I just read this on Beloved Enemies, and decided to cocme over here to post my review, since I can't very well put it there.
Oh, that’s beautiful! A marvellous piece of mind-bending. How fortunate for Lucius (and probably for Harry too) that Voldemort kept his word, at the end.
I do wonder about the map – Draco could have told his father about the Remembrall (if not too ashamed, but of course the information could have been dragged out of him), but the map? Barty jnr knew, but he wouldn’t have told Lucius, or any currently free Death Eater, surely. Might have told Voldemort of course…
I love the final ‘story’, the quill, distorting Umbridge’s use of it – wonderful, that! confirming the consensual BDSM relationship.
And the incidents you’ve added yourself, and left us to imagine the details of: the rescue, so maddeningly vague (write it! write it!); the butterbeer bottle, its contents inciting Harry to make his own advances; the present of (it sounds like) a cock-ring, with its intimations of domination/submission, later confirmed – and in an Easter egg (maybe), how beautifully baroque and removed from Harry’s real world! the time-turner (though how would Lucius know that had any kind of significance for Harry? But what the hell, I love it!) – all so inventive, so satisfying.
Did I say I love it?
I do hope Lucius is nice to his new pet; I’m soft like that.
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Date: 2003-12-12 06:50 pm (UTC)Oh, that’s beautiful! A marvellous piece of mind-bending. How fortunate for Lucius (and probably for Harry too) that Voldemort kept his word, at the end.
I do wonder about the map – Draco could have told his father about the Remembrall (if not too ashamed, but of course the information could have been dragged out of him), but the map? Barty jnr knew, but he wouldn’t have told Lucius, or any currently free Death Eater, surely. Might have told Voldemort of course…
I love the final ‘story’, the quill, distorting Umbridge’s use of it – wonderful, that! confirming the consensual BDSM relationship.
And the incidents you’ve added yourself, and left us to imagine the details of: the rescue, so maddeningly vague (write it! write it!); the butterbeer bottle, its contents inciting Harry to make his own advances; the present of (it sounds like) a cock-ring, with its intimations of domination/submission, later confirmed – and in an Easter egg (maybe), how beautifully baroque and removed from Harry’s real world! the time-turner (though how would Lucius know that had any kind of significance for Harry? But what the hell, I love it!) – all so inventive, so satisfying.
Did I say I love it?
I do hope Lucius is nice to his new pet; I’m soft like that.
Leni