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A Skirt's Not So Bad [Harry Potter]
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I'd love to see the Dumbledore v. Voldemort fight again, but with this more dynamic prose. It was one of the better fights in the books, honestly.
Cecylene
Eternal Idea Engine
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I'm curious if when Dumbledore really gets going in that duel if there will be any lead-in on the strangeness of the Elder Wand's effect on magic cast with it.
Year Four, Chapter Twenty Four
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Year Four, Chapter Twenty Four
Emeline stood stock still, her wand down and her right foot slightly extended. She held her left arm behind her back and turned her torso to present a smaller target. Her face seemed to hold no expression at all, an emotionless mask and two cold, blue eyes staring out.
Holly stood in a stance as careful as Emeline's, though less rigid. She felt her heart beat faster and faster as Flitwick counted down, and she knew that she had to win. She couldn't let what Emeline had said to Ginny go unanswered.
"... start!" Flitwick announced, and both duellists sprung into motion with incredible speed. Holly cast a wordless disarming charm, whilst Emeline went for a wordless stunning spell. The two jets of light collided in midair and exploded, but neither duelist could pay much attention to the shower of sparks for more spells were already in the air.
Holly flowed from one spell to the next, not leaving any wasted movement resetting her wand to the neutral position. She cast a verbal stunning spell of such power that Emeline had to use a verbal shield charm to deflect it, but then the German girl's more sport-oriented training began to show.
Emeline was just as fast as Holly, and as she recovered from the shield charm she managed to force Holly onto the defensive. Emeline's spellfire wasn't strong enough to batter through Holly's shields, and Holly didn't risk attacking. Instead, she held out behind her shield charm for a few seconds and watched Emeline's movements.
Like Holly, she flowed from spell to spell without returning to the neutral position - but unlike Holly, there was a stiffness to her movements. They were crisp and well-executed, but there was something off...
And then Holly realised what it was. Emeline had clearly practised sequences of spells together rather than learning, as Holly had, to do it with any spell that would fit. Holly grinned just a little, and she knew now how she'd win.
At such a short distance in the open, dodging accurately cast spells was almost impossible. The ordinary adult witch or wizard would probably miss most of the spells they cast even from the short range of a sporting duel, but both Holly and Emeline were well trained, experienced duellists. They knew how to keep their cool under spellfire, even - in Holly's case - lethal spellfire. At ten paces, neither of them would miss.
Emeline paused for the briefest moment and began a sequence Holly had seen before. She shielded against the disarming charm and the stunning spell, but when the body-bind curse flew towards her Holly did not shield herself. Instead, she stepped to the side. She knew what spell Emeline would cast, where she'd cast it from - and Holly had moved before Emeline had even finished the wand movement.
The body bind spell flew past Holly with only an inch or two to spare, but that was enough as she cast a nonverbal disarming charm with nearly superhuman speed. Emeline simply couldn't move her wand to shield herself in time. Holly had picked the perfect moment, and she had started to cast her spell even as the jet of violet light from the body bind curse had been flying at her.
Holly's disarming charm hit Emeline square in the chest, sending her flying backwards as Holly neatly plucked her wand from the air.
"Im-impossible. To dodge at such short range..." Emeline said from the ground. Holly dearly wanted to say something catty and mean, but she knew that it probably wouldn't be wise. She'd just have to settle for the look of shock that was still on Emeline's face as she shakily stood back up.
"And with that Miss Potter has won the fourth year competition. Congratulations to all who competed! Which champion will receive your boon, Miss Potter?" Flitwick asked.
"I think I'll give it to myself, thanks," She said, and even the Hufflepuffs in the audience laughed. "You did well," Holly said, holding out her hand to Emeline. She reluctantly shook it.
"Not well enough. I think it is a good thing that you are too busy to be a sporting duelist... so I shall hope you play Quidditch for England one day," Emeline said. Her friends from Durmstrang who had also competed then consoled her, and Flitwick followed Holly as she walked off the stage.
"That was very well done, Miss Potter, very well done. You caught her pattern, I'm assuming?" Flitwick asked.
"Uh, yes Professor," Holly said.
"I thought you had... but still, to sidestep like that at ten paces - there are very few duellists who could have done that..." Flitwick said, before wandering off.
"That was incredible, mate," Ron said.
"I'm glad you beat her. Imagine how smug she'd have been if she won," Ginny said.
"Even Professor Flitwick seemed impressed. He was a champion duelist, you know..." Hermione said, and Holly spent the day basking in her victory.
They had an enormous amount of homework over the Winter holiday, but Holly didn't let that dampen her good spirits. She and Hermione managed to get Ron and Ginny to finish their homework relatively early into the break, and so they were able to enjoy the week leading up to Christmas essentially unburdened by homework.
Fred and George had sold enough canary creams that the sight of someone suddenly bursting into feathers was now routine at Hogwarts, and everyone was on their guard when being offered food. People had gotten very good at concealing canary creams into other foods, and Holly was sure not to accept so much as a crisp from the Twins.
Snow had arrived at Hogwarts, and Holly had great fun in endless snowball fights. Everywhere in the castle, there was a mood of joy and fun, and Holly could not remember another Christmas holiday at Hogwarts like it. There were so many students here, most of them staying for the Yule Ball, that the usual empty halls and deserted common rooms were bursting with people.
Holly woke on Christmas morning not only excited to get her presents but for the Yule Ball. She had barely slept she was so nervous, but the idea of dancing with Ginny was an exciting one.
She smiled as she saw a new, somewhat haphazardly wrapped present on the top of her pile. Holly had sent Dobby a pair of novelty muggle socks via Hegwig last night. There was a Christmas tree in every dorm room in Gryffindor Tower, and each was decorated by the students in it. The one in Holly's dorm room was full of transfigured decorations and enchanted tinsel.
"Merry Christmas, Holly," Hermione said, and that set off a chorus of good wishes from and to all of the girls in the dorm room. Then they all rushed to open their presents. Holly opened Dobby's gift first, and she smiled as she saw the pair of mismatching, animated socks he'd given her. Hermione had given Holly a book on Quidditch teams, whilst Holly had given her a book on the most outrageous cheaters of the Triwizard Tournament.
"Ohh, I've been wanting to read this one for a while! Thank you, Holly," Hermione said.
"I gave it a little read before I wrapped it - some of those old headmasters and champions really did not try very hard not to get caught," Holly said. She'd also gotten a bag of Peruvian instant darkness powder from Ron (who'd gotten it from the Twins), and a new wrist holster for her wand from Ginny. Sirius had given her two gifts - an enchanted pocket knife that could have many different blades and magical nail polish he claimed was "just about indestructible". Hagrid had sent her a greatly appreciated box of sweets, and Mrs Weasley had sent her usual gifts of a hand-knitted sweater and some mince pies.
Holly gladly put on the green sweater, because the snow was already falling outside, and she and Hermione went downstairs to the Common Room. Ginny thanked Holly profusely for the broom-servicing kit Holly had given her, as did Ron for the new keeper's pads. They spent most of the morning simply lounging around in the Common Room, enjoying their presents.
That afternoon was Christmas lunch at Hogwarts on a scale Holly had never before seen. More than a hundred turkeys lined the tables of the great hall, and there were traditional Christmas foods from France and Scandanavia much like at the feast to welcome the students from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang.
Holly had wanted to have another snowball fight, but the wind had started up and it was snowing too hard to really be outside so she ended up hanging out in the Common Room until a few hours before the Ball. She was a ball of nerves as she headed upstairs along with Hermione and Ginny (to the disbelief of Ron that anyone could take that long to get dressed).
The actual act of getting into her green dress robes would not take all that long, but doing her hair, her makeup and glamour charms? That would take a while, and there was a huge line to use the girl's showers. The sound of hair drying charms could be heard throughout the tower, and Holly used the time it took her now well past shoulder-length hair to dry to apply the enchanted nail polish Sirius had given her for Christmas.
She had her hair up after that, with a little help from Lavender Brown, and then she did her makeup. Not wanting to look like a racoon, she politely tuned Lavender's help down that time. She felt odd and silly spending so much time on her appearance, but she was startled when looked into the mirror and saw a very pretty girl there.
"You look amazing, Holly," Hermione said from behind her, and Holly turned to respond only to see something very odd. Hermione's voice was coming out of someone else's mouth because the girl in the periwinkle blue dress robes could not be her bushy-haired friend.
"So- so do you, Hermione. How did you - your hair?" Holly said, not quite able to speak in complete sentences.
"Entirely too much hair potion to ever do it again, I'm afraid. But... I need to go meet my date, and I can't be seen. Lend me your cloak?" Hermione asked. Holly blinked.
"Sure," Holly said, and opened up her trunk. She handed the cloak to Hermione and then wondered what that was all about.
Just after Hermione left, there was a knock on the door. Holly's heart jumped as she realised who it would be. She got up and opened the door, and saw Ginny standing there. Her dress robes were second hand, true, but someone had completely transformed them. She wasn't wearing as much makeup as even the girls in Holly's year, but there were just a few glamour charms on her face...
"You look beautiful," Holly told her, and took her hand almost hesitantly.
"So do you," Ginny said, and then there was a shriek of excitement from behind Holly.
"That's who you're going with! I can't believe it - oh the two of you look so cute together!" Lavender said, and then the rest of the girls swarmed Ginny and Holly.
"I can't believe you actually did it, Ginny," Parvati said, shaking her head.
"Let's go down, yeah?" Holly said to Ginny, and they walked down into the Common Room holding hands. There was a commotion as they walked down together, although they were not the only couple that descended from the dorms together. It was strange to see so many people dressed up in colourful dress robes in the Common Room, Holly thought.
"I can't believe it. Are my eyes working right, George?" Fred said.
"I think they are, Fred. Is that our devilish little sister with Holly?" George said.
"Don't make me come over there, you two. And don't be weird to Holly!" Ginny said.
"We'd never be weird to Holly. She's a lovely girl who you better treat right, young lady!" Fred said.
"We're warning you - we'll be right cross if you mess around with her feelings," George followed up, waging his finger. Holly laughed and then so did Ginny and the Twins.
After finding out that Ron had already gone down to the Entrance Hall, and reasoning that Hermione was likely already there, Holly and Ginny decided to head down there. When they arrived, they saw no sign of Hermione... but Ron was easy to spot.
He was standing next to Luna Lovegood, who was dressed in a bizarre set of neon blue dress robes and had a pair of dirigible plum earrings on. She and Ron were chatting to one another, and laughing a little.
"Ron!? Luna!?" Ginny said.
"Ginny!? Holly!?" Ron said.
Holly and Luna looked at one another and tried very hard not to laugh.
"So that's who you were going with. I guess if you had to go with anyone Holly's alright..." Ron said.
"You really did have a date," Ginny said, sounding surprised.
"Well, I was talking to Luna about the ball, and we both thought it'd be a huge laugh if we went together. So I asked her," Ron said, and Holly smiled.
She was already enjoying tonight, and she thought she'd remember it fondly, so long as she didn't trip whilst trying to dance.
Emeline stood stock still, her wand down and her right foot slightly extended. She held her left arm behind her back and turned her torso to present a smaller target. Her face seemed to hold no expression at all, an emotionless mask and two cold, blue eyes staring out.
Holly stood in a stance as careful as Emeline's, though less rigid. She felt her heart beat faster and faster as Flitwick counted down, and she knew that she had to win. She couldn't let what Emeline had said to Ginny go unanswered.
"... start!" Flitwick announced, and both duellists sprung into motion with incredible speed. Holly cast a wordless disarming charm, whilst Emeline went for a wordless stunning spell. The two jets of light collided in midair and exploded, but neither duelist could pay much attention to the shower of sparks for more spells were already in the air.
Holly flowed from one spell to the next, not leaving any wasted movement resetting her wand to the neutral position. She cast a verbal stunning spell of such power that Emeline had to use a verbal shield charm to deflect it, but then the German girl's more sport-oriented training began to show.
Emeline was just as fast as Holly, and as she recovered from the shield charm she managed to force Holly onto the defensive. Emeline's spellfire wasn't strong enough to batter through Holly's shields, and Holly didn't risk attacking. Instead, she held out behind her shield charm for a few seconds and watched Emeline's movements.
Like Holly, she flowed from spell to spell without returning to the neutral position - but unlike Holly, there was a stiffness to her movements. They were crisp and well-executed, but there was something off...
And then Holly realised what it was. Emeline had clearly practised sequences of spells together rather than learning, as Holly had, to do it with any spell that would fit. Holly grinned just a little, and she knew now how she'd win.
At such a short distance in the open, dodging accurately cast spells was almost impossible. The ordinary adult witch or wizard would probably miss most of the spells they cast even from the short range of a sporting duel, but both Holly and Emeline were well trained, experienced duellists. They knew how to keep their cool under spellfire, even - in Holly's case - lethal spellfire. At ten paces, neither of them would miss.
Emeline paused for the briefest moment and began a sequence Holly had seen before. She shielded against the disarming charm and the stunning spell, but when the body-bind curse flew towards her Holly did not shield herself. Instead, she stepped to the side. She knew what spell Emeline would cast, where she'd cast it from - and Holly had moved before Emeline had even finished the wand movement.
The body bind spell flew past Holly with only an inch or two to spare, but that was enough as she cast a nonverbal disarming charm with nearly superhuman speed. Emeline simply couldn't move her wand to shield herself in time. Holly had picked the perfect moment, and she had started to cast her spell even as the jet of violet light from the body bind curse had been flying at her.
Holly's disarming charm hit Emeline square in the chest, sending her flying backwards as Holly neatly plucked her wand from the air.
"Im-impossible. To dodge at such short range..." Emeline said from the ground. Holly dearly wanted to say something catty and mean, but she knew that it probably wouldn't be wise. She'd just have to settle for the look of shock that was still on Emeline's face as she shakily stood back up.
"And with that Miss Potter has won the fourth year competition. Congratulations to all who competed! Which champion will receive your boon, Miss Potter?" Flitwick asked.
"I think I'll give it to myself, thanks," She said, and even the Hufflepuffs in the audience laughed. "You did well," Holly said, holding out her hand to Emeline. She reluctantly shook it.
"Not well enough. I think it is a good thing that you are too busy to be a sporting duelist... so I shall hope you play Quidditch for England one day," Emeline said. Her friends from Durmstrang who had also competed then consoled her, and Flitwick followed Holly as she walked off the stage.
"That was very well done, Miss Potter, very well done. You caught her pattern, I'm assuming?" Flitwick asked.
"Uh, yes Professor," Holly said.
"I thought you had... but still, to sidestep like that at ten paces - there are very few duellists who could have done that..." Flitwick said, before wandering off.
"That was incredible, mate," Ron said.
"I'm glad you beat her. Imagine how smug she'd have been if she won," Ginny said.
"Even Professor Flitwick seemed impressed. He was a champion duelist, you know..." Hermione said, and Holly spent the day basking in her victory.
They had an enormous amount of homework over the Winter holiday, but Holly didn't let that dampen her good spirits. She and Hermione managed to get Ron and Ginny to finish their homework relatively early into the break, and so they were able to enjoy the week leading up to Christmas essentially unburdened by homework.
Fred and George had sold enough canary creams that the sight of someone suddenly bursting into feathers was now routine at Hogwarts, and everyone was on their guard when being offered food. People had gotten very good at concealing canary creams into other foods, and Holly was sure not to accept so much as a crisp from the Twins.
Snow had arrived at Hogwarts, and Holly had great fun in endless snowball fights. Everywhere in the castle, there was a mood of joy and fun, and Holly could not remember another Christmas holiday at Hogwarts like it. There were so many students here, most of them staying for the Yule Ball, that the usual empty halls and deserted common rooms were bursting with people.
Holly woke on Christmas morning not only excited to get her presents but for the Yule Ball. She had barely slept she was so nervous, but the idea of dancing with Ginny was an exciting one.
She smiled as she saw a new, somewhat haphazardly wrapped present on the top of her pile. Holly had sent Dobby a pair of novelty muggle socks via Hegwig last night. There was a Christmas tree in every dorm room in Gryffindor Tower, and each was decorated by the students in it. The one in Holly's dorm room was full of transfigured decorations and enchanted tinsel.
"Merry Christmas, Holly," Hermione said, and that set off a chorus of good wishes from and to all of the girls in the dorm room. Then they all rushed to open their presents. Holly opened Dobby's gift first, and she smiled as she saw the pair of mismatching, animated socks he'd given her. Hermione had given Holly a book on Quidditch teams, whilst Holly had given her a book on the most outrageous cheaters of the Triwizard Tournament.
"Ohh, I've been wanting to read this one for a while! Thank you, Holly," Hermione said.
"I gave it a little read before I wrapped it - some of those old headmasters and champions really did not try very hard not to get caught," Holly said. She'd also gotten a bag of Peruvian instant darkness powder from Ron (who'd gotten it from the Twins), and a new wrist holster for her wand from Ginny. Sirius had given her two gifts - an enchanted pocket knife that could have many different blades and magical nail polish he claimed was "just about indestructible". Hagrid had sent her a greatly appreciated box of sweets, and Mrs Weasley had sent her usual gifts of a hand-knitted sweater and some mince pies.
Holly gladly put on the green sweater, because the snow was already falling outside, and she and Hermione went downstairs to the Common Room. Ginny thanked Holly profusely for the broom-servicing kit Holly had given her, as did Ron for the new keeper's pads. They spent most of the morning simply lounging around in the Common Room, enjoying their presents.
That afternoon was Christmas lunch at Hogwarts on a scale Holly had never before seen. More than a hundred turkeys lined the tables of the great hall, and there were traditional Christmas foods from France and Scandanavia much like at the feast to welcome the students from Beauxbatons and Durmstrang.
Holly had wanted to have another snowball fight, but the wind had started up and it was snowing too hard to really be outside so she ended up hanging out in the Common Room until a few hours before the Ball. She was a ball of nerves as she headed upstairs along with Hermione and Ginny (to the disbelief of Ron that anyone could take that long to get dressed).
The actual act of getting into her green dress robes would not take all that long, but doing her hair, her makeup and glamour charms? That would take a while, and there was a huge line to use the girl's showers. The sound of hair drying charms could be heard throughout the tower, and Holly used the time it took her now well past shoulder-length hair to dry to apply the enchanted nail polish Sirius had given her for Christmas.
She had her hair up after that, with a little help from Lavender Brown, and then she did her makeup. Not wanting to look like a racoon, she politely tuned Lavender's help down that time. She felt odd and silly spending so much time on her appearance, but she was startled when looked into the mirror and saw a very pretty girl there.
"You look amazing, Holly," Hermione said from behind her, and Holly turned to respond only to see something very odd. Hermione's voice was coming out of someone else's mouth because the girl in the periwinkle blue dress robes could not be her bushy-haired friend.
"So- so do you, Hermione. How did you - your hair?" Holly said, not quite able to speak in complete sentences.
"Entirely too much hair potion to ever do it again, I'm afraid. But... I need to go meet my date, and I can't be seen. Lend me your cloak?" Hermione asked. Holly blinked.
"Sure," Holly said, and opened up her trunk. She handed the cloak to Hermione and then wondered what that was all about.
Just after Hermione left, there was a knock on the door. Holly's heart jumped as she realised who it would be. She got up and opened the door, and saw Ginny standing there. Her dress robes were second hand, true, but someone had completely transformed them. She wasn't wearing as much makeup as even the girls in Holly's year, but there were just a few glamour charms on her face...
"You look beautiful," Holly told her, and took her hand almost hesitantly.
"So do you," Ginny said, and then there was a shriek of excitement from behind Holly.
"That's who you're going with! I can't believe it - oh the two of you look so cute together!" Lavender said, and then the rest of the girls swarmed Ginny and Holly.
"I can't believe you actually did it, Ginny," Parvati said, shaking her head.
"Let's go down, yeah?" Holly said to Ginny, and they walked down into the Common Room holding hands. There was a commotion as they walked down together, although they were not the only couple that descended from the dorms together. It was strange to see so many people dressed up in colourful dress robes in the Common Room, Holly thought.
"I can't believe it. Are my eyes working right, George?" Fred said.
"I think they are, Fred. Is that our devilish little sister with Holly?" George said.
"Don't make me come over there, you two. And don't be weird to Holly!" Ginny said.
"We'd never be weird to Holly. She's a lovely girl who you better treat right, young lady!" Fred said.
"We're warning you - we'll be right cross if you mess around with her feelings," George followed up, waging his finger. Holly laughed and then so did Ginny and the Twins.
After finding out that Ron had already gone down to the Entrance Hall, and reasoning that Hermione was likely already there, Holly and Ginny decided to head down there. When they arrived, they saw no sign of Hermione... but Ron was easy to spot.
He was standing next to Luna Lovegood, who was dressed in a bizarre set of neon blue dress robes and had a pair of dirigible plum earrings on. She and Ron were chatting to one another, and laughing a little.
"Ron!? Luna!?" Ginny said.
"Ginny!? Holly!?" Ron said.
Holly and Luna looked at one another and tried very hard not to laugh.
"So that's who you were going with. I guess if you had to go with anyone Holly's alright..." Ron said.
"You really did have a date," Ginny said, sounding surprised.
"Well, I was talking to Luna about the ball, and we both thought it'd be a huge laugh if we went together. So I asked her," Ron said, and Holly smiled.
She was already enjoying tonight, and she thought she'd remember it fondly, so long as she didn't trip whilst trying to dance.
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Probably evil, unfortunately.
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Ron and Luna. Now that's one I definitely didn't see coming. I don't see them together as a couple, but being friends? That makes a fair bit of sense; Ron prefers to take things easy, and Luna is... Luna.
Also, was that bit with Emeline a nod to the fanon spell-chain stuff?
Also, was that bit with Emeline a nod to the fanon spell-chain stuff?
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The...what?
NSMS
Probably evil, unfortunately.
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- A rapidly widening tear in the fabric of reality
A relatively common thing in HP fanfic are spell chains; spells cast in a set order, where the wand position at the end of one spell leaves you in the right place to start the next spell. It's an interesting idea for speeding up casting, but has the (almost never addressed) vulnerability Holly noticed here to trade off.
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You know, I kind of like that. Harry and Luna is still one of my favorite pairings, but I think Ron and Luna would a fun couple.
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Because Rowling didn't describe wizarding duels very well (stupid laser death curses) a common fanfic occurrence is spell-chaining where the wand motion for one spell (e.g. the swish and flick of wingardium leviosa) flows into the wand motion of a different spell. In fanfics this allows for a higher spell output during duels.
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Ceterum censeo Vigilam esse delendam.
What good siblings.
Probably? If not, the person in question is going to be caught out as having impersonated Hermione and stolen the cloak pretty dang quickly. And if she's going with Krum still, it'd make some sense to want the easier time meeting up with him with Holly sharing her dorm room.
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- She/Her
I'm not sure that makes sense. Wouldn't the wand always be pointed at their opponent after casting a spell? It doesn't seem like there'd be much variation.
Strawberry
Dessert Faerie
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- She/Her
*continues to squee in pitches higher than human hearing allows*
Ahhh so cute!
Ahhh so cute!
NSMS
Probably evil, unfortunately.
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*shrugs*
I think the assumption is that some wand movements take the tip out of directly aiming at your opponent, but I'm not the one who invented it.
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any given wand movement would still have momentum uness you had to hold the point facing a stationary target for longer then an instant. Spell chaining really got its start after the 5th movie came out and we got the live action cutscenes where you can pretty much see it in action.
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Ron and Luna is rather unexpected, but I can see them going as friends like others said.
Should be Hedwig
CaesriusPolybius
Worldgate Mechanic
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- United States. Ish.
An alternate take would be simple muscle memory. If you get it to the point where flowing from one spell to the next is second nature, where you arms are twisting into the start of the next spell before you've consciously recognized that the last spell is out, it could increase casting speed considerably.
That's nice and fluffy.
Isn't Luna/Ron the primary non-Ron-bashing ship for Harmony/other Hermione shipping fics (especially since cursed child poisoned the Ron/padma ship)?
it's hardly as out there as the Dudley/Pansy or Dudley/Cho ships
Isn't Luna/Ron the primary non-Ron-bashing ship for Harmony/other Hermione shipping fics (especially since cursed child poisoned the Ron/padma ship)?
it's hardly as out there as the Dudley/Pansy or Dudley/Cho ships
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I was unaware that Ron/Padma was ever a popular ship, honestly. What happened in this "cursed child" to make it unpopular?
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- United Kingdom
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- She/Her
I don't love Ron/Luna but there's nothing per se wrong with it.
I'm just fussy about my HP ships lol.
I'm just fussy about my HP ships lol.
it was never popular, especially since Ron tends to be auto-bashed in any pairing the diverges from the canon, but I needed an example of an already small pool being further diminished
isn't cursed child, like all latter day potter verse output, considered bad by default
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- They/Them
Nothing is wrong with Ron/Luna... except for getting in the way of Hermione/Luna.
Krazyfan1
Worrying for the future.
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- Australia
Luckily Hermione has two handsNothing is wrong with Ron/Luna... except for getting in the way of Hermione/Luna.
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- She/Her
Well, yes, but I feel like Cursed Child deserves special recognition as a) shockingly bad, and b) in hindsight, an unintentionally impressive piece of foreshadowing.
To satisfy my own curiosity though (as I read only a tiny bit of the waste of perfectly good trees) what is the Ron/Padma context of that Cursed Child comment? Oh, and is Hogwarts Mystery included in the 'bad by default'?
Sandy River DL
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- Her/She
But that would make Hermione/Ginny a bit awkward.