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Another quick Theo ficlet!
Sep. 15th, 2009 10:19 pm
10 Reasons Theodore Never Talked To Harry Potter
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1. They shared perhaps two classes, and even then the teachers always put them on opposite sides of the room. What's the point of trying to hold a conversation with someone you never see?
2. Potter didn't talk to anyone. Anyone who wasn't Hermione Granger or a Weasley or his barely-existent crush-of-the-year. He didn't even talk to Draco Malfoy, which was really quite a feat when you considered all the shouting that went on between them.
He probably couldn't name Finnegan's favourite colour. (It was green, incidentally. There were some things Theo wished his sister didn't tell him.)
3. They were alone together for a little while in fourth year. Not in a small room (where one of them might have been forced to make conversation) and not for very long. Potter was occupied with putting his things away, and Theo just stood and watched him, noting that he didn't even try to brush his hair out of his eyes and that his glasses were far too small for him. Then Weasley came back and dragged him away, leaving Theo to wonder what on earth he had been thinking of.
4. What would they talk about, anyway?
5. "What the hell do you think you're doing, Nott?" Potter looked very . . . strange and un-Potter-like wearing his Muggle clothes, arms akimbo. "Get out of here, you bloody idiot! If you run now, I can tell the others the supplier was gone when I got to the shop!" He paused, breathing hard. "It won't show under truthspell."
Theo didn't nod, or thank him, or even look back. He drew his hood up to cover his face and ran.
6. He's never seen Potter (willingly) hold a book in his life. What is with that bloke?
7. He saw Potter naked once, though, all scars and pale bony limbs. (It's not just the famous one; Theo would bet most people didn't know how often Harry Potter got injured, or how rarely he got those injuries healed.) He wasn't muscled or handsome or beautiful, not in the slightest. Just very, very tired and worn.
(Still . . .)
8. Theo lives in India now, trying to fix everything without the Muggles noticing. It's quite a job . . . there are so many things broken.
He'd rather spend the rest of his life trying to fix things here than ever go back home.
9. Parseltongue. He's wondered all his life what it would sound like. Potter doesn't talk to snakes -- he'll never know.
10. . . . When it comes right down to it, Harry Potter is kind of a dick.
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1. They shared perhaps two classes, and even then the teachers always put them on opposite sides of the room. What's the point of trying to hold a conversation with someone you never see?
2. Potter didn't talk to anyone. Anyone who wasn't Hermione Granger or a Weasley or his barely-existent crush-of-the-year. He didn't even talk to Draco Malfoy, which was really quite a feat when you considered all the shouting that went on between them.
He probably couldn't name Finnegan's favourite colour. (It was green, incidentally. There were some things Theo wished his sister didn't tell him.)
3. They were alone together for a little while in fourth year. Not in a small room (where one of them might have been forced to make conversation) and not for very long. Potter was occupied with putting his things away, and Theo just stood and watched him, noting that he didn't even try to brush his hair out of his eyes and that his glasses were far too small for him. Then Weasley came back and dragged him away, leaving Theo to wonder what on earth he had been thinking of.
4. What would they talk about, anyway?
5. "What the hell do you think you're doing, Nott?" Potter looked very . . . strange and un-Potter-like wearing his Muggle clothes, arms akimbo. "Get out of here, you bloody idiot! If you run now, I can tell the others the supplier was gone when I got to the shop!" He paused, breathing hard. "It won't show under truthspell."
Theo didn't nod, or thank him, or even look back. He drew his hood up to cover his face and ran.
6. He's never seen Potter (willingly) hold a book in his life. What is with that bloke?
7. He saw Potter naked once, though, all scars and pale bony limbs. (It's not just the famous one; Theo would bet most people didn't know how often Harry Potter got injured, or how rarely he got those injuries healed.) He wasn't muscled or handsome or beautiful, not in the slightest. Just very, very tired and worn.
(Still . . .)
8. Theo lives in India now, trying to fix everything without the Muggles noticing. It's quite a job . . . there are so many things broken.
He'd rather spend the rest of his life trying to fix things here than ever go back home.
9. Parseltongue. He's wondered all his life what it would sound like. Potter doesn't talk to snakes -- he'll never know.
10. . . . When it comes right down to it, Harry Potter is kind of a dick.
