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anythingbutgrey) wrote2010-11-23 02:27 pm
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HARRY POTTER NON-CANON SHIPS COMMENT FICATHON
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operatingroomHarry Potter Non-Canon Ships Comment Ficathon
THE RULES ARE THUS:
1. WHAT MAKES A NON-CANON SHIP? Anything that is not at least one-sided in the books. This means that Snape/Lily is canon, even if she may (or may not) have ever reciprocated. Bellatrix/Voldemort is canon. Lavendar/Ron is canon. Obviously everyone who's married and/or dates is canon. OBHWF is canon, Harry/Cho is canon. Ships that are not stated as fact in the books are not canon. That means UC ships are good, slash is good, femslash is good. For our purposes, we are not counting JKR's interviews as canon. That means that if you wanted to prompt, say, who knows, Hannah/Neville, you could, because it's not in the text itself.
2. You leave a comment with a pairing and a prompt. You respond to prompts that you like. Your prompt must pertain to a non-canon ship. You may specify a character within that ship if you want the fic written from that characters perspective. You may also specify a timeline if you'd like, or if you want it to take place in the movie!verse.
3. When writing fic, put in your title SHIP - TITLE OF FIC (rating optional). This will help us archive if we later archive things. I don't have time to archive anything right now, but if someone wants to volunteer, we can make that happen.
4. LEAVE FEEDBACK. Comments are the lifeblood of the internet.
5. NO WANK. I'll delete your ass. And we're dealing with ships and I am deletion happy, so watch yourself.
6. There will be spoilers for the movie all over this post, I am sure. You have been warned.
7. Promote this if you please. You can use this code:
For text link:
In the image code box, you can use any of the banners below or the lead banner at the top of the post.
They're all uploaded to tinypic, so you can just copy/paste the source code:
by eleusis_walks
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If you want to make your own banner, please post it here.
Have fun!
ETA:
effingeden has graciously offered to archive our prompts and fic here. Thanks so much!
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cho/neville - the heart for it (1/2)
In the common room, Cho pulls her knees to her chest. There's a space next to her where Luna normally is. Luna's been gone for days now. Cho doesn't think about it, nor does she think about the way that various corners of the room seem to stare at her. Ravenclaws are not known for their fighting. They're known for thinking. Cho is, for better or worse, known for both. On some level, she does like that, being known, but she would prefer to be invisible. Being seen in this war means an X over your name, and Cho cannot tolerate the sight of her own blood.
Someone calls a hissing blood traitor from across the room. Voldemort might breed in Slytherin but that doesn't mean he can't slip outside, sneak into the calm silver and blue commons of this house. There are no uninfected homes these days. Cho clenches her toes in her shoes, but does not otherwise flinch. A reaction is as good as a confession. Still, it makes her skin creep, makes her think of her parents tucked away and not thinking that their daughter is fighting a war. Cho is braver than people think she is. You have one emotional breakdown over a dead boyfriend and everyone thinks you can't carry any weight.
A first year waddles up to her and taps her on the shoulder. Cho jumps at the intrusion, and then turns around, setting her Charms textbook face down on her lap.
"Neville wants to see you," the first year sputters. She puts the emphasis on the wrong place in Neville's name, and Cho imagines this girl has never heard of Neville Longbottom before. It takes a long time before houses start speaking to each other. Cho thinks this is a shame. They're not all so different, in the end. Cho whispers a thank you to this girl, this child, and tries not to think of the many years ago when Cho was her, when she walked through the Ravenclaw common room unable to breathe she was so enchanted. It doesn't seem like seven years ago. It feels like decades. Her bones ache. She ignores the stares that accompany her exit from the common room and breathes a little easier when she steps outside, when Neville turns to her, smiling.
Cho grins back. She feels safe around Neville. He has become their accidental leader, and the role, surprisingly, suits him. He walks taller than he ever has, though with a constant air of caution, like death could leap out of any corridor. These days, it could, and Neville thinks he has to protect all of them before himself. Cho is starting to get the feeling that Gryffindors are all warriors with self-sacrificial complexes.
"I was going to do some touring around the halls," Neville says. By touring, he means snooping, and it would be dangerous these days but Neville can get away with a lot of things. Everyone still remembers the small, shaking boy he used to be. Being perpetually underestimated will allow anyone to get away with unimaginable things.
"Looking for company?" Cho asks, but they're already walking toward the stairs. Her skin prickles. She is not as brave as Neville is. Ravenclaws are cautionary people. Neville would leap into battle, wand at the ready, while Cho would stand back and draw plans. She is not built for wandering the halls in a building owned by Severus Snape. But she also knows that Neville would never let anything happen to her, so she keeps going.
cho/neville - the heart for it (2/2)
"I wanted to see how you were doing," Neville says as they walk down the stairs. "With Luna."
Neville chokes on the word, briefly. Cho watches him. Luna was a key part of the Neville-Ginny-Luna troika of heroism. Without her, they've been off-balance for days. Cho can talk about her sorrow and worry at Luna's absence, but it will never match theirs. Theirs is a world Cho cannot fit into. This is a familiar tale. But Cho doesn't say this. Cho shoves her hands into the pockets of her robes and taps her finger along the tip of her wand. She sleeps with it in her hands these days, like a child with her stuffed animal.
"I'm okay," she whispers. She has a feeling this conversation is as much for Neville as for her, like if she starts to talk about Luna maybe he can find something to say. Cho saw Ginny crying in the girl's bathroom last week. Ginny didn't see her.
"I know it must be hard," Neville says, staring into the distance, his steps matched with Cho's. "She was—she is a... good person to have around."
Cho laughs a little, thinking of Luna's antics. There was always something, some invisible beast responsible for missing socks or ticking sounds only Luna could hear. They needed that. Cho needed that. And she needed that in the Ravenclaw wing in a war that she often felt shut out of.
"What's hard," she says, because this she can say, this she feels she must, "is being one of the very few Ravenclaws in our band of merry men. It's hard being the only Chinese girl at this damn school. It's hard being that girl who betrayed Harry Potter for her best friend in fifth year. It's hard fighting a war when everyone still expects you to burst into tears at the drop of a hat. That's what's hard."
By the end, she feels slightly breathless. She hadn't meant to say that much. Neville has already stopped walking, and she has paused alongside him, not looking him in the eye. People are used to Ravenclaws like Luna, who, highly visible and notorious in her own right, doesn't really get... angry would be the best word to use. Cho gets angry. Cho is often angry. Not many people will listen. Neville always listens.
Cho sighs and looks away. "Sometimes it's just hard to remember why I'm fighting this. I don't know how you're not exhausted. Even I can barely stand and you're—you're much more of a fighter than me. I could never be that brave."
Neville peers at her for a long moment. It makes her feel like he's looking at some part of her she doesn't want him to see, and makes her skin itch.
"I think you're more of a fighter than you realize you are," Neville whispers in the dark. He reaches to her and brushes his thumb against her cheek. His hands are warm in the dark, cold corridor that grows colder each day. "And I think you're very brave."
Re: cho/neville - the heart for it (2/2)
Cho gets angry. Cho is often angry. Not many people will listen. Neville always listens.
Best thing ever.
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only cho would have been graduated because she was a year older than harry
BUT EVEN SO THIS IS PERFECTION <3
Re: cho/neville - the heart for it (2/2)
FFFUUUU.
OH WELL. THIS IS A CANONICAL MESS FOR MANY REASONS. we'll pretend~
Re: cho/neville - the heart for it (2/2)
but yeah she was a hot fourth year on a broom when harry met her third year. she's cedric's year.
(over here shipping harry/cho like a bamf lolol)
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woops
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favorite thing in this
you need to write more cho. you write her fierce as fuck.
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