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Fic Rec: Where My Thought's Escaping
Oct. 25th, 2010 05:52 pmI was hoping to find this story someplace other than livejournal, but sadly, I haven't come across it yet. Note, please, the LJ is now not only doing random interstitial ads (ones that come up, block the page, and you have to click on them for them to go away), some of which have sound. This may not happy if you're logged into LJ, though.
This is another re-read for me: Where My thought's Escaping by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
snorkackcatcher.
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This is a great mid-length Deathly Hallows compliant fic that focuses on what Cho was doing during the final book.
The bulk of the fic takes place in Wizarding China, creating a believable and interesting backstory for Cho's family. There's a bit of a genre of Harry Potter stories that try and create a broader Wizarding world. A lot of them end of falling into the trap of the Exotic Orient. I feel this fic doesn't do that at all - it shows a China with a history that accounts for the past 70 or so years. As well, the fic deals a lot with Cho's combination of culture shock and the feeling of looking like everyone around you. Is Guangzhou home? Is Edinburgh home? Or is it someplace in between?
If I were going to mildly complain about anything, it's that Cho's siblings are such non-entities as to hardly exist, but at the same thing the bits of their story (one is going to Wizarding school, the other isn't) do add a lot to the theme of "what is home".
This is another fic I like where friendships between characters played an important role. While it isn't the theme to the extent it is in "Like a fish needs a bicycle", it's still obvious that the author considered the importance of Cho's friendship with Marietta, and her aborted romance/ongoing friendship (and maybe going back to romance?) with Michael Corner. She also takes a character that only appeared in JKR's notes, Su Li, and manages to give her a tiny bit of background in order to flesh out Cho's relationships with everyone else.
I also really enjoyed reading the Battle of Hogwarts from Cho's point of view.
This is a bit of longer fic (20k). I enjoyed the re-read and would probably read it again if I were looking for something a bit meaty and plotty but not too long to finish in an evening.
Diigo Harry Potter Recs
This is another re-read for me: Where My thought's Escaping by
snorkackcatcher.( author headers )
This is a great mid-length Deathly Hallows compliant fic that focuses on what Cho was doing during the final book.
The bulk of the fic takes place in Wizarding China, creating a believable and interesting backstory for Cho's family. There's a bit of a genre of Harry Potter stories that try and create a broader Wizarding world. A lot of them end of falling into the trap of the Exotic Orient. I feel this fic doesn't do that at all - it shows a China with a history that accounts for the past 70 or so years. As well, the fic deals a lot with Cho's combination of culture shock and the feeling of looking like everyone around you. Is Guangzhou home? Is Edinburgh home? Or is it someplace in between?
If I were going to mildly complain about anything, it's that Cho's siblings are such non-entities as to hardly exist, but at the same thing the bits of their story (one is going to Wizarding school, the other isn't) do add a lot to the theme of "what is home".
This is another fic I like where friendships between characters played an important role. While it isn't the theme to the extent it is in "Like a fish needs a bicycle", it's still obvious that the author considered the importance of Cho's friendship with Marietta, and her aborted romance/ongoing friendship (and maybe going back to romance?) with Michael Corner. She also takes a character that only appeared in JKR's notes, Su Li, and manages to give her a tiny bit of background in order to flesh out Cho's relationships with everyone else.
I also really enjoyed reading the Battle of Hogwarts from Cho's point of view.
This is a bit of longer fic (20k). I enjoyed the re-read and would probably read it again if I were looking for something a bit meaty and plotty but not too long to finish in an evening.
Diigo Harry Potter Recs
