Sin for Me

Fanfiction
Title:	Sin for Me
Author(s):	furiosity
Date(s):	2006 or before
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Genre(s):	slash
Fandom(s):	Harry Potter
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Sin for Me is a slash Harry Potter story by furiosity.

Discussion of This Story

From Slashcast Insider Interview with furiosity in 2006:

Emma:You've written so many fics that it's really hard to pick out a couple to focus on, but I get to be selfish and do this, so I'm going to pick out one of my very favorites to talk about a little bit. It's a fic called Sin for Me that's set in a universe that I believe you're going to write more in, in which Harry forces Draco into getting involved in some post-war politics. What can you tell us about writing that one?

f: It was a prompt, actually. It was karaz's prompt, where she wanted to see a Harry who decides to take- well, not take over the world. He decides to change things in the wizarding world to better suit what he thinks should be happening. It really started with one scene. I saw Ron and Harry playing chess and talking about world domination and obviously there was a toned down version of that scene in the fic where it's not Ron, but Ron's portrait and they're not talking about world domination, but that was basically the idea that popped into my head at the time that I saw the prompt and claimed it. I just sort of went from there. That's how it usually happens - I usually get the most cracktastic scene in my head. I think I must have been writing it for four days straight with very few breaks. It was coming out really quickly, and there were all these ideas coming out and I just, that's why I said that I'm going to write more in that universe, because there are just so many things that I didn't put in because there was no room.

Emma: I think one of the things that I was really amazed by when I read that was the amount of world building that seemed- that seemed you had done. And from listening to you talk about it now, it sounds like maybe it wasn't that you built it, maybe it was that it sort of sprung into your mind fully formed, to borrow JKR's words. But which one was it? Did you really spend a lot of time sort of ironing out the details of what this world would look like, what the political system would be like, or did it all just come out of nowhere?

f: The political system, um... I wouldn't say that it came out of nowhere. Part of it is, basically, I tried to extend the canon and see, like, a- I sat down with what I know about the ministry and how it works and what it's function is and what different departments there are, and thought about what is- what is it that Harry wants to change? My idea was that Harry wants to make all these changes to the way things are run and I wanted to sit down and look at what was there and see what has to be changed. So, in that aspect I actually sat down and mapped out a whole, you know, strategy for Harry - which made no appearance in the actual fic, but the actual physical world? The places, The Hanging Garden, which is a restaurant that Charlie opens, that was sort of just here.

Emma: One of the things that I thought was very interesting about this fic was that Draco- you present him as a very smart, very worldly and very cunning, and yet he gets taken in by- and without, you know, hopefully without spoiling the story too much for people who haven't read it, he completely gets taken in by- Harry sets him up and knocks him down. It just- it blew me away when I read it. I loved that bit of it. I've tried to write mystery, and I know that for me, I'm wondering as I'm writing, "Is it completely obvious where all of this is going to the reader, or am I actually going to catch people?" Did you have that experience while you were writing it?

f: I did worry about it. I was really worried that they would become completely transparent, that, you know, that every single time that Harry would come to Draco and reveal the next part of his plan, that everybody else- everybody that was reading would be sitting there going, "Yea, okay, I saw that coming a mile off," which wasn't my intent because the idea was to keep Harry sort of a dark horse. Yea, I do wonder about that a lot, which is actually why I both love and hate writing mystery, is that feeling that, you know, are people just going to laugh and say it's really obvious, or is it really mysterious? Is there really, you know, a sort of "what if?" element there.

Harry in that story is very different from his canon counterpart, I would say. I mean, there are things that he thinks back to and he remembers and stuff, but he really has changed. I mean, he has a good reason for having changed, but it's pretty difficult writing him like that because half the time I actually have to sit down and ask myself if I even recognize him. Because if I stop recognizing him that means I'm just completely going out of character, which is not a good thing.