Chocolate Frogs

by iwasbotwp

A series of vignettes depicting the reactions various characters have to seeing themselves or others on Chocolate Frog trading cards. Spanning different time frames from before the first war, to far past the second war.

12. Gwenog

If anyone asked Gwenog Jones when she really felt that she had "made it", the answer would be when she was approached to be on a Chocolate Frog card. Gwenog's first appearance on a card happened after her promotion to captain of The Holyhead Harpies. She chose to pose in full game day gear on her home team's pitch. Over her shoulder sat her beater's bat, while she held a bludger tucked under the opposite arm. She remembered having to re-charm the bludger repeatedly to stay frozen. The charm quickly wore off the mean little buggers.

15 years after that first run of cards appeared at her home, the Welsh National Team named her as their manager. A letter arrived with the news that her card would be updated and she was asked to schedule a time to take a new picture. She kept on putting it off, informing them that between practices, matches, travelling, and all of the other hubris attendant to her new role, she stayed rather busy. She demurred long enough they decided to use her old picture.

In 2014, nearly 25 years from her card debut, Gwenog caused quite the stir at the World Cup Quarter Finals. Gwenog confessed to mild surprise when told her card would include her escapades from the Wales versus Brazil game.

The "It Should Have Been Haiti" t-shirt she wore to the game, now autographed by the entire Haiti National Team, hung in a frame on her wall. Her only regret about that night wasn't her stint in a foreign jail. She really wished that after hexing the Brazilian Seeker, Tony Silva, she had also managed to curse their team manager, José Barboza, before the authorities carted her off the field.

Once again, the Chocolate Frogs manufacturer attempted to schedule a photo shoot to go along with the card update. Gwenog realized it could be an extremely vain move on her part, but she didn't plan to allow them to take a new picture now. She wasn't in quite the same shape as the she was for the first picture.

Merlin, she really missed the way her tits looked back in her 20s.

Yes, Gwenog Jones knew she had made it the day she first appeared on a Chocolate Frog card, and she would be damned if anyone would change that feeling for her by changing the picture on her card.