Happily Ever After

Jeconais posted on Thursday 12th April 2007 2:09pm

Well, while I've been waiting for Hope to be betad, I've been working hard at Happily Ever After.

As most of you probably know, this is a story based on an idea that our own Dorothy (Ishtar) came up with:

How about a Sleeping Beauty situation where it's Harry who's trapped in an enchanted sleep/stasis? (Plot by Voldemort to make sure Harry doesn't win? Revenge by Death Eaters? Plan by Healers to hold him in suspense while they heal some truly dreadful wound? Lots of options.) Then when they wake him up a few years later, he really is Gabby's age. By this time, Ron and Hermione are grown up and want him to do the political things that are expected of the BWL, but all Harry wants to do is sneak off with his sexy Veela girlfriend ... could be room for some fun there. This would probably spin off GoF quite nicely if an author wants to avoid the angsty Harry of OotP - and you could keep Sirius alive, aiding and abetting Harry and Gabrielle against the more "mature" (read: less fun) trio of Remus/Hermione/Ron.

To be honest, I've not followed this exactly, but I think that Dorothy will be very pleased with what I've come up with.

This is the story that I lost the most of during the great Fanfiction loss of September 06.  It was heartbreaking at the time, and it was only because of how much I like this story that I didn't abandon it.

I actually finished it on Monday, but I didn't realise I'd done so, until I reread it this evening, and realised what was bugging me:  The part I was writing was suitable for a sequel - the ebb and flow of the fic demanded that the first part end before the section I was working on.

With a title like Happily Ever After, you can rest assured that this is a fairy tale.  And I've got references to a lot of them in there, from Hansel and Gretal, to Rumplestiltskin, to Little Red Riding, via The Three Little Pigs.  

Some of you might have seen that I've been teasing with my signatures over this, and I figured we could always have one more.

And they all had boobs! - Gabrielle Delacour

I'm always serious when my throat is on fire! - Harry Potter

Professor, Harry's invading France! - Zach Masters

I really hope that house-elves know how to get blood out of a carpet - Gabrielle Delacour

So, what's for breakfast? - Harry Potter's last spoken words in this part

Obviously, with eight chapters, all around 30 pages long, this is going to be take a while to be betad, and will be posted after Hope.  I'm hoping to be able to post once a week for eight weeks.  At least that way, you won't have stupidly long waits between the last few chapters.

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