Shadows in Light and Dark (Narcissa, others, R)

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Title: Shadows in Light and Dark
Author: Envinyatar (aka envinyatar15)
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Narcissa, Andromeda, Bellatrix, Lucius, Harry, Voldemort, Draco
Rating: R
Highlight for Warnings: DH-compliant, *ungraphic sexual activities, including adultery, threesomes and rough sex, featuring Totally Obvious Canon Pairings.*
Prompt: #15 You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. -- Jeannette Rankin.
Word Count: 3,013
Summary: In times of war everyone has to choose sides. In the aftermath it might not be the one you would have seen yourself leaning to previously, but the intuitive decision of the moment, drawn from a mix of hope and desperation, often has a way of being the ultimately right one.

Notes: Written for the femgenficathon 2007. Many thanks and much love to zebraspots05 for listening to my gradual panicking and putting up with all the crappy drafts I threw at her. And, naturally, for her amazing beta job. There is some dialogue you will recognise, which is taken from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, pp. 563-564 and 580-581 British hardcover edition, thusly totally not written by me.

( Shadows in Light and Dark )

Comments

[madripoor-rose.livejournal.com]

Ooh. Wonderful fleshing out of Narcissa as a character.

[randomisedhabit.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I find her entirely too intriguing, so I really couldn't not write about her for femgenficathon :)

[mcdoh1902.livejournal.com]

oh, that bit. I disagreed wholeheartedly with most of DH, but I like seeing the characters fleshed out beyond the cursory touches of JKR's pen. Narcissa here is multi-faceted, and the dynamic between her and the other characters is very interesting. The interplay between Lucius and Narcissa, Narcissa and her sisters, etc. And how she resigns herself to change...

Mmhm.

[randomisedhabit.livejournal.com]

I agree - exploring characters JKR Harry doesn't really understand is a lot of fun. Narcissa has been, to me, one of the most intriguing characters since she got personality HBP - especially her relationship to Bellatrix, Lucius and Severus. Severus couldn't appear in this one (shame!), but still this serves as my personal canon concerning her :)