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snarrymod (snarrymod) wrote in snarry_games,
@ 2008-04-20 10:56:00

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TEAM PHOENIX ENTRY: CruiseDirector "A Pastoral Interlude"
Title: A Pastoral Interlude
Author: cruisedirector
Team: Phoenix
Genre(s): Romance
Prompt(s): Career Change, Time Capsule
Rating/Warnings/Kinks: R; Mild adult language, fairly discreet offscreen sex. Drag mouse over space if you wish to know more: *Past-tense minor character death.*
Word Count: ~12,000
Summary: On an unhappy Christmas Eve in Somerset, Harry finds the last person he expects to see cooking in the kitchen of an inn.
A/N: Betas: The wonderful dementordelta and the amazing celandineb.
Disclaimer: Some ideas for recipes came from Maxime de la Falaise's Seven Centuries of English Cooking, though I borrowed mostly lists of ingredients. The King's Arms Inn is a real place in Shepton Mallet, but to the best of my knowledge, wizards must make reservations there the same way as everyone else.

"A Pastoral Interlude by Cruise Director"

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cruisedirector
2008-04-21 03:51 pm UTC (link)

Thank you so much! Snape wanted to be snarkier than I would let him be; I had to keep reminding him that Harry was not going to stick around and be insulted in his present state of mind, and if Snape wanted any hope of sex than he had better behave. *g* I always assume Harry and Ginny separated because Harry is gay -- I don't know too many straight men who would go on at such length about how good looking Cedric and Draco are -- though I could also see Ginny discovering that the hero she married has feet of clay just like anyone else and being unable to forgive him for not always being the hero she worshipped when she was eleven years old. That whole relationship seems very unhealthy to me.

I wanted to write a James Potter who was a lot like the previous James Potter -- arrogant, overconfident, sure that whatever he was doing was on the side of good no matter who it was hurting -- but I realized early on that all of that was going to have to be told in flashback because it's such a dark story, without James' actual voice. I owe him a prequel/sequel, I suppose.

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