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unusuallygen still has some fun prompts to claim for HP or original fic (and some other fandoms too). You don't even have to be a member of the community. I'm quite tempted by "An evening of clever and witty conversation with Snape at a social event doesn't lead Hermione to question her marriage with Ron. Snape gets invited by the couple for dinners, becomes a 'friend of the family', and even learns to enjoy playing chess with Ron" or perhaps "A nerdy girl receives/gets a makeover. Said makeover does *not* win her the attraction of her object of affection, and she realizes she is better off being herself." Padma Patil, perhaps? ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
tdu000!!! It's been so much fun partying with you over the last year. I thought long and hard about what to get you, and then I remembered this:
What I'm looking for is an extremely intelligent man who is interesting and entertaining to talk to. I also want him to be witty and find humour in the most bizarre and mundane situations. So, I'm booking the Tardis and going back to 1885 to find Albus Dumbledore in his mid forties.
stmargarets and moonette1 who made helpful suggestions for introducing more fluff and flangst into the story.)rhetoretician, who I used to consider a friend (*grins*) gave me a prompt for a 100 word HP drabble. ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
10_themes and used them, in order, adhering strictly to a 100 word limit for each, to form the beginning of a story. I'm also following a strict POV pattern, as a way of showing their developing relationship. I wonder if that's working at all!stmargarets's challenge. rhetoretician who correctly predicted that Neville's wand wouldn't turn out to be a Horcrux. He requested Kingsley's first day in office. I would never have chosen to write about this subject but I'm actually quite glad to have done so. Spoilers, obviously.*waves at everyone*
I'm really not a proper HP fan. I like the books and I'm looking forward to my copy arriving from England later this week. But you know, I was always really just here for the writing and the giggles.
So this is to say that I know I've been quiet round people's LJ's lately and I probably will be until all the general squeeing and debating and dissecting dies down (good alliteration skills there). I've been reading a bit and commenting very occasionally, but I really don't feel like I'm part of the 'fandom' (and I'm not sure I want to be).
I have been, by choice, completely and utterly 'spoiled' - I even read some of the infamous carpet book a week ago until I decided it was way too much like hard work! - so no need to worry on that front.
Oh, and just to say thanks to TDU for the important info on Charlie's arms. She also observed that the only other arms that have significance in the books are those marked with the Dark Mark. I think we can all see how the muscular arms of the best-looking Weasley are an important literary counterpoint and that it was necessary for them to appear again in DH. *nods in satisfaction*
Cheerful in defeat, I willingly offer up a thousand words to a prompt of your choice, rhetoretician.
stmargarets Mary Sue gets another visitor in her lairSorry, sorry, sorry. But it's all your fault, St M. That meme put ideas into my head that couldn't be left alone. And at least now you have someone to bring to the party.
*runs away and hides*
stmargaretsHarry and Ginny, or for rhetoretician's? Do you start to find JKR's writing childish compared to some of the more 'adult' fics you might have read? Or do you find that actually, her writing does stand up to the test and sweep you away compared to the amateur things you've become used to? Can you still spot 'JKR's style' amidst all the competing voices?At last I can say I'm a Sugar Quill author! I've been lurking around there for somewhere between eighteen months and two years and now, finally, I have a story up.
Thanks to
amamama for nominating me, and to tdu000for the beta and everyone else just for being lovely.
The BBC are looking for 100 word summaries of the Harry Potter books so far (yes, that's right, 100 words for all 6 books), to get newcomers to the series up to speed before DH! Or something like that.
Why not have a go here?
girlyswot, discussing marriage plans. Does it even count as a Mary Sue when there is literally no attempt at disguise, I wonder?stmargarets challenges into one final chapter of The Muggle Girl. So here is my Weasley Crumpet meets Mary Sue in a Screenplay! The screenplay was HARD!!amamamafor already nominating me!!)tdu000 about a discussion on the Percy thread concerning Weasley behinds. stmargarets had just pointed out that it was very remiss of JKR to dress her men in robes so that we had no way of knowing what their behinds looked like. I suggested that actually the subtle hints were much more alluring than any blatant display, before making this suggestion: 
