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kokopelli20878

SHORTS! Call for drabbles! SHORTS!

Oct 01, 2007 20:09

Okay, now that you're awake.

Life has been interesting at Casa de Cornell of late - but I don't want to write about that.

So, what do you want me to write?

Ask questions or set up scenarios - if I can, I'll indulge them.

Categories:

Pure Canon - post HPDH.

TLOS/SFSY

Maskirovat

Lost and Found Cycles

Dreams of Cold Fusion

And yes, Brad, I will entertain ( Read more... )

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laurel_potter October 2 2007, 00:35:40 UTC

Either Pure Canon - post HPDH or TLOS/SFSY.

Starting at Page 750 (American Edition) a bit of Canon for Laurel kokopelli20878 October 3 2007, 01:40:44 UTC

It was no surprise to anyone that after leaving the Headmaster’s office, Harry slept for more than 20 hours. The linchpin to this feat was putting one weary foot in front of the other, climbing the stairs up to the seventh-year dormitory in Gryffindor Tower. Once he finally awoke, he found his glasses on the nightstand, along with his watch. He didn’t remember getting into bed, actually, so this was a bit of a surprise. Coming back from the bathroom, he noticed Kreacher, who nodded gravely. Kreacher was wearing what looked, at first glance, to be the usual Hogwarts tea-towel, but Harry noticed that instead of the Hogwarts crest, the towel was marked with the Black emblem. He could not fail to notice that the faux-Horcrux locket gleamed in the dim light, polished as if it were the crown jewel of a minor nation ( ... )

Re: Starting at Page 750 (American Edition) a bit of Canon for Laurel laurel_potter October 3 2007, 05:41:29 UTC

That's lovely! Thank you very much.

(Again, sorry for the other thing...)

madderbrad October 2 2007, 00:51:01 UTC

LOL! Here am I - once I was woken wide awake - reading through your list, musing on the first entry with one part of my mind while continuing to read down the list of categories, wondering if by 'pure canon - post HPDH' I could ask for something wherein Harry/Hermione realise their mistakes in pairing up with their respective Weasleys ... and then I'm *really* jogged awake by the last line. Heh. I've been used to 'Ever After' being off limits for so long ( ... )

The list kokopelli20878 October 2 2007, 02:06:16 UTC

All of Hermione’s life now fit neatly into two categories - before “that day” and after. Ginny had scheduled a week in advance for a luncheon date - not all that unusual. Now that the children were, for the most part, grown and launched, the relationship they’d started back when they were mere slips of girls at Hogwarts continued to set down roots. They could go a month or more without seeing the other and restart a conversation as if it had been a mere matter of minutes. Ginny had seemed out of sorts, but that wasn’t all that unusual; she’d been out of sorts most of the year, starting sometime shortly after Christmas. When she arrived, the house was tidy and the table already set. She paid no particular attention to the fact that the Floo was deactivated, and a number of charms were activated that would make their conversation difficult, if not impossible to interrupt ( ... )

Re: The list madderbrad October 2 2007, 02:34:34 UTC

Nice! As always I want to just keep reading.

And I'm full of questions, too ... there's no mention of Harry prior to their meeting at St. Mungo's, and he apparently hasn't been on her list for a while. What happened? Harry just occupied with his own 'list', his own crisis with Ginny? There's no mention of Ginny's death, so she's still alive; hence Harry's detachment with Hermione?

I like how this is an extension of Hermione's response in one of those 'talk with the character' events, when I'd asked her about how she handled Ginny's premonition of their deaths.

You whipped this up in the last hour or so? Thanks! :-)

Re: The list kokopelli20878 October 2 2007, 02:48:11 UTC

Ginny and Ron died the same day.

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wtr666 October 2 2007, 15:06:16 UTC

Basic Black kokopelli20878 October 2 2007, 18:27:27 UTC

She’d given a lot of thought into what she was going to wear. Beckman Gupta was in London now, and it was cool in London this time of year, so that meant wool. Looking up in the mirror, she inspected how she looked in the third choice, a black cashmere sweater, three-quarter length sleeve, accompanying a black pleated skirt and black pumps. The fitted skirt would have looked better, but it hindered her movements, and a lifetime of training made her value mobility over style, every time. Her hair was piled up behind her head, held in place with two sticks. Only the closest of inspections would reveal that one stick was her bamboo wand, while the other was a sheathed stiletto. She decided that her look was too funereal, so she picked up her black silk shawl, charming a scalloped scarlet border to relieve the black-on-black monotony ( ... )

Re: Basic Black madderbrad October 2 2007, 22:18:25 UTC

What a great last line!! :-)

celtic_meg October 2 2007, 17:18:17 UTC

I'm so glad that you posted where "Ever After" came from. Without reading the comments, I went through all of your stories trying to find it, knowing a reference was somewhere! Like Brad, I could happily keep reading that.

My request is for what happens "the next day" at the Burrow in Cold Fusion.

I'm pretty happy where you ended Lost & Found, though a fluffy snapshot or two of life with three Veela girls would be a treat. Likewise with the story of how Hermione got the chocolate sauce. :D

Thanks!

Sauce kokopelli20878 October 2 2007, 17:59:08 UTC

Neville received the message from the District Superintendent while Hermione was in the shower. He related the gist of the conversation to her as he made their breakfast, pausing to give a passable, if implausible impression of a French Veela conducting a fire-call ( ... )

Re: Sauce celtic_meg October 2 2007, 22:08:03 UTC

*drools*

Now you've given me ideas for my holiday baking. :)

Thank you!

Dreams - next day kokopelli20878 October 3 2007, 16:22:03 UTC

I'm going to decline this drabble, but I will tell you what happens. They return to the Burrow - there's a Prodigal style feast for the Trio. Harry and Ginny finally get some time alone to sort things out. They emerge with a slightly clearer understanding (seasoned with some snoggage). The trio then mount an assault on Voldemort's hideout, accompanied by the Order. So the story ends, compliant with HBP, but not with HPDH - no Deathly Hallows, for one thing.

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seeker7777 October 6 2007, 04:06:42 UTC

TLOS/SFSY anything that happened pre Harry/Hermione dying (what happened to Ginny and Ron?) The HPDH short was outstanding

What happened... kokopelli20878 October 6 2007, 13:20:06 UTC

After SFSY, Harry and Ginny marry, of course. Harry's had his fill of Auror work, and turns instead to being a gentleman farmer, settling eventually on running an apple orchard in Wales, not too far from Swansea (which is where I put Godric's Hollow in the TLOS universe). Ginny finishes up Hogwarts, and then apprentices as a Healer at St.Mungo's, taking time to do a couple of residencies abroad. During the year that everyone thinks she's in America, doing a residency, she's actually spending half of the year taking tuition from the Snow Dragons, learning how to be a Seer. Ginny retires to raise a brood of Potters, working off and on part time as a Healer. Her other job remains a secret, helping the Ministry of Magic from time to time as a Seer. Ron goes the Auror route, and his career is helped significantly by assistance from his sister ( ... )

Re: What happened... seeker7777 October 7 2007, 01:24:35 UTC

Thanks for the update, I keep hearing about "ever after" where is it posted if at all? I liked how JKR worked with kreacher and your short fit with exactly how I thought the story would have continued

Where? Nowhere... kokopelli20878 October 7 2007, 17:49:01 UTC

I wrote the outline of Ever After, I wrote the first and third chapters, then I wrote some scenes in-between. There are some amusing scenes, including Hermione's counseling sessions with the Greyfriar rector of St.Simon's, and the family dinner where the Weasley and Potter children finally figure out that "Uncle Harry" is courting "Aunt Ginny." When I had a dedicated Yahoo group I had some of that posted there, but primarily it lives on my hard drive and in a folder on my writing flash-memory drive. Now is not the time in my life to write a story that would probably be 300-400k words long - especially if my chance of publishing it was practically nil. And so, I write shorter things these days - when I write at all. I may go back and flesh these out as stand-alone short stories, but that will have to wait for another season in my life.

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