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

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fic, nc-17, prompt: the fool, round i, team fanon

Prodigal -- Team Fanon
Title: Prodigal
Team: Fanon
Author: aoifene
Prompt: The Fool
Wordcount: 13,326
Rating: NC-17 for graphic violence and language
Warnings: AU. First Person POV. Draco-centric. Set after HBP. Not DH Compliant.
Summary: One year after Dumbledore's death, the tide turns in Voldemort's favour and with Harry Potter locked in the Malfoy dungeons, the fate of the Wizarding World seems bleak. Who'll save the saviour when he's in need of saving?
Author's Note: Many thanks to my A.C.E. betas and Team Fanon! Based on the literal and figurative meaning of the card, centred on the themes of blind faith, innocence and beginnings.

Prodigal

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meredyth_13
2008-04-06 04:59 am UTC (link)

This is actually a very dark piece. There's something almost horrific in Draco's protection and ... use? of his father, even though in his own head it makes sense. The fact that technically he's the one abusing Harry night after night - and yet he still manages to distance himself from it, and deal only with the aftermath each time. Harry's madly gung-ho - which is a very fanon interpretation, but somehow the dry exchanges between them do fit and make sense in an AU where things are so very different.

Once I got into the first person POV I did find great satisfaction in staying with this story and seeing where it went. And I love that although the end is slightly ambiguous, I can easily read it as Draco's redemption and see him stepping up beside Harry to face Voldemort.

:)

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