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A Fracture of the Mind's Eye, by Rushlight
Title: A Fracture of the Mind's Eye
Author: Rushlight
Rating: NC-17
Author’s Warnings: rape, violence
Story Link: http://slashcity.org/rushlight/mind
Author’s Livejournal:rushlight75
Author’s summary: A tragedy at the end of Harry's seventh year makes him redefine his perception of reality.
Length: novella
Reviewer:painless_j
This is one of the most complex HP stories I’ve read. Rushlight plays with two planes of existence, both shown in Harry’s perspective. He lives in two realities and doesn't know which one is real. One of them is slightly too sweet: after the war that the good guys won and after spending some time at St Mungo’s, Harry lives with his lover Remus Lupin in a small cosy cottage. It’s the reality that shows the so-called ‘happily ever after’. However there's a "but" there: Harry suffers from memory loss; he remembers nothing of his [supposedly] happy life. But in his dreams and later even while being awake, he lives in another reality where Voldemort won and where Harry is a sex-slave of his loyal Death Eaters. He’s given to Lucius, then to Draco, then to Snape. And this plane is also slightly exaggerated -- in its badness.
Rushlight plays with the reader expertly. The happy reality structurally is shown as the main one, but Harry from whose POV the story is told believes in the bad reality more. The reader is left clueless as for which one is ‘really real’. In this respect the fic resembles Akutagava’s "In the thicket" where the reader is shown 5 or 6 different but equally credible versions of the same event. Fabulous story!
"This all seems like a dream," he said.
"What does?" Remus looked at him curiously.
"This." Harry gestured vaguely, wishing he could explain himself better. "You. Me. All of it. It's like... like it's too good to be true."
Title: A Fracture of the Mind's Eye
Author: Rushlight
Rating: NC-17
Author’s Warnings: rape, violence
Story Link: http://slashcity.org/rushlight/mind
Author’s Livejournal:
rushlight75Author’s summary: A tragedy at the end of Harry's seventh year makes him redefine his perception of reality.
Length: novella
Reviewer:
painless_jThis is one of the most complex HP stories I’ve read. Rushlight plays with two planes of existence, both shown in Harry’s perspective. He lives in two realities and doesn't know which one is real. One of them is slightly too sweet: after the war that the good guys won and after spending some time at St Mungo’s, Harry lives with his lover Remus Lupin in a small cosy cottage. It’s the reality that shows the so-called ‘happily ever after’. However there's a "but" there: Harry suffers from memory loss; he remembers nothing of his [supposedly] happy life. But in his dreams and later even while being awake, he lives in another reality where Voldemort won and where Harry is a sex-slave of his loyal Death Eaters. He’s given to Lucius, then to Draco, then to Snape. And this plane is also slightly exaggerated -- in its badness.
Rushlight plays with the reader expertly. The happy reality structurally is shown as the main one, but Harry from whose POV the story is told believes in the bad reality more. The reader is left clueless as for which one is ‘really real’. In this respect the fic resembles Akutagava’s "In the thicket" where the reader is shown 5 or 6 different but equally credible versions of the same event. Fabulous story!
"This all seems like a dream," he said.
"What does?" Remus looked at him curiously.
"This." Harry gestured vaguely, wishing he could explain himself better. "You. Me. All of it. It's like... like it's too good to be true."
