Title: Getting There
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: James Potter II/Scorpius Malfoy
Categories: fluff, romance
Length: epic (~59,000)
Warnings: second-person narrative

Author on LJ: leashy_bebes
Website: n/a

Author's Summary: Whatever way you look at it, James Potter is seriously cool. And this is coming from a Slytherin, mind you. A Malfoy Slytherin, no less, and you hate the Potters. It's in the blood. Except, apparently, it's really not.

Review:
A truly epic tale of the romantic entanglements of James Potter and Scorpius Malfoy.

James/Scorpius is an unusual pairing for the Harry Potter next-gen fandom since most authors from that niche clearly favour Albus/Scorpius. This pairing is very intriguing to me because I always imagined James Potter II to be an reincarnation of his grandfather, James Potter I: typical jock, extremely popular, and wouldn't have the slightest interest in a Malfoy spawn. Scorpius Malfoy thought so too, but before he knew it, he was involved in a "thing" with James Potter.

Two things about this story caught me off guard (in a good way). One was the second-person narrative, which felt awkward at first but quickly grew fond of (although the sex scenes continued to feel weird in second-person, so I skipped most of them). The other was how impossibly sweet, completely unlike his grandfather (granted we don't that much about JP the first) James was. In fact, both James' and Scorpius' characterizations in Getting There were decidedly different most the rest of the fandom. I fell in love Scorpius -- reserved and uncertain but managed to become great friends Albus Potter -- and then fell in love with the James that fell in love with Scorpius.

A must read for all Harry Potter fans!

Getting There (This link takes you to the entire series. The main story is at the bottom)