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beholder_mod (beholder_mod) wrote in hp_beholder,
@ 2011-04-25 14:03:00

Entry tags:

beholder_2011, fic, george weasley, rating:nc17, slash, viktor krum, viktor/george

FIC: "From Half to Whole" for alisanne
Recipient: Alisanne
Author: chibitoaster / littleblackbow
Title: From Half to Whole
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Viktor/George
Word Count: 15,991
Warnings/Content Information (Highlight to View): * Canon character deaths, dark themes.*
Summary: Viktor is coach of a community-league Quidditch team. George is half a person without his brother. When Ron and his friends take George to a Quidditch game. George begins to understand what’s really missing in his life.
Author's Notes: When I read your request, I knew I wanted to write something with George, and the more I thought about it, the more Quidditch kept creeping back into my thoughts. So here is it, a very Weasley-heavy H/C story about survival, recovery, and love.

Thanks to my wonderful betas...and to the chatroom that cheered me on and helped me get through this short little story that turned into an epic.

"From Half to Whole"

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songquake
2011-04-28 07:38 am UTC (link)

“I can only try to do what is best. Not everyone is a hero who does big things like Mr. Potter. Some of us do little things and that’s all we can do.”

That's one of my favourite lines EVER. And those "little things" are so big, aren't they? Reading it made my gut twitch.

I love your characterisations of George and Viktor, and little Alexander! And the way the rest of the family really does walk on eggshells around George... Viktor's forcing the issue of George getting to be him-self is such a gift to everyone.

Also, one of the things I've always loved about the twins is that they are really creative inventors, so I adore how you worked that into the story.

(This story reminds me a little of annafugazzi's Leave Out All the Rest, though perhaps taking place later. I mean, clearly, it's NOT the same 'verse, but there's a similar tragic, broken feel to both stories. I say this as a huge compliment; LOATR made me cry in almost every chapter, and I know that having read that one coloured my reading of this. If you haven't read it yet, you really ought to.)

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songquake
2011-04-28 07:47 am UTC (link)

Um, so that link I left goes back to anna's userinfo page, because she's still in the middle of a rewrite of it (though it was posted at the hp_georgecentric comm on LJ a year ago). So, this is the link to the first part of the imperfect version: http://hpgeorgecentric.livejournal.com/15904.html. For, to paraphrase your story, it's the imperfections that make something/someone perfect.

I'm also off to rec this on hp_georgecentric, because it's just.that.good.

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littleblackbow
2011-05-29 07:54 pm UTC (link)

Thank you so much! And thanks for the rec!!

I'm very glad you liked that line. I thought it was the most poignant line in the story, and really told of what both Viktor and George were about. Viktor saving Alexander and taking him on as his son. George making the belt for Viktor. They're both heroes who are just doing what they can do.

Little things in the grand scheme, but for the person that benefits, it means everything in the world.

I haven't been able to bring myself to read "Leave Out All the Rest" yet. I know it's going to be fantastic. I'm a big fan of hers in general, and I know I have to read that. But I have two more fics I'm writing just now, and I have three more days of LMOM. :D

I promise I'll let you know what I think when I read it.

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