#fizzyginfizz

[honeydukesheroine]

Ask Game! Thisonethisonethisone: 17. What's a book, movie, or show you think [character] would like? Since you write Harry, Ginny, Hermione and Ron POVs - pick any one. Or all. Or just one, because I don't want to distract you from writing your next chapter.

OMG!

I have zero clue if I stole this or made it up completely, but I have a completely formulated head canon that little Harry loved the Indiana Jones movies. He used to watch them while sitting on the stairs of Privet Drive so that Dudley wouldn't see him. Harry's hands would be gripping the banisters, eyes wide and completely sucked in. But tragically, sometimes Dudley would turn the VCR off early because it was "boring" and Harry just wanted to know WHICH WAS THE RIGHT GOBLET TO DRINK FROM?!?

For Hermione, I do kind of agree with what some people have said - that she wouldn't be an avid fiction reader. However, I imagine her reading the very high-brow classical stories. It's questionable if she actually enjoys them, or feels she *ought* to as a self-identifying well-read individual. In one of my chapters I had her reading Jane Eyre as a "comfort book" because I imagined that she would appreciate reading about a mature romantic figure who, despite reasons to deny his love, eventually proclaims his feelings in a very dramatic and honest way... in contrast to her own romantic situation at the time hehe.

I'll have to think for the other two...

Thanks for the ask @fizzyginfizz!

Send me a fandom writer's ask while I write my next chapter!

[ginnyw-potter-archive]

WIP Asks!

*gasp* I would love to hear about either one of your dancing WIPs! Dirty Dancing, Ballet?

Oooh I'll do both because I haven't had a chance about these! So both of these are kind of ideas I've had that I have not truly worked on but i have like a general story idea.

Dirty Dancing!AU Well you are all familiar with the Dirty Dancing movie, I hope? So here I switched it around. Ginny is a professional dancer and her old friend dance partner is Dean! Harry overhears some doofus be insulting to Ginny while registering dance classes so Ginny tells Doofus that she has no more dance spots free for him. And then Harry, to help her out, of course, books like 50 hours with her. So then inevitably when Dean gets injured (cause unknown), Harry can help them out.

Ballet!AU Well Ginny has had to work hard her whole life to get into this prestigious ballet school, having to go up against rich spoiled brats and the likes. She earned her spot and she takes it very seriously. Now when Harry comes in and he is obviously kinda Rich and men are hard to come by in ballet... she assumes he has not put in the work. But he actually has and just transferred in from another school. When she gets partnered with him for the lead roles, she is pissed af. This is her big dream and he is about to ruin it. Except he doesn't, and they practise a lot together and gain each other's trust doing lifts and such. Then when the big opening night comes Some Drama will ensue that is One Big Misunderstanding.

[thenicestthingiveseen]

💖 What is your primary writing goal for this year?

AND

💥Is there a chapter, scene, or WIP you're most excited to write? Share a snippet or tell us about it!

💖 - I want to be one of those people that either plans out their story completely before posting OR at least sticks to an actual posting schedule.

💥 - I’m dreading all the connecting scenes for what I have mapped out for year 5 of ‘in all chaos there is calculation’ I promise I can read. I’m most excited for the enemies to lovers HP prompt I got (I’m working on them anon!) I have a deep love for Slytherin!Harry and Slytherin!Ginny (shout out Annerb)

Right now it feels more like a stream of consciousness than a story but here’s something:

It’s like her family is afraid of her but also afraid for her. She knows she’s being unfair with how annoyed she is by all the coddling - especially from her brothers who could’ve (some may should have) paid her a shred of attention last year even after her sorting hat debacle.

She has nightmares and a fear that she doesn’t remember things from the day before. The only person she wants to talk to is bloody Harry Potter.

-

The way Harry treats her is no different than he treated her last year. Which is to say, he’s indifferent to her presence. Ginny feels silly for thinking him coming to save her in the Chamber would bond them for life or something, but she thought she’d at least get a friend out of the entire situation. He probably thinks she’s a silly little girl who managed to get possessed less than halfway through the school year. Ginny hates that. When she found out that Harry Potter had also beens sorted into Slytherin, she’d hoped that maybe they could become friends, that maybe her childhood fantasies weren’t in vain.

But, Harry kept mostly to himself. Only really talking with Blaise Zabini. And Ginny doesn’t particularly like Blaise Zabini.

There’s more, but it it needs to be fleshed out and I’m pumped!

[corneliaavenue-ao3]

helloooo who are your favourite hinny fanfiction authors? I’m trying to get back on the scene as it were

If you love WIP's @takeariskao3 is the author for you!!!! You should read Amnesia!Ginny fic, Already Gone, or second chance romance, read, The Path From You.

@brightlybound has some BANGERS

@starlingflight is also a brilliant writer and deserves so much love right now! My favorites are Falling All In You, the time before the kiss and Everything I Wanted, the time after the kiss

@fizzyginfizz for the funniest fics you will find. Please read Quidditch is For Losers and Hufflepup

@ginnyw-potter just does not stop writing???? So many fun AU multichapter fics. It is incredible

@seriouslysam8 has just created her own world within Harry Potter. It is truly incredible how much content she creates in this world. Start with Brumous!

@displayheartcode is putting out fic after fic of genderswap!Hinny

@honeydukesheroine is writing one of the best 6th year fics of all time right now: The In Betweens

@greenhousethree writes the prettiest things.

@annerbhp is not posting any new Hinny right now, but I need to make sure you read The Changeling and The Armistice Series. If you have not, ignore all of the above and read this.

And me. You should read some of what I have wrote in the hinny fandom <3 You should also check out my bookmarks for further recommendations! (the bookmark link is just my hinny tagged fics filtered!)

[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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[tedwardremus]

Ginny's Very Serious Investigation

Dear Ginny,

I’ve just finished my expedition in South America, and it was absolutely marvelous! I can’t wait to tell you all about the new creatures I’ve encountered. 

I’m so excited to see everyone again. It feels like ages since we’ve all been together. I’ll be back very soon—probably by the end of the month.

Give everyone my love and start warming up the kettle; I’ve missed your tea.

With lots and lots of love,

Luna

P.S. Oh I forgot to tell you - I’ve gotten married! His name is Rolf, and he’s quite wonderful We’ve been traveling together for a while now, and it seems that husbands like to follow their wives home, so he’ll be coming along when I return to London. I think you’ll like him!

Ginny read the letter three times, her eyes widening with each pass. Finally, she couldn’t keep it to herself any longer. “Harry!” she shouted, her voice echoing through their cottage with urgency.

Footsteps thundered up the stairs, and seconds later Harry burst into the kitchen, his hair still dripping from the shower. "Everything alright?" he asked, breathless, his eyes darting around the room for signs of danger.

"No!" Ginny yelled, clutching the letter like it was about to explode.

Harry’s gaze instantly flicked to the high chair, where little James was joyfully slapping his hands into a bowl of porridge, sending bits of it flying across the kitchen. "What’s going—?"

"Oh, we’re fine," Ginny interrupted, rolling her eyes as she saw the familiar tension in Harry’s stance. "Silence the Auror alarms going off in your head. It’s just this. From Luna." She shoved the letter into Harry’s hands, barely containing her grin.

Harry took the parchment, his brow furrowing as he quickly read through the contents. As he reached the end, a small snort escaped him. He looked up at Ginny, an amused gleam in his emerald eyes. "Are we sure this Rolf bloke is a man? And not a very loyal stray dog she met?"

Thank you to the incredible @fizzyginfizz for beta reading this fic and sharing her wonderful advice on writing humor with me. Making people laugh is a skill and you are a master at it.

[brightlybound]

Your favorite Hinny fics? I love JSYK ILY btw 💖

Aw! Thanks so much! 🤗 I can't believe I'll be posting the epilogue tomorrow. JSYK ILY has been so much fun to write. I might have to revisit epistolary prose again in the near future...

As for my favorite hinny fics (off the top of my head and in no particular order):

Already Gone by @takeariskao3 (amnesia au)

Chasing by @greenhousethree (post-war)

Beasts by @whinlatter (post-war)

Quidditch Is For Losers by @fizzyginfizz (canon-esque slow burn)

The coffeehouse au half awake and almost there and the sex shop au Come Again by @annerbhp

And pretty much anything written by @ashotofogdensoldfirewhiskey

[starlingflight]

Getting to know you tag game

Thanks for the tag @ginnyw-potter ❤️

Last song: It Didn’t - Madeline Merlo

Favourite Colour: Orange 🧡

Last Movie: The Notebook

Last TV Show: A Good Girl’s Guide To Murder

Sweet/Spicy/Savoury? Savoury

Relationship Status: 💀

Last thing I googled: Flights to Copenhagen

Current obsession: my New Year’s resolutions 🫠

Looking forward to: I really don’t have a lot to look forward to rn; but I’m looking ahead to the undetermined day in the future when all of the difficulties I’m currently in the middle of are behind me & I’m back on something resembling steady ground 🙏

Tagging @merlinsbudgiesmugglers @justalittleconfusing @brightlybound @fizzyginfizz

[startanewdream]

Reread GinFizz again last night. All I want for Christmas is chapter 3❤️

accidentally went to @fizzyginfizz first who put me right.

Hey! I can't promise you a Christmas miracle, but I'm working on it as fast as I can!

Thanks for sending this! <3

[merlinsbudgiesmugglers]

Posting a second one because I love Tedoire and they deserve more attention

Take your favourite pairing, go to Pinterest and type "... Aesthetic" for their eye colour, hair colour, hogwarts house and ship name. If they have the same colour/house, take the first and second results. If you have a rare pair, the last is free to choose

Tagging: @greyashowl @fizzyginfizz @bellwood-qudditch @starlingflight

[ginnyw-potter]

WIP Wednesdays

thanks for the tag @starlingflight

This is from a fic you won't see for at least two more months

He grabbed her by the hand without thinking and walked to the nearest exit. He apparated to the front door of his house. He unlocked the door with a wave of his wand and let her in. Ginny walked into the room. She had been here before but never had they been alone. “Can I get a glass of water?” she asked, looking around. He nodded and quickly stumbled into the kitchen. With a wave of his wand, a glass filled itself with tap water. He let it soar into his hand and then he walked out. She had sat down at the far end of the couch. He was now just taking in all of her. The red dress that managed to be both classy and sexy at the same time. The way it ended just above her knees. How it seemed to be a redder, darker tint than her hair but somehow in perfect harmony. He set the water down in front of her on the table, worried about touching her again and then sat down at the other end of the couch.

Tagging @tedwardremus, @sophie-hatter-jenkins, @nena-96 and @fizzyginfizz

[honeydukesheroine]

For your writer asks (because I'm nosy, too - I loooooove to read writers on writing!)

14) Is there something you wish readers would pick up on more in your stories?

18) Are there emotions that come to you easily while writing? Or ones that are difficult for you to describe?

Thanks for the ask @fizzyginfizz!

14) Is there something you wish readers would pick up on more in your stories?

Hm, easy answer is I wouldn't expect readers to pick up on certain things right now! But particularly in the last 5 chapters I've been pushing some themes and foreshadowing now that I've got an outline for my Ginny POV story for Deathly Hallows. I'd never presume that someone would read my works twice! But in the future (once I get to the DH story), if they did, they'd find some cool nuggets. Truly, in the end, I do it because it's just fun for me to play with the execution :) Also in the last 5-6 chapters, I've come up with little tricks for myself to help fuel inspiration. These I'd never expect anyone to pick up on. Maybe they do, and I'm not as clever as I think? Idk. Like for instance, in my last chapter. I wanted to run with the "glowing hand" idea and use it to contrast Ginny's reactions to Harry vs. Dean and her personal battle vulnerability overall. So, I made Ginny's left hand the warm/Harry hand. And then later her right is the one stretched out the window, gets cold, and is warmed by the left hand. Then I imagined Dean was holding her right hand, making her feel cold, stiff, and fragile - mirroring her changing view of him. Just something I did in my mind to make myself feel more *creative* and craft elements of the chapter. And in Hermione's last chapter, she's holding Jane Eyre and there are a few motifs from that novel sprinkled throughout (burning sheets, porridge, "emotional home", etc.) that I felt fit the scenario and character. But those are just for me and I'd never expect people to actually pick that up! And you might've seen when you beta'd for me, but I also imagine the Gryffindor Quidditch team like individuals from a "royal court" which helps me frame how I might make them interact (but not in an obvious way). Ginny = warrior princess, Demelza = lady in waiting, etc etc... Just silliness because I'm not terribly creative on my own.

18) Are there emotions that come to you easily while writing? Or ones that are difficult for you to describe?

Humor is so tough for me! Knowing how to craft a funny situation or exchange can take me quite a while. My day to day humor is very inside-jokey and dry. So it's a challenge to make humor that I think a wide audience might find funny. So that's why I admire your writing! Because you do have a good balance of comedy and depth. Come easily? Ah, the morally grey comes easily (what does that say about me? 🫣). I need to keep myself in check with the darker, more angsty side of things.

[redheadwannabesblog]

Five for Five friday (Saturday)

i was tagged by the lovely @dream-with-a-fever and @fizzyginfizz. Five sentences of a wip and tag five friends

Thanks so much for the tag. 

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CRACK 

The sharp sound from the beater’s bat against the bludger filled the open air. The bludger shot across the sky as Ginny loosened her grip on the bat. 

“Nice shot!” Demelza cheered. 

Ginny preferred tossing a quaffle but there was something satisfying about taking one’s anger out on a bludger and with the rage she was feeling this seemed far more healthy than taking it out on its actual target. 

Ginny couldn’t shake her anger and hurt from the night before. She went back into position and gripped the bat tightly and through gritted teeth shouted “AGAIN” the bludger came shooting straight for her.

That look of judgement on Ron’s face from the night before flooded her mind.

That unfinished sentence she had interrupted repeated in her head. What was he going to call her, “ a slut, slag, Scarlett woman!!!”

CRACK  she struck her mark again and the ball shot across the field. 

no pressure tagging ❤️

@startanewdream @sophie-hatter-jenkins @ashotofogdensoldfirewhiskey @seriouslysam8

[ashotofogdensoldfirewhiskey]

Hi! I thought about a fic when i read what you said: "the hardest thing isn't writing a character that's smarter than you, it's writing a character that's funnier than you"

Have you read @fizzyginfizz "Quidditch is for loosers"? It's peak Ginnyness imo, and i find it incredibly clever how she writes funny stuff, it's soooo hard! Specially because I believe that what we find funny can be very subjective (i mean, all things are subjective in a way, but what i mean is sometimes there's history and context behind a joke that makes it funny for a certain closed group, like a friend group, or a generation, or a country, or mixture of those...)

(Anyway i don´t know if i explained myself, it's midnight where i live and just finished work LOL) have a great week!!

Hope you've had a great week, too, anon.

You know, I don't know how I've missed this fic??? But I hadn't read it before. Your comment inspired me and I dove into the first few chapters last night and you're right, this fic is hilarious. @fizzyginfizz love your Ginny voice, I can't wait to read the rest.

If, like me, you hadn't read this yet, do it???

[four2andnew]

Tagged by @fizzyginfizz, and I left this so dang late, but I'm glad you got me opening my WIPs and looking, so THANK YOU!!

my words: because, normal, right, less

because

this one comes from A Rose in Winter

And yet, he remained behind closed doors. It was enough to make Ginny angry, but the more she tossed and turned, the more she came to recognize that her anger was really guilt. Guilt that she had kept such a wonderful man at arm’s length simply because he was embarrassed by his scars. Guilt that she was attracted to a man who wasn’t her husband. Guilt that she ran to Leo while her husband laid bedbound, the fact that Leo wasn’t there to answer her call eased her guilt none.

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Also from A Rose in Winter

“Come in,” she called, her hands twitching at her sides in anticipation. Harry entered her suite confidently, his normal hooded cloak absent but his mask still firmly in place. He stopped short at the sight of her body silhouetted by the glow of the fire through her thin nightdress. Ginny smiled at him, her eyes drinking in the sight of his loose shirt and breeches. She had never seen him more relaxed. “Gods Ginny, warn a bloke next time.”

right

Finally, one from the WIP I know y'all are waiting for - GWiaS; fair warning, this one is almost certainly getting edited

"Father is demanding the board of governors to remove Dumbledore immediately," Draco looks around at his audience with a dramatic pause before he whispers, "I expect it won't take much to remove the old bat, what with Lockhart not having the right credentials and Trelawney passing out her anti-government, conspiracy theory flyers. Father is very friendly with Fudge in the Department for Education - the head of department you know. The board will listen to him."

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Kinda cheating on this one, but it also comes from A Rose in Winter

Ginny took one last look around the room, with its dark wood panelling and ornate plaster ceiling. Everything in the room seemed designed to broadcast wealth and elegance, but all Ginny could notice was the worn carpet under the chairs and the lingering stench of tobacco soaked into the fabric of the chairs. She supposed the meeting could have gone better, but she found it hard to be upset. These men would have always belittled her unless she and Harry had come in kissing their toes. She found solace in knowing she would never win their affection, it took some of the pressure off.

I'm not tagging anyone because I let this sit for so long!!

[sophie-hatter-jenkins]

Day 9: A WIP

Title: Selcouth (Rated E - 5/? chapters - 50k words - Hinny)

Author: @seriouslysam8

Summary: Fifteen hours with someone wasn’t a lot of time to get to know a person, but an invisible string tied Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley together. Fate had more planned for them.

Or: A one night stand and one hell of a misunderstanding has life-changing consequences for Harry and Ginny in this Harry-didn't-go-to-Hogwarts magical AU

Why I'm Reccing It: I just love Sam's writing! This one is such a joy, and a testament to those little ideas that worm their way into your brain and won't let go - it was born from what was probably meant to be a throwaway conversation on Tumblr and it's turned into this wonderful, heart-wrenching, hilarious gem of a fic. It's honestly amazing what Sam has done with that initial prompt, and I am so excited to read what happens next!

Will our star-crossed lovers find their way back to one another? Read it, subscribe to it, and then find out along with the rest of us!

Side note: Last year, I recced both Beasts by @whinlatter and Quidditch is for Losers by @fizzyginfizz, in this category, and I absolutely stand by that, because they are both still awesome and if you haven't read them, you are missing out.

@hprecfest