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Fic can, it seems, get quite a bit shorter than 50 words.



Elizabeth Tonks took pity on her younger brother.
“Just multiply by the demi-cogent and add ξ. Really Ted, it’s only Arithmancy. I do rocket science.”

*

Romilda looked at Sirius Black staring wildly out of the Prophet.
I know who he looks like, she thought. He looks like me.

*

Andromeda’s daughter was a metamorphmagus. Narcissa looked in the mirror and praised the Wizarding World’s lack of capacity for logical thought.

*

Amy Benson looked at the velvet-suited professor.
“You sent Tom home for the holidays. He didn’t need magic.”

*

Bunter never worried about the cliché that the butler did it; he was not a butler. He only knew he would do anything for Lord Peter – and that he had.

*

Barbara turned. Peter looked down from her bloodless face to a gold ring that was not his.
“I hope you’ll be very happy,” he said, and left.

*

Winifred had never minded that her parents regretted she was not a boy. She only wished they could be a little less obvious about it.

*

He shifted awkwardly in the punt. “Sorry.”
Harriet laughed. “Peter, we’re going to be married.”
“So we are. Thank God for that.”

*

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Date: 2006-10-03 12:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] themolesmother.livejournal.com
I love these.

It has often occurred to me that Narcissa might be a Metamorphagus.

MM

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Date: 2006-10-03 02:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com
It would make Book 7 for me if she were.

Thanks!

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Date: 2006-10-03 01:23 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] tree_and_leaf
Jolly good, all of them. The last one in particular made me smile.

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Date: 2006-10-03 02:30 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] tree_and_leaf
I also very much like the concept of the Barbara one, although the construction of the second sentence seems a little awkward to me. Perhaps 'looked down from her bloodless face'?

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Date: 2006-10-03 02:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com
Changed. It makes it two words shorter, too!

I quite like the last one as well.

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Date: 2006-10-03 05:19 pm (UTC)
tree_and_leaf: Watercolour of barn owl perched on post. (Default)
From: [personal profile] tree_and_leaf
Happy to help!

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Date: 2006-10-03 05:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] greenwoodside.livejournal.com
All the ones I can understand, I love. But would you mind explaining number four from the top, in small words that don't confuse me?

Their sheer brevity is impressive, packing a lot into very very few words - I struggle to keep to the wordcount for my hp100 drabbles, so tip my hat to you.

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Date: 2006-10-06 11:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com
Amy Benson is one of the two children than Tom Riddle terrorises in some way on the orphanage trip to the sea-side and is never the same again. Though Dumbledore made Tom give back the stuff he'd stolen, and threatens that if he does magic in the holidays he'll be found out and expelled, it's not hard to believe that didn't stop him enjoying frightening the other children by non-magical means.

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Date: 2006-10-06 06:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] greenwoodside.livejournal.com
Thank you for explaining. Bit of a head-meet-wall moment for me, since I realised who Amy Benson was when I read it through the first time, but somehow didn't latch on to the implication.

Thank you - it's a super drabble, like all the others!

Brill.

Date: 2006-10-03 05:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wemyss.livejournal.com
As always.

Re: Brill.

Date: 2006-10-06 11:53 am (UTC)

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Date: 2006-10-03 08:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] aervir.livejournal.com
Gah, as the verbose chatterbox that I am, I envy you this ability of keeping it short and sweet. Very well done!

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Date: 2006-10-06 11:54 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com
It's an enjoyable way of being productive without actually doingvery much...

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Date: 2007-06-27 02:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sue-d-nim.livejournal.com
He shifted awkwardly in the punt. “Sorry.”
Harriet laughed. “Peter, we’re going to be married.”
“So we are. Thank God for that.”
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Love love love love love love it!

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Date: 2007-06-27 11:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nineveh-uk.livejournal.com
Thank you. I'm rather fond of that one myself ;-)

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