Prompt 11 - Calling all fans of Fanon!
This week, switchandfic is doing something different. Scribey and I are tired of all the teasing that JKR's done with the good ship H/D in Book Six so we're taking matters into our own hands.
Below (in two parts)is this week's prompt on what we think REALLY happened in Chapter 26 of the Goblet of Fire, before her editors made her change it.
Scene in the Library
"I wouldn't mind," said Fred Weasleys voice. "Be a talking point, wouldn't it?"
Harry, Ron, and Hermione looked up. Fred and George had just emerged from behind some bookshelves.
"What're you two doing here?" Ron asked.
"Looking for you," said George. "McGonagall wants you, Hermione."
"Why?" said Hermione, looking surprised.
"Dunno... she was looking a bit grim, though," said Fred.
"We're supposed to take you down to her office," said George.
“Can we just go already?” a familiar voice drawled from behind the twins. Ron immediately stepped forward spluttering, “Malfoy!”
“What is he doing here?” asked Harry and Hermione simultaneously.
George shrugged. “McGonagall asked us to fetch him as well.”
“Yes, so let’s hurry on. I don’t want to spend any more time in the company of filthy mudblood lovers than I have to” Draco spat out, looking straight at Harry. Ron lunged at him and the twins hurriedly ushered Hermione and Draco out of the library before Madam Pince arrived on the scene. The familiar anger that Harry felt in Draco’s presence pooled in his stomach but he found himself gritting out, “He’s not worth it Ron. Besides, we still have to solve this task and I don’t have much time left.”
Harry and Dobby
"Harry Potter must wake up, sir!"
"Stop poking me -"
"Dobby must poke Harry Potter, sir, he must wake up!"
Harry opened his eyes. He was still in the library; the Invisibility Cloak had slipped off his head as he'd slept, and the side of his face was stuck to the pages of Where There's a Wand, There's a Way. He sat up, straightening his glasses, blinking in the bright daylight.
"Harry Potter needs to hurry!" squeaked Dobby. "The second task starts in ten minutes, and Harry Potter -"
"Ten minutes?" Harry croaked. "Ten - ten minutes?"
He looked down at his watch. Dobby was right. It was twenty past nine. A large, dead weight seemed to fall through Harry's chest into his stomach.
"Hurry, Harry Potter!" squeaked Dobby, plucking at Harry's sleeve. "You is supposed to be down by the lake with the other champions, sir!"
"It's too late, Dobby," Harry said hopelessly. "I'm not doing the task, I don't know how-"
"Harry Potter will do the task!" squeaked the elf. "Dobby knew Harry had not found the right book, so Dobby did it for him!"
"What?" said Harry. "But you don't know what the second task is -"
"Dobby knows, sir! Harry Potter has to go into the lake and find young Master Malfoy -"
"Find Malfoy?"
"- and take him back from the merpeople!"
"What?" Harry gasped. "They've got... they've got Malfoy?"
"The thing Harry Potter will miss most, sir!" squeaked Dobby. "'But past an hour-'"
"- 'the prospect's black,'" Harry recited numbly, staring, horror-struck, at the elf.
"MALFOY?”
Have fun with this one folks - we want to hear all about harry's immediate appointment with the shrink, draco's bossy damsel in distress routine, and any & all descriptions of ron sicking up are more than welcome!
So grab your fanon playmate and colour outside the canon lines! :D
p.s.-- No time limits for this round. Yeah, we're smoking the good crack.
Below (in two parts)is this week's prompt on what we think REALLY happened in Chapter 26 of the Goblet of Fire, before her editors made her change it.
Scene in the Library
"I wouldn't mind," said Fred Weasleys voice. "Be a talking point, wouldn't it?"
Harry, Ron, and Hermione looked up. Fred and George had just emerged from behind some bookshelves.
"What're you two doing here?" Ron asked.
"Looking for you," said George. "McGonagall wants you, Hermione."
"Why?" said Hermione, looking surprised.
"Dunno... she was looking a bit grim, though," said Fred.
"We're supposed to take you down to her office," said George.
“Can we just go already?” a familiar voice drawled from behind the twins. Ron immediately stepped forward spluttering, “Malfoy!”
“What is he doing here?” asked Harry and Hermione simultaneously.
George shrugged. “McGonagall asked us to fetch him as well.”
“Yes, so let’s hurry on. I don’t want to spend any more time in the company of filthy mudblood lovers than I have to” Draco spat out, looking straight at Harry. Ron lunged at him and the twins hurriedly ushered Hermione and Draco out of the library before Madam Pince arrived on the scene. The familiar anger that Harry felt in Draco’s presence pooled in his stomach but he found himself gritting out, “He’s not worth it Ron. Besides, we still have to solve this task and I don’t have much time left.”
Harry and Dobby
"Harry Potter must wake up, sir!"
"Stop poking me -"
"Dobby must poke Harry Potter, sir, he must wake up!"
Harry opened his eyes. He was still in the library; the Invisibility Cloak had slipped off his head as he'd slept, and the side of his face was stuck to the pages of Where There's a Wand, There's a Way. He sat up, straightening his glasses, blinking in the bright daylight.
"Harry Potter needs to hurry!" squeaked Dobby. "The second task starts in ten minutes, and Harry Potter -"
"Ten minutes?" Harry croaked. "Ten - ten minutes?"
He looked down at his watch. Dobby was right. It was twenty past nine. A large, dead weight seemed to fall through Harry's chest into his stomach.
"Hurry, Harry Potter!" squeaked Dobby, plucking at Harry's sleeve. "You is supposed to be down by the lake with the other champions, sir!"
"It's too late, Dobby," Harry said hopelessly. "I'm not doing the task, I don't know how-"
"Harry Potter will do the task!" squeaked the elf. "Dobby knew Harry had not found the right book, so Dobby did it for him!"
"What?" said Harry. "But you don't know what the second task is -"
"Dobby knows, sir! Harry Potter has to go into the lake and find young Master Malfoy -"
"Find Malfoy?"
"- and take him back from the merpeople!"
"What?" Harry gasped. "They've got... they've got Malfoy?"
"The thing Harry Potter will miss most, sir!" squeaked Dobby. "'But past an hour-'"
"- 'the prospect's black,'" Harry recited numbly, staring, horror-struck, at the elf.
"MALFOY?”
Have fun with this one folks - we want to hear all about harry's immediate appointment with the shrink, draco's bossy damsel in distress routine, and any & all descriptions of ron sicking up are more than welcome!
So grab your fanon playmate and colour outside the canon lines! :D
p.s.-- No time limits for this round. Yeah, we're smoking the good crack.