For Love

[kingdra]

Summary: The world is not as bright as you make it to be.

Char/Pair: Dumbledore/Grindelwald

Genre: romance/slash

Rating: PG

A/N: queer_fest: "Albus Dumbledore(/Gellert Grindelwald?), knowledge of how Muggles feel about homosexuality (i.e. the whole illegal thing) helps convince him that taking over the world really IS for the Greater Good."

Comments

[philosapphic]

Wow, this was really great. The bit with the clouds is at first so cute, and then packs a real punch. They seem totally IC, and it's a more sympathetic portrayal of Dumbledore than I often read (I have a soft spot for him and his inadequacies and Issues). Really interesting fic, thank you!

(Also, are the attacks in Scotland and Ireland based on any specific real incidents? The specificity of the locations makes me wonder.)

[kingdra]

Thank you so much! And lol I dunno, I always imagine Dumbledore to be more sympathetic than Grindelwald, and was just enamored by him xD

And... nope, really. I just didn't want the whole story to take place in England XD Thanks ♥

[biichan]

They're so cute at the beginning!

(Though, um, by the time Albus and Gellert were teenagers, homosexuality only carried a sentence of imprisonment in Britain. Which was definitely bad enough, but they stopped killing people for it in 1861! I liked it otherwise, but that one historical detail threw me out of the story a little.)

[kingdra]

Thank you! And haha, sorry about that, I didn't know /o\

[ruelynian]

love the ficlet, and for the wordcount it carries a punch! Love love love the characterisations and inclusion of lesbians. Odd to say but its so often shafted in pride movements ^^;

[kingdra]

hah, thanks! and yes, i did like including that as well :Db

[ext_237760]

Gosh, am I a terrible person for wanting to see more of this pair, loose and free Gellert dancing in the winds, seducing more controlled Albus alongside him? I want to see Albus loose control, I want to see them lost in magic and wind and song and lust and love and passion and each other, I want them to swipe the world together, leaving it breathless, gaping with amazed eyes and magic in their veins. And I want to see the consequences, the moments when reality crashes down and buries them, because those things come at a price, always. But there is always the next hit, the next high, and they can live for and of that for a long time. Shit, do I want to see this.

Thank you very much for sharing, it got me all hot and bothered and craving more, and that is always a good feeling.

[kingdra]

ahhh wow this comment blew me away, thank you. yeah, albus and gellert's love story is probably the most tragic of all the love stories in harry potter (even moreso than snape's), because you know there was this thing they had, they were both so intrigued by each other, and albus was so in love with gellert, it was just - it's painful, is what it is, because albus thought there wasn't anything else in the world for him except for gellert, and then reality hit with ariana and everything, and albus had always had that on his conscience, it was always in the back of his mind, and just - ugh, i've always wished for more too.

Amazing, my friend

[ext_237760]

Aw man. Thank you for writing this astonishing comment so I don't have to try writing my feelings down and fail terribly at it. You just got my canon picture of them on virtual paper. I'd love to read more fanfics like that, do you know any? (It may be late, but I think a ship never is forgotten even if it sank) I hope the internet will never forget your comment. Brilliant, really. Write some fanfic