Round Three, Challenge Two; A Girl's Best Friend

[sellthelie]

Challenge: A girl's best friend.

We know that Hermione is close with Ron and Harry, but a girl needs a girl friend. Some things you can't discuss with the boys. So your challenge is to write a drabble in which Hermione has a close girl friend. Whoever you choose it to be.

• Drabbles must be between 500-1000 words
• Please do not post your drabbles

Comments

Re: TEST!!!

[sellthelie]

Is now. :)

Re: TEST!!!

[bambu345]

May I interject, just to tell you how much I lurve your icon. It's terribly amusing.

Re: Mea Culpa, Lucius/Hermione, all ages

[tourdefierce]

Alright! Now I can comment and all.

I didn't vote for this mostly because Hermione is a very private person and I doubt she would ever discuss this in public or really, with anyone. Especially her relations with Lucius. I'm not even sure they would ever let Lucius teach. Mostly because he got out of going to prison during the first war and they would NOT make the mistake of letting him free on the second. So I find the premiss a little soft.

But I did like the tone here and Hermione's ambivalence with the entire situation. You're a great writer, I just don't find it completely believable. The premiss really knocked it for me.

Re: Mea Culpa, Lucius/Hermione, all ages

[tourdefierce]

Sure. I mean, if you set them in a different situation then the characters will automatically write differently. For example, if you take a canon element like Hermione working for the Magical Law and having her meeting with Lucius about his patrol blahblahblah. Then you've already changed their environment and they will act more canon. Canon Hermione wouldn't go near Lucius with a ten foot pole. So you have to put them in situations that their character will adapt but if change too far outside what is canon or the readers won't recognize it. Writing rarepairs is about playing up certain characteristics that we know to be true and then manipulating them into believable circumstances.

Characters practically write themselves. It's just that sometimes we get in the way.

Sorry. I got carried away.

[kcstories]

Title: Farewell
By: kcstories
Rating: PG
Warnings: Mentions DH character deaths.
Summary: Hermione attends Tonks' funeral.
Pairing: Marcus/Hermione (Remus/Tonks)
Word Count: 744

If there exists some unwritten rule that it should always rain at funerals, then today has definitely broken it.

The mid-morning sun is unusually warm on Hermione’s face, and the black dress she’s wearing will probably leave her feeling hot and uncomfortable by lunchtime.

It’s odd how nothing about today feels normal or rightOr perhaps it’s rather appropriate

Kcstories - Part two *kicks LJ again, for this is a bug NOT a feature* ;)

[kcstories]

Tonks was all about facts too, even if she sometimes got those facts muddled.

Hermione blinks back tears as the coffin is lifted down into the earth.

Of all the people who perished, Tonks is the one she’ll miss the most.

Tonks was the only person she could talk to about certain things, the only one who understood.

Well, all right, with the exception of Luna, but Hermione sometimes finds Luna hard to follow. She seems to get there in the end, but often it’s via a strange foggy road with a lot of bends and metaphors.

Hermione prefers someone more grounded, someone more like herself.

When she realised she was falling for a very unlikely and possibly completely wrong person, Tonks was the one she could rely on for advice.

She couldn’t trust her own judgment, you see. She had always been better with books, potions and academic theories than with flesh and blood people.

"I think there’s more to him than meets the eye. He did the right thing in the end, didn’t he? Maybe you should just give him a chance and see what happens.

Re: Kcstories - Part two *kicks LJ again, for this is a bug NOT a feature* ;)

[tourdefierce]

Alrighty. I didn't vote for this because I thought the relationship between Hermione and Tonks wasn't as strong or developed. I see Ginny being really close with Tonks because they were both sheltered and babied from the war and Hermione and Luna are not. Which I get.

Also, as loving as I'm sure Marcus can be... it just, I don't think he would be at the funeral. I'm not sure that's how he would handle it. He's a Slytherin, he's a cheating git and not everybody likes him. And anyway, I'm would think he would help her out with her guilt in a more Marcus way. But I liked your writting style. I just didn't like the premiss and I thought both Hermione and Marcus were a little OOC. But overall well done.

Re: Kcstories - Part two *kicks LJ again, for this is a bug NOT a feature* ;)

[kcstories]

Thanks for the feedback.

I’m glad you liked the style, even if the set-up wasn’t your cup of tea. :)

Luvscharlie's submission, part 1

[luvscharlie]

Title: Understanding Lavender
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Summary: Lavender Brown and Ron Weasley's snogging sessions in the Gryffindor common room were like a punch in the stomach to Hermione Granger. Parvati Patil makes her see things in a whole new light.
Pairing: Hermione Granger-Parvati Patil
Word Count: 946

She couldn't stand watching them paw one another any longer. The tears refused to stay pooled in her eyes and had started to slip down her cheeks before she could exit the common room. She only hoped no one had noticed. She grabbed her things for a shower and left her dorm room. The girls' showers were the safest place for a good cry. There was no chance of running into Harry or Ron there, and Lavender was far too preoccupied with-she really just couldn't think about that anymore.

~~ ♥♥ ~~ When she finally emerged from the shower after a good, long cry, she was startled by an unexpected voice