HP-Beholder fic: Arabella Figg/Dolores Umbridge, NC-17

[donnaimmaculata]

HP Beholder, my favourite HP fic exchange ever, is over for good. I'm incredibly glad I decided to participate after all. I did dither for a while and, back in February, wrote: Now: do I sign up for this year's HP Beholder or not? It might give me the opportunity to write a sweet tale of underloved, underappreciated souls finding love. But knowing me, I would only end up writing a painful and awkward encounter between two unpleasant people who learn nothing from that experience.

Well, quite. I ended up writing an unpleasant encounter between two people, one of whom mercifully did learn something from it. Still, the whole thing did turn out pretty nasty:

Recipient: _hannelore

Author/Artist: donnaimmaculata

Title: By Theft or Force

Rating: NC-17

Pairings: Dolores Umbridge/Arabella Figg

Word Count: 7000

Medium: Fic

Warnings/Content Information (Highlight to View): Dolores Umbridge and all that this entails, i.e. *dub-con, implied use of date-rape drugs, manipulation, incredibly twee and sickening dirty talk*

Summary: The Muggle-born Registration Commission has decreed that magical powers stolen by Muggle-borns are to be retrieved and distributed among Squibs. Arabella finds herself on top of the list.

Author's/Artist's Notes: I hope you don’t mind the lack of romance, Hannelore! I did include the cats, though, to balance out the unpleasantness. I also must apologise for the language, it is unbearably cutesy. Dolores has infected my brain.

By Theft or Force on the Beholder comm
By Theft or Force on AO3

Comments

[magnetic-pole.livejournal.com]

Now: do I sign up for this year's HP Beholder or not? It might give me the opportunity to write a sweet tale of underloved, underappreciated souls finding love. But knowing me, I would only end up writing a painful and awkward encounter between two unpleasant people who learn nothing from that experience.

Ha! I remember that, actually. :) So much to say about this fic. I'll start by answering your comment over at my journal.

Congrats again on a great/truly horrific fic. I spent the entire story cringing and anxious, unable to predict which terrible thing was coming next...though by the end it all fit together like a puzzle. I should have known it was yours. M.