Globetrotter Drabble Competition: Dubai
Pairing Diversity Boot Camp: Translucent
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry: Arts - Orange
100 Days of Inspiration: "Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing."
Prompt Giving Wizard: Muggle
Pairing: Neville/Astoria
Neville Longbottom was an exceptionally talented painter - his paintings were full of bright, vibrant colours - red, blue, orange, yellow.
"What are you doing, sitting there with these Muggle brushes the whole day, Nev?" Astoria Greengrass asked him, lying on the grass as the sunlight gleamed on her pale face.
"Painting, Tori, you know it," he replied, not bothering to look up.
She did - it was just a silly game she liked to play, while he painted her translucent beauty.
What she didn't know was that he only painted her.
She was his muse, his inspiration.
His last painting was of her too – him and her, the fat, often-ridiculed Gryffindor lion and the lonely Slytherin princess – the way he saw them.
He sent it to her in reply to the invitation card she sent him.
(Astoria Greengrass weds Draco Malfoy)
She never replied.