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hdcup_mod (hdcup_mod) wrote in hd_worldcup,
@ 2008-04-01 07:20:00

Entry tags:

fic, pg-13, prompt: the fool, round i, team epilogue

Riptide -- Team Epilogue
Title: Riptide
Team: Epilogue
Author: annafugazzi
Prompt: The Fool
Wordcount: 19,244
Rating: PG13-ish
Warnings: Infidelity, but hey, it's Team Epilogue, what do you expect?
Summary: (With apologies to George Lucas) "Who's the more foolish: the fool, or the fool who follows him?"
Author's Note Thanks so much to J, L, S, and V for extensive beta and Britpick and encouragement and sometimes, entire passages ;)

Riptide

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greenjuly
2008-04-06 12:36 am UTC (link)

A very good story!

Karaoke is indeed a heinous custom. To be honest, that almost had me hitting the back button, but I’m glad I read on. In fact, Draco's description of Harry's terrifically awful singing was hilarious.

I don’t see Harry Potter as someone who would ever do karaoke, but well ... I’ll let that one by. You've characterized Harry rather differently than he appears in the books - I buy his obliviousness, if not his obliviousness to awkward moments, but I have trouble seeing him as this reckless. Not sure that I buy Harry as the aggressor, either. I liked the way you voiced Draco in this fic; he is rather different from his canon self, but this is to be expected given that your story is set many years later. Somehow, I think you pulled this off better with Malfoy than with Harry.
I liked this part :

Draco nodded, forcing his face into impassivity. He was, frankly, a bit repelled. Just up and abandoning one's marriage, one's life, all of one's responsibilities, out of... what? Boredom? Thinking nothing of appearing in the papers, not caring what it might do to one's children to have their parents gossiped about. Not much caring what it did to one's friends to also be front-page fodder, and all for the sake of... a need for adventure? Selfishness?

Oh, and nice gentle mockery of the infamous chest monster!

The supporting cast were pretty good. I liked Asteria, and thanks for including that line about how Ginny having had 3 boyfriend in her 7 years at Hogwarts doesn't make her a slut. Yeah, that Ginny, she certainly gets around!

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