Comments | cesario: yet another fic post!

cesario

yet another fic post!

Aug 05, 2007 01:37

Wonderful Tragic Mysterious
by Branwyn

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fandom: Harry Potter
rating: PG, Albus Dumbledore/Luna Lovegood WAIT WAIT DON'T RUN

summary: A few week after his sister's funeral, an eighteen-year-old Albus Dumbledore meets an odd young woman with a Time Turner, a secret mission, and a disarmingly comfortable relationship with death.

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( sinner sorry and wrecked by the Fall )

fic, deathly hallows, albus dumbledore, harry potter, luna lovegood

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cesario August 5 2007, 23:41:22 UTC

She really is, isn't she? :)

myf August 5 2007, 07:05:54 UTC

I adored this. Poor, lost Albus.

cesario August 5 2007, 23:42:30 UTC

Thank you so much. :-) And I love your icon.

dolorous_ett August 5 2007, 08:53:49 UTC

What a lovely story. Luna is charming, and young!rough-edged Dumbledore completely in character.

You've brought out something I've never noticed before: the whimsical outlook on life these two characters share. It looks like Luna's effect on Albus has been very deep indeed...

cesario August 5 2007, 23:47:26 UTC

Luna is basically baby!Albus, I have always believed this, although really I think she is the more remarkable for having gained that serene all-seeingness so much younger than he did (and I suspect Albus would agree). One of my betas who read an early draft said "it's like he learned it from her!" which I confess is just what I was going for.

I'm not the only one to have noticed their curious potential as a couple, anyway. Evanna Lynch mentioned in an interview that she thinks they would get on very well together, and she would know, wouldn't she? :-)

myf August 5 2007, 23:53:48 UTC

Luna is basically baby!Albus

Okay, now I really want you to write Luna as a 150-year-old. If she so ace now, how will she be by then?

cesario August 6 2007, 18:41:13 UTC

Oh man. Now THAT would be interesting. *muses*

kels August 5 2007, 11:38:58 UTC

Very cute story! I think that you portrayed the young Dumbledore very well, and I like that you showed Luna as being a bit ... I don't know, wiser? after the war, yet without losing her trademark absentminded optimism. I'm wondering, though, if I understand correctly why Luna chose to paint a portrait of Harry's ancestors for his birthday; was it because they looked very much like he and his parents? Just curious.

I also like that Luna's chosen fake last name just so happens to be the same as Dean Thomas'... Hmmm...

(Side Note: I was really hoping that she and Dean would end up together in DH, actually, given that he held her hand at one point . But I guess Rowling decided that it was not to be.)

kels August 5 2007, 11:39:46 UTC

Also, this part had me laughing:

Albus Dumbledore/Luna Lovegood WAIT WAIT DON'T RUN

cesario August 5 2007, 23:49:18 UTC

I think Luna was painting a picture of Harry great-grandparents and grandfather because he didn't have any pictures of them, that's all. And yeah, Luna chose to use Dean's last nameon purpose because he was Muggle raised and she figured Dumbledore wouldn't know the family, the way he'd be bound to if she'd called herself Luna Longbottom or something.

maexle August 5 2007, 12:45:37 UTC

Wonderful story! It made my day and I thank you for it.

cesario August 5 2007, 23:49:31 UTC

:-D Thank you!