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Follow on to Choices

Sun, 08 Mar 2026 20:27:37 GMT

Title: Decision
Author:Vickyducky
Word count: ~450
Characters/pairings: H/D
Author note this follows on from Choices which was written for dracoharry100 challenge #877

Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoat Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.

( Draco was in his private sitting room )

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Schmoopy H/D ficlet for Valentine's Day

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 10:23:18 GMT

Title: Love is a many splendoured thing
Author:Vickyducky
Word count: ~700
Characters/pairings: H/D
Author note Some schmoopy fluff for Valentine’s Day. Characters are consenting adults.

Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoat Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.

( Harry hadn't wanted to go to Pansy's party )

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Don’t marry me, have him…

Fri, 23 Jan 2026 17:05:29 GMT

Last night I watched a very old episode of The Simpsons in which they went to London and ran into J K Rowling (whose name Lisa mispronounced). Lisa asked her how the series ended (told you it was very old) and JKR replied “He grows up and marries you. Is that what you wanted to hear?”
My husband turned to me and asked if that was what I wanted to hear. Does he even know me? Of course not, I wanted (still want) Harry to grow up and marry Draco of course!

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JMDC No. 239 a quiet night in

Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:56:47 GMT

Title: Starry, starry night
Author:Vickyducky
Word count: ~400
Characters/pairings: H/D
enchanted_jae’s JMDC No. 239 a quiet night in
Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoat Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.

( Bloody hell it's cold out there! )

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Spellbinding

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 21:10:18 GMT

Just watched a Russell Howard comedy routine in which he said one of his friend’s boyfriend shouted expelliamus (sp?) when he climaxed, to which she responded ‘5 points to Gryffindor’!
If this hasn’t been in a fic, then it needs to be. It’s making me laugh just thinking about it.

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Is Britpicking in HP fics still a thing?

Sun, 08 Jun 2025 07:59:29 GMT

I’ve been away from the HP fandom for a long time, but back in the day Britpicking was a quite emotive subject, and I was wondering, Is anyone bothered anymore?
I’ll be honest, I prefer the HP characters to use English idiom (or Scottish or Welsh or Irish as appropriate), just as when I used to read figure skating RPF I expected the Americans not to talk about pavements etc. I learned over the years not to be an arsehole about it and just appreciate an author’s work (or not) on its other merits, but I still find it slightly jarring. Of course English young people ( my son included) use lots of Americanisms nowadays (movie, mail, etc) so maybe it’s just me being an old fart. Ho hum.

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Death and taxes

Mon, 02 Jun 2025 17:01:37 GMT

Are of course the two certainties in life.

Today I learned that a friend and colleague of mine died yesterday. I’d known him since he was 21 and I was 22, which is to say for 36 years. He introduced me to the novels of Milan Kundera and Tales of the City. We’ve been horribly drunk together several times. We were less close in recent years, but this has still hit me hard. He has teenage children and my heart absolutely breaks for them.

Grief is heavy. It feels like a weight on my chest. It is weighing me down and making me tired.

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Follow on fic to Incarcerous my dracoharry100 fic for Challenge: #847 trust

Sat, 24 May 2025 17:29:35 GMT

b>Title: Fit to be tied
Author:Vickyducky
Word count:about 475
Characters/pairings:H/D
Warnings: Rough sex, soft bondage/dominance

Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoat Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.

This is a follow on to my dracoharry100 fic for Challenge: #847 trust but I think makes sense without reading that. I half had this in my head anyway, but enchanted_jae inspired me to write it down.

These characters are consenting adults.

( Harry lay on the bed… )

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Your Harry or Draco or Snape isn’t necessarily my Harry or Draco etc

Sun, 18 May 2025 15:58:24 GMT

I’ve been reading some fest fic (Snarry-a-thon and a Drarry one) and there have been a couple of fics, well written, interesting, involving, but which have had characterisations of one of the protagonists that are so very different to the versions of Harry or Draco or Snape that live in my brain that it threw me out of the fic.

And it made me think how we’ve all read the same books and seen the same films and yet see the characters so differently.

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Tue, 13 May 2025 18:57:14 GMT

b>Title: inappropriate
Author:Vickyducky
Team:Death Eaters
Word count:about 215
Characters/pairings:H/D
Warnings: mention of character death (not H or D)
dracoharry100 Challenge: #846 health

Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoat Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.

( This is how my drabble for dracoharry100 Challenge: #846 health started life. My drabbles always start long and get cut down and I thought I'd start posting the original, longer versions. Ficlet under the cut )

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dracoharry100 Challenge: #845 defend

Thu, 08 May 2025 19:34:19 GMT

Title: Memories
Author:Vickyducky
Team:Death Eaters
Word count:100 x2
Characters/pairings:H/D
Warnings: sexual referrences
dracoharry100 Challenge: #845 defend

Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoat Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
These characters are consenting adults.

( Draco had dozed off… )

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Tattoo or not tattoo?

Thu, 08 May 2025 07:24:25 GMT

I’m one of the older GenX and I know this is a sweeping generalisation, but we don’t go in for tattoos like younger people do. Certainly when I was young only sailors and criminals had them. The only place I saw a tattoo parlour was by the docks in Portsmouth (we were getting a ferry somewhere), which would have had plenty of both type of clients nearby!
However, ever since my renewed interest in all things Harry Potter I’ve had a fancy for a tattoo of the Deathly Hallows sign on the inside of my left wrist. As I wear a watch most of the time no one would see it, but it would just be for me to know it’s there. Odd.
I think I’ll see if I still feel the same when I’m 60 and if I do it can be a birthday present to myself.

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dracoharry100 Challenge: #844 protect

Thu, 01 May 2025 19:15:55 GMT

Title: Out in the Open
Author:Vickyducky
Team:Death Eaters
Word count:100
Characters/pairings:H/D
Warnings: none
dracoharry100 Challenge: #844 protect

Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoat Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
These characters are consenting adults.

( Harry bounced up to Draco… )

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Madly, Deeply, The Alan Rickman Diaries

Sun, 27 Apr 2025 17:09:41 GMT

So when I ordered Tom Felton’s autobiography, Amazon suggested Alan Rickman’s diaries and I thought ‘why not?’

To begin with I found it a bit dull, just a lot of name dropping. But it got better, with more of his feelings about the various projects he was working on. He often was very scathing about directors, particularly those who don’t provide enough direction. Also critics and people who only talk about themselves.

He was very proud of Die Hard, which I was slightly surprised by, and there was obviously some legal wrangling over Die Hard 3.

Regarding Harry Potter, Warner brothers cut corners, the food was terrible, he didn’t get paid enough. He was quite scathing about the child actors, complaining that they didn’t know their lines, especially Emma Watson of whom he said “[her] diction is this side of Albania at times.” Whatever that may mean. A couple of passing mentions later on left me with the impression that he didn’t like Emma at all, but he clearly became very fond and admiring of Dan Radcliffe. Rupert Grint doesn’t get a mention :)

I almost forgot the most extraordinary bit. Apparently, David Yates wanted Voldemort to kill Snape with a spell, not Nagini. And was only persuaded otherwise when it was pointed out that Snape would then die straight away and wouldn’t be able to give Harry the crucial memories.

The end, written by his wife, Rima Horton, dealing with his death from pancreatic cancer was very moving and sad. Strange to think it was 9 years ago.

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Thu, 24 Apr 2025 21:05:04 GMT

Title: The folly of youth
Author:Vickyducky
Team:Death Eaters
Word count:100 x 2
Characters/pairings:H/D
Warnings: adult theme
dracoharry100 Challenge:#843 legal

Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoat Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.
These characters are consenting adults.

author note: This is a sequel to and follows immediately on from Something’s up just after Harry says ( I need to tell you something… )

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Tue, 22 Apr 2025 08:21:11 GMT

Title: Spring has sprung
Author:Vickyducky
Word count:100
Characters/pairings:Harry/Dracp
Challenge:JMDC No. 230 - egg, flower, green
Warnings: a bit of inuendo maybe.

Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoat Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.

( In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love )

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Wed, 16 Apr 2025 21:10:55 GMT

Title: Anything but this.
Author:Vickyducky
Team:Death Eaters
Word count:100
Characters/pairings:H/D, Ron and Hermione
Challenge:#842 embrace

Disclaimer: This story is based on characters and situations created and owned by JK Rowling, various publishers including but not limited to Bloomsbury Books, Scholastic Books and Raincoat Books, and Warner Bros., Inc. No money is being made and no copyright or trademark infringement is intended.

( I think we’ll just have to embrace it, )

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Book review: Tom Felton’s autobiography, Beyond the Wand.

Sun, 13 Apr 2025 15:51:07 GMT

So I bought this off the back of my renewed interest in all things Harry Potter, having watched the 20 year reunion and subsequently googled the trio and Tom to see what they were doing now.
Obviously I wanted to read all about his time making the Potter films, what it was like working with Alan Rickman, did he get on with Dan Radcliffe et al. And yes about 2/3 of this book is about his time on Potter and the various scrapes he got into growing up. I think he was no different to many many teenage boys in the noughties, but at the same time, a bit of a reprobate. I was particularly interested to read that although he and the boys who played Crabbe and Goyle were friends, they also fought. As teenage boys do, jockeying for their place in the pecking order. When I was watching the reunion programme and Dan and Rupert and Emma were all reminiscing, I couldn’t help but think that there must have been times when they fell out. Being a trio can be awkward, two can have a tendency to gang up on the third every now and then,not always the same two. Tom doesn’t answer that question but that’s why I liked the bit about Crabbe and Goyle.

It was the final third of the book, about Tom’s life after Potter, that really touched me. ( Spoilers under here. )

So I loved this book and I defy you to read it and not end up a bit in love with Tom, I certainly did. He writes just as he seems to speak, going by interviews I’ve seen, slthough sometimes he talks about himself in the third person. It’s written in a very English vernacular and I wondered if the American version included a glossary, or if the English slang had been modified in the American edition. Would Americans know that ‘ordinary clobber’ meant ordinary clothes? I’m assuming there must be an American edition, Potter is huge in the US.

Finally, when I bought this, Amazon suggested I’d like Alan Rickman’s diaries as well and I thought they were right, but I have to say they are quite dull so far. Just lots of ‘lunch with X, Y and Z’.

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