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Title: Tapestry
Author: Wizardora aka Dai Llewellyn
Status: Completed
Portkey Side Ship(s):
Rating: PG
Genre: Romanc/Drama
length(optional): 90296 Words 16 Chapters
Non Portkey Ship(s): James/Celesca, married R/Hr and H/G
Location(URL): FFN FFN
Based upon book: Book 1-7
Warnings: Not everyone might like the ending of it in terms of H/Hr.

Rec Mod's note: Complies with Book 7 epilogue, ie, married R/Hr and H/G. Read the replies in the discussion forum linked below. - gal-texter, May 2009
Summary(optional): When James Potter asks his Aunt Hermione for homework help he finds more than just 20 year old notes in the margins of her old school books. The secrets he discovers could unravel the tapestry of his whole family.

Optional User Comments:

I personally liked this fic, but you might as well be warned that it doesn't end exactly the way you might want HHr to end up together. You can say that some HHr fans agree with it and some don't.

The writing's good but may or may not agree with the author's take on it.

Just so you know!

I don't recall reading any discussion about Harry and Hermione not speaking to each other in the crapilogue now, lovesharry. But I do remember reading some fanfics (I'm not sure if they were here, on PK) with interesting theories about this fact. In most of them, Harry (or Hermione or both =D) found out that they were in love with each other since their school days but they didn't want to ruin their kids' lifes and two long-lasting marriages, nor did they want to hurt the Weasleys (especially the two youngests kids - Ron and Ginny). I think that Tapestry, by Wizardora, is a good example of this kind of fic. If I am not mistaken, it was recommended by Fire here: http://talk.portkey.org/index.php?showtopic=26977

Thanks Jane for telling about the fan fic, Tapestry by Wizardora. I found it to be well written. It took into account the epilogue and it didn't fabricate anything other than what we Harmonians already knew about Harry and Hermione's relationship, and that was that they have always been each others soul mates.

Um, Wizardora's been talking with us fic teams (particularly willow.) on whether his story fits PK's "fic must end in H/H being together" rule. You guys might want to keep that in mind.

At any rate, we've told him how to keep his reviews should he have to take down his fic from PK.** (I oughta include more detailed how to's in the Fanfic FAQs when I find time, though I did say something about it in there.)

For any further comments about this story or policy - please post them in here for the fic and here for the "should end in H/H" policy.

**Yes co-mods, I've seen yesterday's updates about this.

This is a wonderfully written story, but ultimately it is an H/G and R/Hr story as Harry and Hermione’s love for and responsibility to the Weasleys is more than what they feel for each other.

Well, Wizardora and the fic mods eventually agreed this fic doesn't quite meet PK's "fic must end in H/H" rule because Harry and Hermione apparently remain

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married to Ron and Ginny respectively.
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We've taught him how to retain his PK reviews.

I'm gonna let this rec thread stay 'cos PK-ers' are divided on the ending, but they all seem to agree that H/H are in love with each other throughout the story until the end and that the author used a pretty unconventional plot device to get them together. The messages here about that should serve as ample info for prospective readers; I'd also insert a note later in the rec entry. Our rec criteria's less strict than our fic hosting criteria.

I think it's pretty obvious this story was written to piss off the members of Portkey or H/Hr shippers in general. I don't know how the author managed it, but he really made me despise every character in the fic. By the end I was rooting for both Harry and Hermione to be AKed so that they would be put out of their misery, which was their own doing I might add. I've never seen a pair of main characters act more cowardly than they both did in this story.

The ending to this fic is every bit as bad as the ending to Unsung Hero. Absolutely terrible and makes you wonder what the the hell the author was thinking (in this case, it's "Why did you bother writing the story at all when absolutely nothing at all happens?").

I won't be quick to jump to that conclusion. I haven't interacted much with Wizardora but I get the impression that he's been shipping H/H for a long time and had been participating in PK's H/H discussions long before and after this story. Besides, people like Fire, AdamantEve, JaneS and lovesharry have endorsed this fic. Their judgment's good enough for me to allow this rec thread to stay.

Eh, that still doesn't change the fact that both Harry and Hermione are not at all noble or doing the right thing in the story. They are still cowards who would rather deceive everyone else than deal with the consequences of their soul bond. The ending sucked because it made me hate every major character in the story and really when you get down to it, absolutely nothing happened. There was no resolution, no moving forward, nothing at all except a continuation of the status quo. That's not a conclusion, that just means you wrote a story for no reason and means I wasted a few hours reading it when I could have been reading something else.

You're entitled to your opinion. But I'm going to ask everyone now to refrain from putting down this fic further here on this thread esp for this same issue about the ending. This is a recommendations forum after all. Recommendation threads by definition consist mostly of reasons why people liked a fic, not why they didn't. As I've said, there have been enough praises made by PK-ers I trust, so this rec thread stays. We don't expect people to agree on every rec but do be careful before saying something like "this fic was meant to piss off H/H fans".

I have to reply to this.

Vander, whoever you are, I've been shipping Harry/Hermione and been around the fandom both at PK and elsewhere for years and years and I count myself amongst the most passionate supporters of this pairing that exist. I may not have a million posts on the forums or be clever enough to write superb essays and join in the alchemy debates but I just have to say that you dont know me and your opinions are so invalid they make me laugh.

I've had discussions with the mods about this story and we mutually agreed that it didnt fit, but they were gracious enough to allow me to keep my reviews as lots of which were humbling in their praise. The ending split the readers and wiped out any fanbase I had, but I had as many good comments as bad and some endorsements from real legends of this site.

You might hate my story but please dont pass judgement on me as, frankly, you dont know what you are talking about

So maybe I was a little harsh and my reaction to the story was pretty knee jerk, and for that I apologize because it's pretty obvious that I did come across as a dick.

However with that being said, I still stand by my opinions of the characters in the story. Harry and Hermione are right, there will be hell for them to pay in the afterlife for deceiving everyone. I still don't buy the excuse that they wanted everyone to be happy and didn't want to screw everything up by revealing their true feelings because to me it just seems like they are hiding behind that explanation to cover up their extreme cowardice.

If there was an afterlife and I found out my wife was actually in love with someone else the entire time I was married but never told me because she wanted me to be happy that I would be incredibly pissed off for having deceived me the entire time. I would have much rather dealt with it while I was alive even if it screwed up my entire life.

Harry in the books goes on and on about wanting to be in control of his own life without anyone manipulating it yet here he is doing the exact thing he hates to his closest friends.

My reasoning for disliking the story was never about the ending, which I expected, but about their reasoning for not doing anything. It just SCREAMED cowardice to me and I absolutely cannot stand people who deceive others in relationships. Basically what I'm saying is that by the time the story ended I held an extreme dislike for Harry and Hermione in the story.

Personally I think you should consider an alternate ending in addition to the original where James goes ahead and tells everyone anyway and then show the fallout resulting from the admission. Sure it's likely it would end as H/Hr that way but it still wouldn't be a happy ending at all since the likely result would be the two of them cutting ties with the Weasleys.