crack_van | What She Is by kethlenda (PG)

Hi there all, I'm

loopily and I'm your reccer for Harry Potter this month. Sorry for the delay in the start of posting but I'll be getting along with things now. I've been in the Harry Potter for a fair while now and I'll be trying to rec a wide variety of stories; Het, Gen, Slash, Action/Adventure, Romance, Horror, OTPs and rarepairs. I'll try and give you something different each time and hopefully you'll find something you like in all of it. So, now on with the first rec!

Subject: What She is by

kethlenda (PG)

Fandom: HARRY POTTER
Pairing: Tom Riddle Sr./Merope Gaunt
Author on LJ:

kethlenda
Length: ~1500 words
Why this must be read:

I'll start with a fic that showed me how even a short story can change your headcanon. It's a beautifully written story, almost melancholy until the end, and it's not at all how I thought it would turn out when I looked at the pairing. The author works with characters that, like so many in the series, barely have anything to them and realises them so well in such a small space that you can sort of see why and how things might have happened but also leaves your heart breaking for Merope - a woman who received little to no sympathy in the books. At first glance it might not seem like everybody's cup of tea but I would ask you to give it a go as it's a lovely little one-shot set in an era with characters rarely written about, let alone written about so well. Lastly, this pairing is usually accompanied by more than a few warnings but this one manages to steer clear from pretty much all of them, allowing the PG rating to stick.

What She Is