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crack_van2009-10-18 06:09 pm
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Along the Way by Elizabeth Culmer (PG)
Fandom: HARRY POTTER
Pairing: Hermione/Ron, Harry/Ginny
Length: about 6000 words
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
edenfalling
Author Website: Master Fic List on LJ
Why this must be read:
Within and around the bounds of canon,edenfalling takes a look at Hermione Granger over the years, post-series. I can't say enough about the style here - it is absolutely lyrical, taking Hermione a year at a time, from the end of the war and through her life.
Thirty sees you made head of the department. Now you're the one who tells other people to cultivate patience and realize that not everything can be changed in a day. You know the system inside and out, and now and then, when you get a chance, you rewrite a single rule to make more sense and be more fair. You wish those chances came more often, but there's no sense forcing them through and creating more opposition to your efforts.
If you tell yourself that often enough, you may even come to believe it.
You try to leave in time to be home for supper -- you don't want to ignore Rose and Hugo despite your new responsibilities -- but somehow the work piles up and you start staying at the Ministry well into the evenings. You see your mother several times a week now, since she and Mrs. Weasley bullied you into letting them babysit your children. "You'll work yourself into a breakdown if you try to do everything at once, dear," Mrs. Weasley says when you protest, and your mother agrees with her.
One of the most believably written characterizations of Hermione I've ever seen, and on top of that, "Along the Way" isn't one bit angsty beyond the regular human condition :-)
I highly recommend:
Along the Way byedenfalling
Pairing: Hermione/Ron, Harry/Ginny
Length: about 6000 words
Author on LJ:
edenfallingAuthor Website: Master Fic List on LJ
Why this must be read:
Within and around the bounds of canon,
edenfalling takes a look at Hermione Granger over the years, post-series. I can't say enough about the style here - it is absolutely lyrical, taking Hermione a year at a time, from the end of the war and through her life. Thirty sees you made head of the department. Now you're the one who tells other people to cultivate patience and realize that not everything can be changed in a day. You know the system inside and out, and now and then, when you get a chance, you rewrite a single rule to make more sense and be more fair. You wish those chances came more often, but there's no sense forcing them through and creating more opposition to your efforts.
If you tell yourself that often enough, you may even come to believe it.
You try to leave in time to be home for supper -- you don't want to ignore Rose and Hugo despite your new responsibilities -- but somehow the work piles up and you start staying at the Ministry well into the evenings. You see your mother several times a week now, since she and Mrs. Weasley bullied you into letting them babysit your children. "You'll work yourself into a breakdown if you try to do everything at once, dear," Mrs. Weasley says when you protest, and your mother agrees with her.
One of the most believably written characterizations of Hermione I've ever seen, and on top of that, "Along the Way" isn't one bit angsty beyond the regular human condition :-)
I highly recommend:
Along the Way by
edenfalling