Lightning Has Just Struck My Brain by Mousapelli (PG)

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

Fandom: HARRY POTTER
Pairing: none
Author on LJ: mousapelli
Author Website: Dazzler's HP Fanfic
Why this must be read:

Hey, look, a fic about someone other than Lupin. *g*

Harry discovers some things about Neville that Dumbledore wishes he hadn't. Really, to say more would be to spoil this creepy, good, and oh-so-plausible short story.

A quote:

There were a lot of things about Neville that weren't making sense to Harry.

Like why they had him use his father's wand all this time instead of getting him one of his own, when everybody knew you wouldn't do as well as with your own and clearly Neville needed all the help he could get.

Like how even with the new wand there wasn't fantastic improvement. There was a little bit, but nothing like the dramatic improvement that had happened when Ron had got his own wand instead of his brother's.

Like how Neville would study days before an exam and have the material down cold, then turn around and fail the test as though he hadn't studied at all.

Like how Neville continually had meetings with Dumbledore, even though he never did anything noticeably punishable, except for to set the record for most detentions given in a single Potions lesson.

Like how Neville had a weird blotch on his left forearm that he had shown Harry late one night and said it had appeared after their trip to the Department of Mysteries and he'd fought the Death Eaters.

This fic packs a wallop the way the best short fiction does. It has an almost Poe-like quality of horrified inevitability, and it makes sense of some wonky things in canon.

And then read the remix: Deja Vie by nopejr, which gets exactly right the stuttering, sickening feeling of knowing you know something really important but not being able to quite get your brain around it. The remix includes some adorable Neville/Harry interaction.

Lightning Has Just Struck My Brain by mousapelli

and

Deja Vie by nopejr

Comments

[raveninthewind.livejournal.com]

Oh, that was creeptastic-good. And the remix was shiver-making, too.

Dumbledore scares me.

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

Yeah, old Ddore isn't to be trifled with. *g*

Glad to know you liked the recs. Hope you fed the authors, too.

[kittygoslingp.livejournal.com]

Wow. Great recommendation, thanks.

[lainy122.livejournal.com]

Man, the remix was mindblowing, but wouldn't have been without the original, you know?

Fantastic rec, thanks. I enjoyed that immensely ^_^

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

Glad you like the rec. Don't forget to give the author feedback, too. *g*

[musesfool.livejournal.com]

Man, the remix was mindblowing, but wouldn't have been without the original, you know?

*nod*

That's why I recced them together.

Make sure you tell the authors you enjoyed the stories, too.