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beholder_mod (beholder_mod) wrote in hp_beholder,
@ 2011-05-02 13:31:00

Entry tags:

beholder_2011, fic, het, minerva mcgonagall, rating:r, viktor krum, viktor/minerva

FIC: "Time On His Side" for nimrod_9
Recipient: nimrod_9
Author: kinky_kneazle
Title: Time On His Side
Rating: R (for adult themes)
Pairings: Viktor Krum/ Minerva McGonagall
Word Count: ~12,000
Warnings/Content Information (Highlight to View): *Character Death (kind of) *.
Summary: Minerva met Viktor when she was six and he was thirty-three. Viktor met Minerva when he was seventeen and she was sixty-nine. Somehow they make it work
Author's Notes: Inspired by Audrey Niffenegger's The Time Traveler's Wife. nimrod_9, this idea seemed to come to me out of nowhere, and ended up being a real struggle to write. With love to my beta, F, for making sure this made sense, walking the dog while I wrote and convincing me to stick to the ending that fit the piece. Many thanks also to bethbethbeth for her endless patience with my inability to get through the editing process.

"Time On His Side"

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purplefluffycat
2012-10-09 03:57 pm UTC (link)

Thank you for writing this breathtaking story! I'm here from a rec at

crack_broom by

kelly_chambliss, and so very glad I followed the link.

I've read the story twice, actually: once as written, and once with the sections in date-order, as Minerva would have experienced it. Both ways round, it is a magnificent piece of work! I'm so impressed that you kept the timelines consistent in the telling, with all the little details of the diary and who-knows-what-when. (I think I spotted one tiny way in which a piece of information was out of place, but it's so small in the grand scheme of things, it hardly bears notice!).

So much for technical expertise though, impressive as it is. The thing that will really stay with me from this tale is the emotional punch it carries - in so many ways, both happy and sad. I cried when older Minerva just wanted Viktor to hold her until he disappeared, and the scene where he 'gives an old woman some comfort' at the war memorial is so understated and poignant it hurts all the more.

I think it very fitting of what we know of Minerva that she had an atypical and somewhat confusing private life, and all the strength and tragedy that comes with that beautifully reinforces her canon character. Viktor, too, is wonderfully drawn as a strong, serious and kind person - so much more than the caricature of an Eastern European that is offered in the books.

Thank you again; this story will stay with me for a long time.

PurpleFluffyCat x

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