[Fic] "Tabloid" -- Harry Potter, G/H/D, Theme 25
Author: Elizabeth Culmer edenfalling
Fandom/Pairing: Harry Potter, Ginny/Harry/Draco
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
Theme: #25 - Looking
Warnings: none, unless Rita Skeeter needs her own warning. *grin*
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Tabloid
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When the news breaks, it's the scandal of the decade. Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived -- he's never been able to shake that name -- is living in sin with Ginny Weasley and Draco Malfoy! Either one of them would be news -- the Weasley girl's known for outrageous opinions and no sense of shame, while the Malfoy heir is a Malfoy, and male -- but both of them...
Witch Weekly and the Daily Prophet sell out their entire print runs for weeks as they chronicle the story, dig up the origins of the bizarre ménage à trois, and splash Weasley's past assignations and Malfoy's dubious war history across their front pages. For good measure, they unearth the old speculations about Harry Potter letting Cedric Diggory die on purpose so he could snatch up Diggory's girlfriend for himself, and they give the Quibbler a run for its money in the conspiracy theory field.
The Quibbler is oddly silent. People point to its editors' well-known connections to Potter and Weasley, and spin even wilder theories.
Finally, Rita Skeeter tracks down Potter and his two lovers and -- after losing her Quick Quotes quill to Malfoy's light fingers and being held at the business end of Weasley's wand -- asks him what he was thinking. "That it's nobody's business but ours," he tells her.
"And what's your opinion about the storm of controversy you've roused?" Skeeter asks, leaning forward. Weasley flicks her wand in a meaningful fashion. Malfoy coughs.
Potter shrugs. "I don't care -- you almost never print anything true or important anyway, so I stopped paying attention. You taught me that." Then he smiles. "Besides, your readers only get words and pictures. I have the real thing."
Malfoy coughs harder, and Weasley's mouth quirks into a smile as Potter grabs their hands and Disapparates.
Skeeter's interview is published in the next morning's Daily Prophet, and sales explode again.
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Fandom/Pairing: Harry Potter, Ginny/Harry/Draco
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoast Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
Theme: #25 - Looking
Warnings: none, unless Rita Skeeter needs her own warning. *grin*
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Tabloid
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When the news breaks, it's the scandal of the decade. Harry Potter, the Boy Who Lived -- he's never been able to shake that name -- is living in sin with Ginny Weasley and Draco Malfoy! Either one of them would be news -- the Weasley girl's known for outrageous opinions and no sense of shame, while the Malfoy heir is a Malfoy, and male -- but both of them...
Witch Weekly and the Daily Prophet sell out their entire print runs for weeks as they chronicle the story, dig up the origins of the bizarre ménage à trois, and splash Weasley's past assignations and Malfoy's dubious war history across their front pages. For good measure, they unearth the old speculations about Harry Potter letting Cedric Diggory die on purpose so he could snatch up Diggory's girlfriend for himself, and they give the Quibbler a run for its money in the conspiracy theory field.
The Quibbler is oddly silent. People point to its editors' well-known connections to Potter and Weasley, and spin even wilder theories.
Finally, Rita Skeeter tracks down Potter and his two lovers and -- after losing her Quick Quotes quill to Malfoy's light fingers and being held at the business end of Weasley's wand -- asks him what he was thinking. "That it's nobody's business but ours," he tells her.
"And what's your opinion about the storm of controversy you've roused?" Skeeter asks, leaning forward. Weasley flicks her wand in a meaningful fashion. Malfoy coughs.
Potter shrugs. "I don't care -- you almost never print anything true or important anyway, so I stopped paying attention. You taught me that." Then he smiles. "Besides, your readers only get words and pictures. I have the real thing."
Malfoy coughs harder, and Weasley's mouth quirks into a smile as Potter grabs their hands and Disapparates.
Skeeter's interview is published in the next morning's Daily Prophet, and sales explode again.
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