Woot! One word for a spoilery sentence - how about "snag"?
(If that's not in your THG draft, pretty sure we'll accept "shag" as a substitute. Just sayin' 😁)
At this time, I've got one "snag" and no "shag"s, but that may change soon. Who's to know?
(Me. It's me.)
He's startlingly tall, too, and undoubtedly the first thing people notice about him, though his bold fashion statement will snag whoever hasn't yet clocked the height of him.
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This lovely, funny, charming story by @fizzyginfizz was such an exquisite piece of work our author's true identity shone through their beautiful mask. Great guessing!
Here's a Very Ancient Draft of how I'd initially imagined the Hermione and Ginny conversation to go re: Harry Feelings in HBP.
All the way back in (2022?) when I'd written snippets of TIB's from first person POV.
Warning: I've not edited this at all, just copy paste and a quick dusting off. Please graciously ignore any typos.
HERMIONE
Peace and quiet.
I looked forward to Quidditch matches of other houses because I often did not attend them. Of course, I faithfully went to every one of the Gryffindor matches to support Ron, Harry and Ginny. Despite sitting mostly alone for hours in all states of weather.
Currently I was curled up in my favorite squashy chair, savoring the warmth radiating from the fireplace. In my lap was a large book. I’d given myself the afternoon off from school work. This one was Influential Witches of the 18th Century. Suddenly the Portrait Hole creaked open and several seconds later, Ginny came flying into the Common Room.
“Hermione, there you are! I have to talk to you,” she said out of breath.
“Is everything okay?” I asked, panic rising.
“Yes, yes, yes! Or at least… I think so,” she said. We heard sound of the Portrait Hole opening once again. But this time, many excited voices followed. The Gryffindors were returning from the Ravenclaw versus Slytherin match. “Can we go on a walk?”
“Sure, but it’s nearly supper,” I said.
“Nevermind that, Hermione. We will make it in time for your precious supper,” she said, yanking my arm and pulling me out of my chair.
“Can’t I just put my book back in -”
“Just leave it here! I’m sure no one will steal that one,” she said. I decided to bring the book with us.
She marched me towards the portrait hole.
“Coming through! Move out the way! Watch it!” Ginny led me against the traffic of all Gryffindor House as they returned from the match.
“Where are you two going?” asked Ron. He, Harry, Dean, Neville and Seamus were walking together back to the Common Room.
“We’re going on a walk,” said Ginny.
“Oh, I’ll come too. Then we can go down to dinner,” said Dean.
“Sorry, girls only,” she said quickly. Without waiting for them to respond, she hooked her arm around mine and continued pulling me with her. “All hair potions, Pygmy Puffs, and self-zippering dresses. You know us.” She tossed her long red hair over her shoulder and winked. However, I noticed the wink was not directed at Dean.
I now stood in an abandoned classroom while Ginny searched to ensure no lurking eavesdroppers were present. “Is this really necessary?” I asked as she began looking in the cabinets.
“Yes! This is a matter of utmost sensitivity!” she yelled from across the room.
“Muffliato,” I said with a wave of my wand.
“What’s that do?”
“Prevents people from listening in. All they hear is a faint buzzing sound.”
“You couldn’t have told me before I ransacked the place?”
“What’s this about, Ginny?” I pleaded. At my insistance, Ginny grew very quiet. Her head bowed slightly and eyes shifting side to side. Almost as if she was being bashful. Which was typically out of character for her.
“I think… I think that Harry fancies me,” she said. With all the patience and understanding I could muster, I kept my face blank and unreadable.
Because it was painfully obvious to anyone who paid attention that Harry Potter deeply fancied Ginny Weasley. So clear, in fact, that many people had already caught on: Dean, Seamus, Romilda Vane and her friends, and all of the Gryffindor Quidditch Team members. To name a few.
And for Harry, himself to know was a clear indication on how far his feelings had progressed. He knew how he felt about her, and was too stubborn to admit it. Harry even knew that I knew. How could I not? The longing, lingering looks he gave her that quickly turned to jealousy when she so much as sat near Dean. The way he positively crackled with energy when she passed by or made a light, passing joke. He was too far gone to hide any of it.
Ginny, on the other hand, had gone through extraordinary measures to conceal this information from herself. The way she spoke about Harry this year made that clear. Each time I brought him up, she defiantly maneuvered around any possibility that Harry could think of her romantically. She constructed excuses and explanations on why he acted the way he did. Fanciful justifications of pure delusion.
So I was genuinely curious to see what exactly had changed her mind. Because I was beginning to think it would take nothing less than Harry kissing her full on for her to realize. Even then, I was worried she would manage to find an absurd excuse to explain it away.
“I am going to hug you now.” She announced it because he didn’t seem like he had gotten a lot of casual affection in his life and she was a hugger like her mother.
*gasp* I would love to hear about either one of your dancing WIPs! Dirty Dancing, Ballet?
Oooh I'll do both because I haven't had a chance about these!
So both of these are kind of ideas I've had that I have not truly worked on but i have like a general story idea.
Dirty Dancing!AU
Well you are all familiar with the Dirty Dancing movie, I hope? So here I switched it around. Ginny is a professional dancer and her old friend dance partner is Dean!
Harry overhears some doofus be insulting to Ginny while registering dance classes so Ginny tells Doofus that she has no more dance spots free for him. And then Harry, to help her out, of course, books like 50 hours with her.
So then inevitably when Dean gets injured (cause unknown), Harry can help them out.
Ballet!AU
Well Ginny has had to work hard her whole life to get into this prestigious ballet school, having to go up against rich spoiled brats and the likes. She earned her spot and she takes it very seriously. Now when Harry comes in and he is obviously kinda Rich and men are hard to come by in ballet... she assumes he has not put in the work. But he actually has and just transferred in from another school. When she gets partnered with him for the lead roles, she is pissed af. This is her big dream and he is about to ruin it. Except he doesn't, and they practise a lot together and gain each other's trust doing lifts and such. Then when the big opening night comes Some Drama will ensue that is One Big Misunderstanding.
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💖 What is your primary writing goal for this year?
AND
💥Is there a chapter, scene, or WIP you're most excited to write? Share a snippet or tell us about it!
💖 - I want to be one of those people that either plans out their story completely before posting OR at least sticks to an actual posting schedule.
💥 - I’m dreading all the connecting scenes for what I have mapped out for year 5 of ‘in all chaos there is calculation’ I promise I can read. I’m most excited for the enemies to lovers HP prompt I got (I’m working on them anon!) I have a deep love for Slytherin!Harry and Slytherin!Ginny (shout out Annerb)
Right now it feels more like a stream of consciousness than a story but here’s something:
It’s like her family is afraid of her but also afraid for her. She knows she’s being unfair with how annoyed she is by all the coddling - especially from her brothers who could’ve (some may should have) paid her a shred of attention last year even after her sorting hat debacle.
She has nightmares and a fear that she doesn’t remember things from the day before. The only person she wants to talk to is bloody Harry Potter.
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The way Harry treats her is no different than he treated her last year. Which is to say, he’s indifferent to her presence. Ginny feels silly for thinking him coming to save her in the Chamber would bond them for life or something, but she thought she’d at least get a friend out of the entire situation. He probably thinks she’s a silly little girl who managed to get possessed less than halfway through the school year. Ginny hates that. When she found out that Harry Potter had also beens sorted into Slytherin, she’d hoped that maybe they could become friends, that maybe her childhood fantasies weren’t in vain.
But, Harry kept mostly to himself. Only really talking with Blaise Zabini. And Ginny doesn’t particularly like Blaise Zabini.
There’s more, but it it needs to be fleshed out and I’m pumped!
I know you're at the end of HBP, so I'm tempted to ask for big ol' dramatic snippets like "regret" and "heartache" and "emotional evisceration."
But neutral is probably best. How about "true?"
Ha!! Who knows? Maybe I’ll take a dramatic two-handed wheel-turn and go full AU last minute?
“What if I don’t care?” Ginny said.
Harry looked deeply into her rich colored chocolate brown eyes and for a moment imagined the unbearable regret, the shattered heartache, the total earth-shaking emotional evisceration that his dutiful response to the call of his destiny would inevitably cause.
And instead, decided: Frotz This.
“You’re right, Ginny. Come with me.”
TIB's/QifL parody anyone???
A true "true" excerpt below the cut:
After learning the true nature of the diary as Tom Riddle’s first Horcrux, Harry couldn’t help but be amazed by her.
Where experienced grown witches and wizards fell one-by-one to Voldemort’s powerful influence, she fought. And lately he found himself wondering how it was she was able to re-emerge as this hilarious, bright, brave, beautiful, whole soul of a person.
Ask Game!
Thisonethisonethisone:
17. What's a book, movie, or show you think [character] would like?
Since you write Harry, Ginny, Hermione and Ron POVs - pick any one. Or all. Or just one, because I don't want to distract you from writing your next chapter.
OMG!
I have zero clue if I stole this or made it up completely, but I have a completely formulated head canon that little Harry loved the Indiana Jones movies. He used to watch them while sitting on the stairs of Privet Drive so that Dudley wouldn't see him. Harry's hands would be gripping the banisters, eyes wide and completely sucked in. But tragically, sometimes Dudley would turn the VCR off early because it was "boring" and Harry just wanted to know WHICH WAS THE RIGHT GOBLET TO DRINK FROM?!?
For Hermione, I do kind of agree with what some people have said - that she wouldn't be an avid fiction reader. However, I imagine her reading the very high-brow classical stories. It's questionable if she actually enjoys them, or feels she *ought* to as a self-identifying well-read individual. In one of my chapters I had her reading Jane Eyre as a "comfort book" because I imagined that she would appreciate reading about a mature romantic figure who, despite reasons to deny his love, eventually proclaims his feelings in a very dramatic and honest way... in contrast to her own romantic situation at the time hehe.
I'll have to think for the other two...
Thanks for the ask @fizzyginfizz!
Send me a fandom writer's ask while I write my next chapter!