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"Today, we will be making soulmate potions," said Snape.
I am addicted to reading HP badfic. Specifically, from this archive. Check it out -- if you go to Romance -> Miscellaneous, you can even find a bit of slash.
I don't read these just to laugh, though I do a fair amount of that, but there's a sort of deep sweetness to this kind of story that appeals to me, pretty much the same way I feel about Ed Wood movies. The vulnerability of being passionate about your work and thinking what you've done is good and worthy, even if it's not quite up to sample.
I mean, that's what I do. That's what you do. We're just older and better writers.
There are some surprising gems:
- a clever Marcus-Oliver confrontation in an H/D fic -- beautiful dialogue
- Hermione deciding to kill herself the next day, writing her suicide note to be delivered at dawn, then rushing off so she won't be late for charms class
- a description of Harry's eyes: "They look like jungles in the sunlight." (I love that.)
- and of course: "Draco Malfoy, Head Boy and Silver Ice Prince of Slytherin".
(I can't say that's much worse than me using "Obi-Wan Kenobi, the Mad Lover of Coruscant" in a story. *g*)
And I find that these stories often deal with the same things we do; they just distill them down to their essence. In the summary for one Hermione/Draco story:
"Will looks overcome 5 years of intense hatred?"
God, that would cover half the slash out there, plus 95% of the Buffy/Spike, don't you think?
The stories are often unfinished, though. I read two chapters of a Ron/Draco that left me hot for more, so if anyone's got any recs (goodfic, not badfic *g*), lay them on me.
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Sorry I can't help on the Ron/Draco front -- I tend to like them both with Harry.
...and that just gave me a mental picture of a Wrong McWrong threesome.
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Harry and Draco, true gay soulmates, are sharing a romantic evening of candlelight, roses, and wine, probably in the Gryffindor common room. They are kissing, a long, slow, sweet, tender, loving, romantic kiss with lots of tongue.
Ron comes in. He'd been playing Wizard rugby and his tight white pants and red jersy are stained with mud and grass. His hair is windblown and his cheeks are red with cold.
Ron is taken aback at all the romanticness. Harry and Draco are surprised as well; they thought they'd have the room all to themselves. But they are also quite taken with Ron's manly, sweaty, mud-stained, rugby-playing hotness.
So they invite him to sit down, ply him with wine, and peel him out of his sweaty uniform.
*whew* Is it hot in here? I should write this and post it on the archive under an assumed name.
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Because Harry and Draco clearly are soulmates, destined to a life of tender shagging by candlelight.
clearly.
I'm seeing Harry and Ron getting so mad at Draco they finally jump him (one at a time, since they're Gryffs, after all), and the watcher sees the fighting turn to wrestling turn to foreplay and joins in... mmm. Maybe I should write that!
=D
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I hear this in voice of the guy who did the Odd Couple tv show intro -
"Can two divorced men share an apartment without driving each other *crazy*?" (cue theme song)
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I just finished the worst slashy *Nsync novel in the world, and I couldn't be happier. God, now THAT was bad.
Cheers!
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It has been a long time since I've looked for Ron/Draco. A few I remember fondly:
- Bec's A Taste of Honey and If You Want. The first is not really Ron/Draco, but sets up the second.
- And one fic that I could only find now through somewhat devious means: A Quaint Notion, by Helen.
Have you found anything new?