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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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	kelly_chambliss 2011-05-29 03:40 am UTC (link)
	Minerva/Augusta is a pairing I love, and you've presented them just as I like them: no-nonsense and knowing exactly what they want and need. And did I mention hot? I liked Aberforth's cameo, too, and the canon background. Then there's Professor Longbottom -- nice touch. (Reply to this) (Thread)

"Let Us Escape Our Troubles"

songquake
2011-05-30 02:34 am UTC (link)

Thanks for such a lovely comment!

The bit with Professor Longbottom... Canon never really addresses at all what Augusta goes through during Neville's lifetime. We know she's a feisty woman who was terrible at Charms and selecting flattering headwear. But the stuff that we need to deduce--that her son and his wife were killed, so she raised their child; that her husband died only a few years after her son--leads to such a complicated profile. What is it for a witch in her sixties and seventies to raise a child on her own--especially since that's just middle-age for her? What would she have to give up to raise Neville? I think that she would have some ambivalence about her relationship with her grandson, to say the least. And since canon hints at a pretty deep familiarity between Augusta and Minerva (because really, why else would Minerva know a contemporary's OWL scores; they're not listed publicly, but sent via private owl), the characterisations became fascinating to work with.

Glad you found it hot, and enjoyed Abe's cameos. He always is good for some comic relief, I think.

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