MetaFic

Breath-taking Quidditch can really take it out of you. As Hermione knows, life is more than just a game.

What is death to one who brings it?

A drabble.

I really like the idea of SIYE's six-word story challenge. The source (Hemingway's supposed contest-winning novel) may or may not be accurate, but the challenge itself is meaningful and thought-provoking. However, because of the way SIYE chose to compile and format the challenge entries, they got a bit mangled. Any dialog or other multi-line entries look pretty awful, and to me they lose some of their readability and impact. So, for my own satisfaction, here are my six-word stories, formatted as I intended them.

A drabble for Girlyswot, who requested "an HP drabble with characters of your choosing to the prompt: Pure Fluff." This was a challenge, as Ros knows, for fluff doesn't come naturally to me. It crossed my mind to do something difficult to make fluffy, like a Draco/Pansy scene, but I decided not to get too ambitious too soon. Baby steps.

These are my entries into the SIYE Hemingway Six Challenge. Like Dave, I found it almost impossible to read through all those entries formatted as they were. So these are my entries as I wrote them.

Sometimes, the person you need finds you.

Shared ordeals inevitably bring people together, even if they hardly know each other at all.

Harry learns that few people are as thick as he is.

She's "the brightest witch of her age", but this charm requires more than intellect...