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beholder_mod (beholder_mod) wrote in hp_beholder,
@ 2011-05-16 13:51:00

Entry tags:

augusta longbottom, beholder_2011, femslash, fic, mcgonagall/augusta, minerva mcgonagall, rating:nc17

FIC: "Let Us Escape Our Troubles" for tetleythesecond
Recipient: tetleythesecond
Author: songquake
Title: Let Us Escape Our Troubles
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: Minerva McGonagall/Augusta Longbottom
Word Count: 11,708
Warnings/Content Information (Highlight to View): *None*.
Summary: How terribly strange to be seventy… ("Old Friends", Simon and Garfunkel)
Author's Notes: tetleythesecond, I hope you love this. It's been a true labour of love. I'm so grateful to have been given the opportunity to work with these characters. I hope it's got enough realism - and theoretical magic - for you. To my beta T, thank you ever so for whipping this into shape at the last possible moment. You're a lifesaver. All remaining mistakes are mine. And finally, bethbethbeth, I thank you immensely for hosting this fest, for promoting unpopular characters, and for putting up with my terribly slow writing and revising process. You're a gentlewoman and a scholar.

"Let Us Escape Our Troubles"

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woldy
2011-05-17 04:57 am UTC (link)

Very nice! I love this pairing, and it's a treat to see their relationship through the canon years. I love the image of Augusta doing research, and how she uses the theory in the battle at Hogwarts, and how together they're responsible for the passage from the Room of Requirement to the Hogs Head. Minerva's reflections on Neville are nice to see, but I like the way he's tangential to their relationship - there's such an intellectual and emotional bond between them here, as well as the physical attraction.

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songquake
2011-05-30 02:10 am UTC (link)

Minerva's reflections on Neville are nice to see, but I like the way he's tangential to their relationship

*pumps fist in the air*

Yes! I think I may have succeeded in passing The Bechdel Test! That was, actually, a goal of mine!

Thanks ever so for the comments. I enjoyed the opportunity to explore a mature love--one that isn't over-dominated by New Relationship Energy or adolescent hormones. I always think Minerva needs to have an intellectual equal, and the idea that Augusta would be her contemporary, that they'd have schoolgirl history, was tantalising to me.

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