Twenty Random Facts Fest: Viktor Krum
Title: Twenty Random Facts About Viktor Krum
Characters: Viktor Krum, Hermione Granger, Karkaroff, OFC, OMC
Words: 1717
Rating: PG-13 (rather vague references to sex)
For iulia-linnea's Twenty Random Facts Fest (2008)
Title: Twenty Random Facts About Viktor Krum
Characters: Viktor Krum, Hermione Granger, Karkaroff, OFC, OMC
Words: 1717
Rating: PG-13 (rather vague references to sex)
For iulia-linnea's Twenty Random Facts Fest (2008)
Note: Mayka is "mum" in Bulgarian. Tatko is "dad." My guess is that Viktor's father is a pureblood and his mother is a half-blood. (Has anyone else noticed that JKR never mentions a quarter-status?)
Pobeda is a famous Bulgarian cookie and wafer factory.
Pipper is, of course, pepper.
And if I owned them, Viktor would be my own pet.
1. Viktor’s first memory is of himself, asking his mayka for a little brother. Or even a sister, if that’s easier. He isn’t sure how she reacted, but probably she must have laughed and said they’d keep trying, like she did the many times after that when he asked for siblings.
2. Until he was at Durmstrang, there was never anyone around to play with, so he mostly had his nose in a book. In his home, that was simply what was done. By the time he started school, he had read most of the books in the house, which was a lot, and practically all the children’s books from the Muggle library in town. He had also pretty much lost interest in playing anything with anyone; the stories he read were much more exciting.
3. He knows, and everyone knows, that he is damn good on a broom. What most don’t know is that he never actually wanted to fly. When he was nine, his parents explained that he had to do some kind of exercise, because spending the day with only books and Pobeda wafers and not moving an inch had made Viktor a very fat little boy.
4. His mayka suggested Muggle athletics. His tatko suggested Quidditch. He chose the latter because he thought he would get to simply sit on a broom and be gently carried away. When he found out that to stay on a broom, he had use all muscles that he had, plus a few that he never knew existed, he was so angry that he threw his broom on the grass and stomped on it. It retaliated by hitting him around the head.
5. Mayka asked him to try for another week before ditching Quidditch. By the fifth day, the pain in his legs had subsided. Two days later, he noticed that the jolts of the broom and the sweep of the wind in his hair felt less nauseating and more like the rollercoaster Tatko had taken him to. On day eight, he felt that he was as much an adventurer as the heroes of Verne, and he decided he might not hate this after all.
6. It took Viktor decades to realize how hard it must have been for her to encourage him to keep flying, when he was black and blue all over.
7. His tatko secretly offered him some Rakia. When Viktor made a face at only sniffing it, he hastily recommended just rubbing it on the sore muscles, together with some Pipper Potion. It took Viktor only a short time to recognize the smell, and to realize that his father probably didn’t mix the stuff with anything and used it internally. A lot.
8. Viktor is still glad he kept flying. That’s not because of the later fame. Honestly, a pushy, smart-alecky bookworm at Durmstrang - who would have been friends with him, if he hadn’t made his wing Quidditch champions year after year? But he always knew that it was, after all, only a game, and that he wouldn’t spend more time on it than he needed to get some money together. Flying was great, but the rules of the game were no less stupid when he had mastered them.
9. Verne is still one of Viktor’s favourites. The man must have been a bloody genius, he thinks, to have imagined all these things, before they were even invented, and without magic. He proved to Viktor that Muggles were in no way inferior to him - long before anyone tried to convince him otherwise. Viktor even likes to think that Verne might in some way have something to do with Varna, and his home, although he accepts that this sounds absurd.
10. The first time that he actually made money from Quidditch, four years before the World Cup, he bought his mayka a necklace. She thanked him and put it on with a gleeful smile, but firmly told him never to “go all Elvis” on her again. He researched what she meant, first at school, then at home, and then at the Muggle library. Thus began Viktor’s fascination with rock’n’roll. He later told her that he should have been acquainted with it long before making an arse of himself with his posters of the Bulbul Brothers.
11. At around the same time, he asked her why she still put up with Tatko, who seemed to read less and drink more every time he came home from Durmstrang. She smiled and said, “he has his uses.”
12. Girls began paying him attention before he was old enough to even enjoy their company. Although he isn’t proud of it, he admits that for a while, he liked it quite a bit. Later he began to realize that once he began talking of books and stories and ideas, their eyes glazed over. Still he put up with it and let them show him off in public and get him off in private. It quickly turned out to be a waste of time, though, because they would shriek when he as much as smiled in their general direction, and he knew that if this looked too good to be true, it probably was - how the hell were you supposed to learn what would make them happy, and not just loud?
13. A girl from Haskovo said she was too old to faint at the sight of him and gave him a few important tips. Her input, a few select books from the Durmstrang restricted section, and he finally managed to accumulate important knowledge on what to do. (He probably should have guessed that he didn’t need to use the same muscles as in Quidditch.) But he has always been very careful in using and applying that knowledge, because he also knows that he does not want to end up being useful only for that end, like he suspects Tatko might be.
14. When he first noticed Hermione, it was not because of her hair, or because she ignored him. During one morning workout, he saw her sitting under a tree, petting a huge cat with long, sensuous strokes. The cat mewled and twisted and purred in her lap, tossing its head under her hands. When he slowed down, she turned to look at him, squinting against the sun, and gave him such a wicked grin that, for the first time ever, he envied a cat.
15. He still suspects that Hermione arranged that cuddling session with Crookshanks to captivate him. She has never admitted to it, although she did confess that turning up her nose at him and his fangirls was an act, intended to make him see that she was different from all the others. In return, he confessed his long-time fantasy about her stroking him like a cat - all over. She promptly charmed a pair of pointed ears on his head, jumped him, and had him purring and mewling within seconds.
16. That, of course, was long after Hogwarts, because - well, in spite of all the childish jokes, courtesy of Poliakoff and the rest of his mates, nothing really happened between him and Hermione at that time. That wasn’t just because of their age and the lack of privacy. Frankly, he was more concerned with making it out of the tournament in one piece. The few hours each week that he spent next to her in the library were indeed quite stimulating, however, and she did have a deliciously wry sense of humour as well as plump tasty lips, so what he told her after the second task was not really a falsehood.
17. It was in their letters that they began mentioning more important issues. Viktor was the only one she told that she was really fed up with mothering her friends. She, in turn, was the only one who knew that the money he was trying to save was intended for a Muggle university. Then, just after having seen her again, the letters suddenly stopped. He had ample time to curse at her, the red-headed boy, Potter, the crazy old freak who had worn Grendelwald’s symbol, Karkaroff, the weird one who killed Cedric, and everyone else he could think about. He forgave almost all of them when he came home the next summer and found twenty-four letters by her, two for each month of that year, written but not owled until it was safe for her to do so.
18. The one thing that was hardest to forgive was that no one - not her, not the idiot boys, not even the Order members who were his contacts - let him know when it was time to fight, so he missed the battle of Hogwarts. They had to endure quite some brooding when he helped them round up a few Death Eaters hiding out in the Balkans.
19. Contrary to his fears, his parents were quite happy to see him go to a Muggle university, except that Tatko quietly took him aside and told him to try and learn to stay out of bars. Apparently, students were known to be even worse drinkers than Quidditch players. Viktor assured him he would be all right. He hated himself for his decision to study in Sofia, however, because the floo connection was a bitch, and on those few times a month he could visit Hermione in London, they had even less privacy than when they had been teenagers: as long as he couldn’t put his face on a box of Cheeri-Owls, there was no money for even a hotel room. He remembers that time as an endless string of hand-in-hand strolls through the city, cheap dinners, frequent snogging and secret shags in public places that were often more scary than exciting.
20. Saturday nights, when the children are with the Grangers, or the Weasleys, or the Potters, there are still times when sex is adventurous and loud, witness the cat kink occasion. On weekdays, however, he’ll check on the kids and quietly slip into bed beside her, and they make love under the covers, with whispers and silent kisses. Viktor enjoys the fact that he has her to himself all night, and a bed to stretch out in. Lovemaking on weekdays is serene and unhurried and peaceful. It is not boring, though. It simply feels like home.
Characters: Viktor Krum, Hermione Granger, Karkaroff, OFC, OMC
Words: 1717
Rating: PG-13 (rather vague references to sex)
For iulia-linnea's Twenty Random Facts Fest (2008)
Title: Twenty Random Facts About Viktor Krum
Characters: Viktor Krum, Hermione Granger, Karkaroff, OFC, OMC
Words: 1717
Rating: PG-13 (rather vague references to sex)
For iulia-linnea's Twenty Random Facts Fest (2008)
Note: Mayka is "mum" in Bulgarian. Tatko is "dad." My guess is that Viktor's father is a pureblood and his mother is a half-blood. (Has anyone else noticed that JKR never mentions a quarter-status?)
Pobeda is a famous Bulgarian cookie and wafer factory.
Pipper is, of course, pepper.
And if I owned them, Viktor would be my own pet.
1. Viktor’s first memory is of himself, asking his mayka for a little brother. Or even a sister, if that’s easier. He isn’t sure how she reacted, but probably she must have laughed and said they’d keep trying, like she did the many times after that when he asked for siblings.
2. Until he was at Durmstrang, there was never anyone around to play with, so he mostly had his nose in a book. In his home, that was simply what was done. By the time he started school, he had read most of the books in the house, which was a lot, and practically all the children’s books from the Muggle library in town. He had also pretty much lost interest in playing anything with anyone; the stories he read were much more exciting.
3. He knows, and everyone knows, that he is damn good on a broom. What most don’t know is that he never actually wanted to fly. When he was nine, his parents explained that he had to do some kind of exercise, because spending the day with only books and Pobeda wafers and not moving an inch had made Viktor a very fat little boy.
4. His mayka suggested Muggle athletics. His tatko suggested Quidditch. He chose the latter because he thought he would get to simply sit on a broom and be gently carried away. When he found out that to stay on a broom, he had use all muscles that he had, plus a few that he never knew existed, he was so angry that he threw his broom on the grass and stomped on it. It retaliated by hitting him around the head.
5. Mayka asked him to try for another week before ditching Quidditch. By the fifth day, the pain in his legs had subsided. Two days later, he noticed that the jolts of the broom and the sweep of the wind in his hair felt less nauseating and more like the rollercoaster Tatko had taken him to. On day eight, he felt that he was as much an adventurer as the heroes of Verne, and he decided he might not hate this after all.
6. It took Viktor decades to realize how hard it must have been for her to encourage him to keep flying, when he was black and blue all over.
7. His tatko secretly offered him some Rakia. When Viktor made a face at only sniffing it, he hastily recommended just rubbing it on the sore muscles, together with some Pipper Potion. It took Viktor only a short time to recognize the smell, and to realize that his father probably didn’t mix the stuff with anything and used it internally. A lot.
8. Viktor is still glad he kept flying. That’s not because of the later fame. Honestly, a pushy, smart-alecky bookworm at Durmstrang - who would have been friends with him, if he hadn’t made his wing Quidditch champions year after year? But he always knew that it was, after all, only a game, and that he wouldn’t spend more time on it than he needed to get some money together. Flying was great, but the rules of the game were no less stupid when he had mastered them.
9. Verne is still one of Viktor’s favourites. The man must have been a bloody genius, he thinks, to have imagined all these things, before they were even invented, and without magic. He proved to Viktor that Muggles were in no way inferior to him - long before anyone tried to convince him otherwise. Viktor even likes to think that Verne might in some way have something to do with Varna, and his home, although he accepts that this sounds absurd.
10. The first time that he actually made money from Quidditch, four years before the World Cup, he bought his mayka a necklace. She thanked him and put it on with a gleeful smile, but firmly told him never to “go all Elvis” on her again. He researched what she meant, first at school, then at home, and then at the Muggle library. Thus began Viktor’s fascination with rock’n’roll. He later told her that he should have been acquainted with it long before making an arse of himself with his posters of the Bulbul Brothers.
11. At around the same time, he asked her why she still put up with Tatko, who seemed to read less and drink more every time he came home from Durmstrang. She smiled and said, “he has his uses.”
12. Girls began paying him attention before he was old enough to even enjoy their company. Although he isn’t proud of it, he admits that for a while, he liked it quite a bit. Later he began to realize that once he began talking of books and stories and ideas, their eyes glazed over. Still he put up with it and let them show him off in public and get him off in private. It quickly turned out to be a waste of time, though, because they would shriek when he as much as smiled in their general direction, and he knew that if this looked too good to be true, it probably was - how the hell were you supposed to learn what would make them happy, and not just loud?
13. A girl from Haskovo said she was too old to faint at the sight of him and gave him a few important tips. Her input, a few select books from the Durmstrang restricted section, and he finally managed to accumulate important knowledge on what to do. (He probably should have guessed that he didn’t need to use the same muscles as in Quidditch.) But he has always been very careful in using and applying that knowledge, because he also knows that he does not want to end up being useful only for that end, like he suspects Tatko might be.
14. When he first noticed Hermione, it was not because of her hair, or because she ignored him. During one morning workout, he saw her sitting under a tree, petting a huge cat with long, sensuous strokes. The cat mewled and twisted and purred in her lap, tossing its head under her hands. When he slowed down, she turned to look at him, squinting against the sun, and gave him such a wicked grin that, for the first time ever, he envied a cat.
15. He still suspects that Hermione arranged that cuddling session with Crookshanks to captivate him. She has never admitted to it, although she did confess that turning up her nose at him and his fangirls was an act, intended to make him see that she was different from all the others. In return, he confessed his long-time fantasy about her stroking him like a cat - all over. She promptly charmed a pair of pointed ears on his head, jumped him, and had him purring and mewling within seconds.
16. That, of course, was long after Hogwarts, because - well, in spite of all the childish jokes, courtesy of Poliakoff and the rest of his mates, nothing really happened between him and Hermione at that time. That wasn’t just because of their age and the lack of privacy. Frankly, he was more concerned with making it out of the tournament in one piece. The few hours each week that he spent next to her in the library were indeed quite stimulating, however, and she did have a deliciously wry sense of humour as well as plump tasty lips, so what he told her after the second task was not really a falsehood.
17. It was in their letters that they began mentioning more important issues. Viktor was the only one she told that she was really fed up with mothering her friends. She, in turn, was the only one who knew that the money he was trying to save was intended for a Muggle university. Then, just after having seen her again, the letters suddenly stopped. He had ample time to curse at her, the red-headed boy, Potter, the crazy old freak who had worn Grendelwald’s symbol, Karkaroff, the weird one who killed Cedric, and everyone else he could think about. He forgave almost all of them when he came home the next summer and found twenty-four letters by her, two for each month of that year, written but not owled until it was safe for her to do so.
18. The one thing that was hardest to forgive was that no one - not her, not the idiot boys, not even the Order members who were his contacts - let him know when it was time to fight, so he missed the battle of Hogwarts. They had to endure quite some brooding when he helped them round up a few Death Eaters hiding out in the Balkans.
19. Contrary to his fears, his parents were quite happy to see him go to a Muggle university, except that Tatko quietly took him aside and told him to try and learn to stay out of bars. Apparently, students were known to be even worse drinkers than Quidditch players. Viktor assured him he would be all right. He hated himself for his decision to study in Sofia, however, because the floo connection was a bitch, and on those few times a month he could visit Hermione in London, they had even less privacy than when they had been teenagers: as long as he couldn’t put his face on a box of Cheeri-Owls, there was no money for even a hotel room. He remembers that time as an endless string of hand-in-hand strolls through the city, cheap dinners, frequent snogging and secret shags in public places that were often more scary than exciting.
20. Saturday nights, when the children are with the Grangers, or the Weasleys, or the Potters, there are still times when sex is adventurous and loud, witness the cat kink occasion. On weekdays, however, he’ll check on the kids and quietly slip into bed beside her, and they make love under the covers, with whispers and silent kisses. Viktor enjoys the fact that he has her to himself all night, and a bed to stretch out in. Lovemaking on weekdays is serene and unhurried and peaceful. It is not boring, though. It simply feels like home.