FIC: "Five Creatures that Luna Believes In..."* (Luna and Friends)

[kellychambliss]

Title: Five Creatures That Luna Believes In That Hermione Doesn’t* (*But One That She Might)
Author: Kelly Chambliss
Rating: PG
Characters: Luna, her dad, Hermione, Ron, Neville, Crabbe, Millicent, Ginny, the Fat Lady, Professors McGonagall and Vector. And a pairing to be named later.
Word Count:  4200
Warnings: Fantastical creatures. Secret snogging

Comments

[kellychambliss]

And… ZOMGHARRYHERMIONE! *dies*

/g/ I know. . .the things we do for fests. But it was the recipient's OTP, and I know how that feels.

So glad you enjoyed this. And thanks -- I much prefer "funny" over "silly" as an assessment. It was fun to think up the creatures.

[therealsnape]

it had actually -- really and truly -- blibbered at her. The kind of brilliant description that makes you think 'fancy that', before you realise you've no idea what 'blibbering' looks like ...

"No offense, Nev, but your gran is --" How perfectly Ron. And how kind, in spite of his natural-born clumsiness, to stop there.

Even if he had a case to make, which he didn't. Alas, that's our Ron, too ...

Luna thought that perhaps Madam Pince remained silent because she didn't want to discourage this first sign of his academic interest. The way I see it, Mme Pince knows the importance of experiences other than academic ones.

Her father had once told her an interesting tale about the time a verret had sat under the chair of Ron Weasley's Auntie Muriel. . . And at this point, you decided, for reasons best known to yourself, that we wanted a teen-age snog fest. Which is what got me started. I'll post somewhere this week.

"Why, Vince Crabbe! I do believe you've got a romantic streak. Love this Regency-times slyness of our Millicent!

"

[kellychambliss]

Thank you for this lovely comment -- and thought-provoking, too! If I don't get around to writing the Rolanda/Ravenclaw House Team/Brooms story, I do hope you will.

The Kink Fest starts up this week...I'll lay money there won't be a broom fic at all.

[queen_of_snapes]

What a treat! The ending made me feel all fuzzy and warm, beautiful!

Luna is probably my favourite student character in both books and films, I love her dreamyness. You write her so well, the way she sees the world, how she believes in those creatures no one else believes in, how she pays more attention to what's going on...

I can't decide which parts I liked best, the whole story is perfect. Harry and Hermione making out on the Quidditch patch, McGonagall and Vector on that (perfectly transfigured) bench, even Millicent and Crabbe! All the creatures sound really fantastic, especially the Wrackspurt, there must be a whole colony in my room.

I so hope you'll write more Luna at some point!

[kellychambliss]

Thanks! I'm glad you liked Luna; she was harder to write than I expected. I prefer stories that make her rather strange, but not just goofy or a joke. And that's not as easy as I'd thought!

The wrackspurt is canon, but I made up all the others, which was fun. But yeah, I have no trouble believing in wrackspurts at all.

[minervas_eule]

I am sadly so late with my reading, that there seems nothing new in a way of comment to add ;-); it has been such a delight, of souffle-quality so to speak *gg* - especially sweet to me as Minerva/Vector is the No 1-pairing of my heart (as we do know nothing but her name and profession, we can make her anything we like ;-), and yours seems wonderful, even without the added intellect of the secarus *gg* )

[kellychambliss]

Thanks! I like "souffle-quality" -- that's just how I see it, too. And you're right about Vector: even in bare-bones canon, I think she fits with Minerva, and then we do have the fun of making her whatever we want.

You may already have read this story, but if not, I think you'll like it: McGonagall/Vector -- "Two"

[kellychambliss]

Thank you! I enjoyed thinking up the creatures. And I would have preferred, when the time came for me to depart this vale of tears, to have been able proudly to proclaim that I'd never written Harry/Hermione, but that was the fest-recipient's OTP. So there was no escape. But I allowed myself to keep them off-stage /g/.