Tag: books: harry potter

Brush

Archive of Our Own
Fandom: Harry Potter – J. K. Rowling
Relationship: Pansy Parkinson/Lavender Brown

This series is a birthday gift for brightthunder.

I don’t much like the brave new world of having to like Gryffidors. I still don’t like smug, and I still don’t like preachy. But I do like presents and I do like compliments and I do like kissing. And I like her hair in my hands, and mine in hers, and brushing each other’s hair out afterwards. I like it that she knows what she wants, and I like it that what she wants is me. I like it that she’s getting so good at being catty, with help.

I still don’t like Gryffindors, but I do like Lavender.

A close up of a neck bearing a gold hair. You can see hair pulled back with a pink tie.
Hair, tie, necklace by dion gillard

Imagination

Archive of Our Own
Fandom: Harry Potter – J. K. Rowling
Relationship: Marietta Edgecombe/Nymphadora Tonks (unrequited)

This series is a birthday gift for brightthunder. I have to apologise, as not only is this a day late, the muse is apparently not schmoopy today.

I see her in the lift sometimes, that Auror. She comes down to lunch from one of the floors I’ll never get access to. No one trusts a sneak, not even organisations that take their information. Not even me.

Everyone plays with their face though, including me. If I work hard, and keep my mind on it all day, I can illusion the scars away. But I don’t get to change for free and she does. I like to imagine her smiling at me, from all the different faces: hers and mine without the scars, and Cho’s, and even Granger’s.

A woman looking out of an elevator as the doors close. The photograph is monochrome other than some red at her chest.
elevator doors closing by irina slutsky

Conversation

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.

A speckled golden sphere on top of a metal stand
SB 206 by Lenore Edman

Thoughtful

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 stuffed teddy with a red bow.
White fluffy teddy bear with red bow by Horia Valan

Diadem

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.

Several scoops of icecream in a waffle basket.
Icecream beauty by Ari Helminen