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The actual response to the AWDT Prompt of "Dream or Dream Sequence" from [livejournal.com profile] jamie2109 and [livejournal.com profile] nocturnali

Title: It Was Only A Dream

Character: Harry

Warnings: I got nuthin

Rating: G

Summary: Today was a happy dream, a dream that he would hug close to his chest and treasure forever.

A/N: I hope I’m recalling my SS/PS correctly as I lent it to a friend who prolly will never return it. Feel free to comment, it all helps me to improve...

Word Count: 369

Disclaimer: Do you really think that if I were JKR or owned Harry Potter, I would be working where I was, making what I was to live where I am?  

The Cupboard-Under-the-Stairs was a tight fit for eleven year old Harry Potter. It had a small mattress that he barely fit on any longer. If he was even a normal sized boy, he’d no longer have a place to sleep. Thankfully, his cousin Dudley was kind enough to eat most of Harry’s food, so Harry still had a mattress to sleep on. Of course, if Harry were to put it that way to Dudley, perhaps the fat whale would actually lose weight.

 

Right now, though, Harry Potter wasn’t thinking about any of that. Instead, he was soundly asleep, a soft smile brightening his face. His dreams were sometimes scary but sometimes happy. Today was a happy dream, a dream that he would hug close to his chest and treasure forever. Today, Harry Potter dreamed of his parents.

 

His mum snuggled him close while he squirmed and giggled, trying to get down. His dad was over playing with a big shaggy black dog. Harry just knew that if he could reach that shaggy dog, then everything would be right in his world. With hands tangled in his mum’s hair, he slid down her chest until his little feet hit the ground. Instead of yelling at him or beating him for pulling her hair, she calmly released herself from his chubby baby grip and laughed. That laugh was the most beautiful and magical sound in the world.

 

With a speed only achievable by toddlers, Harry tore across the room on hands and knees to reach his doggy. His dad, with the nice smile and sparkling eyes, held his hands out towards Harry. Harry could just hear his dad calling for him, “Come here, Harry. There’s a lad! Look at him go, Padfoot!”

 

Just as he almost reached those hands reaching out to embrace him, a banging noise interrupted his dream and he woke. “Boy! Boy! Fix breakfast!” His cousin Dudley jumped up and down on the steps, causing the dust to rain down where Harry lay on his tiny bare mattress. “Wake up! Wake up!”

 

“Yes, Aunt Petunia.” Harry hugged the memory of his dream a little closer as he left the cupboard to cook Dudley his breakfast on his birthday.

 

Date: 2005-09-13 11:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] snottygrrl.livejournal.com
that is really, really lovely. and a bit sad. but mostly lovely. [*smile*]

a v. v. nice use of the suggestion. now i'm going to have to buck up and do something (unless i cave and make the too far drabble work with the argument that fantasies are like dreams).

i have the feeling it is going to be a bit ragey because i am feeling much random anger.

omg i am babbling while i am suposed to be working [*headdesk*]

Date: 2005-09-13 11:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wook77.livejournal.com
I'm in a kinda sad mood...but I like to think that it was hopeful too since, as we've all read it, that Harry gets good news in just a bit.

I look forward to your entry, like I do all your writings! I'm sure whatever you come up with will be loverly!

Date: 2005-09-14 11:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] snottygrrl.livejournal.com
oh yes, definitely hopeful. and lovely.

I look forward to your entry, like I do all your writings! I'm sure whatever you come up with will be loverly!

you are such a love to be so supportive. have hardly written a thing for days, i'm being eaten alive by work. hopefully tomorrow on my day off i'll get something done.

Date: 2005-09-14 03:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wook77.livejournal.com
it's not supportive... it's honest! I just had a horrible day at work yesterday and it brought the mood down. How, in the midst of doing payroll, my boss expected me to balance out our A/R and A/P PLUS terminate 11 employees, I have no frikken clue. I was just stressed and dreamy so it fit that this prompt came up when it did.

Date: 2005-09-14 02:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] silentauror.livejournal.com
Oh, sad! :( But so lovely! Nicely done, sweetness! ♥

Date: 2005-09-14 03:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wook77.livejournal.com
Thanks! I'm in a sad mood (am writing part three of the taxi series right now and boy is that angsty. I keep trying this one scene in Courting George and it's just not right and boy is that frustrating!)

I'm so glad you liked!

Date: 2005-09-14 03:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] silentauror.livejournal.com
I'm waiting until your taxi series is finished before reading, or else I'll die from the angst. I will. :)

I'm sorry you're feeling so sad & frustrated! :( I hope things look up soon! ♥

Date: 2005-09-15 03:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wook77.livejournal.com
Am feeling much better... taxi series is done, just posted the last part last night although I need to edit some britpicking... last part isn't nearly as angsty at the end, I like to think it's very hopeful.

Things are up... way up :)

Date: 2005-09-15 06:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] silentauror.livejournal.com
I'm so glad things are up! And I just saw that your Taxi series was finished last night, but I had to go to bed. It's at the top of my to-read list! :)

So glad you're feeling better! ♥

Date: 2005-09-14 04:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wook77.livejournal.com
Yeah, the series is angst-filled. Redeeming quality to the series? The angst gets less and less as the series goes on. This next one may be the end of it. I want to give it a good ending but not a fluffer-ific ending.

BTW, someone called my Voice in the Dark story "fluffy". I get what you mean on how that could be an insult. I didn't think it was fluffy but I guess to each their own.

I'll be better in a bit ;) I just had a very long rough day.

Date: 2005-09-14 09:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sugareey.livejournal.com
awww i like this! it is sad but...i dunno..sentimental?

Date: 2005-09-14 09:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wook77.livejournal.com
I keep reading over it and every time I do, it seems less sad to me simply because I know what happens next. Then again, maybe I'm trying to convince myself that it isn't all angsty and stuff?

Much Icon love here btw.

Date: 2005-09-15 10:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gloriousgentry.livejournal.com
I think I might cry. Damn Dursley's can't even let him have happy dreams in peace ?!?

Gloriousgentry

Date: 2005-09-15 10:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wook77.livejournal.com
It is sad but then, if you think about it, it's actually hopeful. This is jsut one of the steps on his voyage of self-discovery, In less than a year, he'll be holding his father's invisibility cloak and seeing pictures of his family. I like to think of it that way instead ;)

Ugh, where is the normal pessimistic wook?

Date: 2005-09-21 05:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gloriousgentry.livejournal.com
Lol! I like the optimism. It's nice!

Gloriousgentry

Date: 2005-09-19 12:22 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jamie2109.livejournal.com
Thats such a lovely dream for Harry. Poor kid. I often wonder if he had dreams about his parents, subconciously remembering what he consciously doesn't. Hopefully it gave him some comfort. Thankyou for the lovely story. *hugs*

Date: 2005-09-19 04:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] enchanted-jae.livejournal.com
Poor Harry! I want to lock the Dursleys in a dungeon and throw away the key. It's nice to know that Harry can still have pleasant dreams, however. It just goes to show that no one and nothing can take our dreams from us.

Date: 2005-09-23 12:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nocturnali.livejournal.com
That was lovely.
Until he was woken up. *sigh*

It would be interesting to know how much he would remember, even in his subconscious.

Thank you.

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