The Huck Finn meme
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geovikiI'm calling this my Huck Finn meme, from the first line of that book, which begins:
You don't know about me without you have read a book...
Ten things you'd never get from my HP fic without me explaining it to you here:
From The Waters of March
1. When Harry combs Draco's hair, he smells the scent of cloves and citrus and March rain. That's my attempt at trying to describe the smell of Safeguard soap, which I thought was manly enough that guys would use it.
2. The original character, Linda, is named after my niece. She doesn't know it, and hasn't read the story. She doesn't even know I write, but I know she does.
3. Hagrid gets left behind at Hogwarts because I can't write his dialog at all.
4. The theme of forgiveness and redemption was there from the beginning, but the problem Harry has with lying popped up as I wrote it.
5. When I first met my husband, way back in 1975, the first thing that attracted me was his long blond hair. I would comb it for him, and it was just beautifully silky and soft. So I have a real-life kink for combing a guy's long hair. And ergo, so does Harry.
6. Lisa Rourke, HP artist, drew the Draco picture I used for inspiration for my description of Draco when Harry first sees him in St. Mungo's. But the description of Draco's hair when Harry combs it is taken from the Theban Band's picture for Resonant's Transfigurations (the greenhouse scene).
7. I cheated like hell for all of the Latin. I don't know Latin. I used an on-line translator.
8. In the coffee house, Harry's usual is the house blend with room for cream and a dash of cinnamon. Guess what? So is mine.
9. I tried to keep the obvious slash confined to the last chapter in the expectation that my teen-aged kids would read it and I could hide that part. They didn't, and I needlessly harmed the story. Not a mistake I'll repeat. (I'll make new mistakes!)
10. It got its title from all the Brazilian music I was listening to when I wrote it. That is, when I
wasn't sitting through numerous fall soccer practices, trying not to get bitten by West-Nile-carrying mosquitoes, and avoiding a certain other mom who loved to come over and interrupt me with her non-stop motor-mouthing.
You don't know about me without you have read a book...
Ten things you'd never get from my HP fic without me explaining it to you here:
From The Waters of March
1. When Harry combs Draco's hair, he smells the scent of cloves and citrus and March rain. That's my attempt at trying to describe the smell of Safeguard soap, which I thought was manly enough that guys would use it.
2. The original character, Linda, is named after my niece. She doesn't know it, and hasn't read the story. She doesn't even know I write, but I know she does.
3. Hagrid gets left behind at Hogwarts because I can't write his dialog at all.
4. The theme of forgiveness and redemption was there from the beginning, but the problem Harry has with lying popped up as I wrote it.
5. When I first met my husband, way back in 1975, the first thing that attracted me was his long blond hair. I would comb it for him, and it was just beautifully silky and soft. So I have a real-life kink for combing a guy's long hair. And ergo, so does Harry.
6. Lisa Rourke, HP artist, drew the Draco picture I used for inspiration for my description of Draco when Harry first sees him in St. Mungo's. But the description of Draco's hair when Harry combs it is taken from the Theban Band's picture for Resonant's Transfigurations (the greenhouse scene).
7. I cheated like hell for all of the Latin. I don't know Latin. I used an on-line translator.
8. In the coffee house, Harry's usual is the house blend with room for cream and a dash of cinnamon. Guess what? So is mine.
9. I tried to keep the obvious slash confined to the last chapter in the expectation that my teen-aged kids would read it and I could hide that part. They didn't, and I needlessly harmed the story. Not a mistake I'll repeat. (I'll make new mistakes!)
10. It got its title from all the Brazilian music I was listening to when I wrote it. That is, when I
wasn't sitting through numerous fall soccer practices, trying not to get bitten by West-Nile-carrying mosquitoes, and avoiding a certain other mom who loved to come over and interrupt me with her non-stop motor-mouthing.
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Date: 2004-03-22 01:16 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2004-03-22 01:28 pm (UTC)I'm going to speak of the story in my next review, and then I'll honestly tell you what I think about the last chapter.
Good reason for leaving Hagrid behind :)
Safeguard soap? the scent of cloves and citrus and March rain? I wish I hadn't read it :) I had the impression of smth absolutely otherworldly, and it turns to be Safeguard soap. Or sweet dreams.
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Date: 2004-03-22 04:19 pm (UTC)I'll honestly tell you what I think about the last chapter... Oh. My little heart skipped a beat there because (1)I know you are a terrific reviewer (I just caught up on all your memory reviews in your LJ, (2) I know you get to the heart of reviews and don't just mouth nice things when they aren't deserved, and (3) the last chapter of WOM has serious problems that make me cringe now. But now you know why I wrote it the way I did. So say what you have to, I'm prepared.
I had the impression of smth absolutely otherworldly, and it turns to be Safeguard soap. Well, it has to be otherworldly. My local store only carries the Safeguard that smells like regular rain. The kind that smells like March rain can only be found in Diagon Alley! Actually, I'm guessing that Safeguard has cloves. I made up the citrus, because that's an ingredient of Coca-Cola (work with me here...)
While I've got your attention, I wanted to tell you how much I appreciate not only your reviews but also your comprehensive lists of fics. I've been reading them all, good and bad -- and I find they are mostly good.
I've got a fic in mind that your lists inspired (well your lists plus an old Thompson Twins song)that is both a prostitution and a disability fic. I'm working to make it a Harry/someone_else for Isis' sake, because she's urging me to do something other than Harry/Draco.
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Date: 2004-03-23 06:57 am (UTC)Oh wow, that's awesome! [small letters]I would't mind H/D, but well, for Isis' sake...[/end]
Thank you for your appreciation of my compilator's efforts :)
And well, you know I review *only* the stories I love, so, fret not :)
March rain... It's so poetic! They must have it in Diagon Alley. I don't know why, but I prefer German 'Fa' soap.
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Date: 2004-03-23 02:26 pm (UTC)Nice to see another "older" slasher! Go the oldies!
*jealous* of long blond haired husband.
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Date: 2004-03-23 02:35 pm (UTC)Yes, I have happy memories of that beautiful hair, and our kids have photographs they can laugh at (ooh, Mom and Dad were hippies).