17. What is something you recently felt proud of in your writing?
So for 17 I already talked about the mood rings, but I've done a lot of writing these past few months that I am more than happy to yap about. I might have bullied my husband until he searched his entire childhood home for his childhood copies of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and Quidditch Through the Ages, which has resulted in more pieces like the one below where the Marauders have snuck off the school ground (age 11) into a nearby Scottish forest. The writing is so so, but every time I get to pull in bits from (extended) canon I am excessively happy:
Peter found himself glancing between the trees. It looked like an ordinary forest. Yet he couldn’t dispel a feeling that they were being watched. Then:
Peter froze. The voice had come from somewhere ahead.
The remarks seemed to be coming from all directions at once.
James' face lit up. 'Did you hear that?'
A rustling sounded in a patch of bracken to their left. Something long and dark darted between the ferns.
They spun around. For a split second, Peter caught sight of a creature about the size of a ferret. It had black fur, bright eyes and a surprisingly human expression.
It vanished, but not before another voice behind them uttered:
Four heads turned. A second creature was perched atop a fallen log.
'Nasty hair,' the creature said.
This came from their left.
This from their right. Then, from all around them:
‘Jarvey,’ observed Sirius, his eyes shining bright.
‘What?’ asked Peter who felt increasingly stressed out by the creatures moving around and shouting insults at them.
‘They’re talking ferrets, basically,’ explain James happily.
Once they’d all grown tired of the endless insults (James and Sirius seemed to find being insulted quite interesting), they continued onwards.
‘Those Jarveys could really give Peeves a run for his money,’ mused James, whereas Sirius saw things in an entirely different light. He was wearing a dreamy far-off look as he said: ‘Imagine bringing Snivellus here.’
From this little fun ask game
