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yiling matriarch ([personal profile] marginalia) wrote2004-07-26 02:04 pm

wee ficlet: travelling. harry/neville

[travelling ] - harry/neville for [livejournal.com profile] 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.

[identity profile] shinyredtype.livejournal.com 2004-07-26 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
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...