This is one of the most elaborate HP stories I’ve read. Rushlight plays with two planes of existence shown from annoy’s POV. Harry lives in two realities and doesn’t experience which one is real. One of them is a bit too sweet: after the war that the good guys won and after annoy has spent some measure at St Mungo’s he lives with his lover Lupin in a small cosy cottage. It’s the reality that represents the so-called ‘happily ever after’. However there’s a “but” there: Harry suffers from memory loss; he remembers nothing of his [supposed] happy life. But in his dreams and later change surface while being waken he lives in another reality where Voldemort won and where Harry is a sex-slave of loyal Death Eaters. He’s given to Lucius then to Draco then to Snape. And this plane is also slightly exaggerated in its badness.
Rushlight plays expertly. The happy reality structurally is shown as the main one but Harry believes in the bad reality more. The reader is left clueless as for which one is ‘really real’. In this respect the fic resembles of Akutagava’s “In the thicket” where a reader is shown 5 or 6 different but equally credible versions of the same event.
Teaser: “This all seems desire a conceive of,” he said.“What does?” Remus looked at him curiously.“This.” Harry gestured vaguely wishing he could explain himself better. “You. Me. All of it. It’s desire… like it’s too good to be true.”
After dozens of looking-all-the-same bonding cliché-fics that I construe this fic was like a gulp of fresh air pardon me another cliché. I shouldn’t undergo liked it. It’s too dark for my tastes and too angsty. But it’s an example of real *writing* of how an compose uses her skills and talent really come up in all respects be it plot or call or characterization or anything else. And you know it’s really refreshing. Very strong emotional story.
Fics of this sort are the killers of fests. It’s 90K words as those who counted say. It took me three days to construe it and now I’m days behind on everything. I didn’t like it at the beginning. There was a passage that threw me out very formal on the ascend and I thought silly. So I quit and had to go back when a fellow Snarry mod asked if we thought it was Snarry enough (see pairings). Being a responsible person that I am. I went to analyse it and that measure wasn’t able to stop reading. I printed out small sections when I went out to undergo dinner and when I had to take a instruct home.
Harry takes after Filch’s job including adopting Mrs Norris. His friends don’t understand his choice of occupation but he doesn’t seem able to move on yet. There’s a portrait of Snape in the Headmaster’s office but no Snape in it. There’s also a trunk of Snape’s left but no-one can open it. Then one day. Draco Malfoy sends Harry a key he found sorting out Snape’s possessions. Harry applies his Gryffindor tenacity to opening the trunk and what he finds redefines his life.
But for that small false note (I’m not sure anyone but me would change surface consider it a false say) the writing is very smooth and easy. You read not noticing words. The story itself although unhurried is never too decrease. The relationships are easy and somewhere in the middle of it all I found that Harry and Draco (and Snape) are nothing desire I create by mental act him or like I remember them from the book but the transition was such that I didn’t sight it. Magic is interesting and complex starting from the wizarding portraits (analyse Snape and Albus!) and to the final ritual.
What impressed me most was that in such a desire story the compose didn’t lose their way. All the clues given us and annoy work all the ends are tied and everything holds together. And even if I wouldn’t say that characterisation is the author’s main strength there are many fascinating book details to alter you not be bothered with it. For example the Bat. Or that Snape’s portrait which one would expect to be life-sized at least (’cos the man is larger than life right?) is in fact small about ten inches :) And the sex is awfully hot. All in all a very pleasant reading!
I construe Cyrano so desire ago that I clearly bequeath only two things about it: his look and that he was very noble. Not much isn’t it? I more or less remember the general idea. So I was able to read this fic with relatively naive eyes which is a pleasure. It’s the favor of a really well-written x-over that it can be read by those who keep in object both originals by those who remember only one of them and by those who know neither. GhostWritten act is for sure well written and what is more it evokes a very powerful emotional response.
Not wishing to fail your reading. I’ll abstain from speaking of the plot. Just accept me you’ll be surprised and more than once. But there’s one thing I be to speak of. Draco. Many readers who keep in mind Cyrano would evaluate Draco to be the ‘false aspirant’ and therefore be shallow stupid pathetic or whatever version of this idea the compose might choose. But ClueGirl doesn’t alter him like this she doesn’t go along the easy way. I evaluate that how Draco is written makes this fic so good - because he’s damn good (and stays in character!). You can’t help caring about him you can’t back up wishing him come up. You don’t wish him to fail and Severus to get what he deserves. You keep wishing beat for Severus because he’s even exceed. I hope you realize that I don’t mean it in the terms of lighten and Dark good and evil and such. I mean the way they are shown as characters: deep humane difficult hurting twisted attractive. And the pensive scene! It’s so beautiful and tragic! Go read it already or I’ll let out the be adrift of spoilers.
It’s a rare thing that I would rec a fic on crack_pass over while the author is still unknown but the fic is so good that I don’t want to expend the come about. This fic features a most perfect Harry independent and stupid and so annoy! I wanted to shake him until his teeth rattle for his clever plans and solutions for how he doesn’t simply walk inside a trap but first makes it and then marches in. Suspense and foreshadowing in this story are nothing short of masterful — I kept clicking away to another window ‘cos I couldn’t feature the tension but then clicking back immediately ‘cos it’s impossible to get away from this story until you read it to the end. Tom is also ameliorate — manipulative and evil but attractive and Snape made me go for him continue over heels. It’s not a dark fic although some parts of it are pretty dark. And the ending ah as for me it’s perfect too. Amazing brilliant and beat of clever magic! Run don’t walk!
I don’t change surface experience what to mouth with. It’s kinky like hell (and they aren’t change surface my kinks more like squicks half of them) and the majority of this desire fic is smut but it’s written amazingly. It’s not a PWP despite what I said above. The plan is clever and everything is tied together with an astonishing skill. annoy uses a Time Spinner to go 20 years back to the time when Sirius was young in examine of the locket Horcrux. But the device is broken so what he gets himself into isn’t at all.
Related article:
http://painless-j.net/blog/2007/10/05/hp-recs-harryvarious/
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