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snowgallRectober #9 is another classic rec, and continues my pre-slash & friendship theme from yesterday :)
Many of Mirabella's fics are unfortunately no longer available, but this one can still be found on her dreamwidth site.
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Originally published circa January 25, 2005 on theguestroom.houseofhobbits.com, so far as I can tell using the wayback machine on the parent directory. If anyone has a better way of establishing the original pub date, I would love to know. The livejournal entry has long since been removed and is inaccessible to the wayback machine.
Rated: PG
Word Count: 3,500
Summary: Harry can’t sleep.
Why I love it:
This is a beautiful, magnificent bit of storytelling which takes place over one night during a wartime AU. Harry is waiting alone in Grimmauld place while Draco is off infiltrating the Death Eaters and getting the Dark Mark. Harry's worry and fear are palpable here. We get the sense that they're not yet in a relationship, but that Harry desperately wants them to be.
Excerpt:
If everything has gone well – if it's gone well – Draco is, right now, hoarse from screaming as the Mark burns into him. Everyone screams, Snape says; partly because it hurts like a very focused Cruciatus and partly because Voldemort doesn't stop until he's had his fill of the sound of pain.
Harry sits on the edge of Sirius' bed with his head buried in his hands for a long time.
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Many of Mirabella's fics are unfortunately no longer available, but this one can still be found on her dreamwidth site.
Kailash, When it Rises by
mirasficsOriginally published circa January 25, 2005 on theguestroom.houseofhobbits.com, so far as I can tell using the wayback machine on the parent directory. If anyone has a better way of establishing the original pub date, I would love to know. The livejournal entry has long since been removed and is inaccessible to the wayback machine.
Rated: PG
Word Count: 3,500
Summary: Harry can’t sleep.
Why I love it:
This is a beautiful, magnificent bit of storytelling which takes place over one night during a wartime AU. Harry is waiting alone in Grimmauld place while Draco is off infiltrating the Death Eaters and getting the Dark Mark. Harry's worry and fear are palpable here. We get the sense that they're not yet in a relationship, but that Harry desperately wants them to be.
Excerpt:
If everything has gone well – if it's gone well – Draco is, right now, hoarse from screaming as the Mark burns into him. Everyone screams, Snape says; partly because it hurts like a very focused Cruciatus and partly because Voldemort doesn't stop until he's had his fill of the sound of pain.
Harry sits on the edge of Sirius' bed with his head buried in his hands for a long time.
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