where's the fic?

[phineasjones]

i have made a little list of post-DH fic i would like to read. maybe it's already out there (if so, please tell me). if not, well, i hope it eventually will be. please, add your own ideas to the fic wish-list!



first, a note. i basically see the last chapter (who called it the epilogue of heteronormativity? - you're brilliant) as one possibility. it's not my canon. so, fic i want to read may or may not be compliant with that chapter. it doesn't matter to me. i wouldn't really consider it AU if it only contradicted that chapter. the AUs i talk about are stories that would go against elements of canon presented before the last chapter. and i don't see it as the inevitable end to any story... like if i read harry/draco immediately post-war, i wouldn't actually assume that before he turns 23, harry ditches draco, marries ginny and has a baby. i just can't go there. so. yeah. my personal canon remains a bit more open-ended.

i want to read...

*harry/hermione comfort sex in the tent when ron is gone. wtf??? why do i want this so bad? i have never been into harry/hermione. never. but i wants it. it must be out there, right? who could resist the tent sex?

*trio tent sex would also be nice but i don't crave like i do the aforementioned wrongness of h/h.

*fic about teddy lupin. mostly involving him learning about his father. and more specifically, learning about his father and sirius and how much they loved each other. so, basically, i want sirius/remus with a teddy pov. i don't want tonks washed out of the story, really. i just want someone to write something that will make it all feel better to me. and i think if teddy knew about s/r, it might help a little.

*harry thinking/learning about snape. maybe he goes to his house? his quarters at hogwarts? goes through his things? or, my favorite, goes to draco malfoy and asks him what he knows (i maybe am kind of writing that a little). i just need harry feeling the weight of what snape did for him. for them all. and... i just want more snape. more more more.

*dean reunited with seamus! we know they hugged... then what? injunket was throwing out fantastic bunnies of kidfic-ness where they were both working with traumatized young'uns after the war. omg, i want that.

*luna... something. what happened to luna? i have some ideas. but i want more. i want luna and neville processing. maybe luna/neville but maybe not.

*repentant draco. it's time. it finally really fits with canon. let's have it. it could be harry/draco. or neville/draco. mmm. i like that one.

*ron/hermione - how does it finally happen (if you don't believe they bonked before heading off to grab the basilisk fangs)

*weasley family coping. will george ever be ok? if the answer is yes - and could it possibly be? - then i want to know how. please. tell me.

*neville. he didn't kill bellatrix. is he ok with that? how does he go from where he is to being a professor... he went from little scared neville to warrior. how does he get back to being a herbologist? will he make it badass? or will he enjoy the peace of it?

AU

*remus didn't die. tonks maybe did or maybe didn't. but remus has to raise teddy, to be a father. frequent visits from harry et al would be good.

*snape didn't die. this would probably end up being snape/harry for me. harry still finds out all that stuff. everything snape did. maybe it all goes down exactly like in the book, but snape somehow survives. what would that mean for harry? how would they go one from there?

*harry takes in teddy right away, as his godfather. maybe they live at grimmauld place. maybe they live at the burrow where there's help to raise a kid. he would have to do a lot of thinking about his own parents, his own godfather, about teddy's parents. he would have to decide what to tell teddy about the circumstances of his orphan-ness. i want to know what he would say.

what else?

Comments

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

the only note i have on the book so far is: "harry potter & the oppressive heterosexuality". sigh.

i want all of these stories. *waits*

[phineasjones.livejournal.com]

yes, exactly.

i'm waiting with you. lalala. ::twiddles thumbs::

[anabelwumpkins.livejournal.com]

I love that Teddy's name calls to mind the bear that I believe is his Patronus form, like Lupin's and Padfoot's are attached to their wolf and dog. I would love for his story be that he is an animagus and to learn about the Marauders. I love the open-ness of Teddy's canon.

I want more of ivyblossom's rebellious, eyeliner-wearing, war-damaged Ginny, and how she deals with Fred and Percy and how she pushes Harry away after the war, experiments with Muggle living, and is her own hero for a while.

I really want more Percy, reintegrating himself into his family and dealing with his guilt over Fred and the coldness of George and his other siblings.

And I have been thinking so much about Luna- maybe Luna/Hermione or Luna/Neville.

Where did inky talk about her bunnies? Is it in her LJ and I'm just missing it?

[anabelwumpkins.livejournal.com]

OH. And the thing I REALLY want is the companion story to the book- the story of Neville and Luna and Ginny and the Hogwarts Resistance.

I want the Hogwarts Express and the altercation with Draco, defending the absence of our trio. I want plotty stories about the last year of classes, Neville's brilliance in Herbology creating some kind of planty aid for the DA, Seamus missing Dean, and lots of Snape- his actions seeming harmful but actually keeping order, protecting the students from the Carrows.

I want the students trying to find out what is *really* happening in the rest of the wizarding world, not just what the Prophet is telling them, and Snape secretly helping them. Snape protecting the DA. Neville's Grandmother. Luna's kidnapping and how it galvanizes the resistance. McGonagall, and all of the teachers, being insubordinate to Snape and causing trouble for the Carrows. Draco's changing views about the DeathEaters and Snape's quiet attempts to draw him in. And Ginny being a confident, brilliant, cheeky, charismatic, full-fledged hero. She deserves that story. She deserves to be more than just the hero's wifey.

[wildgreentide.livejournal.com]

I'll have what she's having!

[phineasjones.livejournal.com]

ok, now i am DROOLING for this fic. omg. yes, yes and more yes. everything you said. spot on. i want that.

[phineasjones.livejournal.com]

re: teddy's name - yes! i love that it takes the animal-ness of remus and makes it soft and cuddly. do you think she did that on purpose?

yes to the ginny, too. yes to ginny having something resembling an interesting character. even if it's just the one jkr was starting to give her before this book - the one that disappeared into the ether.

mmm. percy. yeah. sad and fascinating.

inky and i were tossing around bunnies (hee!) on gchat. make her tell you about dean and seamus, it's so cute!

[anabelwumpkins.livejournal.com]

I want to think she did it on purpose. It makes so much sense. But then, he's named after Ted Tonks. Then again, she's so thoughtful about names, and to have him descend from a Marauder really makes it seem like he should have a name that reflects his Patronus/animagus form.

I love the idea that Teddy and Harry are kind of like cousins, if the Marauders are essentially brothers. Between Harry's desire to protect Teddy and Teddy's eventual learning about S/R, his story is one that I'm really dying to know.

And inky told me about dean and seamus tonight! SO CUTE OMG.

[ainsley.livejournal.com]

I really really really really really really really really really really want to read that Teddy fic. Perhaps him finding out about the events of Making Moony Laugh (+ remix), which is similarly S/R from another POV.

Ooh! Harry as Snape's heir! How does he handle this? What does Snape own? What does he do with the many full bottles of shampoo that Snape received as prank gifts from cruel people, but kept on display (and what motivated that?)?

[phineasjones.livejournal.com]

oh. oh, yes, harry as snape's heir. definitely yes. meep.

[glitterdemon.livejournal.com]

who called it the epilogue of heteronormativity?

*raises hand* though i think all of fandom has been saying so in so many words. incidentally, in the post where i said that i also recced copperbadge's the rules of being a godson (http://sam-storyteller.livejournal.com/117432.html), which goes a bit towards satisfying your first teddy scenario. i love, love it and would really be quite happy if everyone wrote teddy this way.

remus didn't die. tonks maybe did or maybe didn't. but remus has to raise teddy, to be a father. frequent visits from harry et al would be good.

oh god, oh god, i want this story so. badly. ixnay on the tonks, preferably.

and i very much want loads of good trio!sex to come of this book.

[phineasjones.livejournal.com]

yes! you! now i remember. :)

yes, i read that. omg, it's lovely. so so calm and comforting. and such a believable child of lupin's.

additional thought on h/hr:

[glitterdemon.livejournal.com]

what i want it to be like is, like, they're both scared and lonely and miss ron, so they try and forget about all of it with each other. i don't want it to be terribly guilt-ridden - okay, it could be, a little, but it's not the primary thing that comes to mind. like, it's comfort. even if it is hot hot sex. and when ron comes back, they never ever mention it again and it's not a thing, b/c they ARE like brother and sister, but it was something they both needed.

Re: additional thought on h/hr:

[phineasjones.livejournal.com]

yes, that's exactly what i want too. exactly.

[wildgreentide.livejournal.com]

harry/hermione comfort sex in the tent when ron is gone. wtf??? why do i want this so bad? i have never been into harry/hermione. never. but i wants it.

OMG, me too! Whence the sudden craving? Maybe because it was clear that she had to hook up with Ron by the end of the book, so I suddenly wanted her to branch out, try some new things. And would she be ashamed -- would she feel like she was cheating on Ron, or was she so angry with him that she figured he deserved to lose her to Harry? Would she be thinking of Ron the whole time?? I need to know!

neville/draco. mmm. i like that one.

YES. Draco/Neville is my not-so-secret OTP. *goes to happy place*

neville. he didn't kill bellatrix. is he ok with that? how does he go from where he is to being a professor... he went from little scared neville to warrior. how does he get back to being a herbologist? will he make it badass? or will he enjoy the peace of it?

I see him as a smart, sexy, badass, Indiana-Jones-type herbologist. Also, I read somewhere that JKR figures Luna went on to study and track strange creatures all over the world, so I want to read a story about Luna & Neville, BFFs, travelling around the world together & having awesome adventures that could possibly involve seducing beautiful women.

And also, of course, I want to read about the Hogwarts Resistance, about Neville and Luna and Ginny and everyone, standing up to the Carrows and secretly being helped by Snape and, you know, I'm just going to point up at anabelwumpkins's post, because she thought of everything already!

[phineasjones.livejournal.com]

would she feel like she was cheating on Ron, or was she so angry with him that she figured he deserved to lose her to Harry? Would she be thinking of Ron the whole time?? I need to know!

yes, yes. we need to know these things. and also... why is it so hot? their guilty, angry sex? but it is. it so is

i was just reading that today about luna. and she also said she could picture luna/neville. but i kind of like the bff version of them, myself. i want to think of the perfect person to pair luna with... but neville is as close as i get. but i want him with draco. :) maybe ginny. you know, if she finds her personality again.

and yeah, i want exactly the fic anabel descirbed. all of it. now, please!

[wildgreentide.livejournal.com]

i want to think of the perfect person to pair luna with...

fuschia? heh, I don't know. Maybe Tonks, in an AU where she never got together with Remus? But there isn't really a perfect match for her in the HP-verse. OFC, baybee.

[phineasjones.livejournal.com]

fuschia? ahahah. yes. i think really that would be the perfect pairing.

ofc, yeah. you're right. or maybe a crossover. hmmm.

[http://users.livejournal.com/__leka/]

I think JKR said that Luna married the grandson or great-grandson or something of Newt Scamander (the guy who wrote Fantastic Beasts and where to find them). Just thought you'd like to know.

=)