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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
by superkappaby
lenina20:
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!
Harry/Ron, the one who makes it possible
He’ll go on to be the first of his kind, the only – one in a million, unparalleled, the boy who won -- just like he started.
He’ll be the first first-year to be a Seeker; first Gryffindor to speak Parseltongue; first underage wizard to win the Tournament; first to destroy a Horcrux; first to rid the world of the evil that would seek to rule it. His life will be composed of countless firsts that lesser people will fail to accomplish.
But it’s sitting on the Hogwarts Express that day -- the first day, the first adventure, the first of many – that the most important first is made.
The awkward boy with the flaming hair and the cheerful grin disguising the glumness beneath -- the one the rest of the world deems unexceptional: he walks in to Harry’s carriage, asks for a place to sit, no one else will have him, you understand. (Harry understands.)
And that’s when life starts.
---
Harry will go on to love many things: the train rides to Hogwarts; pumpkin pasties, chocolate frogs, Bertie Bott’s Every Flavour Beans; his wand; Quidditch matches; his Nimbus 2000 soon to be followed by Firebolt; lazy evenings in the Gryffindor Common Room; Christmas holidays at the Weasleys’.
He’ll go on to love many people: Hermione Granger; Albus Dumbledore; the image of his cold, dead parents; Remus Lupin; Sirius Black; Dobby the house-elf; Ginny Weasley; his future children.
But Ron is the first: the one who proves that it’s possible, even after a childhood without. Ron breaks the ice; breaks the dam. It comes pouring out.
Harry didn’t think he had it -- so much -- in him.
People will come and go. Ron will always be the first.
---
It’s because Harry knows so little about love, that he never anticipates Ron finally growing weary of being the best friend to a boy who could apparently choose any other.
Harry never asked for the life he leads; never asked for his fame; never asked for the scar on his forehead; never asked for his name to be spat out from the Goblet of Fire.
These things aren’t up to him; he doesn’t get a choice.
There are few choices Harry does have. He wishes he could make Ron see: that for every one, he chooses him.
---
It’s because Harry is slowly starting to learn about love, that it’s not unexpected when Ron walks away again, three years later, his own love turned to hate by the rotted soul they have no choice but to carry.
It occurs to him that Ron should have walked away long before now. It was Ron’s love that kept them together; his own was never enough.
But now Ron’s ruined it; ruined him for all else. Ron leaves, and he takes his love with him.
And Harry’s right back where he started.
---
But then the impossible happens.
Ron comes back.
He comes back, breaks the ice, pulls Harry out of the sea of nothingness freezing him to the core; gives him oxygen after (what seems like) a lifetime without. He saves him.
Once; first; every time.
---
And when the last battle’s over, and they stand victorious (if no longer quite whole), amidst the remains, Ron turns to him and says, voice full of wonder,
“We made it.”
Harry stares back at his oldest friend, and he’s at an utter loss as to how to begin.
Finally he chokes out a reply, far too inadequate to encompass the swelling inside his chest.
“I couldn’t have done it without you.”
He means every word. He does.
*
Re: Harry/Ron, the one who makes it possible
Second: oh god, I love this. It's everything that I wanted and more. Your style is gorgeous, simple yet effective. You've given Ron's return a beautiful poignancy, and I love it all so much. Thanks ♥
Re: Harry/Ron, the one who makes it possible
And I'm so, so glad it works for you. ♥
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Re: Harry/Ron, the one who makes it possible
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I don't ship Harry/Ron at all (outside of FRIENDship), but thiiiis story. You've captured all of the understated ways Ron is just so vital to Harry. That Harry relies on Ron's humour is often pointed out, but how Ron is a gateway to all these things Harry never knew before, I've never seen explored before this.
no one else will have him, you understand. (Harry understands.)
And Harry-Ron parallels are love.
But Ron is the first: the one who proves that it’s possible, even after a childhood without. Ron breaks the ice; breaks the dam. It comes pouring out.
Harry didn’t think he had it -- so much -- in him.
I love this so much. That Ron was Harry's first friend (and first time he really experienced even platonic love) is just so important.
I'd quote more lines, but then I'd just be copy-pasting the entire fic. So some other points I really loved:
- the style of the piece. This progression of what the future holds, the listing of all these impressive things and many people, and the end where Ron's is mentioned because he's the first in so many ways. I just love the beauty and simplicity in each section.
- the entire last section that made me want to hug Harry because he's alone without his Ron, because stupid boys who care so much about each other but are stupid nonetheless.
- Finally he chokes out a reply, far too inadequate to encompass the swelling inside his chest. YES, I QUOTE MORE LINES. But really, this is how I feel, because Ron hatred just makes me so sad, and the friendship of these two boys is much too under-rated in canon.
Sappiness is the BEST. And it's not really sappy, it's just lovely and poignant.
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I don't really ship-ship Harry/Ron either, but this prompt was too good to resist. I'm so glad my depiction of their relationship worked for you.
That Ron was Harry's first friend (and first time he really experienced even platonic love) is just so important.
WORD. Say no to Ron hate, basically.
And thank you so much, man. Your comments always bowl me over. You are far too kind. ♥
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DON'T MIND ME IT'S JUST RAINING ON MY FACE.
I...cannot find the words, just that Ron loves Harry and Harry loves Ron and they made it possible for each other. TEARS.
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Sorry about the tears, bb. But thank you for the lovely comment.