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It's my Epic Recaversary!
My first post at ER (a Billy Elliot rec) was 1 year ago today. I'm happy to start my second year reccing an HP favorite.
Title: The Boy Who Only Lived Twice
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Harry/Draco (mention of past Harry/Ginny)
Categories: Post-canon, EWE, Unspeakables, hidden identities, action/suspence, romance, drama
Length: Epic (54,117 words)
Warnings: Some self deprecating language during sex. To be safe for comm rules: one scene could be interpreted as (consensual but non-negotiated) D/s within a relationship that is unhealthy at the time.
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lettered
Author Website:
lettered
Author's Summary:
Harry Potter is an Unspeakable. Draco Malfoy is the wizard who shagged him. Adventure! Intrigue! Secret identities, celebrities, spies! It's all right here, folks.
Review:
This story is brilliant and emotional, with a lot more depth than the author's summary would lead you to believe. Harry's an Unspeakable code-named Blackbird, and he and his new handler, Rabbit, know nothing of each other's true identities thanks to Polyjuice and voice alteration. Although Harry's not keen on Rabbit's more cautious methods at first, he comes to trust him completely. Meanwhile Harry starts a highly charged and fraught affair with Draco Malfoy, someone he could never trust.
I ate up the suspense built into the hidden identities: the way Harry's more comfortable as Blackbird than himself, the way we know who Rabbit is long before Harry does. I particularly loved those moments when we understand what's going on while Harry doesn't, like Rabbit having to be gone for fifteen minutes after the invisibility cloak.
lettered takes a theme that's at the heart of this pairing to me - How do Harry and Draco get beyond their past? - and pushes it to its limit by having Harry fall for Rabbit (and Rabbit develop feelings for Blackbird) without Harry having to reevaluate his relationship with Malfoy at first. The fact that all that happens well before everything comes together gives them the chance to see each other for what they are. Ironically, it's the disguises that allow for moving past the surface to really knowing a person.
The Boy Who Only Lived Twice (AO3)
original post on LJ
My first post at ER (a Billy Elliot rec) was 1 year ago today. I'm happy to start my second year reccing an HP favorite.
Title: The Boy Who Only Lived Twice
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Harry/Draco (mention of past Harry/Ginny)
Categories: Post-canon, EWE, Unspeakables, hidden identities, action/suspence, romance, drama
Length: Epic (54,117 words)
Warnings: Some self deprecating language during sex. To be safe for comm rules: one scene could be interpreted as (consensual but non-negotiated) D/s within a relationship that is unhealthy at the time.
Author on LJ:
letteredAuthor Website:
Author's Summary:
Harry Potter is an Unspeakable. Draco Malfoy is the wizard who shagged him. Adventure! Intrigue! Secret identities, celebrities, spies! It's all right here, folks.
Review:
This story is brilliant and emotional, with a lot more depth than the author's summary would lead you to believe. Harry's an Unspeakable code-named Blackbird, and he and his new handler, Rabbit, know nothing of each other's true identities thanks to Polyjuice and voice alteration. Although Harry's not keen on Rabbit's more cautious methods at first, he comes to trust him completely. Meanwhile Harry starts a highly charged and fraught affair with Draco Malfoy, someone he could never trust.
I ate up the suspense built into the hidden identities: the way Harry's more comfortable as Blackbird than himself, the way we know who Rabbit is long before Harry does. I particularly loved those moments when we understand what's going on while Harry doesn't, like Rabbit having to be gone for fifteen minutes after the invisibility cloak.
lettered takes a theme that's at the heart of this pairing to me - How do Harry and Draco get beyond their past? - and pushes it to its limit by having Harry fall for Rabbit (and Rabbit develop feelings for Blackbird) without Harry having to reevaluate his relationship with Malfoy at first. The fact that all that happens well before everything comes together gives them the chance to see each other for what they are. Ironically, it's the disguises that allow for moving past the surface to really knowing a person.
The Boy Who Only Lived Twice (AO3)
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Comments
This is probably one of my favourite secret identity fics. I love how lettered takes the time to build Harry and Draco's relationship as Blackbird and Rabbit, and how simultaneously, a very different relationship takes place between them as Harry and Draco. The writing is tight, and the plot kept me riveted as I waited for the other shoe to drop.
Edited 2013-08-26 12:12 pm (UTC)
Yeah, I love HP fics by lettered. If we didn't try to limit the number of times we rec the same author, I could just go on with story after story.