MetaFic

A brief moment from the distant future of the Meaning of One universe.

A new student appears at Hogwarts. Read to find out who! (With annotations)

A new student appears at Hogwarts. Read to find out who!

If two people are deliberately created to be together, how will the challenges in a world of magic and Dark Lords be dealt with? What would it mean for two people to truly become one? A re-imagination of first year.

A drabble.

When Draco Malfoy finally goes too far, what will Harry do? More importantly, why will he do it?

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.

Sometimes, the person you need finds you.

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

Harry needs a way to live unseen with his friends while hunting Horcruxes, and he has a ridiculously devious idea of how to do that. Before they leave, however, he needs to test his theory, and what better place to do that than exactly where he wants to be anyway?