Power

[gatewaygirl.livejournal.com]

A reader suggested that I put a pointer to my story Power over here. I'm going to include Whispers while I'm at it, as I think it also fits the theme.

Title: Power
Summary: Draco attempts to hide from team captain Potter in the changing room (AU Slytherin!Harry)
Pairing(s): Harry/Draco
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Bullying. Coerced but manipulative Draco. Dark!Harry

Title: Whispers
Summary: Harry is paired with Draco Malfoy in Potions. Malfoy whispers.
Pairing(s): Harry/Draco
Rating: NC-17
Warnings: Somnophilia, tacit consent (other warnings by chapter)
Note: Draco is creating the situation, but Harry has most of the power once it gets going. I think Draco qualifies as a manipulative bottom.

Comments

[gatewaygirl.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I only baredly restrained myself from doing the full Slytherin!Harry AU, because I couldn't help devising entire years of the timeline. I think "Whispers" is better really; "Power" is just hot. ;)

I had great fun with the Sorting Change challenge. (I still like the Ron one here: http://community.livejournal.com/hp100/911120.html.) There's a real arbitrary element to Sorting; pretty much any character you can argue for another house. Shouldn't Luna be a Gryffindor? Hermione a Ravenclaw? Percy a Slytherin? Perhaps what makes the Trio is that they're a Slytherin/Ravenclaw/Hufflepuff team in Gryffindor.

[ravenna-c-tan.livejournal.com]

I have a particular soft spot for Slytherin!Harry as well as Ravenclaw!Draco, so I love those kind of AUs.

I just had a flashback to 4-H camp, where all of us campers were sorted into four different tribes/bunkhouses... I had totally forgotten about that. We competed for house points and all that. And my bunk won in my first year, but then some of the girls I was friendly with suddenly got all snooty, decided I wasn't good enough, and the next year actually schemed to get me booted to a different bunk. They tried to play various tricks on us, too, very Slytherin vs Gryffindor. How great was it when my bunk won that year, too? Sweet revenge.

Wow. I had completely forgotten that whole stage of my life. Funny ol' world, ennit?

[gatewaygirl.livejournal.com]

One of those wonderful/horrible things, it sounds like.

My high school had a certain amount of administratively-induced competition between advisor groups and between dorms, often for genuine priveleges, rather than just awards. Hm ... I wonder if that's why I've never been able to take certificates and such seriously? If you don't all get the right to blow off a day's worth of work, what's the point, right? ;-)

[ravenna-c-tan.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I didn't go back to that camp after that. I finally convinced my parents that the company of my age-peers was really not what I needed, and wouldn't I be better off going to daytime arts & music summer classes instead?