#character chic

[sophie-hatter-jenkins]

New Writing!

Ginny Weasley character study written for @ladiesofhpfest Character Chic. I'm really pleased with this one!

Body positivity is a social movement that promotes a positive view of all bodies, regardless of size, shape, skin tone, gender, and physical abilities. Proponents focus on the appreciation of the functionality and health of the human body instead of its physiological appearance. Eight lessons that Ginny Weasley learns about her body, and her changing relationship with it, throughout her life.

HUGE thanks go to two wonderful writers for their help:

Firstly @fizzyginfizz who beta read this for me and was so supportive and had so many brilliant suggestions, really building my confidence in this piece - thank you for everything!

Secondly, to @whinlatter, who has written several fantastic Ginny metas that I found super helpful when I was thinking through how to approach this piece.

They both have fabulous Ginny-POV WIPs, (Quidditch is for Losers and Beasts respectively), which you should go and read NOW if you haven’t done so already!

Rated M for language, mature themes and discussion/depiction of sex

9k words

Snippet below the cut

The Weasley family, as was apparent to anyone who cared to notice, came in two very different varieties

Some of them were really-Weasleys, like their Dad - tall, lanky, all hands and feet. Bill was a really-Weasley, as were Percy and Ron. The others were really-Prewetts, like their Mum. Charlie and the twins were really-Prewetts. Really-Prewetts were shorter and stockier, and just generally much more compact, as though the same amount of person was somehow compressed into a much smaller body.

Ginny didn’t really give much thought to the distinction between really-Weasleys and really-Prewetts when she was a child. Obviously she knew that some of her brothers were tall and thin, and some of them were… not. Equally obviously, she knew that her Mum was also… not. So yes, she knew - of course she knew. It’s just that she never really considered it in relation to her . Though to be fair, Ginny was very much on the small side, even before it became clear which side of the family she would take after, so perhaps the signs were there had she cared to notice.

Eleven year old Ginny was, quite frankly, absolutely tiny, just a little dot of a thing really. She felt so small and so intimidated as she huddled in the corner of her train carriage on her way to school for the very first time. Ron had promised to look after her on the journey, but he wasn’t there, and neither was Harry (lovely, lovely Harry), and Ginny didn’t know why. Instead, she made herself even smaller (which wasn’t hard, cocooned as she was in her hand-me-down robes, so large she could have used them as a tent), hoping that no one would notice her as she scribbled messages in her diary to her new friend Tom. She told him how tiny she felt, lonely and afraid and scared by this new world around her. Everyone else seemed so big and so confident, swishing their wands with abandon. Ginny already felt anything but; overlooked and overwhelmed, shrinking further by the second. 

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Theme Roundup: Character Chic

For our theme of Character Chic, which ran longer than expected, we had 8 new works! 2 podfics and 6 fics celebrating the ins and outs of what makes our favorite ladies who they are! Check out all the works below!

What is Right and What is Easy by @midnightstargazer. 4.9k words, T, Marietta Edgecombe & Cho Chang

Consequences and Preparations by Chokolatte Jedi - a podfic read by @cailynwrites. 9 minutes long, T, Narcissa Black Malfoy

Body Positive by @sophie-hatter-jenkins. 8.9k words, M. Ginny Weasley

The New Mrs Malfoy by pkettleburn. 10.4k words, T. Narcissa Black Malfoy

A blooming garden (Of obsidian coils) by @nihilisticnomad. 352 words, T. Narcissa Black Malfoy/Nagini

Who's Afraid of Me? (You Should Be) by @thecasualauthor. 20.5k words, T, Hermione Granger.

Follow Me by mimisays. 4.9k words, G, Susan Bones, Amelia Bones

The Audacity of Lavender Brown by malpal132 - a podfic read by @cailynwrites. 42 minutes, E, Lavender Brown

Thank you to all who created for Character Chic! Please give your love to all our creators by leaving kudos and comments on their works!

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