Bit of Ivory

I don’t know if I’m completely crazy or not. Probably. I’ve just done
something I thought I would never, ever, do. I just wrote a fanfic.
Well, a ficlet, really. I’d like to expand it a bit, make it more
interesting, but there it is. I wrote it here at work, and just
e-mailed it to myself so I can put it on my computer at home.
I honestly can’t believe I just did this.
It’s a Harry/Ginny fic, and it’s based on a dream I had the other
night. You see, I’ve been hopelessly in love with a certain guy for
years on end. I dream about him a lot, actually. Whenever there’s a guy
in a romantic role, it’s always him– sometimes he plays different
characters, but it’s always his face, his personality, and I always
know in the back of my mind that it’s him, even when he’s supposedly
Clark Kent or whatever. What made my dream different the other night
was that the same scenario was repeated over, and over, and over again.
It was a little different each time, but the basic premise was the
same. One of these scenarios was particularly vivid, and that’s the one
I used in my fanfic. This dream has been replaying in my head ever
since I woke up from it. It’s occurred to me more than once that
Ginny’s situation and mine are terribly similar– hopelessly loving a
man far out of reach (I think that’s probably why I’m so H/G, I want
her to get together with him because I want to get together with this
other guy)– and today it occured to me that I could turn my dream into
an H/G ficlet. So I wrote it. I also incorporated a song that has been
kind of my theme song for this guy lately– Crash and Burn by
Savage Garden (that and Goodbye to Love by the Carpenters). I
know it came out years too late for the HP universe (it came out in
2000, didn’t it?), and especially since my fic takes place while Harry
and Ginny are both still at Hogwarts, but it’s just so perfect for what
I feel Ginny’s going through (because dang it, I’m going through it
too) that I just had to include it. Maybe it was a wizard song that
Savage Garden stole. Yeah, that’s it.
Anyway, it’s written, and I’m trying to get the courage up to post it
somewhere.