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Harry Potter: Merope Gaunt

Aug 18, 2006 08:25

Title: Forth from the Garden
Author: kitestringer
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Merope Gaunt
Word Count: ~1700 words
Rating: G
Summary: Merope contemplates her escape.
Author's Notes: Spoilers for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.
ETA: Many, many thanks to maverick4oz and rustler, for comments and encouragement, and to kaynyne, for lending me her "Britpicking" expertise. :-) ( Read more... )

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Comments 32

lilacsigil August 22 2006, 08:16:19 UTC

I really enjoyed seeing Merope's craft in this piece - her garden and potion, and also the simple plan that has taken her so long to be able to even consider. Beautiful writing, and I loved the imagery, particularly of the auras, and the possibly-flattering snake.

dalasini August 23 2006, 10:03:22 UTC

Thank you so much! I had a lot of fun coming up with details like the auras for this story-I'm glad they worked for you! :-)

lavinialavender August 23 2006, 23:26:06 UTC

Aw, I liked this. Simple and good. I like how natural it is that she can talk to snakes, and the creativeness of the two potions that let her see auras...very cool. Am memorying.

dalasini August 25 2006, 09:43:33 UTC

Thank you-I'm so happy you liked it! I think the conversation with the snake might have been the part that was the most fun to write, so I'm glad you enjoyed it. :-)

vermin_disciple August 25 2006, 05:52:17 UTC

I really enjoyed this. The conversation with the snake and the aura potion were nice touches. A very insightful look at Merope's character. Lovely.

dalasini August 25 2006, 09:45:03 UTC

Thank you-I'm so happy that you enjoyed it! :-)

la_onza March 9 2007, 00:43:00 UTC

That's really lovely! I love the richness of her enhanced perceptions, how well she knows her tiny little plot of earth, and how little she knows of anything outside it. It foreshadows how lost she felt when she finally got out in the world, and couldn't find Tom's light after all. Really well done.

kitestringer March 11 2007, 22:40:42 UTC

Thank you so much! I definitely took a lot of liberties with what things might have been like for her (i.e., I made a lot of stuff up *g*), and I had a lot of fun doing it-so I'm always happy when people feel it worked. :-)

amelia_eve March 9 2007, 00:59:22 UTC

Wow, what an evocative piece of writing. The snake makes a perfect interlocutor. Of course she would be a parseltongue like the other Gaunts, and it gives a wonderful Edenic tone: the woman in the garden with the snake, just poised to go out into the big world.

And as I posted in a comment above, it had a special resonance for me because I just recently posted a Merope drabble of my own for the Strawberry Fields challenge at omniocular. It focuses on the same period in Merope's life as the fic here. Inspired by the Beatles' song, it's called She's Leaving Home.

kitestringer March 11 2007, 22:43:28 UTC

Thank you so much! I had *so* much fun writing her conversation with the snake; it's kind of what made the whole story come together for me. I'm really glad it worked for you!

And thanks for letting me know about your drabble! I'll definitely check it out. :-)