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Amortentia by excentrykemuse (T)
Fandom: HARRY POTTER
Pairing: Harry/Romilda, Draco/Pansy, Draco/Astoria, Ron/Lavender
Length: 50,106
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excentrykemuse
Author Website: Cen's FFN profile; Cen's Dreamwidth account; and Cen's Yahoo group
Why this must be read: There is a growing group of writers within the Harry Potter fandom who are focusing on rare pairings and combining it with exploring pureblood and wizarding traditions. Cen is one of these writers and with Amortentia she provides a rare pairing that works really well. Romilda Vane knows she wants to marry Harry. She has an entire plan set out and is forced to accelerate it when Harry is touted as the "Chosen One" after his fifth year so she doesn't have to compete with other girls. Despite her concerns, she is able to attract his attention and more importantly, keep it I like that Cen doesn't try to make Romilda sympathetic; she has various prejudices that make you wonder if she could actually have a long-term relationship with Harry. What makes this one worth reading is the way Cen explores what it means to be a young girl growing up with all sorts of expectations and burdens. Cen makes Romilda a fully rounded character and shows us a different Half Blood Prince complete with wizarding traditions, pureblood traditions and romance.
Romilda sat primly on top of her trunk outside of the Muggle entrance to King's Cross station. It hadn't been too difficult to slip through the barrier once her parents and older sister had left her to her own devices half an hour earlier. She'd heard one of the Muggle-born students talking about the barrier during her second year, so all she had to do was slip out of it when no one was looking and find the entrance to the station.
A pretty smile and a flip of her dark hair at a young man had been all it had taken. Sometimes she wondered at the actual intelligence of Muggles, but she let that thought slip through her mind.
She glanced at her watch. It was now a quarter to eleven. Any time now.
Smoothing down her black slacks and wispy black peasant top (black was all the rage among purebloods this season; she thought it suited her with her black hair and dark eyes), she tried not to become impatient. She had thought of bringing along a copy of the Daily Prophet, but she thought that would be too conspicuous, and Harry might notice.
She'd watched him over the past three years from afar. Romilda knew what he was like. He was brave, shy, loyal to only a handful of people, had an open expression, and looked just like any pureblood Potter might. His Muggle-born mother had barely touched his features and, if what she got Professor Flitwick to admit was true, she was extraordinarily powerful for any witch, let alone a Muggle-born.
Romilda wasn't prejudiced, of course not. Muggle-borns could be as talented as any witch or wizard. It just didn't happen very often. She had a friend whose father was a Muggle-born, and Romilda thought of herself as very democratic for not cutting the girl when she first found out.
She knew that Harry was as democratic as it could get when it came to blood purity, and a part of her secretly admired that about him. The wizarding world, she thought, was too polar in its attitudes. On one side were the old families. They weren't necessarily all purebloods. Some married half-bloods or Muggle-borns, but their children were still raised in the old wizarding traditions. They were exclusive to a fault and prided their way of life that they resented any interference. You-Know-Who came from this mind-set, as did Romilda's own family. Then there were the Muggle-raised, who came into the wizarding world and expected it to change to meet their standards. Harry, she thought, was caught somewhere in the middle, although she doubted even his friends really knew that.
Amortentia can be read here
Pairing: Harry/Romilda, Draco/Pansy, Draco/Astoria, Ron/Lavender
Length: 50,106
Author on LJ:
excentrykemuseAuthor Website: Cen's FFN profile; Cen's Dreamwidth account; and Cen's Yahoo group
Why this must be read: There is a growing group of writers within the Harry Potter fandom who are focusing on rare pairings and combining it with exploring pureblood and wizarding traditions. Cen is one of these writers and with Amortentia she provides a rare pairing that works really well. Romilda Vane knows she wants to marry Harry. She has an entire plan set out and is forced to accelerate it when Harry is touted as the "Chosen One" after his fifth year so she doesn't have to compete with other girls. Despite her concerns, she is able to attract his attention and more importantly, keep it I like that Cen doesn't try to make Romilda sympathetic; she has various prejudices that make you wonder if she could actually have a long-term relationship with Harry. What makes this one worth reading is the way Cen explores what it means to be a young girl growing up with all sorts of expectations and burdens. Cen makes Romilda a fully rounded character and shows us a different Half Blood Prince complete with wizarding traditions, pureblood traditions and romance.
Romilda sat primly on top of her trunk outside of the Muggle entrance to King's Cross station. It hadn't been too difficult to slip through the barrier once her parents and older sister had left her to her own devices half an hour earlier. She'd heard one of the Muggle-born students talking about the barrier during her second year, so all she had to do was slip out of it when no one was looking and find the entrance to the station.
A pretty smile and a flip of her dark hair at a young man had been all it had taken. Sometimes she wondered at the actual intelligence of Muggles, but she let that thought slip through her mind.
She glanced at her watch. It was now a quarter to eleven. Any time now.
Smoothing down her black slacks and wispy black peasant top (black was all the rage among purebloods this season; she thought it suited her with her black hair and dark eyes), she tried not to become impatient. She had thought of bringing along a copy of the Daily Prophet, but she thought that would be too conspicuous, and Harry might notice.
She'd watched him over the past three years from afar. Romilda knew what he was like. He was brave, shy, loyal to only a handful of people, had an open expression, and looked just like any pureblood Potter might. His Muggle-born mother had barely touched his features and, if what she got Professor Flitwick to admit was true, she was extraordinarily powerful for any witch, let alone a Muggle-born.
Romilda wasn't prejudiced, of course not. Muggle-borns could be as talented as any witch or wizard. It just didn't happen very often. She had a friend whose father was a Muggle-born, and Romilda thought of herself as very democratic for not cutting the girl when she first found out.
She knew that Harry was as democratic as it could get when it came to blood purity, and a part of her secretly admired that about him. The wizarding world, she thought, was too polar in its attitudes. On one side were the old families. They weren't necessarily all purebloods. Some married half-bloods or Muggle-borns, but their children were still raised in the old wizarding traditions. They were exclusive to a fault and prided their way of life that they resented any interference. You-Know-Who came from this mind-set, as did Romilda's own family. Then there were the Muggle-raised, who came into the wizarding world and expected it to change to meet their standards. Harry, she thought, was caught somewhere in the middle, although she doubted even his friends really knew that.
Amortentia can be read here
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Thanks for the rec.
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Off the top of my head though...
If you don't mind slash, than I highly recommend Brave New World by Faescribe35, which is a Harry/Blaise (Male) pairing. It is doing a very good job with exploring wizarding culture and different aspects of it.
Really, a lot of what I've found is by trial and error and looking at favorite lists made by authors I like on FFN.
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