Fic: Articulate

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Title: Articulate
Author: i_am_girlfriday
Gift For: sirikit
Summary: Rose Weasley doesn’t understand teenage boys at all, especially Scorpius Malfoy.
Rating: PG
Warnings: none
Word Count: 2,416
Author's notes: The request was for a friendship-into-romance sort of story. Or even just good flirting, or them having a good laugh together. Prompts included: Hogsmeade

Comments

[aldehyde]

so lovely@! you've captured adolescent awkwardness perfectly. my fave part was:-

He refines that thought, edits himself, because it’s not that he has trouble with words. His mind races with them, he is eloquent, he can even be poetic. He devours the language of prose. He hoards lyrics, stanzas, stories, and spells. Yet he’s unable to translate his thoughts into normal conversation. When he’s around Rose especially, he can hardly form sentences. He can’t seem to speak above a whisper. His mind only has access to ten words at most, not the profuse tens of thousands of words he knows.

this was the first time i'd seen scorpius described in this manner. well done :)

[i_am_girlfriday]

Thanks so much for your comment :) I think that since we know so little about Scorpius and Rose, it's fun to imagine them in many different ways.

[doctoraicha]

That was just adorable, and so, so sweet. :)

[i_am_girlfriday]

Thank you! And thanks for commenting :)

[magglenagall]

*flails* Tall, flat-chested Rose and shy, hopelessly tongue-tied, bookish Scorpius? I think I love you, Anonymous. Putting Scorpius in Hufflepuff was the icing on the cake. This was really sweet and lovely, and I hope your recipient enjoys it just as much as I did.

[i_am_girlfriday]

Aw! You love me! *grins*

For some reason I really do picture Scorpius as a bit of a misfit. I'd like to think that his father tries to be a different kind of parent than his own, and maybe the result of that is a more gentle kid :)

[silburygirl]

Very cute-very enjoyable to see them both behaving awkwardly.

[i_am_girlfriday]

Aw teens! I know I was awkward... Thanks for commenting!

[drcjsnider]

Oh... I loved this part: Everyday that goes by that no one asks out Rose Weasley has been a glorious day for Scorpius Malfoy. How could it be that what has him rejoicing is making her so miserable? He feels lazy and anguished for putting off to later what he should have done long ago. It is more than just a divine accident that Rose’s note ended up in his book during the shuffle: it is a sign.

I also like how embarassed scorpius is to accidently refer to Rose as perfect... so cute

[i_am_girlfriday]

That's one of my favorite parts too. :) Thanks for reading!