The Alternity Re-Read: April / May, Year 1

[alt_moderator]

Here are the links to the pdfs:

April

May


Comment away, as you get there!

Comments

[naomikritzer]

That is pretty much exactly what happened. I realized after writing about the Strettons (and then about the Woods, during the summer) that creating fleshed-out NPCs was a lot of work. Jeremy, Gemma, and Mrs Stretton all had pretty distinctive personalities. (The babies, Philip, and Mr Stretton were a bit more in the background.) As large-scale growers and manufacturers, the Strettons also filled a worldbuilding niche in various ways.

An NPC half-blood who got bounced around endlessly would have been fun. We could've done that with Su Li and let Padma tell that story.

[gwendolyngrace]

That's right - we're coming up on the Wood interlude! (Ah, Oliver Wood. Hydra's second husband, lol. I guess with Percy dead....)

[naomikritzer]

...does fandom like to pair Oliver with Percy?

[gwendolyngrace]

Yep. It's like Seamus/Dean but not quite as ubiquitous.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&work_search%5Bquery%5D=percy%2Foliver


Though sadly it looks like Etakyma's (that would be my Amy) "In This World of Strangers" has been lost from the Interwebz. Hers was one of the very first P/O fics (and IMO one of the best).

[gwendolyngrace]

Here's a better Google search:
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=percy%2Foliver+fanfiction

(115,000 results)

Of course, it helps that they are the ONLY Gryffindor boys in their year ever mentioned....

[gwendolyngrace]

Oh, and she reminds me that her stuff is under the name AjesBlue, and yes, it's still there - but it looks like some of her pieces have had some funky formatting woe.