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Title: Price of Wisdom
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: some Percy/clients & coworkers, Percy/Lucius, possibly some Weasley incest if you see it that way
Categories: prostitute, drama, bdsm implied
Length: Long [~34,000 words]
Warnings: some implied dubcon, some possible incest


Author on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] gilascave 
Website: Gila's Cave

Review:

Okay, I have a love-hate relationship with Harry Potter canon. For anyone else who'd like to forget the last 3 books, or who doesn't require that the fic be set after them, here's a fic written before OotP. It's, in a way, Pretty Woman as done by Percy Weasley - but really, no. 

In short, Percy has a job on the weekends that is totally unrelated to his Ministry job... he's a worker at a Muggle sex club. A sex club with obligatory masks and BDSM. And he enjoys it. So what's the problem? The problem is that the Malfoys have framed Ron for a crime he didn't commit - a crime that Lucius couldn't have seen him commit, as he was being entertained by a masked Percy at the time. What's Percy to do? The results are pretty satisfying, at least to me.

Note: I warned for dubcon, because while Percy didn't have to accept Lucius as a client, he didn't feel he could refuse, so while it was good sex... The incest warning is for some jokes regarding the twins, and some jokes and vibes that you get from Percy's interactions with Bill.
 
Price of Wisdom

Comments

[identity profile] jiapa.livejournal.com wrote:
Feb. 7th, 2009 01:39 am (UTC)
I just thought I'd second this rec. I'm not really a Percy fan, but this is an absolutely marvelous story.
[identity profile] aslana.livejournal.com wrote:
Feb. 7th, 2009 02:14 am (UTC)
I've been in love with this story for a very long time. I've felt since early in the series that Percy was a character that could be so much more, but would never get the page time. Once upon a time, there was a sequel in the works, but I don't think anything came of it.
[identity profile] slyprentice.livejournal.com wrote:
Feb. 7th, 2009 04:20 pm (UTC)
Part of me wants to read this fic because James always does a lovely job but part of me kind of wants to run away from the idea of Percy being with Lucius . I don't know why. The pairing just scares me.
[identity profile] trace-by-echo.livejournal.com wrote:
Feb. 7th, 2009 05:14 pm (UTC)
I can understand that. The reader doesn't know about the past sex until the frame-job occurs, and it's not gone into *too* much depth, but there is some description. You're not meant to like Lucius, or anything like that, and it's certainly not a romance.
Does that help?
[identity profile] slyprentice.livejournal.com wrote:
Feb. 7th, 2009 05:36 pm (UTC)
Actually, it does. The idea of them two together just kind pushes all the wrong buttons for me. I might give this a try. Thanks! :)
(Anonymous) wrote:
Feb. 28th, 2009 12:17 pm (UTC)
Oh my g*d... I did not know that James wrote this!! I've always had it bookmarked from some geocities website or from Sycophant Hex. This is a fave of mine, though I really don't know why except for the fact that I can actually LIKE Percy in it, unlike in so many other fics.

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