Apologies for taking so long to get here - I should NEVER have tempted fate by saying my computer was hanging in there because it promptly gave up for good! Grr.
Anyway, I'm loving this slow seduction in the warmth of the summer sun, nearly as much as Dumbledore. You've created some lovely images: the green lushness of the countryside, the light that intensifies around Gellert and the continuing theme of the fruit - it really is a seduction of the senses. And Dumbledore, in his intoxication with Gellert and the magic he brings, and despite his apparent conviction that he will become a ruler of great wisdom and benevolence, is failing to spot that his moral compass is also shifting. The excuses have already started when it comes to Aberforth and Ariana; the unkindness about Professor Bagshot allowed to go by without a word.
At the moment, it feel as if it's very much Gellert in control, what with his smirks and his words about 'your' England's 'polite greenness', suggesting that they don't rate much next to his mountains and his world. But I can read him calling Dumbledore his 'white knight' in two ways - even if he'd like to tarnish that whiteness considerably - and he may have all those many friends he talks about but can any of them give him what Dumbledore can?
Lovely, lovely read. Can't wait to see what you plan to tweak, if that's still the case, and what the next chapter brings.
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Anyway, I'm loving this slow seduction in the warmth of the summer sun, nearly as much as Dumbledore. You've created some lovely images: the green lushness of the countryside, the light that intensifies around Gellert and the continuing theme of the fruit - it really is a seduction of the senses. And Dumbledore, in his intoxication with Gellert and the magic he brings, and despite his apparent conviction that he will become a ruler of great wisdom and benevolence, is failing to spot that his moral compass is also shifting. The excuses have already started when it comes to Aberforth and Ariana; the unkindness about Professor Bagshot allowed to go by without a word.
At the moment, it feel as if it's very much Gellert in control, what with his smirks and his words about 'your' England's 'polite greenness', suggesting that they don't rate much next to his mountains and his world. But I can read him calling Dumbledore his 'white knight' in two ways - even if he'd like to tarnish that whiteness considerably - and he may have all those many friends he talks about but can any of them give him what Dumbledore can?
Lovely, lovely read. Can't wait to see what you plan to tweak, if that's still the case, and what the next chapter brings.