Fic Rec: "Next Time"
Jul. 24th, 2004 02:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kraitHmm, I was going to post all three at once, but that makes it harder to sort them properly. Instead, I shall post each separately for the sake of Memorying the recs. A slasher's work is never done.
"Next Time" by Gatewaygirl is part of the "It's All Been Done" FQF-- I hadn't known there was such a thing, actually, but I'm glad this came of it. The challenge was "Harry/Remus and a Time-Turner," and Gatewaygirl has taken it beyond the things already done-- yes, there is near-standard angst and a drunken bet, and then it just gets better. Harry matures enough in 48 hours to rival his five canon years; he starts out assuming it will be a bit of reckless fun, and learns instead to think of the impact, not on the general future, but on the person he loves-- it's all very easy to waltz in with a Time-Turner on July 29, go back, and wake up still in love on July 30; it's a bit trickier for the lover you leave (literally) in the past. The changes hinted at in Remus, due to Harry's actions, are tantalising, and Gatewaygirl has obviously put some thought into both the requirements of time travel-- as in the ingenious way Harry devises to check whether he's changed history-- and the means by which magic applies to sex. A gentle sense of humour mixes well with werewolfy angst, as well.
"Next Time" by Gatewaygirl is part of the "It's All Been Done" FQF-- I hadn't known there was such a thing, actually, but I'm glad this came of it. The challenge was "Harry/Remus and a Time-Turner," and Gatewaygirl has taken it beyond the things already done-- yes, there is near-standard angst and a drunken bet, and then it just gets better. Harry matures enough in 48 hours to rival his five canon years; he starts out assuming it will be a bit of reckless fun, and learns instead to think of the impact, not on the general future, but on the person he loves-- it's all very easy to waltz in with a Time-Turner on July 29, go back, and wake up still in love on July 30; it's a bit trickier for the lover you leave (literally) in the past. The changes hinted at in Remus, due to Harry's actions, are tantalising, and Gatewaygirl has obviously put some thought into both the requirements of time travel-- as in the ingenious way Harry devises to check whether he's changed history-- and the means by which magic applies to sex. A gentle sense of humour mixes well with werewolfy angst, as well.