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.

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Comments

[ladysophiekitty.livejournal.com]

Harry/Hermione, you were my almost lover

[poppypickle.livejournal.com]

Claiming. Will try and finish it tonight...;-)

[lykeleia.livejournal.com]

So GOOD! Brilliant, absolutely lovely.

Like a stolen moment that could have really happened.

[poppypickle.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much! I'm so glad that you enjoyed it. <3

harry/hermione -- this is my winter song to you

[poppypickle.livejournal.com]

(The fic is slightly too long, so I split it into two comments...)



It is very, very late. Or early. Hermione isn’t sure which. It is that point in the night that seems to straddle both -- lost somewhere in between.

“You were supposed to wake me up hours ago to take over the watch.”

The sound of her voice behind him startles Harry -- makes him tighten his grip on the feeble replacement wand -- but he relaxes almost immediately.

“I thought you could use the rest,” he shrugs, keeping his eyes on the horizon. “Is Ron still sleeping?”

Hermione takes a step forward, the thin blanket of snow cracking under her feet. “Yes. Sometimes I think he could sleep through the end of the world.”

Harry’s lips press together into a smile that doesn’t quite reach his eyes. “You should go back inside,” he says after awhile.

He’s right, of course. She should go back inside. She should go back inside and pull the tent flaps tightly together so that she cannot see him. Cannot ask him the question that has been trapped against her lips all day long. But it is the middle of the night and she is cold and she is hungry and she is so damn tired of shoulds.

“Harry?”

“Mmm?”

She takes another careful step forward, then another, until she is standing next to him. “What happened? When Ron destroyed the Horcrux.”

His shoulders tense almost imperceptibly. “Hermione…” He sighs heavily and she watches his breath dissolve against the pale sky. “It was nothing.”

She lowers herself down to sit next to him, feeling him stiffen across the space between them. “You’re lying.”

Harry sighs again, scrubbing his hands over his face. “It taunted him. Tormented him. Showed him his greatest fears,” he replies gruffly, turning his body away from her.

The words are out of her mouth before she can stop them. “What did it show him?”

“It was us,” Harry confesses after a long time. “You and me. Together.”

(He does not look at her, and Hermione thinks maybe that’s for the best. Because she knew the answer before she asked the question. Because perhaps she has always known the answer.)

“I thought it might have been something like that,” Hermione says after a moment, staring straight ahead. She tries to keep her voice even. Logical.

“It was nothing,” Harry says again, quietly. Almost to himself. “We are just friends.”

It is Hermione’s turn to sigh. “Harry.”

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[poppypickle.livejournal.com]

He takes off his glasses and presses his fingertips to the bridge of his nose. “We can’t --”

“I know we can’t,” she cuts him off sharply. They never could. Not then and certainly not now. “I know that,” Hermione says again, more quietly this time.

“What does it matter, then?” Harry murmurs. Without warning a sliver of sunlight rises out of the horizon, cutting a streak of orange across his face and for a moment Hermione thinks of the boy she met on the train all those years ago. Apprehensive. Overwhelmed. Impossibly young.

They are still so impossibly young.

“It matters,” she says. It will be a miracle if they all come out of this alive. None of them say it, but they know it all the same. The whole world is their deathbed, and Hermione knows that people do not -- should not -- tell lies on their deathbed. Not even to themselves.

“Harry…” She whispers his name like a caress and he finally turns to look at her. Wordlessly, he lifts his hand tentatively up to her cheek. She can feel his fingers trembling as he brushes the pad of his thumb against her skin. Hermione brings her hand up to his and they hold each other’s gaze for a long time, the moment heavy with a finality that takes her breath away.

I could have loved you, she wants to tell him. If given half the chance.

But instead she says, “You should get some rest, Harry.”

He pulls his hand away slowly, the moment broken. “Yeah,” he nods, brushing the snow off of his clothes as he moves to stand up. “You’re right.” He takes a few steps towards the tent, the turns back towards her abruptly. “Hermione?”

She knows that her voice will betray her, so she wordlessly turns to meet his eyes.

“Thank you. For everything.” Harry says simply, but somehow it sounds a little like goodbye to her. Then he parts the heavy canvas flaps and disappears inside the tent.

Hermione stares after him for a moment, then turns back to watch the sun begin to bathe the cold earth in its fiery orange light. Her tears glow like embers as they silently streak down her cheeks.

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[infinitegraces]

This is so wonderfully, beautifully heartbreaking.

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[freshvolk.livejournal.com]

I've been trying to express how wonderful this story was for a while. I can't. It was so simple yet so perfectly heartbreaking.

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[breakingsilence.livejournal.com]

tears in my eyes. this is stunning.

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[scatteredintime.livejournal.com]

;__; This is beautiful. So beautiful and heartbreaking and ugh. I love it.

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[victoria-tonks.livejournal.com]

My heart has just broken in two and I cannot put it back together. :((( Oh my word. I feel like crying.

Great writing! ♥

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[marenkp.livejournal.com]

Tragic and beautiful.

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[onetraveller.livejournal.com]

... i ... can't good god, my fandom is so incredibly talented! I want to quote the whole thing.

“I know we can’t,” she cuts him off sharply. They never could. Not then and certainly not now.

BREAK MY HEART ALL OVER AGAIN, WON'T YOU?

Her tears glow like embers as they silently streak down her cheeks.

... I can't. This is just so tragic, and at the same time so incredibly stunning your words paint this vivid, harsh, beautiful picture and I'm sucked into this world that you have brought to life. gorgeous.

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[i-rise-inside.livejournal.com]

Everything about this hurts. The intimacy between them, the words unsaid, the goodbye to something that didnt even happen - i'm heartbroken. And I love you for it.

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[reasonandmusic.livejournal.com]

This was amazing. It was beautiful, but oh so painful. I teared up when reading it, in the best possible way. Truly brilliant stuff.

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[kmsiw10.livejournal.com]

Lovely but breaks my heart

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[xjamey.livejournal.com]

Oh my god, so beautifully heartbreaking. this is my new personal canon, guh. So gorgeous, and just. Amazing. <3

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[avidbeader.livejournal.com]

Ugh....I am dead from the heartbreak.

This was gorgeous.

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[hm276.livejournal.com]

Heartbreakingly bittersweet... sigh. Beautiful, thank you.

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[open-atclose.livejournal.com]

wonderful and heartbreaking and lovely.

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[sunny-serenity.livejournal.com]

I... should really stop reading these cos all I do is CRY! Oh, d00med ship why are you so irresistible? OH! Just...

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[annearchy.livejournal.com]

Finally found time to read this. Be still, my heart. I do think I'm going to cry now that I've read it.

I could have loved you, she wants to tell him. If given half the chance.

This. X 1,000

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[marie-j-granger.livejournal.com]

You make me want to cry.

I could have loved you, she wants to tell him. If given half the chance.

Guh. How I wish she had told him. Or even told him that she *does* love him which I will always secretly believe.

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[alexandria-skye.livejournal.com]

oh my gosh. this is breathtakingly beautiful. truly. i love the way you integrated the sunrise. and "they are still so impossibly young" (dead!! you killed me dead!). thank you for sharing this with us :)