Archive of Our Own
Fandom: Harry Potter – J. K. Rowling
Relationship: Fleur Delacour/Angelina Johnson

This series is a birthday gift for brightthunder.

They say you do not win the heart of an Englishman without allowing him ample time to talk of Quidditch. And it will not surprise you when I say this is true of the Englishwoman also, for indeed they are very like their men, or the men very like their women.

But what they do not say is how very attractive an Englishwoman can be, not in spite of her beloved Quidditch, but because of it. Or at least how much one will enjoy the conversation of the Gryffindor Chaser, or indeed, her mouth on yours when Quidditch talk ends.

SB 206 by Lenore Edman

Archive of Our Own
Fandom: Harry Potter – J. K. Rowling
Relationship: Hermione Granger/Luna Lovegood

This series is a birthday gift for brightthunder.

“I bought you this,” she told me, and she radiated belief in her gift. “It made me think of you.”

Despite myself, I hesitated opening the present, which, in late April, was wrapped gaily in Christmas paper. It could so easily be gorse seedlings—meaning my hair—or similar. Everything is a compliment from her, or she means it to be. And sometimes I understand it, and sometimes, I, well, I sometimes don’t.

“I love you, beautiful,” read the teddy bear’s tummy. “Because I love you,” she explained. And my cheeks burned in shame before I gave her a kiss.

White fluffy teddy bear with red bow by Horia Valan

Archive of Our Own
Fandom: Harry Potter – J. K. Rowling
Relationship: Cho Chang/Ginny Weasley

This series is a birthday gift for brightthunder.

“Please, let’s not talk about him,” I asked her when we went for icecream for the first time after her game.

She shrugged and then grinned. “Well, neither of us got to show him the diadem of Ravenclaw in the end, did we?”

I pretend the joke has got old now, and roll my eyes when she pretends in turn that she really thinks it’s seductive to ask to see the diadem. But her terrible jokes are how I know she loves me, and my claims that I don’t find them remotely funny are how she knows I love her.

Icecream beauty by Ari Helminen