Featured Submission Q&A: Friend Number Three by riptey

[riptey]

I'm greatly honored to be featured again, especially for my pet story, Friend Number Three, and also especially for my pet side character, Pansy Parkinson. As everyone who's read my overemotional endnotes will know, it was the first story I wrote and also the most personal so far. All my stories are personal, but this one stands out in my mind.

Comments

[dormiensa]

congrats on being featured! :D now, for those days of self-doubt, please remember this post! ;)

[silverflight8]

I love Friend Number Three :) It never fails to make me smile. Congratulations on being featured!

[rumaan_1]

I really do love this story as mentioned before stole a one-shot story title from one of you ANs. I love the journey Draco takes in this. Its so realistic but done with so much warmth and humour. Congrats in having it featured :)

[pokeystar]

I love this story, and it makes me very happy to see it featured.

I now have an itch to write my favorite movies as no frills chronological lists:

It Happened One Night
Some Like it Hot
Pulp Fiction
The Women
Harvey
etc.

[kanames_harisen]

I just got done reading this story and I loved it! Congrats on being featured!

I was kind of curious as to what became of Pansy though. I kind of loved her, all full of needles as she was. Did you ever think about what her epilogue might be?

[riptey]

Thank you, and great question! I've actually considered many times writing a spin-off one-shot about Pansy's day at the concert.

I love to ship her with Ron (I even wrote a one-shot about just them for the Interhouse Fest last year), and I would have imagined that they ran into each other that day when they were both feeling awkward and somewhat out-of-place. Maybe they ended up commiserating about Draco and Hermione, since this would be the first time either of them actually had to see the couple together in person. I don't know that they would end up together ultimately, considering Pansy's life goals and priorities in this story, but that was what I always envisioned. Some reviewers caught on as well, so I must have successfully implied it. :)

[kanames_harisen]

Oh, I think that would be fun to read, if you decided to write it. And thanks for the link to your other Ron/Pansy story - I look forward to reading it!

Thanks for answering my question!