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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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Have fun!

ETA:

effingeden has graciously offered to archive our prompts and fic here. Thanks so much!

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Everyone else remembered it as the day Harry Potter came to Hogwarts. Minerva McGonagall, however, remembered it as the that Neville Longbottom arrived in her school and in her House.

They all talked of Harry’s eyes, and how like his mother’s they were. They forgot to mention how Neville’s eyes were the same as his grandmother’s.

They all mentioned the great things that Potter was supposed to do, to live up to his parents’ names. They neglected to say that Augusta Longbottom had been the clumsiest girl of her year and that Neville seemed to be living up to her name.

But Minerva remembered. She knew. It ached like a bottomless pit in her heart, these reminders of things she should have forgotten by now.

The first time she was forced to Floo call Augusta about Neville, Minerva busied her mind instead with thoughts of the famous one under her care—could Harry’s family really ignore him so completely? It was better than thinking about how fierce and caring Augusta was, and how hard this meeting was going to be.

Despite the fact it had been fifty years, and that they were both much aged and worn, the moment Augusta walked in the office it was like that first day Minerva had met her, when they’d fallen down a flight of stairs. The sight of her kicked Minerva in the stomach, reminding her of all her impossible wishes and even more impossible dreams in years past.

“Professor McGonagall.” The greeting was clipped, the voice stilted. The woman’s carriage was stiff, and there was barely a glimmer of the girl Minerva had fallen in love with so very long ago.

“Madame Longbottom,” Minerva replied softly, her heartbreak braided up into her tightbun, where only Augusta could ever find it, if she ever dared to look. Her wishes stayed on her tongue, and her desires in the secret place in her heart.

You knew better, Minerva told herself as Augusta sat, than to wish impossible things.

But as she rose to leave, Augusta paused at the door. “Perhaps you would like to visit and catch up sometime?” she proposed in the same stiff voice as earlier.

“Revisit old times?” Minerva said.

“Perhaps let our hair down a little,” Augusta replied.

But sometimes, maybe, impossible wishes might come true.

Ooooh, this is lovely. ♥

Thank you so much for this! These two have been one of my favorite minor character ships for a while, but I've never seen fic for them. This was brilliant. There's this lovely sort of tentative fondness between the women.

I especially love that Augusta was clumsy too. It puts rather a spin on her relationship with Neville. Like she used to be as silly and bumbling as he was and that's why she's so hard, because she's afraid no one will take him seriously.

Well, I can definitely believe this ship!

It's hard to see your flaws, things that gave you such a hard time, in the next generation and know what they'll suffer from. She only wants the best for him :)

I'm so glad you liked it.

This is lovely. Such rigid, contained women. I love what it between the lines here.

I love reading between the lines. Thanks for taking the time with mine! I'm glad you enjoyed it.

HARRY POTTER NON-CANON SHIPS COMMENT FICATHON

To Wish Impossible -- Minerva McGonagall/Augusta Longbottom

Re: To Wish Impossible -- Minerva McGonagall/Augusta Longbottom

Re: To Wish Impossible -- Minerva McGonagall/Augusta Longbottom

Re: To Wish Impossible -- Minerva McGonagall/Augusta Longbottom

Re: To Wish Impossible -- Minerva McGonagall/Augusta Longbottom

Re: To Wish Impossible -- Minerva McGonagall/Augusta Longbottom