Figures it would be just when I go out that you update. *curses* hehe, jk. Am going to try to keep this review more focused this time... and hope I don't ramble or write overly much.
But now, feeling it again and recognizing that feeling, it hurt so much more. Draco hated him. Again.
He wanted to think Draco was watching, but... hell, it didn’t really matter anymore.
Oh, this so perfectly epitomizes the feeling of teenage love. That immediate hopelessness that comes with the slightest set-back, the faintest glimmer of failure. Poor Harry... his outlook goes from carefree and optimistic to instantly bleak and almost nihilistic the moment he senses Draco slipping from his grasp. Nothing matters if he doesn't have hope for something with Draco.
I love your description of Harry's favorite place - you really have created it as such a naturally magical sort of setting. Television static, smoking potions, cotton, the students looking like insects... that entire passage is so rich with unusual and beautiful imagery. It creates such a vivid setting for such a simple action as just sitting and watching a football game.
And I really like how you described the Hermione/Ron getting-together backstory. True, it's a short explanation, but it's cute and very canon. There's always been so much tension between those two that it's always seemed like it's only a matter of time before something like that happens. And I really like how you expanded that into something bigger than just the two of them and their romance. The fact that it happened in the middle of the war - that there could be that kind of love blossoming in the middle of the war - it's just... it makes it warm and fuzzy in a deeper-than-surface kind of way.
And OMG the conversation between Draco and Harry! ....!!!!!!! It's so painful to think about how the war, the choosing of sides, has affected Draco in a way that isn't often addressed on such a basic level as this. Even something as simple as buying Christmas gifts has been irrevocably altered.
You could put him on your list, a voice whispered in his head.
Isn't he already on his list? Maybe he hadn't thought of it... but at this point, with the way Harry clearly feels, I'd say Draco would fall at the top of any list Harry makes.
Perhaps Draco liked him now because he remembered.
Maybe he doesn't even need to remember. Maybe the feelings and affections can transcend whatever memory Harry thinks is necessary. In that way, it makes whatever Draco does feel that much more real.
And Draco going to sit at the Gryffindor table... going ahead of Harry, making the first move, so to speak, taking the initiative all on his own. It seems like so little, but it's a gesture that means so much.
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Date: 2004-12-19 09:05 pm (UTC)From:But now, feeling it again and recognizing that feeling, it hurt so much more. Draco hated him. Again.
He wanted to think Draco was watching, but... hell, it didn’t really matter anymore.
Oh, this so perfectly epitomizes the feeling of teenage love. That immediate hopelessness that comes with the slightest set-back, the faintest glimmer of failure. Poor Harry... his outlook goes from carefree and optimistic to instantly bleak and almost nihilistic the moment he senses Draco slipping from his grasp. Nothing matters if he doesn't have hope for something with Draco.
I love your description of Harry's favorite place - you really have created it as such a naturally magical sort of setting. Television static, smoking potions, cotton, the students looking like insects... that entire passage is so rich with unusual and beautiful imagery. It creates such a vivid setting for such a simple action as just sitting and watching a football game.
And I really like how you described the Hermione/Ron getting-together backstory. True, it's a short explanation, but it's cute and very canon. There's always been so much tension between those two that it's always seemed like it's only a matter of time before something like that happens. And I really like how you expanded that into something bigger than just the two of them and their romance. The fact that it happened in the middle of the war - that there could be that kind of love blossoming in the middle of the war - it's just... it makes it warm and fuzzy in a deeper-than-surface kind of way.
And OMG the conversation between Draco and Harry! ....!!!!!!! It's so painful to think about how the war, the choosing of sides, has affected Draco in a way that isn't often addressed on such a basic level as this. Even something as simple as buying Christmas gifts has been irrevocably altered.
You could put him on your list, a voice whispered in his head.
Isn't he already on his list? Maybe he hadn't thought of it... but at this point, with the way Harry clearly feels, I'd say Draco would fall at the top of any list Harry makes.
Perhaps Draco liked him now because he remembered.
Maybe he doesn't even need to remember. Maybe the feelings and affections can transcend whatever memory Harry thinks is necessary. In that way, it makes whatever Draco does feel that much more real.
And Draco going to sit at the Gryffindor table... going ahead of Harry, making the first move, so to speak, taking the initiative all on his own. It seems like so little, but it's a gesture that means so much.
<3333333333 *still with the love* ;-)