Fic rec, and top F & SF moments

[birdsofshore]

Title: See You at Eight, Potter (or, Draco Malfoy and the Impossibly Tight Jeans)
Author: this_bloody_cat
Pairing, characters: Harry Potter/Draco Malfoy, Ron Weasley/Pansy Parkinson; Narcissa Malfoy, Hermione Granger, Severus Snape
Rating: PG-13
Wordcount: 4025
Summary: Four weeks after his twenty-second birthday, Draco found himself with a mysterious gift, a cheeky house-elf, and an assortment of wilfully unhelpful acquaintances.
Warnings: None

This fic! I had a wonderful surprise this week when this_bloody_cat (who shall henceforth be known as this_darling_cat) posted this gorgeous, funny and daft fic which she wrote for my prompt. I only gave her the words 'new jeans', and how she managed to come up with this perfect romp written in a deliciously irritable Draco voice is a marvel. It's delightful and surprisingly romantic. It made my week; thank you, dear cat.

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I was interested to read that SFX magazine had published poll results of the top 250 horror, sci-fi and fantasy moments. The full list only seems to be available by buying the magazine, but the top 10 is here:

1. DOCTOR WHO The Doctor and Rose say farewell at Bad Wolf Bay in “Doomsday”
2. AVENGERS ASSEMBLE “Puny god!” The Hulk owns Loki
3. ALIEN The chestburster
4. FIREFLY Mal Reynolds kicks a bad guy into Serenity’s engine intake (“The Train Job”)
5. STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK Luke learns that Darth Vader is his father
6. BLADE RUNNER Roy Batty’s “Tears in rain” speech
7. GAME OF THRONES The Red Wedding: “The Lannisters send their regards”
8. THE MATRIX Neo dodges bullets in the bullet-time scene
9. HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE Dumbledore’s death
10. BACK TO THE FUTURE “Where we’re going, we don’t need roads”

What do you think? It seems very dominated by film moments, and I don't think any of those class as horror, do they? I definitely think that no 1, with the Doctor and Rose, is a stunning moment, but as for the greatest moment in all of sci-fi and fantasy... I'm sort of sceptical.

Having said that, I'm not really sure what would be in my personal top 10. I suspect moments that touched me personally might rate more highly than impressive or climactic scenes. Perhaps that's what's happened here - voters simply connected to the scene from Doctor Who and voted accordingly.

What would your top moments be? And does anyone have the full list, to let us know if there are other HP moments featured?

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Finally, in dull personal news, both my phone and my netbook (where I write all my stuff) died this week, and the new phone is driving me slightly crazy. I haven't got a replacement for the netbook yet. So, if I owe you an email or seem grumpier or more terse than usual this week, apologies: this is probably why....

Comments

[birdsofshore]

Yes, lots of people mention that scene with Hermione! I'm not close with my parents, so, I don't know... it didn't really get to me in the same way, maybe that's why. I also don't feel all choked up about Harry and Sirius in the way I know a lot of people are. I always feel like I'm being manipulated and it just doesn't get me there. Snape kills me, though! Every time!

[capitu]

When Sirius died I cried buckets-- in the book. In the movie it kind of felt like manipulation, and I remember LotR came out not long ago and they used the same effect for Gandalf. *nods*