GRINDELDORE FOR GOATS - the conclusion!

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So here I am, twenty-four hours later, totally unslept and reasonably well-fed, mostly-naked and well-flirted-with, and, most important, bearing a more-or-less complete fic!

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Fic Links

being a correspondence between Albus P.W.B. Dumbledore and Gellert Grindelwald, and being also somewhat unedited and in need of a title, but done, in the end, for the Greater Good:
GG, 09/10/51
AD, 10/13/51
GG, 10/16/51
AD, 11/12/51
AD, 08/04/52
GG, 09/26/52
AD, 10/13/52
GG, 11/19/52
AD, 01/01/53
AD, 04/18/56
GG, 07/11/56
AD, 08/02/56
GG, 09/27/56
AD, 02/28/57
GG, 03/15/57
AD, 05/17/57
GG, 06/30/57
AD, 12/05/57
GG, 12/25/57
GG, 07/12/66
AD, 09/05/66
GG, 12/25/68
GG, 12/25/70
AD, 12/13/81
GG, 12/25/81
AD, 12/25/95
GG, 01/96
AD, 06/09/97
GG, date unknown
OO, 07/21/97

*takes a deep breath*

I DID IIIIIIIIIIT!

About 9,500 total words of fic!

And I feel surprisingly good!

Comments

[chaoticmatter.livejournal.com]

Woo! An official thank you! I'm honoured.

I had fun. Well, except when I was cursing time and space for not bending to my will. I'm glad I could do something for Team Venture. You guys put on a good run tonight!

[wired-lizard.livejournal.com]

Silly time and space. It should bend to all our wills. Bend and beg, mwahahahaha!

Ahem. Thank you! <333

[nevacaruso.livejournal.com]

YOU DID IT YOU DID IT YOU DID IT!!!!!!

*hugs and kisses and swings you around in a circle*

CONGRATULATIONS!

*tucks you into bed with tea and kitties*

[wired-lizard.livejournal.com]

*dances with and kisses and squees!*

THANK YOU!!!

[serenity-winner.livejournal.com]

It was brilliant! Well done! That last entry was like... OMG!

<3

[wired-lizard.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much! (And, oh, was that last entry interesting to write at five in the morning. o.@)

<3!

[marmota.livejournal.com]

You rock like a rocking thing.

[wired-lizard.livejournal.com]

Thank you! and so do you!

I admit it was slightly sporky to be curled on the couch next to you typing away at one of Albus' letters, given who you played (and most excellently too) in the Phoenix Flap. :P

[frudule.livejournal.com]

Well.

It was ...fantastic.

I can't believe but, you made me cry - and I didn't even cry reading Dathly Hallows!!!

I'm so reccing it now ^^

[wired-lizard.livejournal.com]

...I did? Awwww! I'm sorry!

So many thanks for comment and rec. <333

[xmusicloverx.livejournal.com]

This broke my heart.
It was beautiful- utterly beautiful.

[chaperoned.livejournal.com]

<3 DAMNED beautiful.

[confusedkayt.livejournal.com]

Not sure what the blogathon is but came here on a link from the Daily Snitch and... guh. One ought to be more articulate about it, but, guh. So, so good. And such good voices, particularly.

[fivil.livejournal.com]

ohgod. I sort of forgot about HP fandom after the initial DH enthusiasm but now the love resurfaced with the you-know-which news. So I came back to where I read my first AD/GG fic and found this and ohgodohgodohgod.

These were perfectly characterized and though I'm usually somewhat alien to prose this clever, I was an enormous lover of it in this. Every emotion portrayed in the letters felt so ..fitting, and every shade of this peculiar love comes out magnificently.

Fics like these make me feel inadequate as a writer myself.

Thank you. ♥

[priestesspadfoo.livejournal.com]

My god, this is good.

[solesakuma]

The ending was amazing.
Really.
You're amazing too!

[(Anonymous)]

a;ljfdlkdsj You have no clue how much I love your right about now. This was...well, awesometastic doesn't even sum it up. And the end--oh, the ending. I wanted to scream and shake Dumbledore and demand that he at least give him the fucking WORDS. And then he was DEAD and I think Gellert probably laughed himself sick. I think I cried.

In short: ILU <3.

Sockpuppet Rat

[originalpuck.livejournal.com]

This broke my heart. Absolutely lovely, stunning voice, great use of descriptors -- and I agree with the others. This is one story that lingers, you've captured them so skillfully that these words and their memories will haunt a tired and curious fan.

_Morgan_

GRINDELDORE FOR GOATS

[(Anonymous)]

I read all the letters and I must say that they are amazing.
Really amazing.
You have talent.

[that_mireille]

This is completely amazing. Incredible. Absolutely perfect.

[(Anonymous)]

Wow. WOW. That was amazing and heartbreaking and perfect. Well done.

[acern.livejournal.com]

*Cries*

[lefaym.livejournal.com]

Oh. my. god. You totally nailed them. That was amazing.

[scrtkpr.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow. This made me cry.

[loredi.livejournal.com]

Hello,

I'm here via painless_j's recommendation. And all I can say is that this is amazing. I'm not especially fond of letters, but this one's stolen my heart and I don't want it back.

Besides, I was wondering if you possibly... *cough*... would give me permission to translate this into Spanish? I'd love to share this with my friends :D and some of them, sadly, don't understand a word in English :(

If you agreed with it I would start as soon as possible and would let you know, of course, where I published your work with all the necessary credits :).

I hope I'm not being a pain in the neck for you ^^'. Your 'yes' or your 'no' is very important for me :D

My best wishes,
Lore.

[loredi.livejournal.com]

PS: I forgot to say that it'd be for the greater good!

[(Anonymous)]

This is stunning, really. The end, it just tears me apart. But, somehow, it is completely right. Thank you for writing this!

[the-secret-side.livejournal.com]

First AD/GG I've read and it had me up to nearly 4 am. It was beautiful. To develop such strong characters through only letters was just plain impressive. This story has opened up a whole knew pairing for me...know of any recs?
Thanks :)

[fairytaleaddict.livejournal.com]

Oh god. I got this link from a friend and... wow, it was heartbreakingly good! Thank you for sharing this, it was stunning and so very sad! I love the characterization.

[maria-barring.livejournal.com]

Dear Arkady!

I want to say that your fic is really great!
Would you mind terribly, if I translate it into Russian language and publish it on Fanrus website (www.fanrus.com)? I will state everywhere that I am just a translator and you are the author of the fic. Also, all the additional information (like your email or website) can be published, if you wish.

Thank you for your wonderful work!

Milva

[alaceron.livejournal.com]

So absolutely, indescribably, wonderful.
You fair broke my heart with that ending.