"Homecoming" for Antoshevu

[luna_poster]

Title: Homecoming
Rating: PG
Possible Spoilers/Warnings: Post-Deathly Hallows, Second Person POV
Summary (fic only): Luna doesn’t visit the Potters, but she does return to them.
Original Prompt: Briefly describe what you want: Luna visiting the Potters.
Tone of the fic: I'm open for anything-Luna/Harry/Ginny is my OT3, so romance or PWP is fine,

Comments

[i_am_girlfriday]

Thank you! This was my first attempt at writing Luna and HP fanfic. I'm glad I didn't botch it :)

[mickawber_fics]

Wow!

I love your use of the second person, oh, mystery author; such a tricky point of view, but it really suits Luna here--her self-alienation and her abstraction. The language is wonderfully spare, which made the second-person PoV easier to follow, and was a pleasure to read in its own right.

It's funny--before the last book came out, I was very, very worried that Luna's dad was going to buy it. It seemed like the kind of awful thing that might happen. I was glad it didn't in DH, but it certainly made sense here, as Luna herself intuits.

It is sad to see Luna cutting herself off from all of her friends--and wonderful to see them not take no for an answer. One of my favorite things in reading Luna is is when the writer finds those rare circumstances where she's actually pushed beyond her rather huge comfort zone. You handled that very realistically, and very in-character. And the Potters and the Weasleys and the rest were still there for her at the end. :-D

Thanks so much!

[mickawber_fics]

Oh-and the last paragraph just kills me!

[i_am_girlfriday]

Yay! I'm so glad you liked this. I had so much fun writing it.

I love your use of the second person, oh, mystery author; such a tricky point of view, but it really suits Luna here--her self-alienation and her abstraction.

I know this point of view isn't for everyone, but I'm so glad it worked for you.

One of my favorite things in reading Luna is is when the writer finds those rare circumstances where she's actually pushed beyond her rather huge comfort zone.

Yes! I totally agree.

I am so pleased that you liked the story. I know I could have made it a bit lighter but somehow this is what came out...

[unightfog]

WOW!

I absolutely love it!!! it's sad, but also full of hope! Luna hoping that her friends would give up on her, but they never did...so great!

You don’t allow yourself to miss your friends too much.

But you can still see Dean’s face when you go to sleep at night.

You feel Neville with you when you’re bone tired.

You can hear Hermione whispering to you when you hunker down with an obscure book.

You smile at strangers with kind faces and it almost feels like Ron is smiling back at you.

You look to your side expecting to see Ginny’s face covered in freckles and mischief when you’re exploring some place new.

Your sadness abates just knowing that there is a Harry Potter in the world.
love that part, because it doesn't only show how much Luna misses her friends, no matter how hard she tries not to, but it also gives the reader a little insight in who they are and how Luna sees them.

What you don’t know is that Ginny knocked furiously on your door for twenty minutes before she began to think the worst

[i_am_girlfriday]

Thanks so much for the wonderful comment :) You definitely picked out some of my favorite parts!

[i_am_girlfriday]

Thank you so much for the wonderful feedback. I was totally unsure if I could pull this off. I love dreamy Luna, but there is something about her that I also find so dark and sad. I'm glad you enjoyed it!

[inkvoices]

This a lovely sweet-sad fic, really in character. I especially liked the series of one lines describing how she still sees her friends in a way and the reverse series (starting 'what you don't know'), because they all fitted perfectly, capturing a little part of those personalities and how they relate to Luna, although - a little quibble - Harry would be waiting a lot longer than two days for Hedwig to return to him since, alas, the poor bird is dead.

I really like Luna's envy of Trelawney's "tower with the rope ladder" and the last paragraph, with its very canoical last line, is brilliant.

[i_am_girlfriday]

Nice catch about Hedwig! As I read that line I was like "duh! how could i forget!"

Thanks for the feedback :)

[inkvoices]

I read it, loved it, reread it so I could make a decent comment and then had a 'there's something strange here' kind of thought, (that happens when reading lunafic anyway lol).

You're welcome. And now I know who you are I have to go off and read more of your stories :o)