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Jan. 19th, 2006 03:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
timepiececlockI don't know if I have the energy to finish this fic. I've read 18 out of 40 chapters, all of the chapters long. It was good--really good. For the first 16 chapters. But somehow it went from being great to having Hermione a heroin addict and Draco giving into the dark side. The Draco part I can understand (though it makes me sad because the fanon* version in this fic was a version of Draco I really really wanted to be strong enough to resist), but the Hermione on heroin thing has thrown me for a loop.
I have this sense that it'll all work out in the end, but I don't think I have the energy to read 20 chapters of misery. And it will be miserable, now that Hermione's a heroin addict and Draco lost the battle of his better angels. For at least 15 chapters, I'm betting. I don't have that kind of patience.
I'm thinking...skip ahead? I hate skipping ahead, but... I can only take so much darkness in my darkfic, you know. I've got a max capacity for this sort of thing. I don't care what you say-- well written or not, Harry Potter fic shouldn't be fucking Les Miserables.
Edit: Okay, I only had to skip like two chapters to be past the heroin thing. Thank goodness; that was weird.
*to me, fanon Draco is an entirely separate creature from canon Draco. I don't read long smutfics about canon Draco. Who'd want to read that?
I have this sense that it'll all work out in the end, but I don't think I have the energy to read 20 chapters of misery. And it will be miserable, now that Hermione's a heroin addict and Draco lost the battle of his better angels. For at least 15 chapters, I'm betting. I don't have that kind of patience.
I'm thinking...skip ahead? I hate skipping ahead, but... I can only take so much darkness in my darkfic, you know. I've got a max capacity for this sort of thing. I don't care what you say-- well written or not, Harry Potter fic shouldn't be fucking Les Miserables.
Edit: Okay, I only had to skip like two chapters to be past the heroin thing. Thank goodness; that was weird.
*to me, fanon Draco is an entirely separate creature from canon Draco. I don't read long smutfics about canon Draco. Who'd want to read that?
