"The Hollow Hall"
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rec50Claim: Sirius Black of the Potterverse
Title: The Hollow Wall
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nimori
Characters: Harry Potter, Sirius Black,
Sirius/Harry, Remus Lupin
Prompt: 14. Loss
Rating: Mature / NC-17
Length: Long
Brief summary:
Harry has a ghost to put away. It's a larger job than he once expected.
This choice is an interesting favorite for me for several reasons. First, it is a story that revolves around Sirius, but is in a lot of ways about Harry and his losses, including but not limited to his godfather. Second, it is a pairing that squicks me in a major way. No pairing squicks me more, and yet I loved this fic with a scary passion. It’s truly heart-breaking and haunting; the entire thing is surreal in the truest sense of that word. Everyone ought to be required to read it.
It will get better, he tells himself every day. Every day it doesn't.
When it's cold, he wears Sirius's jumpers, even after they stop smelling like him. When it rains, he goes through the drawers.
There are two books bound together with a bit of twine in the desk in Sirius's room (his room). One is a Charms textbook, the other a history of Grim sightings, but when he touches them he feels a welcoming tingle of magic, and the covers ripple like the matches his class once transfigured to needles, until one is mulberry leather with 'Harry' written in gold leaf across the front and the other is smaller and black and well-thumbed with 'Sirius' in block letters on the spine.
The contents of each book, when he opens them and reads as he must, are identical. Entries in his own handwriting (he doesn't remember writing them) alternate with replies from Sirius (he put all of Sirius's letters in a box in his bank vault when Sirius was still a wanted man, but he knows them all letter-perfect and these are not them). These books could be in German for all their familiarity; he feels he should know these -- as he feels he should know German because it's all letters and he knows how to read, he learned in school. But he doesn't (read German, remember this).
He turns to the first page of the mulberry copy. His heart tries to gain his attention, pass on some garbled message of panic, but he tells it a book is only paper.
Tom Riddle's diary was only paper.
Link to fic: The Hollow Wall
Title: The Hollow Wall
Author:
nimoriCharacters: Harry Potter, Sirius Black,
Sirius/Harry, Remus Lupin
Prompt: 14. Loss
Rating: Mature / NC-17
Length: Long
Brief summary:
Harry has a ghost to put away. It's a larger job than he once expected.
This choice is an interesting favorite for me for several reasons. First, it is a story that revolves around Sirius, but is in a lot of ways about Harry and his losses, including but not limited to his godfather. Second, it is a pairing that squicks me in a major way. No pairing squicks me more, and yet I loved this fic with a scary passion. It’s truly heart-breaking and haunting; the entire thing is surreal in the truest sense of that word. Everyone ought to be required to read it.
It will get better, he tells himself every day. Every day it doesn't.
When it's cold, he wears Sirius's jumpers, even after they stop smelling like him. When it rains, he goes through the drawers.
There are two books bound together with a bit of twine in the desk in Sirius's room (his room). One is a Charms textbook, the other a history of Grim sightings, but when he touches them he feels a welcoming tingle of magic, and the covers ripple like the matches his class once transfigured to needles, until one is mulberry leather with 'Harry' written in gold leaf across the front and the other is smaller and black and well-thumbed with 'Sirius' in block letters on the spine.
The contents of each book, when he opens them and reads as he must, are identical. Entries in his own handwriting (he doesn't remember writing them) alternate with replies from Sirius (he put all of Sirius's letters in a box in his bank vault when Sirius was still a wanted man, but he knows them all letter-perfect and these are not them). These books could be in German for all their familiarity; he feels he should know these -- as he feels he should know German because it's all letters and he knows how to read, he learned in school. But he doesn't (read German, remember this).
He turns to the first page of the mulberry copy. His heart tries to gain his attention, pass on some garbled message of panic, but he tells it a book is only paper.
Tom Riddle's diary was only paper.
Link to fic: The Hollow Wall
