InsaneJournal

Tweak says, "you sank my battleship!"

hdcup_mod (hdcup_mod) wrote in hd_worldcup,
@ 2008-04-17 00:05:00

Entry tags:

fic, prompt: the tower, r, round i, team ewe

The Affairs of Men -- Team EWE
Title: The Affairs of Men
Team: EWE
Author: sesheta_66
Prompt: The Tower
Wordcount: ~ 17,000
Rating: R
Warnings: None.
Summary: Having just survived the war, Draco prepares, with some trepidation, for life to get back to normal, or as normal as it can be after war. What he is not prepared for is upheaval, the complete transformation of the world in which he lives. How he chooses to react and move on will determine his fate in this post-war wizarding world.
Author's Note Thanks to my beta, J, and my team! All quotations contained herein are from various works of William Shakespeare.

The Tower: the meaning and the story.

The Affairs of Men

Poll #1410
Open to: All, results viewable to: None

Is the author/artist true to their team? Yes/No vote ("yes" is worth 2 points, "no" is worth 0)

How well did the author/artist use their Prompt? 1 to 9 (1 being the least)

How much did you like this story/art overall? 1 to 9 (1 being the least)

For a description of teams, please see our FAQ.

(Read comments) - (Post a new comment)

sesheta
2008-05-22 09:59 pm UTC (link)

Thanks for your comment, and no, I didn't take it the wrong way. It's always interesting to get other people's views. Here's a bit of insight into why it progressed this way.

I'm not sure how clear this was for the readers, but Team EWE did not have to adhere to canon characterizations, only the storyline of the books, up to the epilogue. So OOC (or even fanon) characterizations are considered acceptable for Team EWE (and Epilogue).

To me, their growth as people was a natural progression, rather than them remaining exactly as they were in school. Also, I feel really strongly that war has a profound effect on people, and I don't believe anyone would automatically return to their previous roles afterwards.

When I wrote this, I imagined Harry spending the three years that Draco was away in part feeling guilty that he couldn't manage to save Narcissa and Draco from their fate, so he was determined to "make nice" when Draco returned. He also had surprisingly found himself missing Draco when he returned to Hogwarts for his final year. So that's where I see Harry's motivation in being nicer than in the past. That and the two of them matured, even though Harry's journey went unseen.

I actually do believe that Harry thinks Draco is "too good a person for that." He was talking about murder, and he'd had lots of time to consider what had happened on the Astronomy Tower years before that. I feel that during the years, he'd been able to see how NOT talking had contributed to where they ended up. That short conversation with Dumbledore had Draco lowering his wand. I imagine Harry thinking, "What if he had more time to talk?" or imagining what effect Harry could have had, if they had talked before.

Also, I see Harry as being sympathetic towards Draco. He had three years to think about all that he saw in Voldemort's mind, which included the fact that Draco had been forced to torture others. In DH, Harry (because it's in Harry's voice) refered to him alternately as 'Draco' or 'Malfoy.' To quote the book, "Harry felt sickened by what he had seen, by the use to which Draco was now being put by Voldemort."

I see it as a natural progression for him to want to put the past behind him and discard the term Malfoy (he started in book 7, imo). As he explained to Draco in this story, he thinks of Draco's father as Malfoy now.

Wow ... this went a bit longer than I had intended. Hope I was able to give you a bit of my thought process while writing this. Thanks again for reading and commenting. :)

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	greenjuly 2008-06-01 03:48 pm UTC (link)
	Oh sorry, that last comment was me! (Reply to this) (Parent)

(Read comments) -