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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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lenina20:
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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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Date: 2010-11-30 10:30 pm (UTC)"Not mine."
He knows he can never be the hero. He's not the savior. He doesn't win the prize or get the girl, but it doesn't mean he doesn't want.
He tells himself he's fine with his choices. Making Ginny happy. Supporting Harry. These are the choices that seemed so clear at the time; now lined with age and stained with blood. Battles he fought. Friends he lost. Tears he cried. They all mix together with the whiskey on his breath until the choices almost disappear. Until everything disappears but her.
She doesn't see him. This is just as true as the fact that she isn't his. She calls him her best friend. She claims that she needs him to pull her through. In reality, he's a crutch. A link to their childhood. She uses him to paint over her own pain.
He lets her. He could never deny her.
"Dance with me?"
He blinks up at her in surprise. His plan was to drown his sorrow and slip out, unnoticed as always. Now she's here and her white satin gown is swishing around her feet and her gloved hand is reaching out to him expectantly.
He could never deny her.
Now he's drunk and swaying with her in his arms, and it's just as he dreamed for a moment until he remembers that the ring on her finger belongs to another man. The nausea and the tears fight their way through until they are one feeling and he's terrified that he will explode.
He tries to pull away, but she still him with a hand on his cheek.
"Nev," she whispers softly, and for one moment he sees what he always hoped for in her eyes. But the music ends. Her hero appears, and her smiles changes and he's alone again in the middle of the floor.
He tells himself it's better. The he could never be what she deserves. He almost means it.