Tuesday, October 09, 2007 @8:22 AM
Instead of getting to work on the seemingly endless stack of nice thick past-year chinese 'o's papers, I've gone back to reading HP fanfic. How very smart of me.
For some reason, I decided long ago that I simply couldn't tolerate any more fics on the present generation (draco/anyone makes me see green/red, ron/anyone and harry/anyone makes me wanna puke, although ron/harry and ron/ginny does have their merits), and converted to those from the marauders' era (am I even spelling it right) instead. Although not about the marauders. I do read a nice james/lily once in a while, but for some reason get a little turned off by sirius/lily. So I mostly start reading those about the slytherins (who are absolute lubb :D) - lucius/narcissa, snape/narcissa, and rita's *cough* all-time favorite, SNAPE/LILY! :D
And for some reason, I have recently taken a sudden interest in the founders' era. Although those actually kind of suck. But still, you can't blame the fanfic writers, founders' era is much harder to write, and not everyone can have the writing prowess of tanzhihua. :D And they're all kinda typical, like salazar and godric fighting over rowena/helga, with rowena being the more common one, and which is my preference too. :D There's this one which I read which is meant to be sad, but which I found pretty hilarious. I was actually attracted to it by its title "the venom of unrequitted love". Yeah, sounds like the kind of thing I like huh. As is obvious, it's about salazar and godric both loving rowena, but rowena doesn't like salazar (stupid girl!) and gets pregnant by godric. Salazar in his outrage + mad jealousy + angst + whatever lures rowena one night to the chamber of secrets, where...
Zhihua: where they had...?
Uh, NONONO. THEY DIDN'T. He actually turns her into the basilisk. Yes. So basically rowena's actually the basilisk, or vice versa. Then they have this epilogue where twelve-year-old harry stabs the basilisk with gryffindor's sword, and it turns into rowena. A horrified harry starts screaming and turns around, and when he turns back, the basilisk's back again. Then the whole thing ends with "her skeleton would lie in the chamber forever." What I found really funny was this part when godric is having an argument with salazar about the sorting, and when rowena tries to persuade him to stop, he shouts "NO! I cannot bear to have that pugnacious fool's face sneering at me so!" I was rofl-ing about the "pugnacious fool" part. :D
Salazar/rowena is lubb! :D I think one of the reasons why I liked that fic was cos of the fact that they described salazar as "dangerously passionate", which sounds like, hmmm, I wonder who! Ahahaha. I read a salazar/helga one-shot too, which actually wasn't that bad either. Basically I like stuff without godric in it, unless he's there as a love rival. :) But I'm generally against one-shots, cos although they can be quite sweet and all, I much prefer to read long LONG stuff. Oh but I so loved zhihua's erik/christine one-shot!
Ok why am I blabbering on and on about fics? Back to chinese. ><