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The Porn Santa (smutmas_mod) wrote in merry_smutmas,
@ 2007-12-06 16:00:00

Entry tags:

fic, harry/draco

Merry Smutmas, anjenue!

To: anjenue
From: furiosity

Title: Love Like a Razorblade
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Harry/Draco
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
Summary: Like everything powerful, love is a weapon.
Warnings: Slight mindfuck, some violence.
Author's notes: Merry Smutmas, dear Anj! I hope you like this. ♥ Thank you to my beta readers -- you know who you are, and I couldn't have done it without you.

( Love Like a Razorblade )

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shiny_crystal
2007-12-07 01:57 pm UTC (link)

Aw, this was good! I love Harry and Draco as teachers, and you placed them in Durmstrang ^___^
I totally loved the plot, how their relationship twisted around with the potion, and how you made the love potion cliché absolutely fascinating. Even the fact Draco mentioned it ... brilliant.
Your descriptions of Durmstrang, the life and atmosphere, the way they think about the Dark Arts, etc. were particularly well done, I think. Ok, I admit I love Russia to begin with, but that was also fantastically written.
Also, the two lines about the epilogue where hilarious!

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furiosity, 2008-01-05 02:56 am UTC

mildlunacy
2007-12-07 03:04 pm UTC (link)

Hee! That made me happy. Draco was pleasantly reminiscent of a snarling wet cat that just wants a little milk and a scratch under the chin. Er, I like him that way. Harry had a good balance of righteousness and single-minded determination, haha. Man, I'll never stop being a sucker for always-loved-you!Draco. And it was seriously sweet and believable(!) when Harry said he liked Draco, sort of against his better judgment. I mean... hahaha even as a shipper I wouldn't say it's the most likely of things to happen, but also one of the most gratifying when Harry's ethics are involved. Plus I always liked illicit-potions-maker!Draco! WOO! I mean, logic dictates that he'd lay low after the war, but you know, LOVE MAKES YOU DO DESPERATE THINGS! AND STUFF! haha.

Probably the only place you (understandably) left canon far behind is just how sexually Harry saw Draco right off the bat. :P And ok, how he's all self-aware and accepting about how 'yeah I'd probably have loved him anyway'. One might say you almost made it too easy on Draco. But not quite. Within the story, it worked.

Anyway, yeay love potions!! Hehe. Kudos for a believable resolution for Harry figuring out he'd been had. I've had the plotline come to mind before (isn't it perfect? Draco makes Harry love him as REVENGE! such great revenge it is), but could never finish it 'cause I couldn't put my finger on what Harry would do and still have a happy(ish) resolution, and you nailed it. Yeay! More yummy desperate smut and angry longing for us, more happily cattily-ever-after!H/D. hee. :3

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shaggy, 2007-12-08 04:07 am UTC

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shaggy, 2007-12-08 04:14 am UTC

furiosity, 2008-01-05 03:06 am UTC

mildlunacy, 2008-01-05 06:45 am UTC

	(Anonymous) 2007-12-07 06:21 pm UTC (link)
	Simply brilliant!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Reply to this) (Thread)

furiosity, 2008-01-05 01:24 am UTC

grey_hunter
2007-12-07 07:04 pm UTC (link)

heh Draco is not really Draco without a pinch of moral ambiguity, right? :D Great story! Hm. Let's quote:

This isn't cheap elf-made stuff... ha!

Oh yeah, and Draco falling asleep was so cute! (*eurgh* I hate that word, but no way round it... except that I'm not sure he hadn't cast some spell on himself in order to prevent himself from blurting out some highly inconvenient truth.)

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furiosity, 2008-01-05 03:17 am UTC

grey_hunter, 2008-01-05 06:19 pm UTC

entrenous88
2007-12-07 07:14 pm UTC (link)

I knew from this moment that I was really going to enjoy this fic:

Harry grinned. "So what do you really want me to do at Durmstrang?"

"Find out where it is, for one," said Kingsley. "It's ridiculous that we don't know."

Hee!!! The humor infusing this throughout was fantastic. And of course, sneaky obsessive love-spelled Harry + duplicitous, sultry, and sexy-voiced Draco + Russian baths and blow jobs and glarrggghhhhh delicious kissing = SO MUCH WIN!

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furiosity, 2008-01-05 02:52 am UTC

r_grayjoy
2007-12-07 07:23 pm UTC (link)

I think I'm still digesting this one a bit, so forgive me if my comments are a little rambling!

This is quite a rollercoaster of a fic. Love the plot twists and mind fuckery, of course. The setting is fantastic; I've never been terribly interested in Durmstrang, but you brought the place to life through some wonderful imagery.

Draco in this is fantastic -- older, with a bit more poise and control than he had as a teenager, but still ultimately ruled by his emotions. The Erotaserum was intended to be both a business venture and a revenge, all of which went awry when those blasted feelings got in the way. Oh, Draco, you're still trying desperately to be the ideal Slytherin, and still failing miserably at it!

There are some scenes in here -- the steam room and the flight sequence, among others -- where the descriptive writing is so smooth that I was really pulled into the setting, and could see, smell, and feel things vividly. Some lovely writing here.

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furiosity, 2008-01-05 06:21 am UTC

	longleggedgit 2007-12-07 07:58 pm UTC (link)
	I adored this. It was so refreshing, I haven't read a whole lot of post-DH fic period, and especially not a whole lot that was really good and hot and smart and plotty. I loved the premise here, I loved the setting, I loved Harry and Draco. I LOVED the smut. Great, great fic. :) (Reply to this) (Thread)

furiosity, 2008-01-05 01:32 am UTC

	eclipses.livejournal.com 2007-12-07 10:24 pm UTC (link)
	THIS WAS REALLY AMAZING. i will have to bookmark it so i can read it over and over again. (Reply to this) (Thread)

furiosity, 2008-01-05 01:32 am UTC

	(Anonymous) 2007-12-07 11:01 pm UTC (link)
	Great job, really enjoyed this one. It had pretty much every element in it that make your fics so great (unless im mistaken and youre actually not you...;_;) (Reply to this) (Thread)

furiosity, 2008-01-05 01:34 am UTC

	tenshinochouwa 2007-12-08 12:29 am UTC (link)
	This was fabulous! I now need to read more Durmstrang fic. Also, am I the only one who wants to know what happened in Lithuania? (Reply to this) (Thread)

furiosity, 2008-01-05 01:37 am UTC

	ships_harry 2007-12-08 03:50 am UTC (link)
	Fantastic. The mindfuck was awesome. And this: I wanted you from the minute I heard your voice. You took that from me. I love that. This is definitely going down as a favourite :). (Reply to this) (Thread)

furiosity, 2008-01-05 01:38 am UTC

	outofthisplace 2007-12-08 03:54 am UTC (link)
	mindfuck indeed! mmmmm delicious, delicious mindfuck! (Reply to this) (Thread)

furiosity, 2008-01-05 01:39 am UTC

	shaggy 2007-12-08 04:05 am UTC (link)
	alskdjflaskdjfldkjomg this was so good! There ought to be more Durmstrang stories, and desperately obsessed Draco is the only Draco for me! ♥ (Reply to this) (Thread)

furiosity, 2008-01-05 02:45 am UTC

shaggy, 2008-01-05 02:53 am UTC

furiosity, 2008-01-05 02:55 am UTC

	secretsolitaire 2007-12-08 04:29 am UTC (link)
	Oh, this was just delicious. I was completely drawn in by the setting and the UST (ohhh, the UST!) and your sexy, mysterious, ever-so-slightly-mad Draco. Loved Blaise's little cameos, and the line about love turning Harry into a plonker with a monster in his chest. :-D Thanks for a great read, mystery author! (Reply to this) (Thread)

furiosity, 2008-01-05 02:48 am UTC

	(Anonymous) 2007-12-08 04:51 am UTC (link)
	delicious! I enjoyed that immensely! waxbean (Reply to this) (Thread)

furiosity, 2008-01-05 01:40 am UTC

	mijan 2007-12-08 05:34 am UTC (link)
	Excellent use of mindfuck. Wonderful imagery. Clever setting. Wonderful fic! Loved it! And... the heated angry-sex at the end... EXCELLENT. :D (Reply to this) (Thread)

furiosity, 2008-01-05 01:40 am UTC

	no_mad_skillz 2007-12-08 05:45 am UTC (link)
	I LOVED this. So many lines that made me grin or sigh or squirm--so much fun, so hot, so all-around yummy. Thank you! (Reply to this) (Thread)

furiosity, 2008-01-05 01:41 am UTC

	ariadneelda 2007-12-08 07:51 am UTC (link)
	Oh, this was great! So well written and the plot was fantastic, so engaging. I loved the potion and the mindfuck! And the way you tied the story to that epilogue at the end. ;-) (Reply to this) (Thread)

furiosity, 2008-01-05 01:41 am UTC

	(Anonymous) 2007-12-08 11:57 am UTC (link)
	Awww...I loved it! There's so much passion and it's really mindblowing!!! (Reply to this) (Thread)

furiosity, 2008-01-05 01:41 am UTC

anjenue
2007-12-08 09:42 pm UTC (link)

Oh. My. God.

I like....hardly even know what to say. This is not at all what I was expecting but it was so much BETTER and I just...yeah. Okay. Will try to be coherent.

I LOVE that you set it at Durmstrang. Durmstrang is so FASCINATING and we know so little about it and I love that you pulled that aspect into the plot too, that the whole reason Harry went in the first place was to find out more about Durmstrang. And the magical THEORY - the way they use Dark Arts but not on humans, the fact that they're so advanced with it, that they use it for HEALING and to make them better AURORS and gah...and the way you pulled in the theory, the brief and offhanded-but-intelligently-so mentions of these different types of magic...there's nothing I love more than that kind of grounding, the way it feels like this is all established theory by the way it's mentioned, but that it's actually introducing new material. I love the DETAIL of it too, the sunrise mirage, the bath ritual, the translation potion, the Quidditch and how it's different from Hogwarts'....

DRACO TOLD HIM HE'D PUT THE LOVE POTION IN. Oh god. That KILLS me. I was wondering about that from the start, why he would joke about something like that, and then forgot about it, and then you brought it back and GOD *___* I was also wondering about why Draco was so personable since the last we knew was that he hated Harry, and I wondered why Harry was all 'mmm, time to shag Draco', and it seemed a little abrupt to me, but it didn't seem abrupt to Harry which was even more confusing, and then it all made SENSE and I actually laughed out loud in glee. I love the idea of Draco being brilliant enough to make this awesome love potion, and that he hints at it not just by telling Harry he's been potion'd, but also with the mentions of enjoying potions so much.

I love the way Draco talks about being saved by Harry. I love that he's a good teacher! I've seen so many stories where he becomes the next Snape, only people don't notice because he's so pretty that all his students want to shag him, but in this, it's clear that he's really GOOD, and that appeals to the dorky I-love-teaching side of me SO much. The other thing that had me shrieking was the mention of a priori - it was briefly, and totally in passing, but I actually squeaked a little bit.

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anjenue, 2007-12-08 09:42 pm UTC

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	painless_j 2007-12-09 04:07 am UTC (link)
	Ooooh, it was so wonderful! You must have slipped me a potion while I wasn't looking because I'm totally besotted with this story now. Everything was fantabulous, and the last scene made me smile. Thank you very much! Will be reccing. (Reply to this) (Thread)

furiosity, 2008-01-05 02:46 am UTC

painless_j, 2008-01-05 03:46 pm UTC

	sivullinen 2007-12-09 06:16 am UTC (link)
	My heart is fluttering with love for this fic! I just. GAAAAAH. I'm seriously having trouble breathing so you won't get a proper review. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ (Reply to this) (Thread)

furiosity, 2008-01-05 01:41 am UTC

	pushdragon 2007-12-09 12:36 pm UTC (link)
	The Harry/Draco is amazing. I'm a sucker for long-suppressed longing, and the moment of Harry reading Draco's old letters killed me dead. But the most memorable moment of all? The Tunisian handshake ritual. Total out-of-the-blue brilliance! Congratulations on an all-round wonderful story. (Reply to this) (Thread)

furiosity, 2008-01-05 02:47 am UTC

glockgal
2007-12-09 04:33 pm UTC (link)

Oh wow, this was fantastic and it had so much going on! I loved all the characters and characterizations, from Kingsley, to Hermione to Ginny. And I loved how the sexual tension and feelings were established right off the bat; and it was just one long, beautifully drawn out story of romance, betrayal, realization and delicious, delicious UST.

Oh, so delicious. This was like a tapestry - a lush, gorgeous tapestry that tales a fantastic, lush and tragi-romantic tale (and don't think I was happy about the happy ending -HEE!) And of course, the bit of epilogue-reference at the end? So cheeky, so lovely, just like the entirety of this fic!

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furiosity, 2008-01-05 03:09 am UTC

	(Anonymous) 2007-12-09 05:11 pm UTC (link)
	Amazing! Gah! I can't even respond appropriately right now. Just....thanks for writing this! :D - Gert (Reply to this) (Thread)

furiosity, 2008-01-05 02:47 am UTC

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