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Five Keys to Writing Post Deathly Hallows Harry/Draco
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| Title: | Five Keys to Writing Post Deathly Hallows Harry/Draco |
| Creator: | ravenna_c_tan |
| Date(s): | September 29, 2007 |
| Medium: | online transcript, podcast |
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| Topic: | Harry Potter |
| External Links: | online transcript here, Archived version |
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Five Keys to Writing Post Deathly Hallows Harry/Draco is an essay and podcast at Slashcast by ravenna_c_tan.
Excerpts
Well, HD-shippers, there's good news and bad news. The bad news is that the epilogue exists, and we know Draco didn't end up with Harry after all. The good news is that given the ages of the children in the epilogue, there's a good 6 to 7 years right after Voldemort's fall when Harry and Draco could have been having a torrid post-war affair. This interregnum is just one of the many gifts JK Rowling gave to us HD-devotees in Deathly Hallows, including that lovely tandem boom ride rescue. If you're going to write what I'll call H/D Interregnum Fic, though, here are the five questions I feel I need to answer for myself, either in the story or in the background of the characters I use when writing it, even if the answers don't make it to the page. (Though they usually do...)
The five questions are:
1. What else, other than what we see in the book, happened to Draco and the others during Voldemort's reign of terror at Malfoy Manor?[snipped]
2. What was really going through Draco's head when he kept Harry's identity a secret after the Snatchers capture him?
[snipped]
3. What the hell was Draco doing outside the Room of Requirement?
[snipped]
4. Was Draco in the Great Hall during the duel between Harry and Voldemort? And if so, what did he think of all the Elder Wand business?
[snipped]
5. It takes two to tango, of course. So the final question I find myself wanting to answer is what did HARRY think of... well... everything about Draco in Deathly Hallows?