REC: What We Did On Our Summer Holiday

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Title: What We Did On Our Summer Holiday: A Comedy in Six Cities and Seven Acts (posted in full at the LJ comm)
Author: ??? [At this point, I'm guessing Sahiya (who wrote Four Christmas Eves... for me two years ago), because it's very smart about its characters (unsparingly but not unkindly) and beautifully paced, but I am usually very wrong about this sort of thing.]
Recipient: corvidae9
Fandom/Pairing: Harry Potter - Harry/Ginny, Hermione/Ron, Ginny/Luna, Luna/Neville, Harry/Hermione/Ron, Ginny/Luna/Neville, Harry/?
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: About 17,000
Summary: So what do you do when you've defeated the Dark Lord and finally finished your NEWTs? Well, take a trip to Europe, of course!

Whoever wrote this has a very good bead on Cor's style (another reason I'm guessing it's Sahiya, because I remember her taking pains to find out what I liked) - it's mad, delightful fun, with a fair amount of booze, serene!Luna terrorizing everyone around her with her inconvenient honesty, lovely little glimpses of the cities visited, and satisfying twists of the plot (the author, in comments: "I didn't actually realize it at at the time, but this fic was me more or less dismantling the Epilogue piece by piece. I was going to have to deal with it sometime, but I kept putting it off because, well, what was there to say about it really? Apparently I had 17,000 words of stuff to say about it, ha").

The going away party the night before had been fun, Harry had to admit. Too much fun, really, but people hadn't had nearly enough fun in the year since the end of the war and Harry would have felt bad putting a damper on it. There'd been a lot of Firewhiskey and toasts and possibly a wet t-shirt contest – Harry couldn't really remember, it had pretty much all become one drunken blur by eleven o'clock.

Except – there was one thing Harry remembered a little better than he'd have liked. He'd stumbled his way into the loo at some point – Merlin only knew when, but it'd been after the tequila shots at least – and suddenly this man Harry had never seen before in his life had grabbed him by the front of his robes, shoved him up against the wall, and snogged him until his head swam. When he finally let go, Harry was so off-balance that he nearly fell over, and by the time he looked up again, the man had disappeared.

Harry did what he’d gone into the loo to do and then went back out and sat down next to Ginny. Her face flushed from drinking and dancing, she shoved a beer in front of him and said, "You okay?"

Some random bloke just snogged me in the loo and I think I sort of liked it. Harry blinked and was afraid for just a second that he'd said it out loud. But from the faintly puzzled and not at all enraged way Ginny was looking at him, he guessed he hadn't.

And if you want more after that, you could go visit Cor's Come Together, which is another multi-pairing, multi-episode mini-epic of glee (hers has Snupin and Tonks/Ginny, as I was one of its instigators). And there's also quite a bit of Snupin and Harry/Hermione to be found at dearsanta, which you should peek at today if you're into reading fics while they're still anon, since today is the deadline and the reveal will take place as soon as everyone's posted...