[ SECRET POST #2762 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2762 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Post your thoughts on plot-bunnies/unfinished fanfics that are on your mind

[(Anonymous)]

I've got a Harry Potter fic that was originally supposed to be a very open-ended, one-shot "Percy's missing after the battle at the ministry" story. It was something that I started after the tenth anniversary of 9/11, and the whole point of it was that even if somebody is never found, they're always remembered by *someone.*

It was super well received, and I got the itch to expand on it. So it turned into a story about how Arthur becomes obsessed with a photo of Percy that appeared on a makeshift memorial (which is how he realized Percy was missing at all), and how the whole situation tears at the fabric of the Molly/Arthur relationship until they meet the woman who put his photo up in the first place, hear her story of Percy and then begin to take baby steps to fix their own relationship while welcoming her (and her unborn child) into the family.

And I was still going to leave it open-ended regarding Percy...but now that I've gone beyond the idea of it being a short sort of allegory for people who are never found after tragedies, I kind of want it to be a situation where, yes, he died in the attack and then Voldemort (or an enterprising Death Eater) hid his body and cursed a friend of Arthur's into encouraging a split with Molly (which, I had actually unwittingly supplied the groundwork for earlier) with the implication being that outside of Dumbledore, the Weasleys loosely hold the Order together, and if they can't even keep themselves sorted out, they can't do anything else, either, and everything crumbles.

I've been holding on to these last chapters for coming up on two years (one I wrote, but it seems to have been misplaced, and two in my head still). There's a part of me that doesn't want to have to deal with "what if I can't find the missing chapter" and is buried in "writing is hard!" self-doubt that keeps me from finishing it up, but then I also feel a little bad about taking it all the way to that end (instead of stopping at fragile-but-fixing Weasleys), because I never warned for character death. Because I never intended for the story to go this far.