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anythingbutgrey ([personal profile] anythingbutgrey) wrote2010-11-23 02:27 pm

HARRY POTTER NON-CANON SHIPS COMMENT FICATHON




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Harry 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:

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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:

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Have fun!

ETA:

[livejournal.com profile] effingeden has graciously offered to archive our prompts and fic here. Thanks so much!

tom/ginny - nothing in this room but empty space (2/2)

(Anonymous) 2010-11-25 12:18 am (UTC)(link)
--

Ginny has never seen Tom’s face. Even now that she remembers all of it, everything, clicking into place, she knows that much at least. But she can still hear his slippery-smooth and charming voice in her head, can still trace his loopy handwriting in her mind. It’s been ages since she last saw it, but it’s easier than it should be to slip into memory.

“Harry will always think of me as Ron’s kid sister,” she writes in her diary, laying flat on her stomach on her bed. It’s only a few months into her first year and she’s gotten nothing more than a few friendly waves from the school’s hero.

“You are more than that, Ginny,” Tom writes back, his handwriting strong and sure. “Harry would be a fool not to know the prize he’s got in front of him.”

Tom is always so kind, so reassuring. Sometimes Ginny thinks that she wouldn’t spend another second thinking about Harry if Tom came to meet her finally. He talks about wanting to see her sometimes but she doesn’t know when.

She imagines that he’ll be tall, broad-shouldered, a protector. He could walk her to classes and even the older girls would be jealous. He’d be too much of a gentleman to kiss her in front of her classmates, but they’d know anyway that he would want to just from the look on his face.

“Where do you live?” Ginny asks once, after a long, hard day where she’d let herself wish that Tom was there. “Can you come to visit?”

The diary's page stays blank for a few minutes. “I go to school very far away,” Tom finally answers. “But Ginny, if I could, I’d come visit you tomorrow.”

Ginny is enraptured by this. She pictures him riding up to the castle in one of the carriages and literally sweeping her off her feet.

Tom doesn’t mention it often, but she knows that he cares about her too. He’s more than just a patient ear. She’s never been just a kid to Tom. She knows that maybe it won’t go anywhere, she thinks she’ll always consider Tom her first love.

--

Ginny bolts up in her bed. It’s hard to reconcile the image of Tom, her caring and patient crush, with Lord Voldemort.

Secretly, Ginny hopes she will never have to fight in the war. She wouldn’t mind fighting Death Eaters, but she’s scared to think of how she’ll react if she finally sees the face of Tom Marvolo Riddle.

I meant for this to be much shippier and less angsty. Sorry about that!

Re: tom/ginny - nothing in this room but empty space (2/2)

[identity profile] softly-me.livejournal.com 2010-11-25 11:53 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, never apologize for angst. This was great. I love the simplicity of Ginny's feelings for him at the time. It feels so much like a schoolgirl crush, but the reality is much darker and more twisted. Thanks so much for writing.

[identity profile] deathofyourface.livejournal.com 2011-12-27 12:57 pm (UTC)(link)
oh god this is beautiful.