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heathershaped) wrote2007-09-27 01:24 pm
heathershaped) wrote2007-09-27 01:24 pm
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Fic (in a sense): 20 Random Facts about Harry Potter
Title: 20 Random Facts about Harry Potter
Rating: PG
Warning(s): None
Word Count: ~1149
A/N: Written for the Harry Potter Random Facts Fest. Thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
inell for looking it over for me.
1. Harry's first memory isn't a memory, exactly, because he doesn't even know that it's real. But whenever he smells freshly laundered clothes -- not just any, but when they're line-dried -- he thinks he remembers sunlight on his face, fabric blowing above him in the breeze, and his mother's ankles. It's very rare that he has occasion to even come across that specific scent, but that's the image his mind calls up.
2. Seventeen years later, when he went to his parents' house in Godric's Hollow for the first time, he spotted a clothesline in the backyard. Just briefly, and it was rusty and caked with ice, but it was there, and so he's reasonably sure the memory is real.
3. In his second memory, he's a bit older, maybe two, and it features a total stranger. Come to deliver something, or sell something, he can't remember which, to the Dursleys. He doesn't recall the name, doubts he ever heard it. But he remembers kind eyes, a quick grin, and an absent 'hullo, fella' as the man ruffled his hair. He isn't sure why this memory sticks out, but he doesn't really object to the fact that it's mostly the good memories from that time that his mind tends to hold onto. Even if there aren't that many.
4. On one of the days when he was left with Mrs. Figg while the Dursleys were out, Harry snuck out and took a bus ride back to the zoo. He found that the snake he'd released was back in his tank behind glass; he obviously hadn't made it back to Brazil. As much as he concentrated, he couldn't free the snake again.
5. Harry's first crush was long before Cho. He'd met Anna Riley at the Muggle school, and she'd been the only one who hadn't laughed at him or treated him like a freak after he'd wound up on the roof that day.
6. Before he boarded the train with Ron, Harry wasn't particularly clear about what it meant to have a friend, or to be one. Ron made it so easy, though, that the transition was effortless. He'd known then that they didn't have a lot in common, and he couldn't help envying Ron his family sometimes, but none of it had mattered, because they were mates, and had been from the start.
7. With Hermione, it hadn't been such an easy slide into friendship, but it had been just as immediate, in a way. It's different, with her, and every bit as important to him. Sometimes he feels like he doesn't understand her, she isn't simple like Ron, but he knows that there's a lot more to her than people realise and is glad he gets to see that all the time.
8. He'd never tell Ron, but the study schedules actually helped, the few times he actually used them.
9. Harry sometimes misses the time before he was eleven and no one knew him or spared him a second glance. It isn't something he ever thought he'd feel, but there's something to be said for obscurity. Still, there's not a day that passes when he doubts that the people he's met and the world he's a part of are well worth the notoriety he's experienced.
10. It's both comforting and tiring when Ron and Hermione argue, which doesn't make much sense to Harry, but that's how it's always been. In most cases it was easier not to get in the middle when they did, even if deep down he knows that Hermione was right a lot of the time.
11. Harry sort of recognised that Ron was into Hermione well before Ron did. Mostly, it's not something he likes to spend a lot of time thinking about, because whenever he does, it's complicated and difficult to analyze.
12. Taking up with Ginny had felt good. When he was with her it felt almost normal, one of the only things in his life that really was. It never occurred to him to talk with her as freely as he could with Hermione and Ron, to tell her things about what he was going through, what the three of them were going through. He doesn't really know why he's always tried to separate her from that as much as possible, and he isn't sure what that means.
13. Harry's biggest fear wasn't that he'd not be able to save the Wizarding world from being taken over by Voldemort -- the full scope of that, that he was supposed to do that, had been crushingly overwhelming sometimes, and fear didn't seem like a word strong enough to cover it. His biggest fear was that he would lose his friends, that it would be his fault, and that he'd be alone again.
14. He would most certainly have died, many times over in the last year, without Ron and Hermione's help. The fact that he was seriously going to go on the hunt without them had they not been so stubborn isn't exactly a point of pride for him.
15. Harry's pretty sure that he loves Hermione and Ron. Part of him is afraid that he isn't able to recognise what that feels like, that he has nothing to compare it to, so there would be no way for him to know for sure. All he knows is that they're the most important people in his life, above anyone else, and he doesn't know where he'd be without them. By now, he's pretty certain what it feels like to be loved, though, and that's definitely something to go by.
16. Walking down into the forest to give himself to Voldemort was the hardest thing Harry's ever had to do, and he has no idea how he found the strength. He thinks he got it from his friends, his family, and everyone who had rallied there to fight. They were strong enough to do what they could; he'd had to be as well.
17. The fact that he died, actually died, without ever finding them to say good-bye makes him unbearably sad. It hasn't really sunk in, yet, that that could so easily have been it for him. But even if it had been, it would still have meant that everyone else would be okay, so he tries to focus on that.
18. Harry wonders if there's anything else to that prophecy, or if there was another in the Department or Mysteries that got smashed with all the rest, because this one is over now, and he doesn't like thinking that that was all his life was for.
19. It wasn't until he found Ron and Hermione and walked with them out of the Great Hall that he really felt that the fight was over, that he might be alright, even if he has no clue how to even start moving forward.
20. Still, the sandwich was really good.
Rating: PG
Warning(s): None
Word Count: ~1149
A/N: Written for the Harry Potter Random Facts Fest. Thanks to
inell for looking it over for me.1. Harry's first memory isn't a memory, exactly, because he doesn't even know that it's real. But whenever he smells freshly laundered clothes -- not just any, but when they're line-dried -- he thinks he remembers sunlight on his face, fabric blowing above him in the breeze, and his mother's ankles. It's very rare that he has occasion to even come across that specific scent, but that's the image his mind calls up.
2. Seventeen years later, when he went to his parents' house in Godric's Hollow for the first time, he spotted a clothesline in the backyard. Just briefly, and it was rusty and caked with ice, but it was there, and so he's reasonably sure the memory is real.
3. In his second memory, he's a bit older, maybe two, and it features a total stranger. Come to deliver something, or sell something, he can't remember which, to the Dursleys. He doesn't recall the name, doubts he ever heard it. But he remembers kind eyes, a quick grin, and an absent 'hullo, fella' as the man ruffled his hair. He isn't sure why this memory sticks out, but he doesn't really object to the fact that it's mostly the good memories from that time that his mind tends to hold onto. Even if there aren't that many.
4. On one of the days when he was left with Mrs. Figg while the Dursleys were out, Harry snuck out and took a bus ride back to the zoo. He found that the snake he'd released was back in his tank behind glass; he obviously hadn't made it back to Brazil. As much as he concentrated, he couldn't free the snake again.
5. Harry's first crush was long before Cho. He'd met Anna Riley at the Muggle school, and she'd been the only one who hadn't laughed at him or treated him like a freak after he'd wound up on the roof that day.
6. Before he boarded the train with Ron, Harry wasn't particularly clear about what it meant to have a friend, or to be one. Ron made it so easy, though, that the transition was effortless. He'd known then that they didn't have a lot in common, and he couldn't help envying Ron his family sometimes, but none of it had mattered, because they were mates, and had been from the start.
7. With Hermione, it hadn't been such an easy slide into friendship, but it had been just as immediate, in a way. It's different, with her, and every bit as important to him. Sometimes he feels like he doesn't understand her, she isn't simple like Ron, but he knows that there's a lot more to her than people realise and is glad he gets to see that all the time.
8. He'd never tell Ron, but the study schedules actually helped, the few times he actually used them.
9. Harry sometimes misses the time before he was eleven and no one knew him or spared him a second glance. It isn't something he ever thought he'd feel, but there's something to be said for obscurity. Still, there's not a day that passes when he doubts that the people he's met and the world he's a part of are well worth the notoriety he's experienced.
10. It's both comforting and tiring when Ron and Hermione argue, which doesn't make much sense to Harry, but that's how it's always been. In most cases it was easier not to get in the middle when they did, even if deep down he knows that Hermione was right a lot of the time.
11. Harry sort of recognised that Ron was into Hermione well before Ron did. Mostly, it's not something he likes to spend a lot of time thinking about, because whenever he does, it's complicated and difficult to analyze.
12. Taking up with Ginny had felt good. When he was with her it felt almost normal, one of the only things in his life that really was. It never occurred to him to talk with her as freely as he could with Hermione and Ron, to tell her things about what he was going through, what the three of them were going through. He doesn't really know why he's always tried to separate her from that as much as possible, and he isn't sure what that means.
13. Harry's biggest fear wasn't that he'd not be able to save the Wizarding world from being taken over by Voldemort -- the full scope of that, that he was supposed to do that, had been crushingly overwhelming sometimes, and fear didn't seem like a word strong enough to cover it. His biggest fear was that he would lose his friends, that it would be his fault, and that he'd be alone again.
14. He would most certainly have died, many times over in the last year, without Ron and Hermione's help. The fact that he was seriously going to go on the hunt without them had they not been so stubborn isn't exactly a point of pride for him.
15. Harry's pretty sure that he loves Hermione and Ron. Part of him is afraid that he isn't able to recognise what that feels like, that he has nothing to compare it to, so there would be no way for him to know for sure. All he knows is that they're the most important people in his life, above anyone else, and he doesn't know where he'd be without them. By now, he's pretty certain what it feels like to be loved, though, and that's definitely something to go by.
16. Walking down into the forest to give himself to Voldemort was the hardest thing Harry's ever had to do, and he has no idea how he found the strength. He thinks he got it from his friends, his family, and everyone who had rallied there to fight. They were strong enough to do what they could; he'd had to be as well.
17. The fact that he died, actually died, without ever finding them to say good-bye makes him unbearably sad. It hasn't really sunk in, yet, that that could so easily have been it for him. But even if it had been, it would still have meant that everyone else would be okay, so he tries to focus on that.
18. Harry wonders if there's anything else to that prophecy, or if there was another in the Department or Mysteries that got smashed with all the rest, because this one is over now, and he doesn't like thinking that that was all his life was for.
19. It wasn't until he found Ron and Hermione and walked with them out of the Great Hall that he really felt that the fight was over, that he might be alright, even if he has no clue how to even start moving forward.
20. Still, the sandwich was really good.
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