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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and noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow.........

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!

[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*

[serenity-winner.livejournal.com]

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

<3

[marmota.livejournal.com]

You rock like a rocking thing.

[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]

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

Ahem. Thank you! <333

[wired-lizard.livejournal.com]

*dances with and kisses and squees!*

THANK YOU!!!

[wired-lizard.livejournal.com]

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

<3!

[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

[wired-lizard.livejournal.com]

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

So many thanks for comment and rec. <333

[marmota.livejournal.com]

Um, define 'sporky'? Is that good or bad?

By the way, I think we swapped laptop power supplies; the one I had
was from my employer, has a blue foil asset tag on it, and they'd like
it back. Perhaps we can exchange them at some point?

[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.