It Takes All Kinds

by Lor-tan

A collection of requested drabbles written in response to all kinds of ships, but a broader range of the term ships is used so friendships and rivalries are included, hence the name. I already have some pretty odd ones so I hope you enjoy and maybe even request something yourself! I promise it's okay. Updated whenever I feel like it.

15. Into the Woods

Harry and Ginny are friends, possibly more, and their relationship with the creature in the forest is unclear, but presumably at least somewhat romantic. Written for dedybear on Archive, but with considerable changes from the original request, because that is my right as the writer. And they loved it anyways.

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There's something in the woods around Harry's school, Hogwarts. He'd seen it.

With long black arms and pretty red eyes the colour of roses and a lower half of twisting, constantly contorting shadows, it is the stuff of nightmares.

With a face more handsome then an artist could dream and a voice like violin music, it is the stuff of dreams you wake from, wishing you were asleep again.

Ginny's seen it too. Some kids have. Some kids haven't. It's not out at a certain time, or in a certain place. It just chooses to reveal itself when it wishes. Some people say the whole thing is made up, and that's what Harry wants to disprove.

They're hoping it will be out tonight. They're going to go out and actually look for it tonight, despite cerfew, despite Ginny's friend Luna and her frantic warnings.

Hermione was supposed to come. And Ron. But Ron was already asleep, and Hermione tried to bite when they tried to take her book away. Evidently the upcoming tests are not sitting well with the bushy haired maiden.

Harry and Ginny go into the woods alone.

They never come back out.

You see, there really is something in the woods around Harry's school. A creature with a face like sin and bright red eyes and twisting shadows instead of feet. There are two children in its lair, one a boy and one a girl, black hair and bright ginger, green eyes and mocha brown.

They know its name.

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I don't even know what I'm writing, but it's late so that's my excuse. That and that I once read this great fic where Tom was a monster in the forest and Harry was freaking terrified that he would kill everyone he loved, and that clearly bled into this in some ways.

Poor Luna though. People really should listen to her more often.

Thank you for reading, leave a request if you like, (I am nearing the end of already published ones so I'll be starting on the new ones at some point soon) and byeeeeee!