Post by esoterica1693 on Jul 29, 2008 22:17:13 GMT -5
A day-long free-write yielded this:
www.fanfiction.net/s/4433487/1/Unintended_Consequences
Rating: M
Not posted here b/c it's too long to deal w/ the formatting here and get it up any time tonight!
A/N:
This was originally started as a sequel to my Sudden Storm one-shot. But I don’t want folks to consider it the sequel. It’s not that great and certainly in a different mood and vein than Sudden Storm. I may write a proper sequel to Sudden Storm some day, but this is not it.
Basically I started musing on the idea that at the end of Sudden Storm Minerva seems anxious to not let Albus block her exit from the room, and I began to wonder why that might be. Was there more to it than she wasn’t yet ready to admit her feelings, or acknowledge his, which is all I had in mind when I started writing? She seemed to really want to get out of that space in a hurry. So I began to muse on what sort of backstory might give her that reaction. This is what emerged in essentially an extended (very extended!) free-write.
It was not plotted out in advance and is not what I’d consider Exceeds Expectations-level work. I’ve done minimal editing/revising on it, mainly to break it into sections and correct glaring typos. It’s also certainly not the backstory that I feel Minerva actually had. Essentially I view it as a bunch of warm-up scrawl in a composition book. But it was an interesting exercise that led places I hadn’t fully anticipated, and consumed a full weekend day, so I’m posting it.
The one interesting thing it did yield which I think might be worth further thought is Albus’s looking back over his own sins of omission circa 1943-1944: when the Chamber was opened the first time and Myrtle was killed. It’s ADMM fanon that he was constantly darting off to the Continent help fight Grindelwald while still teaching. He clearly was distracted enough by something that he didn’t keep enough of an eye on the young Tom Riddle, and wasn’t able to prevent Myrtle’s death or Hagrid’s framing—that much is clear in canon. It stands to reason he might have missed other things too. In this story he did, and they cost someone close to him a great deal. Fortunately she’s more able to forgive than he has any right to expect.
Warning: deals with strongly implied child sexual and physical abuse, murder, and PTSD.
To read the story, go here:
www.fanfiction.net/s/4433487/1/Unintended_Consequences
www.fanfiction.net/s/4433487/1/Unintended_Consequences
Rating: M
Not posted here b/c it's too long to deal w/ the formatting here and get it up any time tonight!
A/N:
This was originally started as a sequel to my Sudden Storm one-shot. But I don’t want folks to consider it the sequel. It’s not that great and certainly in a different mood and vein than Sudden Storm. I may write a proper sequel to Sudden Storm some day, but this is not it.
Basically I started musing on the idea that at the end of Sudden Storm Minerva seems anxious to not let Albus block her exit from the room, and I began to wonder why that might be. Was there more to it than she wasn’t yet ready to admit her feelings, or acknowledge his, which is all I had in mind when I started writing? She seemed to really want to get out of that space in a hurry. So I began to muse on what sort of backstory might give her that reaction. This is what emerged in essentially an extended (very extended!) free-write.
It was not plotted out in advance and is not what I’d consider Exceeds Expectations-level work. I’ve done minimal editing/revising on it, mainly to break it into sections and correct glaring typos. It’s also certainly not the backstory that I feel Minerva actually had. Essentially I view it as a bunch of warm-up scrawl in a composition book. But it was an interesting exercise that led places I hadn’t fully anticipated, and consumed a full weekend day, so I’m posting it.
The one interesting thing it did yield which I think might be worth further thought is Albus’s looking back over his own sins of omission circa 1943-1944: when the Chamber was opened the first time and Myrtle was killed. It’s ADMM fanon that he was constantly darting off to the Continent help fight Grindelwald while still teaching. He clearly was distracted enough by something that he didn’t keep enough of an eye on the young Tom Riddle, and wasn’t able to prevent Myrtle’s death or Hagrid’s framing—that much is clear in canon. It stands to reason he might have missed other things too. In this story he did, and they cost someone close to him a great deal. Fortunately she’s more able to forgive than he has any right to expect.
Warning: deals with strongly implied child sexual and physical abuse, murder, and PTSD.
To read the story, go here:
www.fanfiction.net/s/4433487/1/Unintended_Consequences
