harry potter fic: revisionist history (albus/gellert)

[pogrebin]

OK, guys. Several years ago, after the publication of Deathly Hallows, I started writing Albus/Gellert fic for rhoddlet's birthday. It has been her birthday many times over since then, and both of us have long since moved on from HP fandom. But this has been mouldering on my hard drive and eating away at me. Every couple of months, I sigh and look back at

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[tiferet]

....oooh.

It's good to see you around. Don't hide for so long next time.

[pogrebin]

Hey you! I have been around-- just being naughty and flirting with SGA and Torchwood. :D Just had to return to HP to clear this out of my hard-drive. How have you been?

[vanitashaze]

Cor, it really has been a long time since Deathly Hallows, hasn't it? Weird. I feel so old.

Anyways: the idea behind this fic is absolutely fascinating, and of course that's how it would go down. That's how someone smart might do it. I especially love the fact that though their entire friendship seems to be based around words, or this idea of them, Albus and Gellert really don't communicate much at all. There's such a stilted, silent feel to this, and it's so oddly appropriate to Albus, this man who says so much and yet, really, means so little. As always, your HP fic provides such food for thought.

[pogrebin]

Lordy, it really has been a long time, huh? (I have fic floating around from *ten years ago*. I mean, thank god, not on this journal. It's between me and the wayback machine, but *still*. Yikes.)

Aw, man, yeah. I think-- if I were braver, I'd just write a fic that was just their letters to each other, with both of them sort of talking at each other. FInding what they wanted in the other's words and building their own structure from it. I think they're all about selective understanding. I don't know why, but HP brings out the cynical and pretentious bitch in me. I makes no sense! :D

[vanitashaze]

Oh yes, the thirteen-year-old Mary Sue fic. Though yikes is right. Forget what I said about feeling old; I feel freakishly young, compared to your wayback depths. I don't even think I was even talking in full sentences ten years ago. *bows to your clearly superior age, and wisdom*

You makes plenty of sense, my dear. HP is all about cynicism and pretentiousness. Sure, the books were rather light and fluffy, but - well. Us fans, we know the real story. ;)

*applause*

[mctabby]

Firstly, a general squeee! for the very idea of some HP fic from you. What a treat. :D

Next, a yay! for the story itself - I really like this version of AD/GG. You bring out the connection between them, and the differences, and the tension. Albus - faith and fear, and so much trying. Gellert's intelligence, obsession, and thoroughly scary conviction that he's totally right. Oooh, yes.

he reads the Bible like Milton would have read the Mahabharata

Just had to pause there and try imagining that, until my brain hurt and I stopped. (Might make a nice bunny for 17th Century RPF at Yuletide, though.)

*throws chocolate* So glad you posted this. :)

Re: *applause*

[pogrebin]

McT, eee. It's so good to hear from you. Even though we're all scattered from HP fandom, I still love it when I load up my friends page and see a post from you on there. :D

Oh man-- you say the words '17th century RPF' and my brain goes to bad bad places. I have files full of revision that could so easily be twisted into literary-tinged RPF fic. (I really kinda want to write Mary Wollstonecraft/William Godwin relationship fic, does this make me a bad person?)

THhank you so much for the commentary. And yeah, I thought, Gellert would be all about the intellectualism and the rationality, or at least he appearance of such. And poor Albus, so frightened of what he's capable of.

[anitaray]

That was quite something, even for your high standards. Fascinating, this monoglossia obsession and how it ties in with wizard supremacy and the Bible and what we learned about these two men in DH. I'm sure I don't have the words to properly review this yet, so have a hearty helping of WOW THAT WAS AWSOME. :)

*adds to memories*

[pogrebin]

Ah, thank you so much for reading. Oh, man, I could talk for ages about monoglossia and Bakhtin, and exegesis. So glad you enjoyed this!

[annabtg]

I followed the link on mctabby's journal and ended up here. Great work, I really loved this piece! Excellent prose and a wonderful way to write these two. :) Well done!

[pogrebin]

Thanks so much for commenting!