H/D Art Post: Visiting Harry

[naadi]

Title: Visiting Harry
Media: Photoshop, GIF Animator
Rating: PG
Warnings: one large, naughty adorable beetle (does that need a warning?)
Notes: Thank you to dysonrules for prompting this! Like so many in the H/D fandom, I fell head over heels in love with Stanley the mint beetle from saras_girl's fic All Life is Yours to Miss, and I loved the opportunity to bring him

Comments

[naadi]

Thank you so much, hon!! <333 Hee - I know - but he is SO CUTE! :DD

[birdsofshore]

Your art is like exactly what's in my head when I read a fic, except a hundred times prettier! <3

[naadi]

Hee - you are so sweet to say that!! <333 Thank you so much, dear! ^.^

[shyfoxling]

How darling!

Since the story is ACK epically long, I hope you will indulge me - why a "mint" beetle? He looks like porcelain to me. What's minty about him?

[naadi]

Thank you! ^.^ I'm so pleased you enjoyed it!!

The story is so endearing and wonderfully written, the length is hardly noticeable! But *grin* I'll be glad to answer your question. Mint beetles are small, blue or green, common beetles in the UK - they are so named because they eat mint leaves. In this story, Draco is the Transfiguration professor at Hogwarts and Stanley is the result of a student's Transfiguration class exercise - turn this beetle into a teacup - gone wrong, which is how he got to be so big and has a willow china pattern on his shell. Draco rescued him and kept him as a pet. :) Harry here is also the victim of a spell gone wrong and is paralyzed but conscious and he's never seen Stanley, so has no idea what is walking all over him. Draco and Stanley keep him company while they wait for the spell to wear off. Hope that helps! :D But really, *grin* you should read it. ;-)

[shyfoxling]

Harry here is also the victim of a spell gone wrong and is paralyzed but conscious and he's never seen Stanley, so has no idea what is walking all over him.

I liked Harry's mental picture of some kind of hideous monstrous insect crawling on him, yeah. :)

[naadi]

Yay! *grin* I had fun drawing that! :DD

[aome]

I love the blue-china pattern on Stanley's shell. Very sweet expression on Draco's face, too. :-)

[naadi]

Thank you so much, dear!! I'm so glad you liked the willow pattern on Stanley and that the expression on Draco's face came across! <333

[secretsolitaire]

Haven't read the story, but the art is adorable! :)

[naadi]

Thanks so much! <333 (It really is a wonderful read! :D)