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lomonaaeren) wrote2009-04-08 08:07 pm
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Progress report 4/8
I haven’t done one of these in a while! Then again, I haven’t had as big a crop of ideas as I’ve gotten in the last few days.
Inter Vivos: Three more chapters left, and an epilogue, probably, which can deal with some of the loose ends. I should be able to post one more chapter of that this week.
Providence: I think there will be ten more chapters of this, but it could be twelve. I hope to post two more chapters of this story this week. (It takes me less effort to write Providence chapters because they’re shorter than the IV ones and because it’s a comedy, so it needs to move lighter and faster).
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hds_beltane fic: Started, about 2500 words long right now.
“Viper”: This is the sequel to my vampire fic “Mongoose.” I have a plot now! As well as a way to get Harry and Draco past some of their mutual incompatibilities. This results in its being a darker story than the original, but, well, a vampire fic is not exactly fluff in the first place. This is about 3000 words long right now.
“Dance of Death and Life”: Draco POV story. He awakens in St. Mungo’s and discovers that mysteries are happening all around him. Among other things, he doesn’t know why he was asleep, why Ron Weasley is in a coma, why he can’t remember how most of the other Aurors on the raid that knocked him out died…and why most of the other Aurors are treating Harry Potter like he’s the next Dark Lord. He does know that Potter is about to do something stupid, though. It’s comforting to know that some things never change.
“A Bright-Eyed Sacrifice”: Harry has lost his magic and retreated to live in the Muggle world, and his wife has divorced him. Draco, though, is more concerned with the rumor that Harry lost his magic to some new and potent disease, and with the fact that Harry had contact with Scorpius right before he became a Squib. Determined to find out how he can save his son’s magic, Draco makes contact with Harry. And, of course, he finds out the situation isn’t exactly what he thought it was.
“The Descent of Magic”: Harry lives quietly by himself, injured in a way that prevents him from doing Auror work, his children grown and his divorce with Ginny long since over. He researches esoteric magic, and, to his amusement and fascination, starts discovering a probable explanation both for the reason Muggleborns exist and why the pure-blood families are having fewer children while Muggleborns are increasing. He has no intentions of publicizing this, because it would only upset people, but Draco discovers it and understands the implications of Harry’s ideas far better than he does. Essentially, they will have to reform wizarding society from the ground up if pure-bloods are going to retain any magic at all in a few generations. He has to work with a reluctant Harry to make him understand, and in the course of that work they grow closer intellectually and romantically.
(If some of this sounds familiar, that’s deliberate. I’m basing the situation in part on Charles Darwin’s research into evolution. Darwin didn’t want to publish for fear of offending other people, either, and had to be pushed into it by his scientific friends).
“Sanctuary” (which needs a better title): After the war, the Malfoy family is spared Azkaban but confined to house arrest. And Lucius starts getting…strange. Draco eventually figures out that Lucius’s erratic decisions in the last few years were based on a preexisting mental condition, the result of too many experiments with Dark magic. Voldemort held him in check for a while, but no longer. Lucius kills Narcissa and holds Draco prisoner, experimenting with various curses on him. Draco’s only means of escape is a newly-discovered talent for astral projection, which lets him go away spiritually even if he has to leave his body behind.
In one of his trips, into the Forest of Dean, he finds Harry, who’s famously become a recluse in the wake of the war. Draco is the first person to figure out why. Harry was turned into a werewolf soon after the war, and he’s making the Forest of Dean into a sanctuary for werewolves who, like him, pursue a third path, neither embracing the change and becoming monsters like Greyback or offering only passive resistance like Remus. Harry’s goal is to both wrestle with and dance with the wolf, integrating human and beast into one whole being. Such werewolves, he’s discovered, respond better to Wolfsbane and can control themselves much better. He has a few other werewolves living with him, building a pack and trying to find more who can be trusted to face their change the right way—and he can see Draco. Of course, once he finds out Draco’s situation, it’s kind of inevitable that he offers help.
(These last two ideas are so complex that they might yet demand novel-length space).
Inter Vivos: Three more chapters left, and an epilogue, probably, which can deal with some of the loose ends. I should be able to post one more chapter of that this week.
Providence: I think there will be ten more chapters of this, but it could be twelve. I hope to post two more chapters of this story this week. (It takes me less effort to write Providence chapters because they’re shorter than the IV ones and because it’s a comedy, so it needs to move lighter and faster).
hds_beltane fic: Started, about 2500 words long right now.“Viper”: This is the sequel to my vampire fic “Mongoose.” I have a plot now! As well as a way to get Harry and Draco past some of their mutual incompatibilities. This results in its being a darker story than the original, but, well, a vampire fic is not exactly fluff in the first place. This is about 3000 words long right now.
“Dance of Death and Life”: Draco POV story. He awakens in St. Mungo’s and discovers that mysteries are happening all around him. Among other things, he doesn’t know why he was asleep, why Ron Weasley is in a coma, why he can’t remember how most of the other Aurors on the raid that knocked him out died…and why most of the other Aurors are treating Harry Potter like he’s the next Dark Lord. He does know that Potter is about to do something stupid, though. It’s comforting to know that some things never change.
“A Bright-Eyed Sacrifice”: Harry has lost his magic and retreated to live in the Muggle world, and his wife has divorced him. Draco, though, is more concerned with the rumor that Harry lost his magic to some new and potent disease, and with the fact that Harry had contact with Scorpius right before he became a Squib. Determined to find out how he can save his son’s magic, Draco makes contact with Harry. And, of course, he finds out the situation isn’t exactly what he thought it was.
“The Descent of Magic”: Harry lives quietly by himself, injured in a way that prevents him from doing Auror work, his children grown and his divorce with Ginny long since over. He researches esoteric magic, and, to his amusement and fascination, starts discovering a probable explanation both for the reason Muggleborns exist and why the pure-blood families are having fewer children while Muggleborns are increasing. He has no intentions of publicizing this, because it would only upset people, but Draco discovers it and understands the implications of Harry’s ideas far better than he does. Essentially, they will have to reform wizarding society from the ground up if pure-bloods are going to retain any magic at all in a few generations. He has to work with a reluctant Harry to make him understand, and in the course of that work they grow closer intellectually and romantically.
(If some of this sounds familiar, that’s deliberate. I’m basing the situation in part on Charles Darwin’s research into evolution. Darwin didn’t want to publish for fear of offending other people, either, and had to be pushed into it by his scientific friends).
“Sanctuary” (which needs a better title): After the war, the Malfoy family is spared Azkaban but confined to house arrest. And Lucius starts getting…strange. Draco eventually figures out that Lucius’s erratic decisions in the last few years were based on a preexisting mental condition, the result of too many experiments with Dark magic. Voldemort held him in check for a while, but no longer. Lucius kills Narcissa and holds Draco prisoner, experimenting with various curses on him. Draco’s only means of escape is a newly-discovered talent for astral projection, which lets him go away spiritually even if he has to leave his body behind.
In one of his trips, into the Forest of Dean, he finds Harry, who’s famously become a recluse in the wake of the war. Draco is the first person to figure out why. Harry was turned into a werewolf soon after the war, and he’s making the Forest of Dean into a sanctuary for werewolves who, like him, pursue a third path, neither embracing the change and becoming monsters like Greyback or offering only passive resistance like Remus. Harry’s goal is to both wrestle with and dance with the wolf, integrating human and beast into one whole being. Such werewolves, he’s discovered, respond better to Wolfsbane and can control themselves much better. He has a few other werewolves living with him, building a pack and trying to find more who can be trusted to face their change the right way—and he can see Draco. Of course, once he finds out Draco’s situation, it’s kind of inevitable that he offers help.
(These last two ideas are so complex that they might yet demand novel-length space).