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Deus Ex Machina

By: Utopia
folder Harry Potter › Het - Male/Female › Lucius/Hermione
Rating: Adult
Chapters: 9
Views: 6,027
Reviews: 68
Recommended: 0
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Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter, nor any of the characters from the books or movies. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.
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So far, nameless

AUTHOR’S NOTE and INTRODUCTION.

I’m going to start as I mean to go on: I DO NOT OWN THE FANDOM OF HARRY POTTER, ANYTHING YOU RECOGNISE IS PROPERTY OF J. K. ROWLING (AND FILM-SPECIFIC STUFF BELONGS WARNER BROTHERS). I AM MAKING NO REVENUE FROM THIS FANFICTION. I WRITE ONLY FOR MY OWN ENJOYMENT AND I POST SO THAT OTHERS CAN ENJOY AS I DO.

Right, now my disclaimer is out of the way…

Welcome to another one of my fics! Thief and Missing Presumed Undead are in the process of serious editing and re-writing. (I’ve misplaced the plan for ‘Missing’, and thus I’m practically going to have to start it again). WP has its final chapter… it doesn’t have the 2 before it that bring us to the end… writers block on my thoughts? More like a moat, drawbridge and fire-breathing dragon standing between me and these two chapters! Grrrrrrrrrrr!

I sat down one day and thought to myself: ‘Why do we all think of Lucius as an aristocratic I’m-better-than-everyone sex god?’

My muse replied: “Because he’s drop dead blinking gorgeous, and has his head rammed so far up his arse that he can check if he has haemorrhoids when he cleans his teeth on a morning. He’s a bad boy, and everyone loves the bad influences.” (And my beta replied with: “Well, he’ll be minty fresh all over.” )

Though, I had a friend in high school who had ‘minty fresh sinuses’ after he used a razor blade to turn a polo mint into fine powder and snort it… the best ‘trip’ he got out of it was to afterschool detention for a week… I think he’d have done better with a sherbet lemon – they’re fizzy and have E-numbers in them... Hang on a minute!!!! Maybe that’s what Dumbledore is doing to get a twinkle in his eye!

Right… moving on.

I sat and pondered a little longer and then said to my muse: “Why don’t we see an inexperienced Lucius who isn’t a snob? A Lucius that never became a death eater?”

She said: “Because nobody’s ever really explored that line of character development.”

So, I decided I wanted to write an inexperienced Lucius who wasn’t stuck up… but that left me a problem. To write an inexperienced LM and pair him with Hermione, I had to send Miss Granger back in time.

Now, back in time fics are a nightmare to pen! You can feck things up so easily and many come out completely rubbish! I’ll admit, I’ve read a few time travel fics that are brilliant! But I’ve read several that just don’t realise their potential or just repeat badly a plot that’s gone before at the hands of someone who did it better.

So, I said to my muse: “Do you fancy doing this back in time Hermione to influence Lucius. And giving it a bit of a twist of lemon in the process?”

My muse smiled at me and took a seat: “I like the sound of this one, let’s do it.”

My aims with this fic:

(1) Virgin Lucius. (No! I’m NOT selling his innocence to the highest review bidder! And I am NOT taking bribes on the matter either!)

(2) Voldemort is not in power by the end.

(3) The realisation of Hermione’s potential as a strong woman. (I think she’s really undervalued and often overlooked by JKR; she’s more than a brain!).

(4) Happily ever after for Snape. (You know you want it too!)

(5) Dumbeldore alive! (Wooohoo!)

(6) The Marauders get the arses kicked. (Victimising little shites deserve it! Anyone who’s suffered at the hands and words of bullies will agree with me here!)

(7) Time travel that isn’t rubbish. (Well, hopefully).

(8) Not re-hashing a plot that’s been done before me – thinking outside the box is good.

So, sit back, relax my muse and I are rather impressed with our work! At first posting, I’m 3 chapters ahead and writing one per weekend. I’m positing at a rate of one chapter every week. It has seventeen chapters (unless my epilogue gets away with two/three chapters), and all information that is true to the books has been found on the excellent lexicon of the Harry Potter World.

Flames are going to be laughed at and then deleted. Don’t like it, don’t read it! It’s a rather simple concept people.

Oh, and I’m so far title-less – all suggestions in reviews.

Another disclaimer, just to clarify:

An unknown author I am of a false name,
I borrow the characters of JKR’s fame.
I do not own those which are not mine,
I simply own the two that first altered time.

The plot you’ll read is of my device,
And if you seek canon, then this fic’s not nice!
I do not follow the route of the books,
And if this isn’t your thing, then pray, do not look!

Some smut to be had later, you’ll see,
Porn Without Plot this fic will not be!
The lemons are few and then rather sweet,
But if you want plot, then I’m right up your street!


Enjoy, I did!

Utopia,
13th October 2008
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