fanfiction rec

[amruniel]

Odysseus's Last Days  by amand_r
Title: Odysseus's Last Days
Pairing/Characters: Harry/Snape, Hermione, Ron, The Weasley Clan, some random Muggles.
Warnings: character death, stylistic frippery
Rating: PG-13
Canon Compliant: DH, excluding Epilogue
Link: http://amand-r.livejournal.com/249902.html

Summary: "He certainly hadn't predicted that the happy ending he'd dug out of the dirt, the blackness of his own self, the one he'd compromised so much for, would have dissipated with something as harmless as a plunge from a low bridge. Because it's not the fall that would have killed him. It would have been the sudden stop, or the rushing water, or a sharp stone to the skull, things that any wizard worth his salt could have got out of, if he'd wanted to."

Amruniel's rec: This is one of those wonderful heartbreaking stories you read in the dead of the night, lonely in front of your screen, silently crying.
And it is one of those stories you won't forget. Some images will pop up in your mind, bottles the colour of the rainbow lined up on a shelf in the sunlight, red hair that flairs up to the colour of dancing flames, a cat bathing in the first sunlight of the day... and when you watch the dust in a stray ray of light the next time you will wonder what it consists of.
It is a story of light. In some way, or another.
The story is breathtaking, stunning and simply perfect. It leaves you with the feeling of desperately wanting to change events, with the realization that some things simply can't be changed and that going on is a long way of many accidental steps that simply happen at their time. At the right time.