Fic: alone now (Harry Potter, Dr. Granger)

[kyrafic]

Title: alone now
Fandom: Harry Potter.
Summary: Book 7 spoilers. Hermione's mother in Australia.
Notes: Hastily written for nothing_hip.

I think we're alone now / There doesn't seem to be anyone around -Tiffany

He knows: he went over everyone, & nobody’s missing.
Often he reckons, in the dawn, them up.
Nobody is ever missing. - John Berryman, Dream Song

Comments

[myr_soleil]

Oh, this is heart-breaking. Poor her, motherhood sounds like pretty much the worst thing to lose. I love that she kinda notices that some things are wrong, like nothing on September 19, without ever really putting her finger on it. After all, if a mother's love is the thing that protects Harry from Voldemort's magic, it makes sense that it would be stronger than Hermione's spell too. Great fic.

[swmbo]

Oh man, this hurts! In a wonderful, wonderful way. What a gorgeous way to come back to reading fic.

[fodian]

Oh, man, mindwipes are my kryptonite, and this is so sad and sweet and creepy. Really perfect.

She shakes it off, and it comes back, and she shakes it off and starts taking a multivitamin.

I love that and all the subsequent thoughts she has about how to fix that niggling sense of something being off, the idea of something ambiguous bothering her & her solution being a multivitamin -- perhaps some exercise? perhaps more kale?

Also, it makes me think: ohmygod! What if my generalized anxiety is just me forgetting that I once used to have great magical powers??? ♥

[annakovsky]

Oh God, the title, with the song! I FEEL SO SAD. What an amazing interpretation.

I'm so glad you wrote about the mindwipe -- Hermione doing that to her parents to me was, like, the saddest thing in book 7. And God, this just aches.

[irishmizzy]

Oh maaaaaaan, what did you do to my heart? This is so great and yet kind of traumatizing at the same time. They have no memories of her! :( :( :(

She checks her dayplanner, the office schedule, Wendell's datebook, her dayplanner again, but there's nothing on September 19.

AUGH. <3<3<3