FIC + ART: Five Potions

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Title: Five Potions
Team: Potioneers (ithinktsdashing & luminousgloom)
Tropes: Potion Accident, Everyone lives
Rating: General audience
Medium and/or word count: Ink & watercolour, and 5360 words
Summary: "In potion making, certain ingredients have a particular affinity, making them more effective in combination. Or the opposite can be true, when their combined properties hinder more than help the desired outcome." A record of various potions attempted by Remus and Sirius at different points in their lives - many of them disastrous, but at least one works like a charm.

Five Potions

Comments

[brighty18.livejournal.com]

Oh, that was just lovely! The structure worked so very well with funny bits, dark bits, melancholy bits, heartwarming bits, etc. In fact, despite the fact that a lot of action took place, each section was very much a character exploration as well as an adventure. The Fourth Section, especially, resonated for me that way. You actually made me a little teary there, too, for I felt so much for Sirius and his pain. But the way you subtly wove allusions to all the potions in the last section was really brilliant. I really liked the way it echoed both the motif of memory that is so prevalent throughout the piece and firmed-up the structure of the story, bringing it all together. Again, really lovely.

And, speaking of lovely (a word, I confess, I am over-using), the illustrations were simply marvelous. The final scene with them in bed together is darling and there is so much rich detail to stare at. But the smaller illustrations scattered throughout the story were what really captured my attention. Some of my favorite books as a kid (and, now that I think about it, HP's illustrators do it, too) employ that wonderful technique of showing the readers just a little bit - a close-up of a scene or a single object - which does so much to enhance the story without giving away too much. The potions ingredients were fascinating, but there was something about that black ooze in the Remus-in-the-forest section than felt really powerful to me. That bit of night sky around it made me shiver.

Both of you (all of you?) did a very fine job with this. It was a pleasure to read and greatly distracting from our current heatwave!

[abyss-valkyrie.livejournal.com]

I'm reading this after the reveals. Well, I just have to tell you guys how much I ador the cuteness in their teen years. The mix of angst later on and the happy ending was all so beautifully put together- there's a bit of everything in this fic and it is amaaaazing! Their ' chuck it in' is really an unlucky phrase! Haha!