FEST FIC: The Spirit of Hogwarts - Harry/Draco (NC-17)

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Title: The Spirit of Hogwarts
Author: teprometo
Prompt: #90, Phantom of the Opera
Pairing: Harry/Draco, Unobtrusive Blaise/Draco
Summary: Draco Malfoy had always wanted to be great. When he becomes entangled with a legend, he must choose between sanity and madness, between what’s safe and what he craves.

“Wildly my mind beats against you, yet the soul obeys.”
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: No copyright infringement intended. No profit made. Harry Potter stuff belongs to JKR and her crew. Phantom stuff (or the version I used, at least) belongs to Andrew Lloyd Weber and his.
Warnings: Slash, explicit M/M sex, underage (boys are 16), mental instability
Word Count: 19,000
Author's Notes: By far the longest fic I have ever written. Thanks for a great prompt! And I could not have done it without this awesome fest. Thanks to my betas E and K for their hard last minute work. Thanks for reading!

The Spirit of Hogwarts

Comments

[darkestnight12.livejournal.com]

This was so heartachingly sad. Harry's seclusion from the world thanks to the senile Dumbledore that made him a little mentally unstable was simply CRUEL.

I like how you used Harry's mask to symbolize a little of who he is.

*sighs* That was so good. Thank you.

[teprometo.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for your kind words and for reading.

[lrndng.livejournal.com]

I thought this was really interesting and well done!

[teprometo.livejournal.com]

Thanks for reading. :)

[underknight.livejournal.com]

I Love you, love you, love you!

This IS BRILLIANT!

[teprometo.livejournal.com]

This comment made me all squeeful. Thanks so much!

[tsukiihime.livejournal.com]

i really, really liked this <3~ a great twist to the story =3. not often that i read great AUs like this one =3~ well done!

[teprometo.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[sasaa.livejournal.com]

I don't know how to say...

The best thing I can tell you is "Brilliant"

I love your Harry and The way Draco want Harry

I'm so sad for them

and thank you for ending like this


I love your story ;D

[teprometo.livejournal.com]

Thank you for your kindness. I'm glad you enjoyed it. :)

[serilla.livejournal.com]

I really love this - totally brilliant. Harrys (the Phantom) possessive love for Draco (Christine), manipulative Dumbledore, Ron and Hermonie as Dracos best friends - it all so totally works. So glad that unlike "Phantom of the Opera" Harry and Draco end up together. Great story. :)

[teprometo.livejournal.com]

:) Thank you for reading. I'm glad you liked the adaptation.

[sony-kit82.livejournal.com]

one haunting, chilling and thrilling read. loved the suspense and how it was carefully woven in with the premise of the story. this was an inventive take on the prompt and most definitely effective. the roller coaster of emotions - the dangerous madness, intense pain, broken innocence, struggle for redemption, obsessive passion, undaunted hope - was very well-written. loved the vivid imagery and apt dialogue. the tension in harry and draco's relationship was so wonderfully written that even their imperfect (i.e. no fluffy happily-ever-after) ending added greater substance to the story. by the end of the fic, one gets to thinking it's just great draco is as obsessed with harry as harry is with him. :D

[teprometo.livejournal.com]

Thank you for such a thorough and thoughtful comment. Very much appreciated. Thank you for reading!

[alhena-mira.livejournal.com]

Amazing! I love the way you could show us how Harrys possessive love for Draco changes little by little.

Love it! ^3^

[teprometo.livejournal.com]

Thank you for reading. :)

[flaminia-x.livejournal.com]

What a neat take on canon, and a great reading of the Phantom plot. I love the way things change places but still make sense, like different houses and meetings and horcruxes, etc - great job!

[teprometo.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'm glad you liked the slight shifts of canon within the greater AU of the story. I had a lot of fun with it. I've always thought the only reason Hermione wasn't a Ravenclaw was because she had a greater "heroic destiny" in Gryffindor with Harry. And, to be honest, I didn't know until the very end that the reason Dumbledore killed Lucius was because he was a horcrux. It was a mystery to me the whole time. I'm glad I figured it out. :)

Thanks for reading.

[thilia.livejournal.com]

Yay, my prompt! :D

I finally had the time to read this and it was sooo great ♥ Harry was just as creepy and insane as I expected him to be and I really understood Draco wanting to be with Blaise for a while; much better than in the movie because Raoul is really quite boring in it, isn't he? LOL.

I loved the friendship between Draco, Hermione and Ron (and Neville), and Harry constantly pulling away from Draco because he thought he didn't deserve him. Powerful and jealous Harry was perfect, and I totally didn't expect Lucius to be a horcrux. I loved the first scene between Harry and Dumbledore, and the ending was just perfect ♥

Great job, mystery author! Can't wait for the reveals :D

[hogwartshoney.livejournal.com]

And now you need to illustrate it!!! ;o)

[thilia.livejournal.com]

Haha :D I could do that, actually...

[teprometo.livejournal.com]

I hate Raoul! He's ridiculously bland! I'm really a Harry/Draco purist, so the Draco/Blaise sequences were challenging for me, but I'm glad they came off positively and believably. Although I live in this beautiful world where Harry and Draco could only ever want each other (ever ever EVER!) I know that's so not the way it goes.

I think the Lucius as a horcrux thing came as a surprise because it came as a surprise to me as well. The first thing I knew was why Draco lost his magic. But I had no freaking idea why Dumbledore killed Lucius. It took me actually writing the scene to have my "oh, duh!" moment.

Anyway, thanks so much for your kind words. I'm glad you liked it! I've been waiting forever to be able to respond to this comment. This is the first prompted fest I've done, so the dynamic is new and really fun for me.

And I would so not complain if you took hogwartshoney's advice and made some pretty art to correspond with the fic. Your art is ridiculously droolworthy.

[dacro.livejournal.com]

Wow! Very twisty and turny. heh. I love the exploration of Harry's madness/obsession and Draco's addiction/craving to/for Harry.
It must have been quite the brain storm when you tried to find a way to introduce Hermione and Ron as his horcrux co-hunters without them ever having met him.

Great work with importing the volatile emotional swings, jealousy and mental torment of the Phantom into Harry. Made for some great suspenseful moments.

[teprometo.livejournal.com]

I definitely wanted Hermione and Ron to be in the story. It would have been really easy to just have passing references and leave it there, but I'm a lover of the Trio and figuring out how they fit in my story was really what shaped the events and tone.

Thanks so much for commenting and for reading. :)

[yaoi-ezi.livejournal.com]

I really like how you stuck with the main aspects of the Phantom story in this fic. You really adapted it very well into a Harry Potter story but it was easy to draw clear parallels, like the level of Harry's love/obsession for Draco was very much like the Phantom's for Christine and the end with Harry letting them go but trying to keep Draco with him forever, I could totally hear the music in my head and see the whole ending sequence of PotO and I was excited. It was well done, great job. :)

[teprometo.livejournal.com]

I love the idea of being able to hear the music.

Thanks so much! :)

[hogwartshoney.livejournal.com]

SO good! So, so, so, soooooooo gooood! There was tension and intrigue and terror and ohhhhhhhh yes smex and plot and convolutions and I thought it was simply excellent.
Truly.
Wow.

[teprometo.livejournal.com]

Wow, I totally love you for this comment. If this fest has done anything, it's made me want to write more fic and get more comments! Fic comments are such a drug.

And THANK YOU for mentioning teh pr0nz. This was my first long fic and my first attempt at explicit sex. My knees have been knocking in terror that it was awful.

Sqeeeeee for this comment. Thank you.

[westkitsune.livejournal.com]

That was glorious! I love possessive Harry and he way he would lurk into the shadows was a sweet teasing love. The insanity is palpable but the love is vry mch real too.

Amazing read, thank you so much!

*bright eyes*

[teprometo.livejournal.com]

Aww, thank you for such a lovely comment! Thanks for reading.

[shonamukhi.livejournal.com]

At first i wasnt too keen to read it when i saw the dark harry tag.but somehow i kept going and then WHOA~ HOLY MAGIC!i was totaly awed.its one of the BRILLIANT au fics i've read so far.i m very very happy that harry got help and the ending was hopeful.THANK U <3

[teprometo.livejournal.com]

Aaaaah, thank you so much! I think it's lovely that people are still finding this fic years later. I'm glad you took the chance and it paid off for you. ♥