ruffians has posted a challenge, here, that consists of, in essence, "Pick a weird pairing. Make a drabble." So I did. Not cut because I don't know the HTML for a cut and cause is not very long; anybody want to tell me, they're totally welcome to. Also posted in the comments of the challenging post, linked above, and to my IJ, baby_sloth.

Pairing: Hedwig/Errol
Rating: G
Wordcount: 193
Era: DH compliant, one spoiler

Hedwig shuffled closer to the smaller owl, speaking in the soft h's and o's characteristic of the species. "Errol," she murmured, "it's okay. You don't have to be nervous anymore. No one's going to make you carry packages that are too big over distances that are too far; in fact, no one's going to make you carry anything. It's okay now."

Errol snuggled timidly into her downy feathers. "There are people here; they always make me carry things."

"Not anymore." Hedwig made a promise to herself that if she ever saw any of those Weasleys in the afterlife, she'd show them what for. "Come on, I'll show you." She dived down off the branch, alighting on a park bench near a dark-haired man. Errol didn't follow, but that was all right; he'd be watching. The man chuckled with delight as she strutted back and forth, spreading her wings and showing off her snowy plumage, then stroked the soft feathers along her back. She preened momentarily, then took off back to Errol.

He pressed himself against her again, and she smoothed down a few of his errant feathers with her beak. "See? It's okay."

Whee! ^-^ Lookit, I wrote a ficlet. 

This was inspired very much by the Protomen EDIT: lyrics here! these do include the non-sung parts of the story.--at least, what I intended to write was. They're--I guess what you'd call a rock opera, although I'm not too good with music terms. I just know what I like. They're like fanmusic of one or the other of the millions of Megaman games by Capcom. The story they tell is basically, humanity lives enslaved by evil robots and their creator/commander, Dr. Wily. A genius named Dr. Light works nights to create "a perfect man. An unbeatable machine." He calls his creation Protoman, and sends him off to do battle with the evil robots. 

I wish I had the liner notes here with me, because while I know all the lyrics by heart, there's written story in the linernotes that I can't remember off the top of my head, that isn't in the lyrics. It's just amazingly powerful music, and especially at the end, I could see Protoman being a jaded Harry, and Megaman being Draco. That's what I intended to write, but it came out completely different. I might use this scene in some later fic... but probably not, because honestly, it sucks. I wrote it at 7AM after no sleep, what do you expect?

Anyway, here's the fic, for those of you who didn't want to listen to my Protomen ramblings. 

Title: none
Rating: PG(-13?)
Pairing: H/D
Length: ~600
Warnings: character death, badly written, no beta
Canon up to whenever; the only spoilers for the entire series are that Voldemort is a bad guy. No DH spoilers. 

http://shoiryu.livejournal.com/492507.html?view=5855195

Just read it.

http://community.livejournal.com/teh_lockdown/

This RP--still ongoing--is going to be a fic.

Tis going to be a big project, tis going to be difficult to know where I'm going with it, tis going to be hard to know which posts are important to include in story for plotness. But I am undertaking it at the behest of my beautiful and somewhat insane wife Scarlett, because she wants me to (and because I'm mused for something that won't happen for another ten, fifteen years yet.)

The premise of the RP is as follows: After Dumbledore's funeral, a curse is laid over all of Hogwarts: no one can go outside the grounds without suffering instant death. No one can come in without being trapped. Owls can still come and go, as can other animals. This curse has only been successfully employed once, several centuries ago on a Chinese monastery holding several important generals of the Chinese army. The curse is more legend than fact, although now the Ministry has a reason to find a countercurse, their best cursebreakers (who aren't in Hogwarts) are trying to find this curse's weakness. Almost everyone who was at Dumbledore's funeral is trapped inside, as well of all the students and staff still inside the castle. More informations here: http://community.livejournal.com/teh_lockdown/profile

RP is not rated, 16 and older only please, all reasonable pairings allowed as long as you give the proper buildup to make it work. If you want to pimp or join, do so at your own will.