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hdcup_mod (hdcup_mod) wrote in hd_worldcup,
@ 2008-04-09 22:52:00

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fic, nc-17, prompt: the magician, round i, team epilogue

Blind Leading the Blind -- Team Epilogue
Title: Blind Leading the Blind
Team: Epilogue
Author: nqdonne
Prompt: The Magician
Wordcount: 25,249
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: clubbing, drinking, frottage, toys, desk sex, accidental voyeurism
Summary: Harry catches wise to a series of blind items in the Daily Prophet's gossip pages that sound suspiciously like him. Except no one knows that he's gay, do they?
Author's Note: Interpretation used can be found here, see page 42-44. Thanks to my entire team for being wonderfully supportive, especially those of you who were always up for a group chat and editing session.

Blind Leading the Blind

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greenjuly
2008-04-11 01:36 am UTC (link)

Nice story! I really enjoyed this. The premise of the fic was fun, even if you did unfortunately bring to mind Perez Hilton.
I thought the characters were done pretty well. The kids were great – James and his intellectual schtick done to impress a laydee, watchful Albus, exuberant Lily, and awed Scorpius. Teddy and his relationship with Simon was so cute, too. It was good how you didn’t just throw out Ginny here, too; she and Harry were both flawed, and her profession gave a realistic idea for why they had grown apart.

Most of Harry’s revelations about his sexuality rang fairly true, but I wasn’t convinced when early on in the piece he admitted to Teddy, "Okay, so I'm probably gay.” It would have been more realistic to him to say something more neutral like, “Okay, so maybe I’m a bit bent.” Normally in a fic like this I would say that’s it’s better for Harry to realize that he’s attracted to blokes as well (ie bisexual), rather than being full-on gay, but I actually think that you made the ‘coming out late in life’ scenario work quite well here.

The buildup between Harry and Malfoy was pretty good. I like the fact that Harry pushed Draco off when he tried to pull him -- if he’d got together with him at that point in the story, it wouldn’t have rung true. Harry was an idiot not to think of the fact that Malfoy’s owls were about the fact that Scorpius was a guest in Harry’s house, but at least he acknowledged it. And the conversation when Malfoy cover is blown and Harry accuses him of writing the blind items about him was fab!

Fun bits :
-- Charity the sex-store clerk
-- The fact that wizarding porn apparently has just as awesomely tacky and awful titles as Muggle porn.
-- Harry having random analytical thoughts when watching the porn. ( A tiny part of his brain couldn't help noting the disparity in the sexes here ...) I bet we have all thought things like this when watching porn.
-- Harry skipping through the exposition to get to the porn! Just like no one reads the articles in Playboy.
-- "Congratulations on your divorce; let's shag?" hahaha.
-- Astoria. She didn’t appear much, but she was great!

Quibbles :
-- Harry getting off at work ... that’s just asking for trouble, and doesn’t seem like something that our somewhat prudish Harry would do. I don’t know that I would have had Teddy catch him, either. It didn’t add anything to the story, and it was a bit predictable.
-- Harry keeping whiskey in his bottom desk drawer, WTF? I don’t think Harry would be that unprofessional.
-- Harry checking out Teddy. C’mon, he’s his godson! I acknowledge that in the fic Harry was like ‘wow this is so wrong’ but even so. It would never even occur to me to check out a family member, and especially not one of a younger generation - Teddy is like a son/nephew to Harry.

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	twistedmiracle 2008-04-11 02:14 am UTC (link)
	you have made me very, very happy. i loved this fic! (Reply to this)

	oconel 2008-04-11 10:51 am UTC (link)
	I loved how it was unexpected that Draco was writing about himself. Also, I liked how at the beginning it was mostly centred on Harry, and then the fic s develops to include Draco. (Reply to this)

	trubbleclef 2008-04-11 07:15 pm UTC (link)
	I LOVED THIS. Funny and hot and just hilarious. applauds (Reply to this)

	leela_cat 2008-04-22 07:26 pm UTC (link)
	I liked the twisting of our perceptions in this story as well as Harry's, as well as his slow coming to the point where he not only acknowledged his sexuality to himself but became ready to be public about it. (Reply to this)

pirateninjax.livejournal.com
2008-04-23 01:19 am UTC (link)

Do I see Scorpius/Albus blooming? *giggle* Completely wonderful. Had me caught from the beginning [much appreciated because I couldn't even get a fourth of the way through the story I was attempting to read before this] and I just love it all the way through. Teddy was a trip the whole way through and yes, Hermione would most definitely hex Draco with no rhyme or reason if she was even the tab bit suspicious about being a blind item. *snicker*

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	sabkay 2008-11-07 01:50 am UTC (link)
	That was an awesome Story.. Funny, hot and humanly. Greetz Sabkay (Reply to this)