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Fic: The Potters At Home

Feb 16, 2009 18:01

The Potters At Home
By minnow_53

Disclaimer: These characters belong to JK Rowling and various corporations.
Pairing: Harry/Ginny, Harry/?
Summary: Witch World calls them the perfect couple. But Harry is seeing someone else, and Ginny is in love with the bottle.
Rating: PG-13
AN: This was written for the Fabulous No-Pressure Laissez-Faire HP_Unfaithful ( Read more... )

through_era, non_r/s, challenge_fic, angst

Comments 45

spacefragments February 16 2009, 18:33:11 UTC

damn, i kept waiting for ginny to catch on.

anyway, in case you didn't know i have a thing for dysfunctional post-epilogue h/g so this is like opening a birthday gift you know you're going to love, or something. i love how it's not over-the-top drama, just the slow erosion of a seemingly-happy relationship that we know so well in the real world. i felt really bad for ginny here and i think many will empathize with her even if they don't like her.

minnow_53 February 17 2009, 08:37:31 UTC

Oh, thank you very much! :) My main problem with post-epilogue fic so far has been the science fiction element, as it would be set so far in the future. Technically, this one takes place in 2020. *boggles* So I decided simply to ignore that and get on with it!

damn, i kept waiting for ginny to catch on.

I don't think she ever will catch on, or not quite. :( Unless she gets an LJ and discovers the world of slash...

topaz_eyes February 16 2009, 18:49:52 UTC

Oh, OUCH. Poor, poor Ginny. This is so heart-breaking. Her thought about how Harry married his best friend, how she knows about the cheating but can't see with whom... how she's lost hope, how she feels her life's already over. :-(

minnow_53 February 17 2009, 08:41:10 UTC

Thank you very much. :) It all felt incredibly real while I was writing it, and I'm glad it worked for you.

Lovely to see that of yours icon again! I was actually thinking about it the other day.

topaz_eyes February 17 2009, 18:53:41 UTC

It was incredibly real, and incredibly sad, and I just wanted to shoot Harry for what he was doing to Ginny. :-(

This is my oldest icon! I still use it, too!

phineas_gatsby February 16 2009, 20:10:23 UTC

I loved this.

I always thought that Harry/Ginny was an odd pairing--nothing like Ron/Hermione, because it really seemed as though Ginny loved "famous Harry Potter" and Harry wanted to be a Weasley. And I actually really like the idea of Harry/Luna (though I get the feeling you're implying Harry/Malfoy, which I never saw, personally, so I'll just believe what I like. ha.)

Anyway, really, really lovely piece.

minnow_53 February 17 2009, 08:46:22 UTC

Thank you very, very much. :) I'm really delighted you enjoyed it.

I absolutely agree with you about Harry/Ginny: it's very hard to envisage them together in the real world, though the Epilogue did a reasonable job of convincing me.

though I get the feeling you're implying Harry/Malfoy

Yes, I am! I'm not an H/D shipper by any means, and this actually started off quite overtly as Harry/Luna, which always seems to be the relationship that got away. But it ended up with Draco, or possibly with Draco. I'm happy for you to interpret it as you prefer, though! :)

phineas_gatsby February 17 2009, 16:29:43 UTC

Haha, thanks! I really thought that Luna "got" Harry in a way that none of the other characters--except perhaps Ron and Hermione, but they so clearly belonged to each other--really did. She'd also lost a parent, for example; she'd also felt lost and out of place...I can see him marrying Ginny so that he could be a part of the family and have Mrs. Weasley for a mom, but having an affair with Luna because he wants someone who understands him.

And about Harry/Draco...I know it's kind of the way that LJ goes, but I'm usually not one to jump to the slash relationship, you know? I usually accepts characters described as straight AS straight. Which may not always be correct, but whatever; fanfic's the writer's prerogative.

And seriously, you are a lovely writer. This was perfectly moody and American Beauty-esque, and just seems like such a realistic version of what Harry as an adult would be like. I always got the vibe from him that Ron and Hermione were his best friends, and no one would ever be closer to him than they--that he ( ... )

minnow_53 February 17 2009, 18:08:16 UTC

Oh, thank you again. *blushes*

I really thought that Luna "got" Harry

Yes, so do I! The main flaw in the books, which obviously I do think are brilliant, is that JKR sometimes doesn't let her characters develop the way they want to. Harry/Luna seemed so right, but Rowling had planned to pair him off with Ginny, so that was what she did, in spite of minimal chemistry there, to my mind. Same with Remus and Tonks: it was too much of an agenda. *gets off soapbox*

magnetic_pole February 16 2009, 22:44:30 UTC

This is so very, very fabulous, Minnow--moody and insightful and full of all those little details that make your fictional worlds seem real. I love that Ginny never "figures it out"--there's something so much more realistic and thought-provoking, just watching her skim along the surface of her own life and her own marriage. As always, your narrative voice draws me in and leaves me wishing there were more. Brava! I've missed your fic. M.

minnow_53 February 17 2009, 08:50:47 UTC

Oh, thank you very much! :) That's such a lovely comment, and I'm happy you liked the fic. It felt really good to be writing about a woman's life again after all the slash. I'm definitely going to do it more often!

magnetic_pole February 17 2009, 14:24:32 UTC

It felt really good to be writing about a woman's life again

Isn't it fun? The slash/gen division has always felt very artificial to me--there are so many stories to be told that deal with relationships but aren't necessarily "relationship stories" in the conventional sense. This is an excellent example of that, by the way. I always feel like I learn something from your fic. M.

elsane February 17 2009, 00:56:29 UTC

ow, ow, ow.

er, which is to say, beautifully done; it hurts so much partly because you make it so terribly clear how Ginny is trying to make herself numb. This is so sensitively and mercilessly observed that I would say you cut to the bone, except there's a bruised feeling to it; sharpness is too clean and too easy.

I really like how you leave the infidelity uncertain and not directly addressed; it feels very real.

minnow_53 February 17 2009, 08:52:52 UTC

Thank you very much! :) That's a really amazing comment. I had this idea that it should be like watching the Portkey crash Ginny mentions, sort of relentless and inevitable. I'm delighted it worked for you.