17. Your favorite character to write this year?
hand’s down Barry. which, I have to admit, was not what I would have expected when I set out to write hlh! in fact, i believe there’s still a line about barry spending most of the summer at quidditch camp somewhere in the early chapters that i have been meaning to remove for ages but just haven’t gotten around to (runner up is tony, i love his snark and the excuse to make up science shit on the fly)
29. Favorite line/passage you wrote this year?
this is a toughie because i have to admit that i do write a good deal, but I found something (and again, i only thought about stuff from this year) that i’m proud of from chapter 33 of hlh:
Harry gaped. “But I thought I heard about you being popular, about you having friends? Is that a difference?”
“Possibly not. I made friends later in Hogwarts, when my old friends’ words faded from my mind and the reality of life alone sank in. I always regretted not letting myself have friends, but it wasn’t too late by the time I changed my mind. I’ve got some great friends still from Hogwarts, and I’m so glad that I do.”
Harry pressed the heels of his hands into his eyes and shook his head. He knew, now, exactly what points she was trying to make. It was no longer deniable. “That sounds hard,” Harry said, hands still in his face.
“It was, but I made it through.” She sighed. “You will too, you know.”
“But how do you know?” Harry asked, voice tinged with the edges of desperation.
Lily shrugged. “I feel like I know you well enough to know that you are a survivor.”
“How can you feel like you know me? There’s so much I haven’t told you.”
“You don’t have to know everything about someone and where they came from to know about their character.”
thank you so much for the ask! i had a lot of fun hunting for the passage <3
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