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FIC: When Father Was Away (Draco)

Jun 05, 2007 17:52

Happy Birthday, Draco! Here's another never-posted fic from the archives.

Title: When Father Was Away (June 2003) (Web version)
Pairing: Draco gen. Harry/Draco if you squint.
Rating: R
Length: ~3,000 words
Warnings: None
Summary: Malfoy Manor, the summer after Fifth Year.
A/N: I wrote this the week after OOTP came out, but never finished it ( Read more... )

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Comments 49

bookshop June 6 2007, 01:49:14 UTC

you deserve a review that is at least half the size of this entire fic. holy shit, S. Just. holy shit. I am so happy right now. just, so happy and satisfied, and i have missed you, and your writing, SO much.

:D spare_change June 6 2007, 01:51:39 UTC

I appreciate this more than I even know how to express.

*wraps arms around you and never lets go*

uminohikari June 6 2007, 02:28:08 UTC

Came here from bookshop's rec

To find she's right, this is amazing XD

But in the last line, you wrote Discorporate. Was that a typo, or am I being stupid and forgetting that it carries meaning?

But, this is still amazing, and one of the few good new hp fics. ^^

spare_change June 6 2007, 02:31:48 UTC

Discorporate is supposed to mean what happens to your body when you Apparate. I think. But it isn't an HP word and so I shouldn't be surprised that it's unclear. *irons hands* Thanks for pointing it out! :D

And thanks so much for taking the time to comment -- I really appreciate it!

zahavah June 6 2007, 03:48:13 UTC

I believe the word in the books is "Disapparate." Or maybe that's an invention of fandom?

spare_change June 6 2007, 03:52:53 UTC

Thanks ... I should go to the HP Lexicon and see. I have to admit I do like the sound of "Discorporate" and the idea of a body dissolving ... becoming incorporeal. But I should probably fix it if reads like a typo!

bobrhyn June 6 2007, 02:54:56 UTC

I dig your Draco, and this fic. That the Manor would take Draco as its master had never even occurred to me, but I like it, and I like your version of the Malfoys. :D Excellent!

spare_change June 6 2007, 03:10:04 UTC

Thank you! I'm really glad the characterization of Draco and the Manor (that is, if a house can have characterization ...!) worked for you. :D

zahavah June 6 2007, 03:49:57 UTC

ok, review time! also here via bookshop's rec, and very glad i followed it. it's quiet but it's sure of where it's going. i really loved the whole manor and its magic and the way lucius (or, when lucius is gone, draco) can control things simply by being a malfoy. i think a pureblooded family like the malfoys would totally dig something like that.

spare_change June 6 2007, 03:54:17 UTC

Oh, thank you! I really appreciate it ... I kind of have a fetish for this topic (how houses react to the presence of blood), and I'm really glad it worked for you. :D

kimby77 June 6 2007, 03:55:54 UTC

Here on Aja's rec. I haven't read much HP fic for a long while, but I enjoyed this very much. I'll definitely need to reread this one. :)

Just curious - where is the Benjamin reference? Part of my thesis was on him, but it was mostly addressing the art aspects of his Mechanical Reproduction essay, so I figured I wouldn't spot it if it happened to be something related to his other writings. :D

spare_change June 6 2007, 04:08:03 UTC

:D :D :D

Thanks for commenting -- I'm glad you liked it! And thanks so much for giving me an excuse to cut-and-paste the Benjamin quote.

He who loves is attached not only to the "faults" of the beloved, not only to the whims and weaknesses of a woman. Wrinkles in the face, moles, shabby clothes, and a lopsided walk bind him more lastingly and relentlessly than any beauty. This has long been known. And why? If the theory is correct that feeling is not located in the head, that we sentiently experience a window, a cloud, a tree, not in our brains but rather in the place where we see it, then we are, in looking at our beloved, too, outside ourselves. But in a torment of tension and ravishment. Our feeling, dazzled, flutters like a flock of birds in the woman's radiance. And as birds seek refuge in the leafy recesses of a tree, feelings escape into the shaded wrinkles, the awkward movements and inconspicuous blemishes of the body we love, where they can lie low in safety. And no passer by would guess that it is just here, in what is ( ... )

kimby77 June 6 2007, 04:45:23 UTC

Oooh that's very interesting. I can see how it relates to your story. Benjamin's writings are always so thought-provoking... he had such a unique view on things, and it just seemed to me that he had a talent to take something lurking in the back of our minds, something we are most of the time are not even aware is there, and just bring it to the forefront and make it so obvious that we wonder why we haven't noticed that before! (the quote you used is a good example of that, I think). And the imagery he uses to describe his theories is just fantastic ( ... )

spare_change June 6 2007, 06:02:18 UTC

Oh, what a fascinating thesis topic! I do know Adorno, but I'm not familiar with Frank Avery Wilson ... I'll have to google some of his work.

And I love what you have to say about Benjamin ... did you know that he collected children's books? That makes him so endearing to me, and the circumstances of his death even more tragic.

Thanks so much for telling me about your work ... it's awesome that posting my little fic would end up with me learning something new! :D And thanks again for your comments.

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