FIC: Rise From the Ashes [Teddy/Cedric, NC-17] Part 4

[midnitemaraud_r]

Title: Rise from the Ashes
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Teddy/Cedric (Cedric/Roger Davies, reference to Cedric/Cho)
Summary: Muggles have an old saying: "Be careful what you wish for, you might just get it." Teddy never quite grasped the meaning, until he made a wish of his own.

Comments

[chiralove]

Wow, I don't know how I missed reading this during smutmas but I'm very sorry that I did. It's brilliant - I love the use of the Room of Requirement, and the relationship between Teddy and Cedric is perfectly done here.

[midnitemaraud_r]

Thank you! (And no worries - there was a TON of fic posted everywhere in December, and a lot of it reeeaaaally looooong! :-P I still have a bunch to read myself!)

I loved playing with the magical elements and devices from canon, especially the Room of Requirement because it's always fascinated me. And if wands can be semi-sentient, well, the Room always seemed to have something of a mind of its own to me.

As for Teddy and Cedric, if I couldn't find a believable way to make their relationship work, where it wasn't just a pasted on plot device, I wouldn't have written it. So for me, that was the key, the touchstone for the entire story, and I can't help feel a bit squeeful when someone praises that bit.

Thanks so much! I'm really glad you enjoyed it!

[midnitemaraud_r]

I can see him as a Gryffindor, too, but I vastly prefer him as a Hufflepuff, especially since writing this story! :-P If OotP through DH showed anything, it was that loyalty doesn't preclude (or exclude) bravery, and those Puffs were right there in the thick of things. I absolutely see Teddy as brave, (obviously!) just as I see Tonks as having been brave, but I also see him as ridiculously loyal, to his family and friends, and to his ideals. Hufflepuff gets such a bad rap, but they're not the "duffers" some believe them to be, as Cedric showed. And I liked the notion that Teddy was a bit like Cedric in certain ways. And I shamelessly admit it made getting them together a lot easier, with the whole "sub-plot" of Cedric's legendary heroism and status in Hufflepuff history. :-P

YES! It was the Wolfsbane! Knowing what was to come - or that something was going to happen that full moon night, Remus was prepared, and the shock that affected him so badly in canon wasn't as severe. Snape still freaked out when he discovered Sirius was

[gryffindorj]

I am switching over my screen name here from walk_on_walk_onon LJ to match my one on iJ but I wanted to comment back.

Teddy a Hufflepuff: I agree with your argument very much I hate the Hufflepuff=Sally argument because it isn't true, or Gryffindor=Awesome brave and over all kick ass because that's not true either. I do also like the Cedric and Teddy parallel but *gah* just that little glimpse of Teddy in the epilogue, well hell we didn't even "see" Teddy in the epilogue we just heard what he had said. That little arrogance of go away I'm snogging my girlfriend is very Gryffindoresque brimming with confidence. But I'd actually never want JKR to tell us his house because it just spoils the fun of seeing where he fits. This makes me wonder that old question of was Remus just a Gryff because going to Hogwarts as a werewolf was really brave and would he have fit somewhere better had he been a "normal" boy and blah blah. But that is a whole other can of worms that I'll leave for another time otherwise I'll never shut up.

I knew it was Wolfsbane the

[dacro]

wow!
great fic! I love time travel universes - and when things go wrong, it just makes for more interest!
Teddy was amazing, and even though he messed up on the mention the wolfsbane to Remus, I'm so glad he got that time with his father and was able to meet Sirius as well.

I loved that Harry was only 14, and yet Teddy thought of him so fondly as the godfather he would become. Very touching.

Well done!

[midnitemaraud_r]

Thank you! I love time travel myself, and I'm fascinated by all the what-ifs that often go unexplored in those stories - that even the tiniest things, such as a little foreknowledge of future events (in Remus' case) could have such far-sweeping consequences

[midnitemaraud_r]

Psst - I wanted to add, kind of an FYI: Teddy didn't know that Remus hadn't taken his potion the first time around. That was the sort of thing I figured Harry would purposely leave out when telling Teddy, rather than say "oh yeah, your dad was an irresponsible arse and almost ate us" :-P (And that's how the future changed. :-P)

[grubby_tap]

Wow, I'm so glad you chose to have Cedric live--this could have been the angst fic of all angst fics, since Teddy knows he would die. And Sirius, alive!

Really great fic, with a very intricate time travel paradox. Is this really the end, or will there be more? I'd like to know what the dystopia future is like--haha, it could be like that one Simpsons episode with the magical toaster where Homer keeps going back and forth between past and present and something different goes wrong each time. XD

[midnitemaraud_r]

*hee* I knew from the start that there would be two parts - PoA and GoF - so I guess you can say that I orchestrated things so that Cedric would (eventually) live. :-P

[grubby_tap]

Ahhh, okay, that dystopia part makes total sense now. I didn't even think to ask if Teddy ever went home--guess not. I wonder if someday he meets Remus and Tonk's son and is like, "I used to be you." Heh.

Anyway, as for the sequel, I'd say if you've got good ideas go for it, but if not it's best to let it lie. Best of luck!

[sivullinen]

I think the plot was interesting and it really sucked me in :D I also like how everything is kind of left hanging here!

[midnitemaraud_r]

Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed it! (And yeah, I liked how the ending left open so many possibilities, but a few others weren't quite as happy about that! :-P)