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lomonaaeren) wrote2007-10-22 04:40 pm
lomonaaeren) wrote2007-10-22 04:40 pm
Got another story idea.
Got attacked by another story idea last night, in the usual way, with me falling in and out of sleep, and adding more and more to the story’s plot during the time I was awake.
First I thought it was a one-shot idea. Then I thought it was a longish one-shot. Now it is probably going to be novel-length.
Argh.
Title: Forgive Those Who Trespass (which, yes, indeed, I kidnapped wholesale from the Lord’s Prayer)
Summary: When his friends vanish into the Department of Mysteries, Harry goes searching. The last person he expected to stumble upon in the hunt was Draco Malfoy. But is Malfoy another victim, or actively involved in whatever plot has taken Ron and Hermione?
(I will have to change the summary. It sounds cheesy).
Longer summary: This is post-DH but not epilogue-compliant (obviously). The Unspeakables have grown more powerful in the wake of the war, because, due to their innate paranoia, they were the hardest of the Ministry’s departments for Voldemort to infiltrate, and thus have the most people free of corruption. Now their power is being expressed in weird ways. Or so Harry’s heard. Since there’s never any solid information available, there’s really nothing for him to chase, and he’s occupied with his training as an Auror and living apart from Ginny (due to his recently revealed sexual orientation) anyway. This seems to have no relevance to him.
Then Ron and Hermione, who are also in Auror training with Harry, get fed up and switch to Unspeakable training, citing a combination of their exasperation with the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and the fact that the Department of Mysteries sounds more interesting. Harry accepts it, because, well, why shouldn’t he?
Then Ron and Hermione vanish, along with all the other trainees, and the entire Department of Mysteries goes instantly incommunicado. Harry tries to figure out what happened, but his superiors are not being cooperative. Harry gets the sense that they’re frightened of the Unspeakables and don’t want to risk a further decline of the Ministry’s reputation by taking the story public.
So down he goes into the Department of Mysteries, alone. There are traps waiting at every corner, and, in the first or second room he searches, Draco Malfoy, who apparently left the country in embarrassment after the war was done. Malfoy can’t speak, and his hands have been Transfigured into deformed flippers so that he can’t write. None of the spells Harry tries on him can reverse his silence. He can, however, communicate by nodding and shaking his head—as long as Harry asks the right questions.
Despite not trusting him, Harry can’t leave him there, and takes him along. Besides further traps and further mysteries (ha-ha, bad pun), he starts running into shimmering Pensieves full of memories. These turn out to be Draco’s memories, apparently serving some mystical purpose, since they’re always guarded. From them, Harry learns more about Draco’s past and some of the horrors he’s suffered in the past year. Both his compassion for and his distrust of Draco keep increasing.
And the deeper he goes, the weirder things get…
This will be a horror story and an action/adventure as much as anything else. The romance will be conducted mainly through the fact that Harry gets to know Draco better as somebody he wants to protect and through his memories (I cannot have a Draco POV, since that would immediately reveal everything that was going on). It will also provide me with the opportunity to play with the Department of Mysteries, which I think is one of the most neglected areas of canon.
I know what the major revelations will be. I do not know exactly how it will end, though.
Yeah, and I thought I wasn’t going to have another novel-length story idea for a while, since I was entertaining only one to work on after A Determined Frame of Mind and I Give You a Wondrous Mirror are finished. That’s Written By the Losers, a post-DH time-travel novel.
Guess that won’t work. The damn things seem to come in pairs.
First I thought it was a one-shot idea. Then I thought it was a longish one-shot. Now it is probably going to be novel-length.
Argh.
Title: Forgive Those Who Trespass (which, yes, indeed, I kidnapped wholesale from the Lord’s Prayer)
Summary: When his friends vanish into the Department of Mysteries, Harry goes searching. The last person he expected to stumble upon in the hunt was Draco Malfoy. But is Malfoy another victim, or actively involved in whatever plot has taken Ron and Hermione?
(I will have to change the summary. It sounds cheesy).
Longer summary: This is post-DH but not epilogue-compliant (obviously). The Unspeakables have grown more powerful in the wake of the war, because, due to their innate paranoia, they were the hardest of the Ministry’s departments for Voldemort to infiltrate, and thus have the most people free of corruption. Now their power is being expressed in weird ways. Or so Harry’s heard. Since there’s never any solid information available, there’s really nothing for him to chase, and he’s occupied with his training as an Auror and living apart from Ginny (due to his recently revealed sexual orientation) anyway. This seems to have no relevance to him.
Then Ron and Hermione, who are also in Auror training with Harry, get fed up and switch to Unspeakable training, citing a combination of their exasperation with the Department of Magical Law Enforcement and the fact that the Department of Mysteries sounds more interesting. Harry accepts it, because, well, why shouldn’t he?
Then Ron and Hermione vanish, along with all the other trainees, and the entire Department of Mysteries goes instantly incommunicado. Harry tries to figure out what happened, but his superiors are not being cooperative. Harry gets the sense that they’re frightened of the Unspeakables and don’t want to risk a further decline of the Ministry’s reputation by taking the story public.
So down he goes into the Department of Mysteries, alone. There are traps waiting at every corner, and, in the first or second room he searches, Draco Malfoy, who apparently left the country in embarrassment after the war was done. Malfoy can’t speak, and his hands have been Transfigured into deformed flippers so that he can’t write. None of the spells Harry tries on him can reverse his silence. He can, however, communicate by nodding and shaking his head—as long as Harry asks the right questions.
Despite not trusting him, Harry can’t leave him there, and takes him along. Besides further traps and further mysteries (ha-ha, bad pun), he starts running into shimmering Pensieves full of memories. These turn out to be Draco’s memories, apparently serving some mystical purpose, since they’re always guarded. From them, Harry learns more about Draco’s past and some of the horrors he’s suffered in the past year. Both his compassion for and his distrust of Draco keep increasing.
And the deeper he goes, the weirder things get…
This will be a horror story and an action/adventure as much as anything else. The romance will be conducted mainly through the fact that Harry gets to know Draco better as somebody he wants to protect and through his memories (I cannot have a Draco POV, since that would immediately reveal everything that was going on). It will also provide me with the opportunity to play with the Department of Mysteries, which I think is one of the most neglected areas of canon.
I know what the major revelations will be. I do not know exactly how it will end, though.
Yeah, and I thought I wasn’t going to have another novel-length story idea for a while, since I was entertaining only one to work on after A Determined Frame of Mind and I Give You a Wondrous Mirror are finished. That’s Written By the Losers, a post-DH time-travel novel.
Guess that won’t work. The damn things seem to come in pairs.
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