HBP Drabble/Ficlet Requests
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author_by_nightObviously by this I mean canon drabble/ficlet requests. The movie just got me in a very Half-Blood Prince writing mood.
I say drabble/ficlet because who knows how my writing might materialize. ;)
What I'm really looking for are missing moment requests, and/or alternative point of view moments, though I can also do characters discussing the events of something - or everything - that happened in HBP in TDH or even post-TDH.
If you haven't seen the movie, as I said last night, I highly suggest it. :) Just expect some significant changes from the books.
I say drabble/ficlet because who knows how my writing might materialize. ;)
What I'm really looking for are missing moment requests, and/or alternative point of view moments, though I can also do characters discussing the events of something - or everything - that happened in HBP in TDH or even post-TDH.
If you haven't seen the movie, as I said last night, I highly suggest it. :) Just expect some significant changes from the books.
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Date: 2009-07-17 06:18 pm (UTC)I'd like to see Luna or Neville's vision of the funeral and seeing the trio and Harry and Ginny off talking together.
Expectations
Date: 2009-07-17 06:45 pm (UTC)Within his first week at Hogwarts, he learned how to make a simple potion, float a feather into thin air, and make friends with complete strangers. Dean had never moved, so all of his friends had always been the same, for the most part. They grew up on the same street, went to the same school, and went to the same playground after school. It was a relief that kids at Hogwarts, too, generally liked him. Sure, there were kids like Draco Malfoy, but he found an instant best friend in Seamus Finnegan, and soon after, Lavender Brown and the Patil twins.
Relieved, Dean expected nothing more than a world of grandeur to unfold. He'd become a great wizard, fighting the Dark Arts.
He hadn't expected You-Know-Who to come back. He hadn't expected to mess up his relationship with Ginny Weasley so badly. He hadn't expected to have to lie to his own family. He hadn't expected to sit helplessly at a table in the Great Hall, watching Parvati, Padma, and Seamus being led away by their mothers.
Dean most certainly had not expected the only man You-Know-Who feared to lay dead on the ground.
The funeral was over, but many hadn't left; people spoke softly in small circles, or otherwise looked onto Dumbledore's grave.
Dean walked back towards the castle, bumping into someone with red hair.
"I'm so sorry," Dean told Ginny.
There was an awkward silence as Dean and Ginny's eyes met. They had not spoken since their break up.
Ginny's eyes were different; they were bloodshot, and her face was pale.
At the corner of Dean's eye, he saw Ron, Harry and Hermione having what appeared to be a tense conversation.
She was alone. The people she needed the most were, for whatever reason, occupied with their own mission. A mission that didn't involve her.
"I'm sorry," Dean said again, but this time, he was sorry about things other than bumping into her. He was sorry that he hadn't made things work between them. He was even sorrier that she was in pain.
"Do you want to take a walk?" Ginny asked.
They walked, talking about simple things, like pets and music and the silly habits of their parents. Things that didn't really matter, especially not now, but that they had to focus on for the sake of their own sanity.
Dean never expected the person he would turn to, in a horrible time like this, would be his ex girlfriend.
Re: Expectations
Date: 2009-07-18 06:38 am (UTC)Re: Expectations
Date: 2009-07-18 12:59 pm (UTC)A Wise Man, Indeed
Date: 2009-07-17 07:12 pm (UTC)Neville watched the small man in front of them speak.
Dumbledore was a household name for most, if not all, present. Everyone knew that Dumbledore had done great things. He'd conquered the evil wizard Gellert Grindlewald (a matter Dumbledore had never commented on, perhaps out of modesty), and he was the only one You-Know-Who was afraid of.
To Neville, Dumbledore was something else. His parents had been amongst the original Order members, loyal to Dumbledore and believing his warnings that the "random attacks" on Muggles were not so random. They had fought You-Know-Who for Dumbledore's cause three times... sacrificed their sanity...
"Wise" didn't cover it.
"He was a powerful, commanding man," the speaker continued, "noble... serious..."
"Nitwit, oddment, blubber, and tweet," Neville muttered, and laughed softly despite himself. Gran nudged him, but he was pretty sure he heard her giggle.
"Dumbledore was a special individual. The day he died, we all felt as though angels had disappeared from existence."
"We will remember him as a great wizard. We will remember him as genius. We will remember him as-"
Neville couldn't bear to listen to any more of the horrible speech. In fact, part of him felt quite infuriated; did this man even know Dumbledore? Had he met the man who'd joked after Sorting? Had he met the man who spoke to his students as individuals, not pests? Had he realized that Dumbledore was beyond genius?
Dumbledore had died, but others had died before him in more ways than one. He'd made people realize that there were things worth sacrificing for.
A wise man, indeed.
Re: A Wise Man, Indeed
Date: 2009-07-18 06:37 am (UTC)Re: A Wise Man, Indeed
Date: 2009-07-18 12:57 pm (UTC)I always felt that Neville would have grown up respecting Dumbledore the way I write it.
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Date: 2009-07-17 10:29 pm (UTC)no subject
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