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Author's Note: Woke up in the middle of the night and wrote half of this. Then wrote the second half while binging on "His Dark Materials".
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Stacked with: Hogwarts 2.0 (T04); RAVEN (2024); MC4A (Fa-Yr7)
Individual Challenges: Watts; Red Instead; Condiment Shelf; Flexible; Major (Y); Delilah; Feather Head; Stacking Fool; Flashers; Polygon; Royal; Blush; Shield; Hogwarts MC [x3]; Magical MC [x3]; Sandbox (Y); Cinematic; Reader; Dreamers [x3]; Ethnic & Present [x3]; Neurodivergent; Rian-Russo Inversion [x3]; Rowl in Her Grave; In a Flash; Bucket Listing; Eating Cake (Y); Exchange; Greatest Gift; Outer Limit; Two Cakes (Y); Fuzzy Sock; Booger Breath; Setting Sail; Bi Bi Bi; Lovely Triangle; Zukes of Hazard; Zed Era; Finders; Hold the Mayo; Rainbow Connection
Hogwarts House: Ravenclaw
Assignment: Term 04 - Assignment 03
Subject [Task (Prompt): English Language Studies [Task#4 (showering someone with compliments)]
Other Hogwarts Challenges: Ravenclaw Month [14](Honor); Library [Frankenstein](Monster); Frenzy [Summer#4](Necklace); Center [150 - Zulius](Gossipy); Pokemon [Crustle](Magenta); Oct Tetris [Word](Formidable); Super-Frag [Charmed#3](Parvati Patil)
RAVEN Challenges: A [23](Elongating Speech); Traits [23](Enthused); Colors [53](Magenta); Items [59](Necklace); Settings [47](Hotel/Inn)
Other MC4A Challenges: Ship (LunLi; Heroes)[Fa-SW1 (Makeover/Glow Up)]; Chim [Sheddy](Protection; "Isaac" - Bear's Den); Fire [Boundary Hopper]; Garden [Noter (Necklace)]; TWT [n/a](n/a); Hang [Phrase#01](n/a);
Representation(s): Pre-Ship Harry Potter/Luna Lovegood/Neville Longbottom; Desi & NB Harry; Parvati & Padma Patil; Post War Era; DA Reunion Trip; Chim Song Prompt
Primary & Secondary Bonus Challenges: Bad Beans; Forked Path; Sitting Hummingbird; Second Verse (Ladylike; Not a Lamp; Persistence Still; White Dress; Found Family; Nontraditional; Zucchini Bread; Spinning Plates; Unwanted Advice; Brooms Only; Car in a Tutu; Three's Company; Lovely Coconuts; Muck & Slime); Chorus (Odd Feathers; Pocky Pockets; Wabi Sabi; Machismo; Peddling Pots; Tomorrow's Shade; Larger than Life; Unicorn; Abandoned Ship; Surprise!; Turtle-Duck)
Tertiary & Generic Bonus Challenges: T3 (Terse; Toad); SN (Rail; Intercept); LiCK (Poppy; Tansy; Yarrow); FR (Satisfaction; Liberation); O3 (Oath); RoIL (Satisfaction; Volition); Once (Inchworm); CM (Navigate); TY (Avasa); Mea (Ennui)
Space Address (Prompt): FaB 1D (Frost); Set 2E (Carnival);
Word Count: 654 words
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Purple Pine
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Harry kept his eyes closed and his face relaxed as Parvati stroked the makeup brush over his face. He wasn't entirely certain what she was doing, what she had been doing for the last thirty minutes. Honestly, he wasn't entirely certain about the whole situation he currently found himself in or how he got there.
The surviving members of the DA had decided to go on a holiday to South America for their reunion this year. After some particularly vicious debates (Susan and Hermione had to be put in actual time out for devolving to fist-fighting), they narrowed it down to Brazil. Because they had all clearly lost their collective minds, they had also decided to visit during Carnival.
Then Parvati and Padma had decided that if they were going to go out dancing, their adopted project needed a makeover to match. (Not that Harry was stupid enough to actually call himself their project out loud. The Patil twins were formidable when defending their friends, even if that was from themselves.) With less arguing than they were likely expecting, Harry had given into their commands.
They had immediately hustled him into a magenta skirt with a satiny finish. By contrast, they had put him in a white tank top. Padma had done something that had twisted it so that it showed off his midriff. If it had been five years before, Harry might have been self-conscious. But since the twins had taken him under their wings, he was no longer the scrawny stick that he had been back when they had attended Hogwarts. Between their cultural lessons in food and dance, Harry had managed to gain a nice tummy.
He wasn't Padma with her belly button ring, but he was comfortable with the idea of showing it off, especially since they were going to be dancing.
"Kissy lips," Parvati commanded. Harry obeyed. Whatever she covered his lips with smelled faintly like blackberries. "And done!"
She spun him around towards the mirror of the vanity in their hotel room. Harry could barely believe his eyes. He looked so different than he normally did, even if they hadn't done anything to his gold-framed glasses. His hair wasn't laying flat but the gravity defiance looked deliberate for once rather like he had skipped the comb. Glitter frosted his cheeks and brow like teeny tiny little scales. His lips were stained a dark plum that worked well with his dark brown skin and green eyes.
"Maybe this will finally kick Luna and Neville out of their forest," Padma said with a smirk as she toyed with the necklace she was wearing. (The pendant was out of her DA coin. Hermione had been so mad when the twins had shown up wearing the matching necklaces.) Harry blinked at her. She reached out like she was going to bop him his nose but stopped at the last moment with a frown. After a moment, she settled for touching the tip of one finger to the tip of his nose. (She wasn't going to risk smudging his makeup. She wasn't a monster.) "I don't know which of you three have been pining more."
"You really think they like me?"
"On my honor, I think they like-like you, chotté," Parvati said, leaning her chin on his shoulder. Padma rolled her eyes.
"How old are you again?"
"Younger than you," Parvati answered in a singsong voice.
Harry bit the inside of his cheek as he looked at his reflection again. Maybe this makeover, along with the aura of permissive chaos that filled the air of Rio de Janeiro would be enough. He looked out their window to the full moon that shone in the sky bright enough to be seen even with the whole city lit up for Carnival. Maybe that would help, too.
"Let's get this show on the road," Padma ordered. "We have a triad to complete!"
Please let this work.
