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hey guys! first of all, i want to wish you all a really amazing new year. i know last year was full of ups and downs for some of you (as well as for me) but you know, time moves forward and it's all we can do to treasure the ups, learn from the downs, and give it our all to make the next year terrific. so i hope 2009 brings great things to you, and fingers crossed i'll be around on LJ to catch some of the happy waves ;)
now, to start the year on the right foot, some writing. i was actually thinking of writing a new year's eve snippet of my original novel, ztuckin... i actually got like half a scene of it written. then my muse decided to switch gears on me and, well, guess which fanfic still lives? ^^;;; last time you saw a post about this fanfic, it was around april 2008 and it contained one sentence from the chapter. one sentence. regardless of how i feel the scene came out now, i dare say the fact that there is a scene at all is an improvement in and on itself xDDD
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Molly Weasley looked around at all the guests, a smile on her face, basking in the satisfaction of a job well done. The party was in full swing and everybody was having fun. Many people had commented on her excellent pumpkin pasties (she was very proud of those, she'd given an old family recipe a hip new twist), and the decorations had managed to stay up despite the Lovegood girl's insistence that there was something wrong with them.
Her smile grew delighted as her eyes moved to Hermione, who was near the door to the backyard, chatting with Hannah Abbott, Mandy Brucklehurst and a few other girls. She looked happy, if a little winded (she'd been pulled into just about every group of people in the Burrow today-- for finding herself an unknowing hostess, she had picked up the pace of the party quite easily). Molly was happy to see her glowing, she had been working very hard lately and she was such a good girl, she deserved to know people cared about her and wanted to wish her a happy birthday.
That's why, when Ron and Harry had come up to her with the idea of throwing a surprise party for Hermione, she hadn't even thought about it for a second before letting them know that they needn't worry because she'd take care of everything. Sure, Hermione was a little too forward-thinking sometimes, and they may not see eye-to-eye all the time, but she was a wonderful girl, and Molly loved her like she was her own daughter.
Perhaps one day soon, she'd become Molly's daughter for real.
But she shouldn't be thinking of such things today, there were still many details to oversee. Besides, Ron kept getting twitchy and Arthur kept throwing her those "Molly..." looks whenever she brought the topic up. So today she would keep mum about it, in hopes that her actions may speak louder than her words, and give her oblivious youngest son a push in the right direction.
At that moment, Mundungus Fletcher passed next to her, little Teddy Lupin hanging from his ankle in the older man's grip, the baby squealing in delight through the whole ride. As she lectured Dung on the correct handling of infants (and wondered for the nth time why she had allowed her sons to invite him to the party in the first place), she remembered why she'd come out back in the first place.
She moved towards the group of girls in front of her. "Excuse me, girls... Hermione, dear?" she asked as she stepped discretely in between Mandy and a sandy-haired girl whose name she didn't really remember.
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this isn't the whole scene, as you may know. still, i think it's sort of the background for the whole scene, and i'm not sure i like it. does she seem like she's just... gushing too much? i keep getting that vibe. *sigh* molly weasley is just one of those characters that i should probably stay away from. i don't hate her, but i can't say i like her either-- she has her moments. and i'll never be able to think like her. so at the moment i feel this is as good as it's going to come. *shrug*
the next few scenes are going to be a lot more fun to write, though. i've already started on the one immediately after this-- arthur goes looking for ron and they talk for a little bit. i love both of these guys, so i'm going to have a blast with this scene, even though it's not supposed to be a funny scene or anything. after that, there's a scene from harry's PoV where he talks with hermione for a bit, and... it may or may not involve a britney spears song somehow. (*shudder*). then, luna & ron share some kitchen conversation, and lastly i'm thinking outsider PoV on ron & hermione (maybe seamus? i think he could work. don't want to use neville, he's going to be a lot more prominent in the next few chapters). so this chapter is shaping up to be pretty long, by number of scenes alone, but it all depends on how well i can fill them up.
i also want to do some memes, but i'm going to leave them for a different post, don't want to clog this one up. don't think i'm spamming your f-lists, guys xDDD i'll be leaving this sunday to go to valencia, venezuela for a work trip, and i won't return until january 16th... i don't know how much time i'll have to write, so please understand if i'm a little overenthusiastic today ^-^