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Fic: Saturdays Are For Football.. for ojuzu

May 23, 2012 06:44

Title: Saturdays Are For Football (The Rest of the Week is for Everything Else)
Author: pitry
Recipient: ojuzu
Character(s): Blaise Zabini, Dean Thomas
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: ~4200 words.
Warnings (if any): language, vague discussion of war crimes and racism.
Summary: Once a week, every week, Dean Thomas allowed himself to pretend nothing had ever happened ( Read more... )

2012, fic

Comments 27

mama_pyjama May 23 2012, 09:05:56 UTC

Fantastic.

pitry June 11 2012, 17:34:11 UTC

Oh, cheers!

shiiki May 23 2012, 10:04:31 UTC

Wow. This was amazing. I loved the parallels drawn between the racist comments and Blaise's previous careless use of Mudblood. Blaise's obliviousness is really clear in this piece, and I could really understand where he was coming from, even if it wasn't right. And I like that he was slowly growing - it was very well-paced.

Thank you, this was a really good read!

pitry June 11 2012, 17:34:44 UTC

Thank you! It was important for me not to have Blaise 'get' it too soon, and I'm glad it worked!

ojuzu May 23 2012, 14:42:24 UTC

*flails* Dean! And Blaise! Being cousins and talking about football and Dean wants to be a healer but he doesn't have the grades but it's not about being a healer at all it's just about helping people and "What happened to them?" "The Muggleborn Registration Commission." and and and-*hands*

That was what Blaise liked most about Dean - he never got angry. Not really angry, anyway, just slightly annoyed, and then he would sit back on the sofa and say that maybe they should stick to football from now on and even the annoyance was gone. I love this! Just, this idea of Dean's temperament, that he's got strong feelings (such as 'the people who were signing off on hunting me and my classmates down like wild animals last year should not be allowed to keep working for the government') but he mostly keeps those locked down tight away from his immediate reactions. And I love that Blaise gets really angry about the football fan's racist slurs but doesn't get why 'mudblood' is such an awful word, because he's just not used to all the tiny little ( ... )

pitry June 11 2012, 17:35:55 UTC

Ohhh, I'm so glad you liked it! I have to thank you for the prompt - I never thought of writing Blaise, or him friends with Dean, at all, until I got the prompt!

ceebeegee May 23 2012, 15:05:38 UTC

Interesting--here in the States soccer tickets are not that expensive. I went to a Red Bulls game and my seat was only $28, including service fee.

Poor Justin! He gave up Eton and in return he gets targeted by the Ministry. Very sad.

Lovely story.

chthonya June 8 2012, 08:51:07 UTC

Baseball would probably be a better cultural comparison. How much would baseball tickets be for a top game?

Here, not only are tickets expensive but to some clubs impossible to get unless you buy a season ticket or know someone who works for the club or pay inflated prices from a tout.

pitry June 11 2012, 17:37:19 UTC

Thank you! (and yeah, I was quite awful to poor Justin :( )

And yeah, like Chthonya said, the better comparison would probably be to baseball or American football. Prices for the Premier League can easily reach £60-70, it's scary...

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pitry June 11 2012, 17:40:00 UTC

I'm glad you enjoyed it!

And oh, my, I saw your comment and went NOOO! You're absolutely right, she's wasn't divorced of any of her husbands. And I checked the book to make sure Blaise did use language like Mudblood but I completely forgot about the husbands' fate... :(