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bendleshnitz1 ([personal profile] bendleshnitz1) wrote in [community profile] hp_worldcup_bets2010-08-10 12:13 am
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Drabble for kelly_chambliss: Dark Owl (Minerva/Amelia)

Recipient: [personal profile] kelly_chambliss
Title: Dark Owl
Author: [personal profile] bendleshnitz1 / [livejournal.com profile] bendleshnitz1
Pairing/Character(s): Minerva McGonagall/Amelia Bones
Prompt: A letter
Word Count: 322
Rating: G
Warning(s): Character death. Canon. Suggested femmeslash.
Summary: Minerva founds out about Amelia's death (could be considered a missing moment from HBP).
Author's Notes: I've only written McGonagall once before and it was almost a year ago. Hope it's not as bad as I think it is. And I had a blast participating in the community! It made the World Cup more exciting than it already is ;) Also, many thanks to my awesome beta, [livejournal.com profile] tania_sings

Minerva felt a shiver ran down her spine as the dark owl approached her window. It was the owl no one ever wanted to see. He Who Must Not Be Named was back and there wasn't a single soul who didn't have his or her days counted.

Closing her eyes briefly, she could hear her own brain working frantically, wondering who was the victim this time. Dumbledore had gone on another secret mission for the Order, leaving her in charge of the school. There wasn't much to do during the summer holidays, but even when it was unexpected, duty called and she had to be ready for anything that may threaten Hogwarts or its students.

Opening the window, the owl flew to her desk, already offering its leg for her to untie the letter. With quivering fingers, she opened the fancy parchment. Her eyes looked over the two small paragraphs until they found a name she was too familiar with. "...the Ministry has been attacked... sorry to inform you... Amelia Bones... Madam Bones fought with remarkable courage... the memorial..."

Gasping, Minerva fell to the floor. Her whole body was shaking while she tried to breathe properly.

"Lia," she whispered as she felt the tears now running down her cheeks. "No, no, no..."

Standing up was more difficult than she had expected. Helping herself with the desk, Minerva made her way to the chair. She searched blindly in the first drawer to her right for Amelia's picture.

"You promised," Minerva said softly as she looked at the photograph in which Amelia sat, smiling at the camera, surrounded by hundreds of Cornflowers. The bright blue colour of the flowers brought more attention to her blue eyes. "I can't keep going alone, Lia. I need you. Please, don't leave me," Minerva pleaded at the moving picture over and over again until she fell asleep from exhaustion with the smiling image of Amelia on her hand.
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[personal profile] ysilme 2010-08-10 04:30 pm (UTC)(link)
There is already a C2 on Fanfiction.net dedicated to Missing Scenes, run by Chemistress a.k.a. [livejournal.com profile] minervas_eule. You'll find a lot of missing scenes in there.
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[personal profile] ysilme 2010-08-10 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I hope nobody minds me explaining that here... *looks around*

It's rather easy to make them work or work with them :wink:
First, you obviously need an account on FFnet, and you can add only fics on FFnet, too. Every user can start just one comm, for that you log into your acount, click on "communities" and on "create/edit". The rest should be easy enough.

When you have created a comm or are staff member of one (the creator can invite other FFnet users as staff), you can choose with every fic with a drop-down menu down left to add the fic to your/a comm.

If you just want to follow a community, you need to be logged in, go to the main page of the comm (like with the link above) and click on "subscribe". There is also a feed option, but I have no idea how that works.

If you've subscribed to a comm, you get alerts for every new entry (provided that you are getting alerts at all). But you also can just bookmark it and visit it from time to time.
It is always wise to change the rating to the highest possible to see all entries, as the default setting is for "K->T" only and one doesn't see all entries if some are rated higher.

I hope that helps.