That's one reason I wrote this story, although I avoid most second gen and AS/S fics. So many I tried to read were idealized fluff, or simple retreads of H/D without the conflict. I needed an Al I could believe in.
Al has a strange mixture of wanting to be different from Harry and wanting to surpass him. So, just as he became an Auror to be a better Auror than his dad, he became a Gryffindor to be a better Gryffindor than Harry could, too.
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Date: 2009-12-03 01:02 am (UTC)That's one reason I wrote this story, although I avoid most second gen and AS/S fics. So many I tried to read were idealized fluff, or simple retreads of H/D without the conflict. I needed an Al I could believe in.
Al has a strange mixture of wanting to be different from Harry and wanting to surpass him. So, just as he became an Auror to be a better Auror than his dad, he became a Gryffindor to be a better Gryffindor than Harry could, too.