kelly_chambliss

Have another piece of adventdrabbles!

Like Pomona, I am one of the (apparent) tiny minority of people who actually likes fruitcake and who welcomes any fruitcakey regifts.

Title: Tutti Frutti
Character: Pomona Sprout, with mentions of other Hogwarts staff
Rating: G
Word Count: 400 (according to AO3)
Prompt: re-gifted fruitcake

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( Tutti Frutti )

Here is my entry for the 2022 edition of hoggywartyxmas. It was written for my beloved friend lash_larue -- Lash, I was honored to be able to write for you in the final year of this best of fests.

It's an uplifting, comforting story, I hope -- given the state of the world, we all need it!

Title: Four Christmases Pomona Sprout Loved and One She Hated
Author: kelly_chambliss
Recipient: lash_larue
Rating: PG
Word Count: ~6800
Characters and/or Pairings: Pomona Sprout/Aberforth Dumbledore, Minerva McGonagall, Albus Dumbledore, assorted Hogwarts staff, students, and elves.
Summary: For Pomona Sprout, Christmas is always a wonderful time. Well, almost always.

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( Pomona's Christmases )

Reveals have been posted at hoggywartyxmas. I'm happy to report that (not counting the authors/artists I beta'd or knew from other sources), I correctly guessed eleven authors and two artists. That's right, my dears, you can't hide from Sybill Kelly and her Inner Eye (not even if you leave long comments on your own fic /g/).

My excellent gift, Four Christmases, was written by the inestimable squibstress; nobody does a better dysfunctional Minerva and Severus. Thanks again, my dear! (Yes, I WIN at exchanges again.)

For my contribution, I wrote "Hopeless," featuring a character I'd never written before -- Millicent Bulstrode. I've always thought there must be more to her than the little we see in canon and in JKR's interview comment that she is a "half-blood", so I really enjoyed exploring her possible backstory. Many thanks to you kind people who commented on it and/or recced it in your LJs; I sincerely appreciate the gift of feedback.

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Title: Hopeless
Author: kellychambliss
Rating: PG
Word Count: 9400
Characters: Millicent Bulstrode, Pomona Sprout, Neville Longbottom, Pansy Parkinson, OCs
Summary: Millicent Bulstrode is hopeless. And that's not always a bad thing.
Warnings: None
Disclaimer: JKR owns the Potterverse. And she'll push you down if you try to claim it's yours.
Author's Notes: From my recipient (miss_morland's) list of lovely prompts, I used these: "a student's hopeless crush on a teacher" and "two unlikely friends."

My thanks to my ever-helpful beta, tetleythesecond, and to the wonderful fest mod, therealsnape.

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( Hopeless )

Title: Raven's Honour
Author: kellychambliss
Characters: Minerva McGonagall, Pomona Sprout, Rolanda Hooch, and a Harry Potter cast of thousands.
Rating: PG
Word Count: ~11,000
Summary: In 1925, three good friends open a boarding school for girls. Non-magical AU.
A/N: This story was my entry in last summer's hp_friendship; I used a wonderful prompt from pale_moonlite. Though the fic is AU, I don't think you'll have any trouble recognizing the HP characters. The plot is modeled on old girls' boarding school stories of the early 20th century, the sort written by popular authors like Angela Brazil and Elinor Brent-Dyer. I love reading those old books, so I've had fun incorporating some classic school-story tropes into this fic: the powerful headmistress, the gallery of girls (the swot! the outdoorsy girl! the flirt!), the late-night clandestine spread, the unexpected benefactor, the tied-up-in-a-bow, deus-ex-machina ending, and above all, the sense of strong female camaraderie and friendship. I hope you enjoyed reading as much as I did writing.

Many thanks to my careful beta readers, therealsnape and pale_moonlite.

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( Raven's Honour )