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[liseuse]

So everyone has been doing that Five Times A Character I Love Did Something I Didn't Like meme, in the style of various HP characters. And I decided to. But ... I didn't write down the title. So what I've written is this:

Title: Five Things Pansy Parkinson Has Never Said
Word Count: 1,112
Rating: R for language
Notes: I don't own any of these

Comments

[aunty_marion]

I think I might just have a quiet sniffle or two at Draco. And Snape. Particularly Snape.

*sniffle*

[liseuse]

Awww, have a tissue.

The Snape one? Should eventually dovetail with the (never apparently going to end) fic I am theoretically writing for you. ARGH.

And this was all supposed to be compliant with my current Pansy/Hermione stuff, but I forgot Ron was dead. Ooops.

[aunty_marion]

The Snape one? Should eventually dovetail It does? Oooh.... That does sound good!

[liseuse]

It should. I hope.
I need to go back to uni so I have time to write all these fics!

[liseuse]

I actually just teared up at that. Thank you so so much!
Oh, I'm so happy. Possibly one of the best comments I have ever received.

[liseuse]

It was impressively concise praise! I never manage concise. So yes, you do indeed win. *hands a virtual rosette over*

[shaggydogstail]

Ooh, interesting. I really like the tone you've got here for Pansy--she's humorous, a bit sarcastic and very lively. Nice.

[liseuse]

Thank you!
I love playing around with Pansy. Not like that. Although, y'know, I wouldn't object. But she's just so much fun as a character.

[magnetic_pole]

Hey, sweetie, this was fun! No time to comment until tonight, but in the meantime I hope it's okay if I link to it? M.

[magnetic_pole]

Okay, linked. I'll assume it's okay unless you tell me otherwise.

By the way, do the writing meme! If you're interested. I am! You've written plenty. M.

[liseuse]

I might do it. I've got a day off work tomorrow, so I could do it then.

[magnetic_pole]

Yay! It's a little intimidating, isn't it? As in, who am I to talk about my writing after Minnow's talked about hers? But it was interesting to think about my writing process in the abstract, and it may be fun for you, too. M.

[magnetic_pole]

This was delightful. I really love the way you write the younger generation, both in terms of their personal trajectories--how and why the various characters ally with each other--and in terms of their attitude. Pansy's lively and ironic and smart and funny, and the other characters share this kind of self-aware optimism. I don't usually like the way people write this generation, but you draw me in every time.

I love the naivete and insight of Pansy's comment on Snape--you have to be twenty to think that it doesn't matter, but she's right in a way, too--and I love the fact that Goyle has a first name and someone who mourns him.

Brava! Maggie

[liseuse]

I just find them fascinating, because apart from the Trio they are all untold stories, just like the Marauder era and post-Hogwarts stuff is for the older generation.
And thank you! I'm glad it works for you. It would be so easy just to write them as bitchy horrible spoiled brats, but they have to be more than that.

I have this idea in my head that Pansy and Snape were close. That they had a nice semi-friendship going on, that had developed from adolescent flirting to respect. I like to think that if Snape had been at Hogwarts in Yr7 she'd have done an independent potions seminar with him, and that she worked with him in the war. In fact, if aunty_marion's fic ever co-operates then she will be doing all these things.

I feel sorry for Greg and Vince. And I like to think that they're remembered. Even if they ended up on the wrong side, that people still think of them fondly. (I'm just a giant sap really.)

[magnetic_pole]

Plus there's a challenge in writing about the Slytherins and making them plausible characters with motivation and complexity--a challenge you don't have with Harry and the others. I can see why you like Pansy and this set of friends. And the idea of house loyalties and house-based friendships coming to an end as this group leaves school and grows up? Wonderful. It makes so much sense. M.

[liseuse]

Precisely. It's a chance to get out of Harry's viewpoint and flesh them out into real people; not just caricatures of evil.