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snarrymod (snarrymod) wrote in snarry_games,
@ 2009-09-12 10:04:00

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Team Snitch Entry (FIC): "The Fourth Deathly Hallow" By Gingertart
Title: The Fourth Deathly Hallow.
Author: Gingertart (gingertart50)
Team: Snitch
Genre(s): Fandom Crossovers and Literary and/or Historical
Prompt(s): Code of Honour
Rating/Warnings/Kinks: PG; None
Word Count: ~ 56,500
Author Notes/Disclaimers/Betas: Should I have warned for a distinct lack of overt sex? If you've come looking for pr0n – sorry. The plot-bunny grew to the size of Tyrannosaurus Rex on steroids and kind of took over. / The Harry Potter world and characters are the sole property of J.K. Rowling, Scholastic, Bloomsbury, and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. I make no money from writing fanfiction. / Thank you to my plot-bunny wranglers, Lesyeuxverts, Leela Cat and Klynie, and my betas, Klynie and WhiteCotton

Summary: From the private journal of John. H. Watson MD; not intended for publication. Being an account of the strange case of the Fourth Deathly Hallow; in which Dr John H. Watson and Mr Sherlock Holmes save a life, discover the true secret of Professor Moriarty, unravel a time loop or two, encounter a femme fatale, imbibe potions, break into and out of a wizarding mansion, hide in a male brothel, go shopping, track down a magical artefact, almost attend a ritual sacrifice, fail to be Obliviated and totally ignore the International Statute of Wizarding Secrecy of 1692, all in the company of a lank-haired, irascible but secretly besotted schoolmaster, a bemused aristocrat and an increasingly perceptive and enamoured young hero.

"The Fourth Deathly Hallow"

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slashpine
2009-09-13 09:40 am UTC (link)

This is definitely one of the best Holmes crossovers I've ever read! I take back everything I was saying about crossovers in this Snarry Games. *g* No, kidding: I make an exception for this one! Your Watson, Holmes, and their age are very well done, the language suitably reminiscent of the era and the inimitable books. Of course there wasn't quite enough Holmes, but then there never is...

OTOH, there was a fabulous amount of quite brilliant master-duelist Snape! YAAYYY This is one of my favorite Snapes, and too rarely seen - the man who has lightning fast reactions, must know nearly every wicked curse ever, and has no hesitation at using them. I love him squaring off with Moriarty.

The blending of characters is awesome! MORTDELAVIE IS OMG SO INSPIRED OMG OMG!!! The Prewetts, Tarquinius and Encantadora, Holmes' irregulars and underworld friends, are all beautifully done and add so much to the rich texture - which in turn, makes it so much more the busy, crowded human world of Holmes. Agrippina is a wonderful villain! She has that sleek, clever, coldly egotistical elegance of a really good Victorian villainess, like Philip Pullman's Mrs. Coulter, or looking back even farther, Mrs. Slighcarp (if memory serves) in Wolves of Willoughby Chase.

Your Draco is simply stunning. Like Snape, I think you bring out aspects of him that are all very much there but usually downplayed or omitted. LOVE his Indiana Jones at the end with the gun, and his efficient "Sorted"! I'd absolutely adore seeing so much more of all this band, including Draco, and OMG YES HOLMES AND SNAPE.

AND THE PLOT! SQUEEEE! WHat a wonderful plotty plot! But thanks to your use of Dr. Watson's POV, very clear even when he - and we - are encountering the unknown. Also, before I fall gratefully into bed smiling happily over this story - the little touches all the way through of things that didn't quite add up, and then became clear later when they turned out to be key elements (like Harry's Accio on Snape in the warehouse), were AWESOME! And the Epilogue - so clever and SO GOOD TO HAVE. So altogether awesome! *looks forward to re-reading many times*

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gingertart50
2009-09-13 10:02 am UTC (link)

Thank you so much for your long, thoughtful and very warm-and-fuzzy-making comments! *is all warm and fuzzy* Hee, I'm so glad you liked Agrippina, I really enjoyed writing her, and yes, Mrs Coulter did come to mind but also Narcissa, that elegant self-serving intelligent sort of Slytherin female rather than the mad-as-a-stoat-with-toothache Bellatrix. And Mortdelavie/Moriarty too, because a sane Dark Lord would be so much harder to fight that Voldemort. Oh, and I don't usually like cross-overs much because I rarely know anything about the 'other' canon so I tried hard to make sure that someone who had never read Holmes would still get it. Glad you liked it!

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