Fic Rec Fridays 2020 - part 33

[katajainen]

Sins of the Mother (6143 words) by elementalv
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Characters: Molly Weasley, Harry Potter, Ginny Weasley, Dudley Dursley, Dudley Dursley's Children, Original Characters
Additional Tags: POV Outsider, Implied/Referenced Child Abuse, Original Character Death(s), Sort of epilogue compliant
Summary:

Life has a way of going full circle. Case in point: Dudley’s children need to be placed in care, preferably with family.

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To start with: this one will surprise you. It's a bit of an onion of a story, with layers peeling off one (sad, awful) bit at a time, all the way to the gently hopeful ending.

The heavy subject is handled thoughfully, without undue embellishment or gruesome detail-- which is fitting, since this is mostly a tale of what happened after the fact. Also the perspective of the OC narrator is used to great effect, since the outsider gets to see only glimpses of the whole story, and the reader is left to fill in the blanks. (And personally I appreciate the immersive take on the procedural side of things as well, but that’s probably just me.)

Overall, a very realistic, if occasionally grim little tale of making bad turns into new beginnings. Underappreciated and great food for thought.