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HP Fluff Fest Masterlist

We would like to thank everybody who has made this fest such a success, whether as a prompter, creator, or reader! Both of us hope the featured fics and art have brought you happiness and warm fuzzy feelings. Now, without further ado, may we proudly present the HP Fluff Fest 2020 Masterlist.

Albus Severus Potter/Scorpius Malfoy

ART

🌻god, you're beautiful by lov-lyness || @lov-lyness, Traditional Art (G)

Scorpius and Albus are by a lake, Scorpius's soulmark is showing.

FIC

🌻Sticky Love by motherofmercury || @motherofmercury, 1.3k, (G)

Scorpius always leaves encouraging notes and reminders around their flat for Albus to find. Albus realises he's a messy person to live with. Cleaning and the discovery of Albus' romantic side ensues.

Bartemius Crouch Jr./Harry Potter FIC

🌻Coming Home Late by Firebull || @swampwitchkaterina, 525 words (G)

It had become a bit of a routine to them.

Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter

ART

🌻K is for Kiss by Pinkelephant42 || @pinkelephant42, Digital Art (G)

Harry escapes the spotlight to teach young magical kids. Draco is charmed by his son's new teacher.

🌻Moving in together - shopping for laughs. by digthewriter || @digtheshipper, Digital Art (G)

Trying out mattresses w/ your partner leads to giggles in the furniture showroom.

🌻The Case for Borrowed Underwear and Morning-After Pancakes by toutcequonveut || @cequonveut, Digital Art (Comic) (T)

Harry and Draco have just Done the Deed™️ for the first time. After a truly fantastic night, Harry wakes up alone in bed and wonders where Draco has wandered off to..

FIC

🌻Age is just a number by gnarf || @gnarf, 1.5k (T)

Married for decades, their life is perfect. Until Harry gets a call and hears the following words: "Mr Potter, we caught your husband stealing ten large packs of King Sized condoms."

🌻And They Say Romance is Dead by static_abyss || @static-abyss, 9.7k (E)

Harry is in love with Draco Malfoy. This is, quite possible, the worst thing that could have ever happened to him. Not because he doesn't want to love Draco but because now that Harry knows, he doesn't know how he's supposed to tell him.

Or, five times Harry tried to tell Draco he loved him and one time he succeeded.

🌻Chasing Coffee by Yesimawriter || @foularcadebanana, 5.6k (T)

Harry's service dog, Coffee, is obsessed with a certain Slytherin prat, and Harry cannot figure out why. It can't be because Harry wants to spend more time with him, right?

🌻darling, your kisses are sweeter than honey by unicorninthelibrary || @unicorn-in-the-library, 1k (T)

No matter how many years have passed, waking up next to Draco is Harry’s favorite thing in life.

🌻Dear (For Want of a Better Idea) Diary by tigersilver || @stripedsilverfeline, 12.3k (M)

Draco likes his life; there’s not much not to like. He’s got himself a family of rescued kneazles and nosy Weasleys plus two fun jobs to keep him busy, which is more than he ever expected, post-Voldemort. But he’ll have a bash at keeping a journal, just as his boss George suggested. Who knows? It might even help him sort out what’s up with Potter, right?

🌻Disastrously Perfect by savant (teii) || @teii, 8.3k (T)

Neville figured that whatever was going on between Harry and Draco, he could quietly keep out of the way and observe from a safe distance. Luna, however, has other plans.

🌻 Duck And Cover by Drarrymadhatter || @drarrymadhatterstuff, k (T)

Draco is struggling with eighth year, until he’s forced to adopt a flock of ducklings. Harry, convinced his old nemesis is up to his old tricks, decided to find out what he’s up to. When he discovers his fluffy secret, he decides to have some fun with it. However, along the way, he starts to realise how much Malfoy has changed.

🌻Ferret Support Services by CoCo (cportera) || @cportera, 4k (G)

Harry discovers a ferret while hiding away from his friends. He adopts the furry animal telling him secrets, never knowing the ferret might have secrets of his own.

🌻If This is Happiness, I Don't Mind Having This by Orpheous87, 6.2k (G)

Eighth Year isn't going too well for Draco. He's isolated and ignored by his classmates. Then he stumbles across a flock of tiny ducklings that need a helping hand. What Draco doesn't expect is someone to offer him a helping hand.

🌻I Knew I Loved You Before I Met You by Ladderofyears || @clemandben, 20.7k (E)

All Draco ever wanted was to carry his beloved husband's baby. It had been a journey of years, of tearful nights and smiling while he was breaking inside. It was finally happening though. They've tried for so long. They're having a child.

🌻Just Like Potions by vivi1138 || @penguinanimagus, 2.3k (E)

Kreacher is on holidays. Draco thinks he can cook because he's so good at Potions. Hint: he can't.

🌻Let Your Heart Hold Fast by MoonlitMarauder || @moonlitmaruader, 7.1k (E)

After three years together you'd think Harry would have learned to let Draco keep his secrets, but Draco is up to something. He just knows it. Or That time when Ron had to give Harry advice on his love life.

🌻Love In Ikea by kai_blxck || @im-kaifused, 30.6k (T)

In all the trips Harry had made to Ikea, Harry never expected to bump into the love of his life?

Draco never thought Wizards could exist but here he is, falling in love with one.

🌻Misunderstandings are as easy as A-B-C by VeelaWings || @veelawings, 3.4k (T)

A slow blink and Potter seemed to catch himself, clearing his throat and nodding, his smile friendly and bright when directed at Scorpius and Draco. “Hey Mal—”

“Mr Potter,” Draco spoke up rudely, but necessary. “This is my son, Scorpius Black. He’ll be one of your students this year.”

Potter looked completely wrongfooted for a few seconds before his mind appeared to latch onto the most likely conclusion. His expression cleared up as Scorpius took a step forward and offered a tiny hand.

“Hello, Mr Potter. It’s nice to meet you,” Scorpius said, enunciation steady and practiced.

🌻Seeking: pet carer for Bartholomew (four-year old rescue greyhound, no special needs) by GallifreyisBurning || @gallifrey1sburning, 14.7k (E)

When Draco’s boyfriend ends their relationship rather abruptly (and, frankly, extremely rudely), he leaves Draco with full-time responsibility for their rescue greyhound, Bartholomew. Draco loves his dog with all his heart, but the long hours he works at his law firm mean that he can’t possibly be home as much as Bartholomew needs. Enter Sirius Pet Care, an app designed to solve this very problem! When Draco books Harry, he’s relieved at how quickly the man and his dog bond. He’s less relieved by how unexpectedly, distractingly attractive Harry turns out to be… and how Draco’s afternoon meetings keep being “mysteriously” cancelled, meaning that he JUST HAPPENS to be home when Harry comes by. After all, it’s not appropriate to ogle one’s employees… right?

🌻sign me up for that full-time by M0stlyVoid || @bonesliketambourines, 4k (T)

Harry should have learned by now to never trust anything the Weasley twins try to pass off as a thoughtful holiday gift, no matter how innocuous it might appear.

🌻Soft & Hard by DragonGirl87 || @drgngrl87, 8k (T)

In which Draco is forced to grudgingly admit that Harry does have some taste and Harry learns more about mattresses than any sane person should ever know.

🌻Some Assembly Required by peachpety || @peachpety, 6.5k (E)

A relationship must occasionally endure a test of strength, be it confronting an ex, or meeting the inlaws. Sometimes, however, an inanimate object can make or break a couple. Harry and Draco's relationship is put to the test when they attempt to assemble a piece of IKEA furniture.

🌻They were Once Young by acupforslytherin || @acupforslytherin, 6.4k (T)

Draco nervously expected for the worst when Harry invited him to Godric’s Hollow for the summer holidays. Little did he know, he was in for a delightful French dinner, two generations of embarrassing Potters, and a fascinating story of how Harry’s parents got together.

🌻Too Many Legs by vivi1138 || @penguinanimagus, 4.4k (T)

Draco is thrilled when his son produces a powerful bout of accidental magic. But unlike most children his age, Scorpius doesn't stop there, and soon Draco is overwhelmed. Harry just finds it funny.

🌻Too precious to share by slowroad || @slowroad, 1.6k (M)

Harry and Draco are several months into their eighth year at Hogwarts. They've been in a relationship for a while now, but no one knows about them yet and they like it that way.

🌻Whiskers and Kisses by MotherBooker || @motherbookerao3, 1.5k (G)

When rabbits trust and care about a person, they can be very loving and affectionate creatures.

🌻With a Bite and A Hiss (and Some Curry On Top) by Zandra Gorin || @zandragorin, 4.7k (T)

Draco keeps bringing animals home and keeps cooking curry for Harry. Harry is of the opinion that it has got to stop. Well, not the cooking curry part.

Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter/Neville Longbottom ART

🌻Home is where the Bloody Plants are by Thunder_of_Dragons || @thunder-of-dragons, Digital Animated Pixel Art (G)

When Harry invited Neville and Draco to move into Grimmauld Place with him, his one condition was that they help him remove all of the old Pureblood artefacts. Draco was more than happy to agree, but he's determined not to let their drawing room become overrun by Neville's plants.

Draco Malfoy/Hermione Granger

FIC

🌻Crookshanks and the Worst Weekend by Aneiria || @aneiria-writes, 2.1k (T)

In which Crookshanks' perfect weekend is ruined by the arrival of a tiny, annoying, infuriating kneazle kitten who follows him home, and the wizard who comes looking for it.

🌻Stranded Apart by In_Dreams || @indreamsink, 10.5k (T)

Lost in the wilderness without their wands, Hermione and Draco will need to learn to work together if they want to make it out in one piece.

🌻The Art of Seating Etiquette by inadaze22 || @inadaze22, 9.7k (E)

Hermione believes that every problem has a solution, and that solution can be found in a book. That is, until Draco starts sitting to her right every Friday. She has no answers until help comes in the form of an unlikely source: Ron Weasley.

🌻The Heart of Healing by niffizzle || @niffizzle, 5.1k (T)

Spending her Saturday volunteering at St. Mungo's was Hermione Granger’s favourite part of the week. Nothing would ruin that, not even Draco Malfoy showing up to complete his community service hours.

🌻The Importance of Being Honest by floorcoaster || @floorcoaster, 9k (T)

In the pursuit of the truth, sometimes nature lends a hand.

Draco Malfoy/Neville Longbottom

ART

🌻A Tattoo to Match by Pinkelephant42 || @pinkelephant42, Digital Art (G)

Tattoo Artist Draco Malfoy and Florist Neville Longbottom work next to each other, flirt a lot, and get matching tattoos.

Dudley Dursley/Gregory Goyle FIC

🌻Stranger in the bakery by toutcequonveut || @cequonveut, 3.6k (M)

The people of the town are confused. Dudley is confused, but then he isn't. Greg is confused, but he's in love and that's more important. Harry is very confused, but just goes with it.

Or: a glimpse into the morning after Dudley and Greg's first time, featuring bakery buns and other buns

Gen

FIC

🌻it seems to come down to us by porcelainsalt (bluedreaming) || @porcelainsalt, 1.1k (G)

Minerva takes matters into her own hands.

Ginny Weasley/Luna Lovegood

FIC

🌻Bluebells and Asters by goldenzingy46 || @goldenzingy46, 826 (G)

Luna braids Ginny's hair. Ginny complains about boys. Softness (and a little kissing) ensues.

🌻Morning Eggs by PhenomenalAsterisk || @phenomenalasterisk, 842 words (G)

Luna began her mornings with tea. Ginny began her mornings with Luna. With the first stirrings of consciousness, Ginny found herself snuggling into her beloved — Luna’s neck, her hair, her belly, wherever Ginny could reach, really, was free game for the morning ritual. Ginny would cling like a barnacle to Luna until she was lucid enough to function on her own.

🌻Sleepy Smiles by PhenomenalAsterisk || @phenomenalasterisk, 554 (G)

Luna’s eyes are still shut, though the corners of her thin lips are just barely quirked into a smile. “You missed the movie, love.” Ginny says quietly, pressing her lips against her hair in a brief kiss.

Luna tucks her head further into Ginny’s neck and murmurs back, “I woke up for the best part.” Ginny smiles. It’s not unusual for Luna to enjoy her wife’s strength, in the bedroom and otherwise, though she has never asked for something as indulgent as being carried to bed.

OR Ginny carries Luna to bed. Soft, sweet, and short bit of domestic fluff.

Ginny Weasley/Pansy Parkinson

FIC

🌻get off on whiplash by cjmasim || @lesbianlilyevans, 6k (T)

THE QUIBBLER'S 5TH ANNUAL HOLIDAY DRAWING

TWO LUCKY ENTRANTS WILL WIN AN ALL-EXPENSES-PAID WEEK-LONG TRIP TO PORTOFINO, ITALY

TO ENTER, RETURN THE FORM BELOW VIA OWL NO LATER THAN APRIL 17, 2004

Ginny manages to convince herself that entering the drawing was nothing other than a way to help a friend out by getting the numbers for The Quibbler's entries higher.

Naturally, she wins the drawing.

Harry Potter/Severus Snape

FIC

🌻How to See Without a Camera by RoonilWazlibMalfoy || @evenmyzefronposter, 11.7k (E)

Having returned to Hogwarts after his training to take over for Madam Pomfrey, Harry was just happy to be back home. He didn't even mind it when he realized he'd have to work closely with Severus Snape. One Kiss Cam incident at a Quidditch Match, however, left him wondering just how close he could get to the man.

🌻Quite The Perfect Sunday by HogwartsToAlexandria || @dwell-on-dreams, 751 words (E)

Spending all day in bed, every Sunday they could, had been on of Harry and Severus's traditions almost from the start. It was a moment just for them, which they cherished and made the most of every time.

Hermione Granger/Luna Lovegood

ART

🌻Picking Daisies by dragontamerdrarry || @dragontamerdame, Digital Art (G)

Luna Lovegood has a terrace garden filled with Xenophilius Lovegood approved yellow flowers. Today, Luna’s picked some yellow daisies and is enjoying spending some quality time with her girlfriend (who has her nose buried in the hottest new Magizoology text in town!)

Hermione Granger/Narcissa Malfoy

FIC 🌻Life Is Good by Houseofmalfoy || @malfoylestrange, 1.2k (G)

Narcissa surprises herself with the number of times she thinks that little sentence, surprises herself with how genuinely happy she is with the way her life turned out, even if she’s no longer surprised at all by the person who gave it to her.

She’s happy.

Hermione Granger/Pansy Parkinson

FIC

🌻A Million Worlds Apart by SiriuslyThatBitch || @siriuslythatbitch, 13.6k (E)

After spending the bulk of her childhood fighting a dark wizard, Hermione was looking forward to a relaxing year. Too bad fate always has something else planned, including ancient spells, sarcastic roommates, and a suffocating amount of sexual tension.

🌻Exodus by cdav || @cdav, 6.6k (T)

After the war, Hermione finds herself drawn to Pansy Parkinson for reasons she can't quite explain. Parkinson is adamant that they won't work out. Hermione's determined to prove otherwise.

Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley

FIC

🌻The Perfect Moment by DameinToyland || @dameintoyland, 1.8k (G)

Hermione gets home late from work and witnesses story time with Ron and the kids. Ron is nostalgic, Hugo is excited, and Rose isn’t having any of it.

James Sirius Potter/Teddy Lupin

FIC

🌻The Waiting (Is The Hardest Part) by Ladderofyears || @clemandben, 1.1k (E)

Teddy is waiting to give Jamie a performance.

Remus Lupin/Sirius Black

FIC

🌻A Purrfect Match by captainegg || @im-captain-egg, 1.7k (G)

When Remus walked into the shelter that day, he expected to leave with a new furry companion and not meet the love of his life.

🌻Here comes the sun by PollyDarton || @polly-darton, 5.5k (M)

Honestly, screw the sun. For all I care the world revolves around you.

🌻Moonlit Reflections by MoonCat457 || @mooncat457writing, 6.4k (T)

Sirius has been pining for Remus for far too long and James is sick of it. So, when it’s James’ turn to go on a late-night scouting mission with Remus on the grounds to work on the Marauder’s Map, he sends Sirius instead with instructions to finally just admit his feelings.

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mika-iwata · 5 years ago

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Every announcement at Carden Manor filled her with an itchy sort of dread, but the crowd gathering around this way made her skin downright crawl. She approached the crowd with trepidation, stopping when she got as close as she could without pushing people aside.

“—— What’s going on?”

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Mika glanced over at the witch walking in and sighed. “Your future inlaws are talking about executing a human who was apparently pretending to be a werewolf. I don’t know if she got lost or thought this was a furry convention or what, but I guess in a few hours they’re going to vote on whether or not to kill that Charlie girl. It’s super fucked up.”

"------ What's going on?"

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#emberlit #claudia #c: claudia

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laura-elizabeth91 · 8 years ago

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Theresa, behind the mask

Boyfriends before Philip. Exploding puds. Her neighbours the Clooneys. When JAN MOIR spent this week with the usually inscrutable PM, she saw the real woman so many non-Tories are warming to

ON A spring morning this week, Prime Minister Theresa May strides across the concourse at London’s king’s Cross station. As she hurries to catch a north-bound train, few recognise her — or even give her a second glance. Look closer, and you will see that she is surrounded by discreet security men and a dapper civil servant who walks behind carrying her ministerial red box, packed away in an anonymous black bag.

To a man, they keep pace with Mrs May, her leopard- skin pumps marching briskly onwards, her stylish pale blue handbag swinging in her grasp. She insists to me later that there is nothing special inside. ‘I haven’t got a furry toy or anything like that in my handbag.’ however, as it is such a random thing to say, I immediately suspect that she does. Yet a sentimental token would not be Very Theresa, would it? For it would not match the public perception of the studious only child and vicar’s daughter, the duty-first politician who promises to deliver Brexit and who has enjoyed a 37-point lead over Jeremy Corbyn as the best person to run this country.

It is said of Mrs May that her reputation for frivolity begins and ends with her choice of shoes, but — as I am to discover — that is not true.

During the time I have spent with her this week — between Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and London — Mrs May emerges as a serious person, of course, but a warm character who is happy to admit to once accidentally blowing up desserts in her own kitchen, making a mess of her nail polish, and her romantic life before meeting husband Philip.

She seemed perfectly at ease, too, sitting down in a pub on the campaign trail to have a proper chat with voters.

These people, I noted, all affectionately called her ‘ Theresa’ rather than anything formal.

Remarkable, really, considering that over the past 20 years in the public eye as an MP, and Cabinet minister since 2010, she has given very little away about herself or her personal life.

Yet all that has suddenly changed. On television this week, in her first ever joint- interview with her husband, she spoke about ‘girl’ jobs’ and ‘ boy’ jobs’ on the domestic front. At home, Philip takes the bins out, she explained on BBC’s The One Show, while she does the cooking.

Inevitably, from the usual predictable quarters, accusations of old-fashioned sexist attitudes with regard to the division of labour between couples were directed at the Mays. For her part, Mrs May dismisses such absurd views with a wave of the hand.

She says she believes that ‘most couples have certain ways of doing things,’ adding: ‘There are things that Philip does and there are things that I do. It is not that there are chores that are always for the girl or always for the boy. It is just how we split things up.’

Another very personal revelation this week came when she broached the subject of her childlessness. The topic had first become an issue during the Tory leadership battle ten months ago when her short-lived rival Andrea Leadsom suggested that, as a mother, she had an indisputable edge over Mrs May.

At the time, Mrs May understandably said she liked to keep her ‘ personal life personal’, but added that she and Philip ‘ dealt with’ the fact they couldn’t have children and ‘moved on’.

Yet this week, on TV, she talked of how she had been the subject of ‘fake news’ as a young wife, when a newspaper mistakenly stated that she was pregnant. her mother-inlaw, she said, was disappointed when she learnt the truth.

During a subsequent radio interview with Nick Ferrari on LBC, when asked how she might have been different if she had children, Mrs May said: ‘I think it’s impossible to answer the question about how I would have been. It’s been very sad — it just turned out not to be possible for us. We’re not the only couple who find themselves in that situation.’

TALKING after her TV sofa interview with Philip, she tells me that she came to terms with her situation when she was a young woman in her 30s and hopes the showbizzy introduction of her husband to the electorate — and this uncharacteristic burst of frankness about not being a mother — will give ‘a broader picture of me and of us together, because I am asking people to put their trust in me and that is only fair to do that’.

Now on board the train darting North out of king’s Cross, she settles into her seat and attends to government business; taking calls, being briefed by her aides, talking to her civil servant.

Today, she is wearing her Vivienne Westwood tartan suit, the one she wore to launch her leadership bid and also when she made her keynote speech earlier this year setting out, in the clearest terms, her target for achieving Brexit.

When pundits called it her lucky suit, she swore it would never make a re-appearance. Why the change of heart?

‘I’m only wearing half of it,’ she says, pointing to her black trousers — and then, typical of a woman who gets upset when fashion magazines obsess about her choice of clothes, adds: ‘Who can afford to wear an outfit only once?’

Despite the occasional designer extravagance, everything about her screams restraint, discipline and order.

her recipe for scones does not contain too much butter, she has stopped dyeing her hair blonde and now lets the grey roll in, she often buys her statement jewellery in craft shops (‘I’m always on the lookout for bits and pieces’) and she never has a manicure but does her own nails at home instead.

‘Always a rush job. I never have enough time. Don’t look at them too closely,’ she says.

An aide passes over a chicken and avocado salad in a bag — her lunch on the run. At some point during this meal, she will discreetly inject herself in the stomach with insulin, a procedure she must do twice a day following her 2012 diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes.

Like all diabetics, Mrs May also always has a sugar lump or a glucose drink close to hand in case she needs a boost.

She maintains her health by eating carefully and going to the gym regularly, sometimes with a trainer and sometimes alone.

‘I’ll do weights, I’ll do rowing. I will plank sometimes [an excruciating exercise that involves lying flat on the floor, raising yourself on your tiptoes and elbows and holding yourself in that position], but it is not my favourite thing to do.

‘But as far as I am concerned, being a diabetic doesn’t change anything other than I have a routine to follow each day.’

And what a routine that is – particularly during an election campaign. During my time with the Prime Minister, she kept to a gruelling pace without flagging.

I would crawl home each night absolutely shattered, while she carried on working. By the time I groggily awoke the next morning, she would have had meetings with bigwigs such as the Secretary general of Nato, or opened a major international conference to help tackle problems in Somalia or held talks with the President of kenya.

Out on the road — be it Leeds, Nottingham or Scunthorpe — she bangs the drum for her ‘strong and stable government’ (hurrah) as opposed to the misery that an opposition ‘ coalition of chaos’ (boo) would bring. She visits steel-

works and factories, she knocks on doors, she rallies candidates and meets with business leaders.

She holds meetings on the move with her staff in basement kitchens that smell of yesterday’s lunch. She roars through Sherwood Forest in her motorcade, and has a drink with supporters in a Lincolnshire pub where she orders, well, guess what? ‘A boring sparkling water, please.’

Throughout all this, absolutely nothing rattles her. In the pub, a woman tells her that, after a lifetime of supporting Labour, she will vote Conservative on June 8.

She tells the PM it’s because ‘you strike me as a very sincere person’. Mrs May beams and thanks her, happily posing for a selfie.

This is not the first time I hear this sentiment expressed on the stump, yet Mrs Mayurges caution among her team. ‘We are taking nothing for granted,’ she says.

While canvassing on the doorstep in the Lincolnshire village of Messingham, someone starts heckling the PM about her surprise announcement that if re-elected, the Tories would allow a free Commons vote on fox-hunting.

Mrs May listens carefully. She tells the man that it was ‘nice to meet you anyway’ and moves on, as controlled as an icebreaker steaming through the creaking bergs. No wonder she can’t remember the last time she cried or lost her temper.

‘Not that it hasn’t happened, just that it is so rare. I don’t cry. I don’t shout and scream. I don’t go around sticking pins in wax effigies of people. In fact, I don’t do wax effigies at all,’ she says. ‘I just get on with it.’

The true blue posters and the slogans on the campaign bus talk of Theresa May’s Team rather than The Conservative Party.

But this is nothing to do with a wish to turn the election campaign into a presidential- style battle, more a reflection of the fact that she scores way above the party itself in private polling. The more people see of her, the more they like her.

After the glossy chumocracy and Flashman swagger of the Cameron era, it seems her head-girl sense of duty and diligence are exactly what the country needs. Smug metropolitan types like to sneer at Mrs May, but I cherish her sincerity and calmness, the equanimity of her approach to Brexit.

Unlike certain career politicians, she didn’t go to Westminster to use it as a stepping stone to a plum job such as making a fortune on the after- dinner circuit, becoming a non-executive director or running a museum.

‘I came into politics to make a difference, to improve people’s lives,’ she says — and I honestly believe she really means it.

UNDAUNTED by being described by a Tory colleague as ‘a bloody difficult woman’, she used the phrase about herself earlier this month following reports that she and her chief eU antagonist, Jean- Claude Juncker, had clashed during a fraught downing Street dinner.

Certainly, there is a resolution and steeliness about her, traits that lie at the heart of what some are calling Mayism — although she doesn’t recognise the term herself.

‘I don’t think there is such a thing as ‘Mayism’. I am a Conservative and what I am promoting is Conservatism.’

A life - long church- going Christian, she believes in the power of prayer — but she won’t reveal if she prays every day or not.

‘I am not going to go into exactly what I pray and when I pray. Why is everyone so interested in this?’ she laughs.

In a life that has not been without disappointment and loss, her faith has seen her through difficult times. Her vicar father died in a car crash, aged 64, the year after he officiated at her wedding to Philip. Then her mother contracted multiple sclerosis and died a year later.

‘My faith helped me, but so did having the support of Philip, my rock. Having somebody there supporting me was tremendously important as well.’

She says there were boyfriends before Philip, but he was Mr Right. The couple were introduced by fellow Oxford student Benazir Bhutto (who went on to become prime minister of Pakistan) and they married in 1980.

‘I hadn’t been properly in love before, if I can put it like that. Sometimes, when you are young you think you are attracted to somebody, then someone comes along and you realise wow, this is the real thing.’

Philip’s appearance alongside her on a television chat show sofa this week was clearly an important development in the PM’s election campaign strategy.

The significance was reinforced by the care that went into the presentation. Backstage, Fiona Hill, Mrs May’s all-powerful joint chief of staff, was asked by a tieless Mr May before going in front of the cameras: ‘ Jacket buttoned or unbuttoned?’

‘I think unbuttoned,’ Hill tells him. She added: ‘ enjoy getting your make-up done, Philip!’ Mr May gives a little showbiz shimmy, like Liza Minnelli in the film Cabaret, to show that he is game.

Mr and Mrs May — 59 and 60 — are clearly devoted to each other and, like so many older couples, have developed obvious, deep bonds of affection and closeness.

He now works only four days a week as an executive at a finance company in the City, so they can spend more time together.

In years to come, they are exactly the kind of happy, retired couple you might see at the breakfast buffet at a seaside hotel, each insisting the other has the last poached egg.

Is he her new secret weapon, I wonder, and will we be seeing more of him?

‘I don’t know about that,’ says Mrs May, raising an eyebrow. ‘He was a little nervous beforehand, but he enjoyed the television experience.’

After recording the show, they went back to downing Street to have a typical supper together.

‘Philip had brought a quiche from Waitrose, I made a dressing for a salad and then we had some fruit,’ she says.

They prefer spending time at her constituency home in a Berkshire village rather than the rather grander environs of Chequers — although they do like to go walking in the ‘lovely countryside’ there.

Their Berkshire residence is a ‘ home that we built together’, where Philip takes out the bins and Theresa cooks.

Her most recent triumph was a recipe by Thomasina Miers (winner of TV’s MasterChef in 2005): spicy, marinated lamb cutlets which were patently ‘delicious!’.

But she has known culinary disasters, too. ‘I once tried to replicate from memory something we had eaten when we were on holiday, which was a pudding baked and served in little glass jars. So I cooked it in the jars, but when I took them out and opened them, they exploded.’

Near neighbours are George and Amal Clooney, although the couples’ paths have yet to cross.

‘No, I have not seen him,’ she says. ‘In fact, I think I am the only person in the village who hasn’t met him.’

PERHAPS she should put him on the guest list for one of her spicy lamb suppers? ‘I don’t think I was intending to invite him, so no,’ she says.

Well, that is Very Theresa, if I may say so, very much a plank of Mayism.

Can you imagine david Cameron or Tony Blair being so indifferent to an A-list Hollywood celebrity in their midst?

dave would be pressing the star for contacts and introductions, maybe a product-placement in his next film for one of his wife’s designer frocks. Tony would be wondering if the actor’s 22-room villa by Lake Como in Italy might be available gratis in August.

But Mrs May? She doesn’t care. She just wants to get on with doing her best for everyone in Britain — and finding time to experiment with outre pudding recipes.

Underneath her re- purposed jackets and smart slacks, behind her armour-plated prudence and persistence she is a truly remarkable woman, the genuine article in a world of careerist phoneys.

Amen to that, as she might say herself.

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🧁 HP Fluff Fest Week Two Round Up 🧁

We’re already halfway through the fest! And we’ve ha so many amazing creations so far, but don’t worry, we got some more.

Albus Severus Potter/Scorpius Malfoy

FIC

🌻 Sticky Love by motherofmercury || @motherofmercury, 1.3k, (G)

Scorpius always leaves encouraging notes and reminders around their flat for Albus to find. Albus realises he's a messy person to live with. Cleaning and the discovery of Albus' romantic side ensues.

Draco Malfoy/Harry Potter

ART

🌻 Moving in together - shopping for laughs. by digthewriter || @digtheshipper, Digital Art (G)

Trying out mattresses w/ your partner leads to giggles in the furniture showroom.

FIC

🌻 And They Say Romance is Dead by static_abyss || @static-abyss, 9.7k (E)

Or, five times Harry tried to tell Draco he loved him and one time he succeeded.

🌻 Ferret Support Services by CoCo (cportera) || @cportera, 4k (G)

Harry discovers a ferret while hiding away from his friends. He adopts the furry animal telling him secrets, never knowing the ferret might have secrets of his own.

🌻 I Knew I Loved You Before I Met You by Ladderofyears || @clemandben, 20.7k (E)

They're having a child.

🌻 Misunderstandings are as easy as A-B-C by VeelaWings || @veelawings, 3.4k (T)

A slow blink and Potter seemed to catch himself, clearing his throat and nodding, his smile friendly and bright when directed at Scorpius and Draco. “Hey Mal—”

“Mr Potter,” Draco spoke up rudely, but necessary. “This is my son, Scorpius Black. He’ll be one of your students this year.”

“Hello, Mr Potter. It’s nice to meet you,” Scorpius said, enunciation steady and practiced.

🌻 sign me up for that full-time by M0stlyVoid || @bonesliketambourines, 4k (T)

Harry should have learned by now to never trust anything the Weasley twins try to pass off as a thoughtful holiday gift, no matter how innocuous it might appear.

🌻 Some Assembly Required by peachpety || @peachpety, 6.5k (E)

Draco Malfoy/Neville Longbottom

ART

🌻 A Tattoo to Match by Pinkelephant42 || @pinkelephant42, Digital Art (G)

Tattoo Artist Draco Malfoy and Florist Neville Longbottom work next to each other, flirt a lot, and get matching tattoos.

Gen

FIC

🌻 it seems to come down to us by porcelainsalt (bluedreaming) || @porcelainsalt, 1.1k (G)

Minerva takes matters into her own hands.

Ginny Weasley/Luna Lovegood

FIC

🌻 Bluebells and Asters by goldenzingy46 || @goldenzingy46, 826 (G)

Luna braids Ginny's hair. Ginny complains about boys. Softness (and a little kissing) ensues.

Hermione Granger/Pansy Parkinson

FIC

🌻 A Million Worlds Apart by SiriuslyThatBitch || @siriuslythatbitch, 13.6k (E)

Hermione Granger/Ron Weasley

FIC

🌻 The Perfect Moment by DameinToyland || @dameintoyland, 1.8k (G)

Hermione gets home late from work and witnesses story time with Ron and the kids. Ron is nostalgic, Hugo is excited, and Rose isn’t having any of it.

#hp fests #hp fluff fest #round up post week two #hp fanfic #hp fanart

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