HP fic: Towards the World [Cho Chang, gen, g]

[bantha_fodder]

Title: Towards the World.
Author: bantha_fodder
Disclaimer: I do not own her. I made up her brother.
Rating: G

This should have been a birthday present for esso, but it all got a bit heterosexual, so she'll just have to wait.

Also posted to hp_babel

With thanks, as always, to elynrae.



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笑

When the cadres come to punish Cho's mother, Cho is playing with another girl, and laughs as their red ball hits a bystander. It is 1982, and Cho does not yet understand that she had the misfortune to be born a girl in a world that loves only boys.

看

Cho's brother is born six weeks later, on a leaky boat in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. For this little emperor, they flee to England. She watches him breathe, and keeps one eye trained on him for the next eight years.

听

Cho pretends to sleep when her parents fight. She covers her brother's ears so he need not hear words like "fails to show" and "waste of money" and "amount to nothing."

爱

As people in bright robes whirl past, Cedric pulls her into a corner. He kisses her shoulder, and Cho knows she never wants him to leave.

哭

Cho knows death, and when she cries for Cedric, her tears are fat and full of shame.

Her mother owls every day. "We love you," her mother writes, and "come home." Cho reads "get up," in the sweets from her brother, and "you shame us," in her father's silences. She ignores them.

As tomorrow becomes next week and next week becomes next year, Cho will not understand why her tears continue to fall.

活

The War is over. Cho is uncertain. She is unafraid.



标题：走向世界
作者：bantha_fodder
我不有这个。

谢谢：elynrae



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干部处罚秋母亲的时侯，秋跟再一女孩子玩，也她们红球打旁观者的时侯，秋笑一笑。是1982，也秋仍然了解他是女性在世界只有爱男性。

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六周回头，秋弟弟出里大西样在漏洞船。为这是小皇，他们从英国去。她保护他呼吸，也翌八年照顾他。

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她父母争辩的时侯，秋假装睡。她掩护她弟弟的耳朵所以他不听见”不会表明，“也”浪费时间，“也”成为没什么。“

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人穿鲜艳的长袍旋转经过的时侯，赛德里克拖拉她在角。他吻她的肩，也秋知道他不要离开。

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秋知道死，也哭着要赛德里克的时侯，她的眼泪胖的也挤满羞耻。
天天她妈妈用邮递锚头鹰。”我们爱你，“她妈妈写，也”回家。”她弟弟给她甜食的时侯，秋读，“服装，”也“给某人的家庭带来耻辱。”里她爸爸的寂静。她不顾他们。
明天；下礼拜；明年；　秋看不懂她的眼泪掉的原因。

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战争结束。秋不明确的。她不怕。

Comments

[sajee.livejournal.com]

so. awesome.

i loved it.

go you!


did you get the package?

[bantha-fodder.livejournal.com]

yes, i got the package. i even sent you an sms yesterday morning about it. it said "a man with a van just left a box on my doorstep," and i spent all of yesterday morning grooving out to s club 7.

[sajee.livejournal.com]

cool. i got the sms-age but was at lunch with people so couldn't respond just then. I wasn't sure if you had opened etc because I'd heard nothing about the contents. Can Olivia live with you?

[bantha-fodder.livejournal.com]

We would be delighted to have Olivia live with us.

I meant to chat about the contents, perhaps in my lj, but then I got distracted. I do that a lot.

[sajee.livejournal.com]

YAY! Home for Olivia!

I wasn't meaning to sound all "Biotch! Why didn't you sms me and shower me with love and affection for sending you presents?!!!?!?!?! *outrage*" I just wasn't sure if you'd actually opened the parcel or not.

oh look! a bumblebee! *giggles and runs off*

[shaychana.livejournal.com]

if it's not too impertinent to ask, did you do the mandarin translation yourself? with pre-existing command of the language or with an online dictionary/translation device?

[bantha-fodder.livejournal.com]

I translated it myself with pre-existing knowledge, but Mandarin is (obviously) not my first language; before it come English and Cantonese. Some comments were made here about the way I'd mangled my translation - in an attempt to not sound colloquial, I messed things up a bit, I know. :o)

[allthingsgood.livejournal.com]

This is about the third comment email you'll receive from me about your fics, but I'm just randomly going through your memorable fics and leaving comments on the entries, I hope you don't mind!

I LOVED that you included a Chinese translation to this. I could understand most of the Chinese and I just love how you thought to do that. Awesome.

This fic was great and I think incorporating slight Chinese history is really really fantastic.

[bantha-fodder.livejournal.com]

Nono, it's awesome. I'm glad you're enjoying my fic! I love Cho so much, and what she could be and what she is and all of that, so.

Can I ask how you found your way to my fic?

[allthingsgood.livejournal.com]

Hmm, good question. I think I was looking at my own userinfo (how humble, I know) and I clicked on the Robert/Katie interest I had listed and I found the community quiet_charm and from there, I found your Robert/Katie fic and then for the rest of your fics I just dug through you rmemories :)