. It was really interesting to work with that here and how his wizarding culture affects it too.

*adores*

[shygryf]

*crying actual tears*

so beautiful!

[katmarajade]

Oh, I'm absolutely delighted that it affected you so! *beams* *hands you tissues*

Thank you so much.

[tree00faery]

D'awwww, this is adorable! Thank you so much! *loves both gift and author*

I love the idea of Anthony getting all brave and pontificate-ey. :P

And rebellion is totally in the hannukah spirit! Ohmigosh lol there should be a sequel wherein they're studying defense or something else forbidden and start playing dreidle to cover it up. And Anthony would be LOLing forever. In his head. Because no one would get it.

(The story goes, the syrians or greeks or whoever forbade Jews to study Torah, so when the soldiers came in they would pretend to be playing dreidle, a gambling game.)

ANYWAYS. This was cute and hopeful and yay! I need to read more Hogwarts-during-the-Carrows fic. :D

[katmarajade]

I'm glad you like it! And yes, Anthony sort of stepped into his brave, "ponfificate-ey" role quite easily. :) I had so much fun with this one and I'm quite pleased with it. I learned more about the how-to's of observing the festival during my research, watched a completely ridiculous and awesome animated video wherein God was this bad-ass Samuel L. Jackson-like entity and teaching some guy how to light the candles properly, and spent over an hour clicking through tons of interesting Jewish websites and trying to make sure I got the details right. I just think that the parallels work so well and that it's perfectly fitting with Hanukkah spirit, yes, and also with that point in canon. I love it when stuff just works like that.

I'm so glad you liked it! YAY Hanukkah fic! (seriously, how much HP Hanukkah fanfic exists? Cuz I'm thinking not much.)

[secretsolitaire]

This is beautiful. I love the image of light in the darkness.

[katmarajade]

Thank you so much! I really love that image, as well. This was definitely one of my favorites of this year.

The Quibbler Report -- Tuesday, 20 December 2011

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