April DD: "How to Bag Harry Potter", Harry/Teddy, NC-17

[traintracks]

My April story for daily_deviant is up. Hope you enjoy!

Title: How to Bag Harry Potter
Author: traintracks
Characters/Pairings: Harry/Teddy
Rating: NC-17
Kinks/Themes Chosen: DD's 8th birthday!
Other Warnings: cross-gen, godfather/godson, unreliable narrator, body morphing, second person (Teddy) POV
Word Count: ~3,000
Summary/Description: Teddy's trying everything he can think of to attract Harry. None of it is necessary.
Author's Notes: This is a sequel to How to Resist Shagging Teddy Lupin. Big thanks to birdsofshore for the beta!

Comments

[starduchess.livejournal.com]

GAH! Love it love it love it! Both of them were so hot and wrong and great!

I LOVED this line: You've taken Muggle Studies. There are two thousand ways not to make a light bulb. Hahahaha

[traintracks.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much! And thanks for pointing out that line! I wibbled over whether it needed elaboration, but then I figured if somebody wasn't sure what it meant, they could Google it. ;-)

[starduchess.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking about these two fics for awhile now, and I have to ask permission to record them for hp_podfic_fest, because, yes, they are brilliant and should be enjoyed in other mediums. The Second Person POV should be a nice challenge for me and I really want to perform at least one Harry/Teddy this year. Please please please please?

Shit, I just remembered somebody said they didn't want to be recorded, but I can't remember who. Was that you? I thought it might be you. If it is, shit, sorry.

[sksdwrld.livejournal.com]

This is the best 2nd person POV that I have ever read, hands down. Beautiful and hot, and God, yes, thank you!

[traintracks.livejournal.com]

WOW. Can I frame this comment? THANK YOU!!!

[sophie-french.livejournal.com]

OMG. This was fucking amazing. The tension, the lust, the want, the surrender, the feelings... Perfect, just perfect. Thank you! :D

(and how am I supposed to write my silly little story after that???)

[traintracks.livejournal.com]

Sweetie, thank you so much!!! <3

And what 'silly story' are you talking about??

[sophie-french.livejournal.com]

Tropes! :P

[traintracks.livejournal.com]

I doubt it's silly. You're silly. :-P

<3

[birdsofshore]

Ah, a very overdue comment for this most delicious fic. I just adore this arc, and it's not a pairing I'm particularly into; it's just the way you write them. I just adore Harry's easy masculinity, Teddy's yearning and his shaky confidence, and the way you inject such hotness and tenderness together. The part where Teddy shows Harry his real self is touching and so erotic. And I love the way they both constantly let their real feelings slip through their body language, their reactions and Teddy's glorious pink hair! You really rocked the 2nd person again, too.

♥ ♥ to you.

[traintracks.livejournal.com]

This comment rules!!! Birds, THANK YOU!!! <3

[firethesound]

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I really want to list my favorite parts from this, but I read it, and then read it again, and I can't because if I do I'd have to just copy/paste the whole thing. Because I love all of it.

Teddy's voice in this is just wonderful, the humor and pining and instructions and observations, and how he tried so hard to be what he thought that Harry might want him to be, and then when it finally happened all Harry wanted was for him to be himself. Your use of second person narrative was masterfully done. It's such a hard POV to write from, and you pulled it off perfectly.

[traintracks.livejournal.com]

Thank you!!! Reading Lorrie Moore really helps, because she's the 2nd person MASTER. *bows* Before I read, 'How to Be An Other Woman', I figured second person was all about beginning every sentence with 'You', but she uses command to not sound at all commanding but to highlight the self-deprecation and the irony, and I've just tried to capture one-tenth of her brilliance in these two pieces. They're sort of my slashy hommage. ;-) I'm so happy this works for you!