HP Fic: School Supplies for hp_summergen

[catsintheattic]

Rating: G
Category: genfic
Era: pre-Hogwarts
Main Characters: Luna Lovegood, Hermione Granger, Lavender Brown, Neville Longbottom
Ship(s): none
Warnings: Three (slight) violations of canon. Spot them, and you'll get a cookie. :-D
Summary: They are about to go to Hogwarts by the end of the summer, to become adept wizards and witches. And while they

Comments

[cruentum]

I admittedly did not spot the canon violations *stares hard at story again* Nope.

I enjoyed that. I have a soft spot for characters-as-children story (somewhat embarrassing, I suppose) and I really did enjoy Luna and Neville and Hermione in there. Lavender's bit was good, too, but did not quite resonate as much with me.

It was interesting to see the child-parent interactions of the characters we see grow up in the series, and rather spot-on, especially for Neville and Luna, I think.

I liked Ollivander, too. His behaviour was quite IC, in my opinion.

[catsintheattic]

Thank you for reading and leaving such a lovely feedback.

did not spot the canon violations

Hehe. *giggles* Look again. One is really big, the other two are tiny, and I only spotted them because I'm listening to the audiobooks these days. This is clearly a test for canon nerds.

I'm glad to hear that you enjoyed the story. I had so much fun writing it, especially with making up the little details to flesh out the characters.

I have to admit that Lavender's part was the hardest: she is such a girlie girl, which makes it very hard for me to connect to her character. I clearly prefer the weird and the bookish. *g*

have a soft spot for characters-as-children story

If you like those, I have another one that you might enjoy. It's about Barty Crouch junior and his dad.

[cruentum]

*hehe* I got it: Luna is a year younger than the rest of them.

Nevertheless: Ooooh, lovely! *squees*
You told me about that and I love what you made of it. You draw such nice pictures of the characters just before school. Such different families and different ways to shop for their supplies. Who cares about canon!?

[jaelle_n_gilla]

narg! It logged me out again!

De-lurking

[fell_beast2]

Lovely fic! I especially liked Neville and Luna.

I think I spotted the canon violations: Luna being a year older, Ollivander using Veela hair and dragon scales in his wands, and Neville's grandmother buying his toad?

Re: De-lurking

[catsintheattic]

Thank you for your review! It's nice to hear from you. :-)

Well done with the detective job: you've got two out of three. And you've spotted a new one, the information about Ollivander's wands, but I was counting that one as artistic freedom. *g*

There is yet another one to find!

[blonde_cecile]

Aww! These are each so cute! I love how each of these passages overlap each other; how the characters cross paths. I also loved how you explained why Binky never went to Hogwarts with Lavender. What clever ideas you have!

Admittedly, the only violation I recognized was the one of Luna being older. :|

[catsintheattic]

Thank you for your lovely review!

I'm so happy that you liked the overlaps! I wanted the children to meet each other without really meeting, more like an interaction from a meta point of view. *g*

Binky: There is this paragraph in Harry's letter from Hogwarts that the children are allowed to bring an owl, a cat or a toad. So I tried to use that as a starting point. Funny thing is, it leaves me wondering why Scabbers was allowed. Maybe JKR simply forgot to mention rats in her list, because with Scabbers as well, it is mentioned in PoA that he has never showed any powers. Powers and usefulness to the wizard seem to be important in determining whether an animal can count as a familiar.

I guess I should make another post with the solutions about the canon violations. :-)