This caught my eye before, when you first posted, and now I see there is a second part. So I'm having a quick break from rt_morelove!
Such golden and romantic descriptions of glamorous Gellert ('aureate' is a new one that I must remember!) show exactly how hard Dumbledore has fallen. He's shining off the screen at me as well here. I like the parallels with another famous couple in a garden and the temptation of an apple, too. It's clear that equally as intoxicating as the physical attraction is the fact that this is someone who can challenge and stimulate Albus intellectually. (Argh, it also makes me think how lonely he must be later on.) But oh dear, I do fear Gellert has indeed seen everything, and will be using it to his own advantage.
My favourite lines:
Albus felt it somewhere deep within himself, that it was a conscious choice, a letting go. That this was a fork in the road, and the path was his for the choosing.
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Such golden and romantic descriptions of glamorous Gellert ('aureate' is a new one that I must remember!) show exactly how hard Dumbledore has fallen. He's shining off the screen at me as well here. I like the parallels with another famous couple in a garden and the temptation of an apple, too. It's clear that equally as intoxicating as the physical attraction is the fact that this is someone who can challenge and stimulate Albus intellectually. (Argh, it also makes me think how lonely he must be later on.) But oh dear, I do fear Gellert has indeed seen everything, and will be using it to his own advantage.
My favourite lines:
Albus felt it somewhere deep within himself, that it was a conscious choice, a letting go. That this was a fork in the road, and the path was his for the choosing.
“Yes,” he said.