for r_becca

[poseida9]

I have been very busy lately, which is why I haven't been writing much, and I am still rather busy, but I am taking a minute to post this for r_becca, who challenged me to write a story about Harry having to take care of Ginny while she is sick.

Title: Delirious
Summary: Harry has to take care of Ginny while she is sick. (An adventurous summary, I know

Comments

[tunxeh]

That was sad, especially the way it ended just the same as it began. Has this Harry really never obliviated himself before, or does he merely not remember doing so? And what has happened to him that he thinks it's necessary to stay platonic with Ginny?

Am I in time for a challenge? How about Harry/Ginny as a gender-reversed Tam Lin.

[poseida9]

Thanks for the review! You're in time for a challenge, but at the risk of sounding ignorant, who's Tam Lin?

[tunxeh]

It's a Scottish ballad (Child#39); if you search you can find various versions of the lyrics. Janet is warned to stay away from her family estate of Carterhaugh because young Tam Lin lives there and breaks all the young women's hearts. She goes anyway, to pick roses, and falls in love with Tam Lin. It turns out that Tam Lin is in thrall to the queen of the fairies, who must pay a tithe to hell every seven years; this coming halloween is the due date and Tam Lin fears he's the one she'll choose to send. As the fairies ride past on their horses, Janet lets them pass until Tam Lin rides by, and pulls him down. The queen of the fairies then changes his shape into a snake, then a lion, then a hot iron bar, then a naked man, and Janet must hold tight to him through these changes (as Tam Lin has previously warned her she'd need to do) to win him back from the fairies. When she does, the defeated queen tells Janet that, had she known this was going to happen, she'd have taken out Tam Lin's eyes and put in eyes from a tree, and taken out

[flyingcarpet]

oooh, I love it. :) You do a great job of giving backstory without it bogging down the story, as it does for so many writers -- just a sentence or two does it: He has, for a long time, been successful keeping his relationship with Ginny platonic.

Sorry it took me so long to read this, but since it took me approximately a hundred years to send you a challenge, I guess you probably expected it. :P

I won't give you another challenge, because my name is all over your recent lj posts, so I figure I should let someone else have a shot, haha.

[wvchemteach]

You realize this story is begging for a continuation. I agree with others as to just why he is keeping his relationship with Ginny platonic and as to whether he has obliviated himself before concerning her. Plus I just can't stand for when things come to an final end for Harry and Ginny to still be apart.

[lissa_maylee]

Ooh, I'm curious, too. Not that I'm begging for a sequel. I mean, I'll read it if you write it, but I do like filling in the backstory myself, too. ;-)

It would serve him right if she remembered it clearly! LOL.

[misseditalics]

When she wakes up, she will not remember a thing, and he is somehow jealous of her for it.

This is beautifully written. You had to have known that!

Very, very vivid. It makes know that you were there, you saw it and shared with us exactly how it all went down...

kris