Title: Trajectories
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Draco/Harry
Categories: 8th year, first time, friendship to romance, angst
Length: Long (35,000 words)
Warnings: None

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Author Website: None

Review:
So I thought long and hard about what I could say to do this fic justice. Calling it a more believable Eighth Year book than the epilogue perhaps begins to cover some of that ground. After the war, things are not all rosy, nor does it snap easily into a 19 years later epilogue. Instead, there's a lot of pain and loss that has taken place during the war, and this fic deals with that process of healing, and the new friendships that spring up.

There's an absolutely fascinating part that addresses the magical portraits, which I have always felt were one of the persistent gaps left by the series. Ron is obviously unable to cope with having lost Fred during the war -- how, then, does he deal with seeing Fred's portrait "well and alive" in Hogwarts?

This is at times painful, at times gorgeously sweet, particularly Harry and Draco's interactions and their tentatively growing friendship and romance -- but never does it lose the feeling of a complete, coherent book. This was one of the times I really felt like I was reading the eighth book in the series, if there had ever been one written. Aja features and includes a multitude of main and side characters, all of whom remarkably retain their characterisation in the books, all of whom are growing and learning to face the things they are afraid of. A wonderful conclusion to the seven books.

Trajectories