wee ficlet: travelling. harry/neville

[marginalia]

[travelling ] - harry/neville for shinyredtype.
prompts of "greyhound" and "sushi". 127 words.

After, they decide to get away. There is so much to get away from; even Muggles know that they were important for something, somewhere, though it generally materializes in people thinking they’d gone to school together.

Harry's never been anywhere, not even to the seaside for hols, and Neville's not been much further than that, but the idea of it enchants them. They drop off the Wizarding map and into the States, taking everything slowly. The problem with magic is how it let them skip over the details. How it let them skip over life.

Now they're eating supermarket sushi and looking at the world from the window of the Greyhound, finding the childhoods they never had and thinking only about the next state and each other.

Comments

[birds-sing.livejournal.com]

Ohh...now I want to go on vacation!

Lovely story. :)

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

me too ;) of course, i've had this desire to hop on a bus and just -go- for a while now, so this prompt didn't help ;)

thank you!

[shinyredtype.livejournal.com]

*grins madly*

I love it!!! Thank you thank you!

The problem with magic is how it let them skip over the details. How it let them skip over life.

*content sigh*

You write such a wonderful Harry/Neville.

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

i love that idea of magic and life and stuff. i don't think i've finished with that. remus & sirius are all "dude. we want to play with that."

so glad you liked it!

[shinyredtype.livejournal.com]

I really liked that idea, of having the simple pleasures of life, minus the magic. I'll look forward to where you might go with that idea from here...

[phineasjones.livejournal.com]

thinking only about the next state and each other.

eep! i'm now singing america.

i love how, in so much of these little things you write, you figure out what the characters need. and maybe you don't give it to them, but when you do it feels so perfect.

i've come to look fooor ameeeeerica

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

i totally had america in the back of my head when i was writing this :)

and that's such a lovely comment. i hadn't thought it out that way, but i think it's true. thank you!

[donnagirl.livejournal.com]

awwww. darlin'... this is so... perfect. I so love this. I am in love with this.

I want a love like this. You have broken my heart.

Nicely done. :)

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

dude, -i- want a love like this, too.

thank you :)

[dacro.livejournal.com]

I can soooo see them in my mind doing all those things. Finding joy in the journey, and with each other! *hugs*
Loved this!

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

thank you, dear!

[dorrie6.livejournal.com]

The melancholy? Gone. Replaced with a sweet, cozy goo.

I love you for this.

The problem with magic is how it let them skip over the details. How it let them skip over life.

That is totally gorgeous.

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

i have this new obsession with magic vs details of real life. am planning to work it out in the s/r fic, but it keeps sneaking out :)

thank you!

[tipgardner.livejournal.com]

Hi there, here by way of frulie's LJ. This drabble is simply gorgeous. It has lyrical beauty, some philosophy and that elgiac feel of S&G's America. Thanks for posting such a lovely piece.

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

frulie is the ultimate pimp ;) thank -you- for your lovely comments!

[marksykins.livejournal.com]

Aww! This is so bittersweet... I mourn for their lost childhoods, but I'm happy they have each other to kind of recapture it.

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

i am such a neville fan :) thank you!

[marksykins.livejournal.com]

me too. ;)

[jenish.livejournal.com]

Now they're eating supermarket sushi and looking at the world from the window of the Greyhound, finding the childhoods they never had and thinking only about the next state and each other.

Oh. Wow. So... perfect.

*happy sigh*

I forgot to say, I got here and to the other drabbles via dorrie6 :)

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

thank you! (ah, yes, if it's not via frulie it's via dorrie 'round here ;) )