Progress Report 6/7
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lomonaaerenGot a whole bunch of ideas as I was lying there waiting to fall asleep last night. That’s the way it usually seems to work.
Inter Vivos: The epilogue to this is finally completed, which means the story is completed, and I’ll be posting the epilogue tomorrow.
Universal Chaos: Chapter three is complete and will be posted in a few days.
“Company Manners”: This one is moving well, I think. I’m delighted by the variety of opinions I’m getting on it (particularly as to whether Harry or Draco is more to blame for the current state of affairs).
Incandescence: This is the novel-length story about Draco as a novelist fictionalizing the lives of war heroes—and trying to fictionalize Harry’s—that I first got the idea for last year. The first chapter is complete, and it’ll be posted the day after tomorrow. This will probably be fifteen chapters or so.
“Promises Made on Wands”: The one-shot I currently have 1000 words of and am struggling mightily with because it will not do what I want.
Their Phoenix: Chapter 10 is 5000 words long now, and will be posted on Tuesday as usual. Draco has done something extremely stupid. Bad, bad Draco.
(These are in alphabetical order not because that’s how I thought of them but simply for ease of memorization).
“Blooming Narcissus”: Novella-length fic. Harry, suspicious and paranoid after long months of hunting particularly difficult Dark wizards as an Auror, makes a horrible mistake when he is sent to arrest Narcissa Malfoy on suspicion of harboring fugitives: he mistakes her threatening actions for an attempt to kill him, and kills her. He resigns from the Aurors in consequence, and sends an abject letter to Draco begging him to let Harry know if there’s any way he can make it up to him. Draco contacts him a few years later. He’s discovered, in necromantic books that the Ministry didn’t manage to destroy, a way to resurrect his mother, but he needs Harry’s help, because Harry is the master of the Deathly Hallows (and he’s the only one who has any idea where he dropped the Resurrection Stone). Harry eagerly agrees at first, and then less eagerly once he finds out what the magic involves. This will be a very interesting story, because Harry is being driven by guilt as he often is in my fics, but at a certain point, some things matter more than guilt and atonement.
“Carborundorum”: Draco works in the Potions department of the Ministry. One day, he notices that certain ingredients are disappearing. With some work, he tracks the thefts to Harry Potter, and figures out that all the ingredients are ones that make the Carborundorum Potion, which the guards at Azkaban who had to be around Dementors used to counteract the depression that the Dementors caused. Draco is puzzled, though, why Harry is using that particular potion rather than one of the many other, safer, more common potions that suppress clinical depression.
“Far Away and Long Ago”: This is a high fantasy AU based on the story “The Pied Piper of Hamelin.” Draco “rules” a town of Muggles who were subordinate to the Malfoy family in the past, but who are discovering new technology and new forms of government that mean they don’t need the Malfoys to mediate conflicts or solve problems for them anymore. Draco, furious at this disregard, decides to stop sulking in his castle and releases a plague of rats on the town. He thinks that they’ll come begging for help eventually, and he’ll get to lord it over them and gloat. However, the rats leave the town because of a young piper named Harry Potter, a traveling wizard-musician. Draco is furious again, and plots to destroy the young piper. Needless to say, Draco’s plots don’t work that well.
“Hammered Gold”: After the war, Harry is assigned to watch Draco Malfoy as part of his Auror trainee duties. He discovers that Malfoy is quietly making charitable donations and reforming his behavior without making a giant exhibition of it. The longer he watches, the more Harry falls for Draco’s decision to go his own way and make himself into a better person because that’s what he wants, instead of to prove himself to a skeptical world.
“Malfoy’s Mirror”: Definitely a working title. The final title will probably be a line from Through the Looking-Glass.
Draco discovers a cursed mirror in the Malfoy vaults when he inherits them from Lucius. Unfortunately, the way he discovers it is to exchange souls with his reflection and get trapped in the mirror, while his reflection inhabits his body and creates shallow imitations of Draco’s past actions. Harry enters the mirror to rescue Draco. But time passes differently in the mirror world, and Draco’s nature is changing to suit it.
“Politician and Aristocrat”: Along with not a lot of stories about Auror training, you don’t see a lot of stories where Harry reforms the Ministry (instead of getting fed up with it and walking away). This would be a story that transforms Harry into a politician, and ultimately Minister, with all the dirt that implies, and rolls around in the nasty, nasty world of compromise. Draco is the aristocrat of the title, of course, and he teaches Harry some tricks for enforcing his will, in exchange for getting his way some of the time. Their alliance eventually extends to the personal.
“Unscrupulous Practices”: Draco became an Auror in order to ensure that some of the pure-blood families, at least, would get a better deal than they would without any sympathizers in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. He despises Harry Potter more than ever, since he’s become a loudmouthed proponent of punishing pure-bloods as much as possible. But then he’s walking down the street behind Potter one day and sees him simply melt into the sunlight. Obviously something strange is going on here.
Inter Vivos: The epilogue to this is finally completed, which means the story is completed, and I’ll be posting the epilogue tomorrow.
Universal Chaos: Chapter three is complete and will be posted in a few days.
“Company Manners”: This one is moving well, I think. I’m delighted by the variety of opinions I’m getting on it (particularly as to whether Harry or Draco is more to blame for the current state of affairs).
Incandescence: This is the novel-length story about Draco as a novelist fictionalizing the lives of war heroes—and trying to fictionalize Harry’s—that I first got the idea for last year. The first chapter is complete, and it’ll be posted the day after tomorrow. This will probably be fifteen chapters or so.
“Promises Made on Wands”: The one-shot I currently have 1000 words of and am struggling mightily with because it will not do what I want.
Their Phoenix: Chapter 10 is 5000 words long now, and will be posted on Tuesday as usual. Draco has done something extremely stupid. Bad, bad Draco.
(These are in alphabetical order not because that’s how I thought of them but simply for ease of memorization).
“Blooming Narcissus”: Novella-length fic. Harry, suspicious and paranoid after long months of hunting particularly difficult Dark wizards as an Auror, makes a horrible mistake when he is sent to arrest Narcissa Malfoy on suspicion of harboring fugitives: he mistakes her threatening actions for an attempt to kill him, and kills her. He resigns from the Aurors in consequence, and sends an abject letter to Draco begging him to let Harry know if there’s any way he can make it up to him. Draco contacts him a few years later. He’s discovered, in necromantic books that the Ministry didn’t manage to destroy, a way to resurrect his mother, but he needs Harry’s help, because Harry is the master of the Deathly Hallows (and he’s the only one who has any idea where he dropped the Resurrection Stone). Harry eagerly agrees at first, and then less eagerly once he finds out what the magic involves. This will be a very interesting story, because Harry is being driven by guilt as he often is in my fics, but at a certain point, some things matter more than guilt and atonement.
“Carborundorum”: Draco works in the Potions department of the Ministry. One day, he notices that certain ingredients are disappearing. With some work, he tracks the thefts to Harry Potter, and figures out that all the ingredients are ones that make the Carborundorum Potion, which the guards at Azkaban who had to be around Dementors used to counteract the depression that the Dementors caused. Draco is puzzled, though, why Harry is using that particular potion rather than one of the many other, safer, more common potions that suppress clinical depression.
“Far Away and Long Ago”: This is a high fantasy AU based on the story “The Pied Piper of Hamelin.” Draco “rules” a town of Muggles who were subordinate to the Malfoy family in the past, but who are discovering new technology and new forms of government that mean they don’t need the Malfoys to mediate conflicts or solve problems for them anymore. Draco, furious at this disregard, decides to stop sulking in his castle and releases a plague of rats on the town. He thinks that they’ll come begging for help eventually, and he’ll get to lord it over them and gloat. However, the rats leave the town because of a young piper named Harry Potter, a traveling wizard-musician. Draco is furious again, and plots to destroy the young piper. Needless to say, Draco’s plots don’t work that well.
“Hammered Gold”: After the war, Harry is assigned to watch Draco Malfoy as part of his Auror trainee duties. He discovers that Malfoy is quietly making charitable donations and reforming his behavior without making a giant exhibition of it. The longer he watches, the more Harry falls for Draco’s decision to go his own way and make himself into a better person because that’s what he wants, instead of to prove himself to a skeptical world.
“Malfoy’s Mirror”: Definitely a working title. The final title will probably be a line from Through the Looking-Glass.
Draco discovers a cursed mirror in the Malfoy vaults when he inherits them from Lucius. Unfortunately, the way he discovers it is to exchange souls with his reflection and get trapped in the mirror, while his reflection inhabits his body and creates shallow imitations of Draco’s past actions. Harry enters the mirror to rescue Draco. But time passes differently in the mirror world, and Draco’s nature is changing to suit it.
“Politician and Aristocrat”: Along with not a lot of stories about Auror training, you don’t see a lot of stories where Harry reforms the Ministry (instead of getting fed up with it and walking away). This would be a story that transforms Harry into a politician, and ultimately Minister, with all the dirt that implies, and rolls around in the nasty, nasty world of compromise. Draco is the aristocrat of the title, of course, and he teaches Harry some tricks for enforcing his will, in exchange for getting his way some of the time. Their alliance eventually extends to the personal.
“Unscrupulous Practices”: Draco became an Auror in order to ensure that some of the pure-blood families, at least, would get a better deal than they would without any sympathizers in the Department of Magical Law Enforcement. He despises Harry Potter more than ever, since he’s become a loudmouthed proponent of punishing pure-bloods as much as possible. But then he’s walking down the street behind Potter one day and sees him simply melt into the sunlight. Obviously something strange is going on here.
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Date: 2009-06-09 03:38 am (UTC)