Fic: We're Best Mates (Colin-centric Genfic)

[wook77]

Title: We're Best Mates
Fandom: Harry Potter
Author: wook77
Character: Colin Creevey (mentions of other characters including Harry Potter and Hermione Granger)
Rating: G
Wordcount: ~855
Warnings: Colin (1st person) POV
Summary: Colin's first letter home after arriving at Hogwarts
A/N: Written for omniocular's Non-Fiction Fest. I claimed Colin's first letter home. All grammar errors are intentional as this is written from an eleven year old (and Colin Creevey's at that) point of view.



Dear Mum, Dad and Dennis,

Hogwarts is great! I'm having so much fun and I've taken at least twenty rolls of photos. They're all Muggle, you remember what that lady from the school said? Muggles are what you guys are, mum and dad, I mean since we don't know about Dennis yet but Dennis, just wait until you see this place! Hopefully you're not Muggle no offence to mum or dad but it's wicked cool here and I think you'd have a brilliant time.

Anyway, I'm sending a bunch of the photos I've taken but I'm hoping that Professor Flitwick will help me with making them into Wizard photographs because the Wizard ones move and would be much more cool. Then you'd get to see some of the stuff going on here.

I got Sorted (yes, mum, with a capital s, I know that I've always been bad at capitalising but this time, I'm right, I promise) and I'm in Gryffindor with Harry Potter. Did you guys read that book that I left at home? He's really brilliant and we're turning into best mates. We eat lunch together and sometimes I get to go to breakfast with him and his mates.

Mum, I know you were worried that I wouldn't make any friends but I'm not different here. I'm like everyone else and no one makes fun of me for being off. If they do, Harry glares at them and then they leave me alone. This is the best school ever, mum. I love it here! Not that I didn't love living with you guys but I really love being here too.

The lessons are wicked too. Professor Flitwick is this really short guy that does the most amazing things with his wand and he's promised to help me with my photographs if I keep my grades up and be quiet for five lessons in a row. I'm at lesson four and I think I can do this. Pretty soon, you'll have moving pictures and stuff, won't that be great?

Dennis, you're going to love it here, if you're magical which I think you are and after being here so far, it seems like the stuff that you did to that big bloke? That's the sort of thing that a few others have done too. Harry says that he did something similar but instead of turning him blue, Harry jumped up on top of a building. A building, can you believe it?

Harry says that all the kids do something similar, that it isn't just the Muggle ones. He says that I should ask Hermione what she did. Hermione's one of his friends and she's Muggleborn and her mum and dad are dentists and I think you should take Dennis there for his teeth because they need some attention. Hermione didn't say, though. I asked Ron and he told me to bugger off but I think he's just embarrassed about what his sign was because it's not nearly as cool as jumping up onto a building or releasing a snake or anything. Neville is one of my mates too and he bounced when he was dropped from a window by accident by his great uncle. Boy am I glad I don't have a great uncle, no offence to the family, mum and dad. But can you imagine being dropped from a window? I wonder if I would bounce. That would be brilliant, though, really brilliant but I think being able to jump onto a building would be even more brilliant. No, mum and dad, I don't plan on doing it.

Ginny says that you should give this owl a treat if you want him to bring a letter back. Harry says that that's good advice and that the owls here are all really cool even though they're not as cool as his owl. Harry's owl is this big white owl and she's really pretty. Can I get an owl, mum? Please? Then I wouldn't have to borrow one from school. I'd even take care of it over the summer and stuff. You wouldn't have to do anything. I bet the neighbours wouldn't even notice! Harry says that his aunt and uncle barely noticed his owl all summer. Harry also said that he'd tell me how he did it if you guys would be willing to get me one so can I please have one?

It's really late and if I wait at the portrait door, that's how we get in and out, there's a talking Fat Lady and, mum, I'm not insulting her, I promise, she's called the Fat Lady. If I wait at the door, I can go to breakfast with Harry and Ron and Hermione and I've missed them the last couple of days so I think I need to get up earlier to be able to catch them for breakfast so I should probably go to bed now. I'll continue sending letters with the school owls until you guys get me an owl. This toad doesn't do much and I think an owl would be better.

I love you all!

Love,
Colin

As always, I'd love to hear what you think, concrit welcomed with open arms

Comments

[fiona-fawkes.livejournal.com]

...Professor Flitwick is this really short guy that does the most amazing things with his wand...

*snickers* Ahem, um, yeah.

That was so cute, honey. I love Colin's perspective on his friendship with Harry.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

:) I'm glad you liked... especially considering that you know my special love for Colin!!!!!

♥

[lurkitty.livejournal.com]

Hehehe! I love the run on sentences -- very much like a kid would write.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

HHHEEEEE! Thanks!!! I had so much fun writing this so it makes me really happy to know you enjoyed!!!

[secretsolitaire.livejournal.com]

Very cute! You've managed a quite believable kid voice. Love the early Harry worship. :-)

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Thanks!!!!

I'm glad you liked! It was loads of fun to just to sit down and write all of it. I can't help but think that Colin really feels that they're BFFS forever and ever and ever :).

[soberloki.livejournal.com]

*cackle*

Aww, Colin's so annoying and cute and supereager and probably drove Harry and Ron crazy, being such a puppy! Hee. Like this a lot.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

I'm sure he did *grins*.

I love Colin more than is healthy so I'm really glad that you liked my version of him! He's so cute and fun to play with.

Thanks so much for letting me know what you thought!

[melandry.livejournal.com]

Aw, this is very sweet and a fun read!

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much! I had fun writing it so I'm glad to hear that it was fun to read, as well!

[gyutto.livejournal.com]

you've done a great job of capturing the child's voice in this--it's quite charming!~

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm really glad you enjoyed this! It was tons of fun to write! I really enjoyed thinking in "little kid mode". It was entertaining to regress :).

[shiny-crystal.livejournal.com]

Aww, that's great. I think you captured Colin's voice really well, and I can easily imagine that this is how he'd see things at Hogwarts. Thanks for sharing this!

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm glad you thought so as I love Colin more than is healthy so I always enjoy playing with him.

Thanks for letting me know what you thought!

[janeaverage.livejournal.com]

This is so adorable! (And sad, in a way, except that Colin's obviously so happy about his great friendships :) ) I love how he keeps assuring his mum that he's right about things -- it paints such a picture of her, even though she's not even there.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much! I'm really glad that you enjoyed this! I had loads of fun writing it and thinking in wee!colin mode and what he would really think of both his family and of Hogwarts. I can just see him at Christmas break bouncing about and reenacting stories and such.

[themolesmother.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is so very definitely Colin!

Well done.

MM

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for letting me know what you thought! Colin has a special place in my heart so I'm really really happy that you thought I got him right *grins*.

[alexao.livejournal.com]

I really enjoyed reading this.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much for letting me know what you thought! I'm glad you enjoyed!!!

[dolorous-ett.livejournal.com]

This is lovely - Colin to the life - far, far too enthusiastic for his own good and no tact at all - but so lovely.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

:) I'm really really glad you enjoyed! He definitely lacks tact and he reminds me of a far-too-eager puppy so it was fun to jump in with both feet and write him!

Thanks for letting me know what you thought!

[lady-game.livejournal.com]

He's adorable! I can just imagine Colin sitting there basically bouncing up and down as he's writing :)

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Definitely bouncing up and down and acting the far-too-eager puppy. I adore Colin so much so I had way too much fun writing this and I'm really glad that you enjoyed this!

Thanks for letting me know what you thought!

We're Best Mates

[catsintheattic.livejournal.com]

How lovely. The sentence structure was perfect, the jumping from thought to thought. The whole excitement fitted Colin perfectly - a very good grasp of his character.

Re: We're Best Mates

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Oh thanks so much! I have such a love for Colin, he's way too cute for his own good. I hate Nigel, though, stupid movie creation replacing the Creevey brothers. I just love how eager he is in canon and how nothing really gets him down.

Thanks so much for letting me know what you think!!!

[humantales.livejournal.com]

Cute, funny and it sounds just like Colin!

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much! Colin has a very special place in my heart so I'm really glad that you thought this sounded just like him!

I appreciate you letting me know what you thought!

[lunafish.livejournal.com]

Aw, that's adorable! You've got his voice down to perfection!

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much! Colin is very near and dear to me so that you thought this sounded so much like him really really makes me very happy!

I appreciate you letting me know what you thought!!!

[purple-ladybug1.livejournal.com]

Aww, Colin is so sweet and earnest. :)

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Thanks! He really is! He's just like a puppy, so eager to please and willing to see the good in everyone. I absolutely and utterly adore Colin so I'm really glad that you liked my version of him!

Thanks for letting me know what you thought!!!

[werewolfsfan.livejournal.com]

I liked Colin the original fanboy/ paparazzi in the novels and his voice is pitch perfect here!

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Thanks so much! I really enjoy Colin so I'm very grateful and awed that you thought his voice was perfect here! I cried when JKR killed him :(

I appreciate your comments!