FIC: Ginny Weasley: Dragon Slayer

[lettered]

Title: Ginny Weasley: Dragon Slayer
Rating: PG-13 for dragon slaying
Warning: meta, first person, some dragons were harmed
Disclaimer: HP belongs to Rowling, dragons belong to everybody, and the song used toward the end isn’t mine. It’s from Merrie England, by Basil Hood and Edward German. I have no idea how appropriate it is to use it as a quote

Comments

[wooly_bear]

Fantastic piece of writing. I am also so impressed with your way with words.

This sentence though...

It wasn’t until I read the books, however, that I realized I was only a minor character.

It really hit home for it describes perfectly what it's like to be on the tail end of life. (off-topic I know but I just loved this bit so much)

[lettered]

Thanks.

what it's like to be on the tail end of life.

I don't think you're off topic--I wanted to write about someone looking back at her life and wondering what it meant. Glad it worked for you!

[essie007]

I love this so much. I have so many Ginny feelings, and you have just encompassed most of them. Well done!

[lettered]

Thank you! I had a lot of Ginny feelings too, and always sorta wanted to do meta, but this says pretty much all I had. So, I guess I don't need to!

[seraphcelene]

Well, damn

[lettered]

Thanks for reading this! I thought of you when writing this!

how do we understand and express our lives and the events of life that we participate in except through storytelling

This. I always think about this. I think about it a lot online because it's so easy to control the way you present online--or anyway, it's easy for me, because I'm very controlled in deciding what to say when I can write it. Not so much irl.

I love that Ginny is a damsel in distress in Chamber of Secrets

She's quite cool later on, but she never gets a Big Moment where she gets to turn CoS around. That really disappoints me.

he is a person (truth) but he is also the The Boy Who Lived/The Chosen One (a fantasy, a story). I actually had a line exactly like that in there, but took it out. It's hard when writing something like this not to be too explicit about what I want the theme to be. I ended up limiting my word count, which always helps, and then told myself "don't think too much!" a lot. I'm really glad you took this from it, because it was one

[scarletscarlet]

So, I barely blinked, reading this. And I'm not entirely sure if it was a tragedy or a triumph, her story, but it *was* rather wonderful to read Ginny, and I'm trying to think of the right word, maybe defining herself? Being the lead in her own story, with her own motivations, her own revenge-and-realisation saga :). It was exquisitely phrased, too.

My guess is that the Wizarding World didn't have The Paper Bag Princess.

Pretty amazing ♥

[lettered]

I'm not entirely sure if it was a tragedy or a triumph, her story,

I started out wanting to make it a triumph with some darkness in the middle, but when I got to the end, I realized there wasn't going to be some big epic, "And now I know the meaning of life!" . . . because you just never do.

defining herself

That's what I was going for! Glad it worked for you.

I'd forgotten The Paper Bag Princess, so I had to look it up. Now that you've mentioned it, I remember that story! Pretty cool.

Thank you so much.

[khalulu]

Thank you. For really looking at the impact on Ginny's life of that horrific year for her, and giving her something to do with her fire. It really bothered me, reading the books, that it turned out to have been her possessed by Voldemort, killing cats etc and then so little was made of it afterwards - like she was a plot device. (It also really bothered me when Scabbers turned out to be Peter Pettigrew.)

Your writing is so clear-eyed and eloquent and original.