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Cat's Birthday HP Drabblethon IV

Apr 22, 2007 00:00

Sorted: 149 prompts! Blame the Cat(s).

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for <lj user="into_desire"> lolaraincoat April 22 2007, 17:46:37 UTC

With thanks and birthday greetings to the Sorting Cat, whose inability to count to a hundred was an inspiration.

recipient: into_desire
prompt: Hermione explains why the Express runs from nine and three-quarters, but she's wrong.
word count: 100 precisely
warnings: no sex, no death, some string theory

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If reading in their tent by wandlight helped Hermione escape from the realities of battle, what harm was it?

She brandished The Elegant Universe: "It says that Muggles discovered eleven dimensions - maybe twenty-three!"

"So?" Ginny mumbled.

"The implications are huge! Just for starters, this must explain how Apparating really works. And why we use platform Nine and Three-Quarters. 9.75 corresponds to -"

Ginny interrupted. "Oh, no, Mum told me why. When they made it, everyone figured the first-years couldn't count up to ten."

"But - "

"Go to sleep," Ginny said. "The war will still be there in the morning."

Re: for <lj user="into_desire"> into_desire April 22 2007, 18:03:38 UTC

I love this so much!

I couldn't wait to see what someone would come up with for this prompt. This is so much cleverer than anything I imagined. Congratulations on writing the first-ever HP/Quantum Physics crossover... And somehow in just a few lines of dialogue you captured Hermione, Ginny, and the wizarding world's zany logic just perfectly.

:D :D :D

Re: for <lj user="into_desire"> lolaraincoat April 22 2007, 20:09:38 UTC

I'm so glad you liked it! It was a brilliant prompt!

Re: for <lj user="into_desire"> into_desire April 22 2007, 21:20:18 UTC

Thank you!

I just looked at your journal (and read some of your other drabbles) and found it extremely interesting, so I've friended you. :) I always enjoy the people journalling about teaching and universities, so I'd like to be on that filter, as mentioned in your profile, if you want to friend me back of course. (This incarnation of my journal is pretty new.)

Re: for <lj user="into_desire"> lolaraincoat April 23 2007, 02:57:23 UTC

Sure thing! The academic stuff is more tedious than it is anything else, but no accounting for taste ... ;)

Re: for <lj user="into_desire"> into_desire April 23 2007, 04:39:33 UTC

Thank you. :)

Re: for <lj user="into_desire"> hildigunnur April 22 2007, 20:01:15 UTC

Excellent! Love both Hermione and Ginny in this and the real explanation for platform Nine and Three-Quarters (very canon-esque!).

Re: for <lj user="into_desire"> lolaraincoat April 22 2007, 20:10:34 UTC

Thank you so much!

Re: for <lj user="into_desire"> merrycontrary April 22 2007, 20:50:38 UTC

Bwa! Poor Hermione, with her Muggle logic.

Re: for <lj user="into_desire"> lolaraincoat April 25 2007, 04:29:58 UTC

Glad you liked it!

Re: for <lj user="into_desire"> marginaliana April 23 2007, 03:15:03 UTC

Ahahaha! Oh, man, this is so Hermione. Love it!

Re: for <lj user="into_desire"> lolaraincoat April 25 2007, 04:31:53 UTC

Thanks!

Re: for <lj user="into_desire"> lilacsigil April 23 2007, 10:21:06 UTC

This is brilliant! Poor Hermione, trying to apply logic where there is...well, not *no* logic, but it's certainly not *her* logic!

Re: for <lj user="into_desire"> lolaraincoat April 25 2007, 04:33:03 UTC

Hee! Yes, that's it exacly. And thanks!

Re: for <lj user="into_desire"> archon_mentha April 23 2007, 21:20:23 UTC

Ha! I love it!

Re: for <lj user="into_desire"> lolaraincoat April 25 2007, 04:34:23 UTC

Thanks! Glad you liked it!

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