The Purple Snitch

[dracogotgame]

Title: The Purple Snitch
Rating: PG 13
Word Count: 1,780
Warning: Mostly gen, hints of Harry/Draco
Summary: The Eighth Years won't let a silly storm stop them from playing a game of 'Quidditch'.
Author's notes: Written for hd_writers Wizarding Games 2014. Prompts as below:
Assignment 1: Knight takes Queen, Card Games, Cheering, Rained Out

Comments

[dracogotgame]

Thank you so much :D

I love the idea that they're just kids and it was so fun to write them like that- just silly and happy and playing a really awful game of Quidditch XD

The prompts were hard to work in but I guess that's why it's a challenge. Thanks again and go lions! <3

[anemonen]

Aw, this was really sweet <333 I loved how it was kind of silly, but still of sad and serious underneath. That they all needed to goof around a bit to forget. Very well done. And lovely use of the prompts as usual! You're brilliant! \o/

[dracogotgame]

Thank you, darling! I'm so glad you caught that little undercurrent of angst I put in there. It's sad, all they've been through but perhaps a little game of 'Quidditch' is all they need to bring back some of he spark.

Also, you're much too kind. *blushes*

Thank you so very much for your lovely words.

Go team! *fustbump*

[alexicyn]

You made me cry! Which is actually, not a bad thing at the moment, since I seemed to have needed it.

Thanks for that.

And yes, they are children. Something that so many seemed to forget. They were teens. Circe only knows what I would have done at 17 or 18 faced with the same horrors.

And since purple is my favorite color, PURPLE SNITCH FOR THE WIN!!!!! :D

[dracogotgame]

Oh dear. Not the reaction I was going for D:

*snuggles*

But you're so right- at the end of it, they were just children and they deserved better than the horrors they witnessed. I don't think anyone could have come out of that okay, but they did somehow.

Yay for purple snitches :D Thank you so much, darling <3

[slashedsilver]

Gosh this was at turns heartbreaking and sweet and wonderfully lovely. I love how you tried to show a bit more of the impact of the war on the Eighth Years. And yes. They're still just children. Loved that.

[dracogotgame]

I think it got a bit more angsty than I anticipated

Oopsie?

*grins*

Thank you so much, love <3 I do believe that they would all struggle to move on and it was nice to imagine that Quidditch could give them a little slice of normal again ^_^

So glad you enjoyed it!

[lijahlover]

You did an amazing job with all the prompts.

I loved the light yet sad feel to it, I know they needed to goof off for awhile and lift their spirits. The war messed them up badly.

They were children like Minerva mentioned and sometimes it is such fun to act like they are just that....children.