Team EWE: 8. Episkey heals all wounds.

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Title: Scars That Never Felt A Wound
Team: EWE
Author: ebilgatoloco
Prompt: 8. Episkey heals all wounds.
Wordcount: 5282
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: Strong obscenities, some violence, sort of dark!Harry
Summary: "As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades." - Frank Moore Colby
Author's Note:

Comments

[chibitoaster]

first let me say that I love Draco as a healer. I always have. It's really nice and refreshing to see him in this role more often.

Also, I do think Harry's suffering more than anyone knows after the war. They both have a lot of the same skeletons in their closets, and they carry a lot of of the same emotional baggage. You've done a great job of laying out those similarities.

And again, it's very believable. They meet under less-than-ideal circumstances here and there, and it always ends badly until Harry can accept that he's got problems, and that Draco has worked through some of his.

Very nice!!

GO TEAM EWE!!

[whitestar]

I liked this. The epilogue JKR wrote never rang true to me. It was like everything was all sunshine and roses years later and never took into account PTSD that so many people, especially Harry, would be suffering from. I like that you covered that topic in this story.

I do however have to agree with the comment made by one of the posters above. The ending where Harry is leaning in toward Draco leaps too quickly from fighting to kissing, especially since they have such a long negative history between the two and Harry is currently very messed up. Maybe it would have been better to have left Draco holding Harry there on the floor comforting Harry and then fade out the scene. Other than that, I really enjoyed your story :)

[pervyunitwins]

I felt that there was a lot of really good lines in the fic. One of my favorite lines was: "St. Mungo's was but a battle in the war inside his soul."

I liked the direction the story took and the way you got inside Draco's head and wrote it all down. I wish it had not ended where it did. I can see that it was meant to imply that something would happen between Harry and Draco, but I wanted to see it.

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[vaysh]

What an interesting post-war scenario. I quite like the psychology of your slightly dark Harry - it makes all the sense in the world to me that canon Harry would not easily adjust to his new role (whatever that may be) after the war. You told quite insightfully how Harry went from neglected child to celebrated hero and saviour of the wizarding world. The schizophrenic split you describe in Harry - full of unacknowledged rage on the one hand, and keeping up an overly friendly façade on the other - could be seen as a direct result of this psychological baggage. That he'd be able to show his rage only to Draco - that to me is why H/D makes so much more sense than the Epilogue ;-). Thanks for writing!

[_aurora_sky_]

post-war Harry angst = MY FAVORITE THING EVAR!!! :D!!! And you did it SOOOO well here. UGH. I love broken!Harry and broken!Draco <3<3

Awesome job. This was well-written and I loved the character insight. And I liked that you ended it before the real H/D set in. It fit the fic well :)