Preaching to the choir

[thistlechaser]

Though I suspect that everyone has already read this and it's only me who's behind the times, I'm going to pimp this here anyway. If you've not yet checked out ntamara's Choosing Loyalties (scroll down past the Fractured Fairy Tales), then you're missing out! It's a highly believable AU in which Voldemort snatches Harry up just moments before Hagrid arrives to take him to Hogwarts. His feet set on a different path, Harry develops into an understandably different person. (And, in my opinion, a much much more interesting character than canon-Harry.)

Choosing Loyalties did two things that I would never have believed possible:

1) It made me go 'awwww, so cute!' over a snake. (*twitch* I don't like snakes.)

2) It made me grin and believe that Tom and Harry were meant to be together. And yes, that's totally insane. I've never, ever read Tom/Harry before because it seemed like *the* most impossible pairing in the whole series, but wow, it just really worked here.

And man, the second snake sure was cute. :)

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My HP100 drabble. This week's topic was the magical, moving paintings. Mrs. Figg may be a squib, but she's got connections... and cats!


Title: A Gift of Magic
House: Slytherin
Word Count: 100
Characters: Mrs. Figg and Mr. Tibbles (her cat)

Mrs. Figg liked cats, and while she couldn't do magic herself, she certainly had ties within the magical community. She did favors for various witches and wizards, and sometimes asked for little things in return.

On this very special day, she was returning home with one of those little things.

"Mr. Tibbles!" she called as she entered her house. "Happy birthday!"

As the cat padded around the corner, she crouched down and ripped the wrapping off the medium-sized gift. Inside the frame, two painted birds chirped and fluttered around.

Mr. Tibbles perked his ears and trotted towards it.

"Now you'll never be bored when mommy's away!"

Comments

[metron-ariston.livejournal.com]

Hee, you describing the plot of Choosing Loyalties made me want to go read it. I'd happened upon mentions and recs of it before, but have had such a backlog of stuff to read that I ended up forgetting about it.

I haven't got quite your Tom enthusiasm, but I LOVE Harry's gift, and... hey, snakes are cute! Especially little baby ones... *wibbles* Eeee!

(Your drabble's pretty cute, too. I have a feeling Mr. Tibbles is going to find out that magic paint isn't as tasty as it looks. *g*)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Glad you got to read it, and thanks for the comment about my drabble! And yeah, I was wondering how long the painting would last before the cat actually took a swipe at it and ripped it. Hee.