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Draco Malfoy makes a wonderful Ravenclaw

  • May. 2nd, 2015 at 12:27 PM
I am reccing two fics today because the first is impossible to find a link for. The author took down all her work when she became an established author and those of us lucky to have copies kind of feel like a beautiful piece of art has been destroyed by the very person who made it. So I also give you a fic of a similar theme which is also heartwrenchingly beautiful.

Title: If you've a ready mind
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter
Categories/Genres: Hogwarts AU, Alternative timeline, Ravenclaw!Draco
Length: 89144
Warnings: Canon Deaths

Author/Artist on LJ: [livejournal.com profile] sarahtales formerly Maya
Author/Artist Website: Sarah Rees Brennan

Summary:
Draco is sorted into Ravenclaw. A lot stays the same but somehow this little thing makes a world of difference.

Review:
I love how over dramatic Draco is in this fic. You get the feeling he always was but he never stood out because so were all the slytherins. In Ravenclaw he really stands out. He throws a tantrum and the ravenclaws find it cute and calmly leave him to it. I love how the rivalry is different between Draco and Harry because no one believes Harry that Draco is a bad person, even when Draco easily admits to only using everyone for his own gain. It makes Harry question his black and white reality.
Not to mention it feels really in character that Draco becomes smart only to try and make his father proud of him. Knowledge is power is how he justifies not being in slytherin to his cold hearted father.
Favourite moment - While Draco gets smarter every year, he still maintains the belief that his muggleborn friends' inhaler is in fact a demon amulet.

Hermione, false friend that she was, abandoned Draco and left him lumbered with Potter,
who was looking around with an air of vague alarm, as if he totally failed to recognise the
people he'd been going to class with for four years. He was also giving Draco strange
sidelong glances.
"You're asthmatic?" he said after a moment, gesturing to the amulet.
"Don't call me names when you're in my common room, Potter."


No Link for this fic.

Title: Chaos Theory
Fandom: Harry Potter
Pairing: Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter
Categories/Genres: Hogwarts AU, Alternative timeline, Ravenclaw!Draco
Length: 102711
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, Kidnapping, Torture, Psychological Torture, Mind Control

Author/Artist on A03: Tessa Crowley

Summary:
Chaos: when the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future. One gene varies, one neuron fires, one butterfly flaps its wings, and Draco Malfoy's life is completely different. Draco has always found a certain comfort in chaos. Perhaps he shouldn't.

Review:
Draco is a little out of character in this fic. Still over dramatic and terrified of everything but possessing the brain of Sherlock Holmes and the empathy of John Watson. Anyone can see from the quotes in this fic that the writer is a Sherlock fan. It gets very dark after Book 4, darker in some ways than the actual series. You can read up to then and be satisfied with the point in the story that you decide to leave it.
I love the fact the story feels like a childhood frienship slipping into romance in an entirely unforced way. Harry and his butterflies really take the cake.

“I know it might be a bit…” Harry’s mouth twists. “But I was thinking of your thing about chaos.”
“The butterfly effect,” Draco supplies.
“Yeah. I thought it might be a nice symbol.”
Draco laughs, though it’s quite breathy. “The butterfly isn’t a symbol of chaos,” he says.
“No?”
“No, Harry, it’s a symbol of—”
Draco looks up at him, and he has to physically bite his tongue to keep himself from finishing the sentence.
You, Draco wants to say but doesn’t. It’s a symbol of you, of the way you feel about me, of the way I feel about you.


Chaos Theory

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amalthia: (Children of Dune)
[personal profile] amalthia wrote:
May. 2nd, 2015 06:46 pm (UTC)
I have a epub of all of Maya's works. Email me at amalthia at gmail.com and I can share it with you.
[identity profile] thady.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 2nd, 2015 08:25 pm (UTC)
Omg, sorry to butt in, but may I e-mail you too? I lost those files when my pc crashed.
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[personal profile] amalthia wrote:
May. 2nd, 2015 08:41 pm (UTC)
Yes email me and I will send the epub to you.
thaeus: (Default)
[personal profile] thaeus wrote:
May. 3rd, 2015 05:22 pm (UTC)
Yo, can I get in on this? I found a bunch of .doc files, but they did not convert to epub cleanly.
amalthia: (Default)
[personal profile] amalthia wrote:
May. 3rd, 2015 06:35 pm (UTC)
I don't know your email address. Email me and I will send you the story.
thaeus: (Default)
[personal profile] thaeus wrote:
May. 4th, 2015 09:09 am (UTC)
Emailed!
[identity profile] slythrine.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 5th, 2015 01:01 am (UTC)
Sorry for jumping in, but I need that .epub. I have the .pdf of Maya's work but it kind of hard to read on my tab. So, please can I have them too?

p.s: I've emailed you already ;)
amalthia: (Default)
[personal profile] amalthia wrote:
May. 5th, 2015 01:52 am (UTC)
Hi I think I've emailed the story your way. If not let me know and I will check my spam folder.
[identity profile] slythrine.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 12th, 2015 02:10 am (UTC)
Yes, I've get it. Thanks so much, and sorry for late reply. I kind of busy this week and I just can open LJ again now.. Once again thank you~ ^^
[identity profile] madame-mary.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 6th, 2015 05:38 am (UTC)

I've just discovered that the memory stick i had Maya work on has been corrupted, of its nit too much bother,please could i also have a copy. I will send you an e-mail.

[identity profile] blorkingelle.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 4th, 2015 03:45 am (UTC)
All of Maya's fics are all online to download here (x) (https://lotsadrarry.wordpress.com/2014/09/24/the-complete-works-of-maya-download/). I had assumed maybe the author had put them up, but maybe this isn't the case.

Edited 2015-05-04 03:46 am (UTC)
[identity profile] maddiegirle.livejournal.com wrote:
May. 4th, 2015 11:12 pm (UTC)
My word, I've been looking for this! The elusive fanfic.
Amothea, may I please e-mail you?

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