Hi everyone, could you post in here memorable lines from a PK fanfic? Especially (but not limited to) those that show why our ships are so right for each other.

We'd probably put them somewhere in the forum's default skin. Perhaps as a box on the right margin or near the log in panel on top of the page. Or maybe as a caption to our new banners.

Please post in here:

Quote:
Story / Chapter URL: http://fanfiction.portkey.org/story/xxxx/yy
xxxx represents the story number; yy, the chapter number. You could also simply give the story URL then say what the chapter number is.



REQUIREMENTS:
- 1-5 sentences, PG-13 wording
- must be from a story posted in Portkey's fanfic section
- not spoilery
- you didn't write that fic (but it's OK if you betaed it)

PREFERRED: Quotes that express what we love about our ship. Say, it sums up H/H scenes or interaction in canon, describes what makes them click.



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RELATED TOPICS - not limited to PK fanfics

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CREDIT FOR THIS IDEA:
-newyn's jokes in a certain PK forum
-NAPPA for planning (years ago) to borrow FAP's similar practice
-FAP (Fiction Alley Park) - first shipping home for many PK-ers including PK's founders and myself

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Quote: "The point is, Hermione, I still love you. That’s God’s awful truth of it. I still love you. Do what you want with that information, for all I care. Ron’ll probably sock me for being spectacularly stupid, telling you all this. But hey… it’s not like you hadn’t figured that out by yourself. I hadn’t exactly been subtle about it. So, yeah, I’m not going to play hard-to-get, especially when you let me kiss you like that… "
Story / Chapter URL: http://fanfiction.portkey.org/story/5185/21

Forever Knight by DeliverMeFromEve

displayed May 30 until Aug 2 2009 - gal-texter

Copying these here so I could find them when it's time to change the fanfic excerpt box on the forums' right margin. --------->


The ff are from PK-ers' sigs:

displayed from Oct 6 - 28
Kaiser Dragon:

Ginny looked from one to the other incredulously. “You can't be serious. For six years everyone knew it was always going to be you and Ron, Hermione. Everyone. You and Harry were never anything but friends. You never flirted, you never snogged, never really fought; you never even got jealous of each other. What happened?”
“The problem,” she said quietly, reaching for his hand, “was that when you come right down to it, Ginny, flirting and fighting and jealousy just aren't what love is really all about.”
- Magic Never Dies by Lynney


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Mariecel

"It had taken twenty years to for them all to end up where they were supposed to be, twenty years of realising that though they were happy – they could be happier. Twenty years of finding who they were instead of who the world expected them to be and understanding the two weren’t necessarily the same. But for Hermione, those twenty years of watching and growing with Harry as a friend and not a lover meant that she knew him better than he knew himself – as he did her – and together they were so much stronger than they would’ve been if they had married straight from school." - Dreams by DonovanPotter

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Little_Miss_Perfect

'It just seems like a nice piece of rope."- Harry. All Tied Up by Cheering Charm


'Oh, Harry! What is going on? I was heading to Arithmancy when all of a sudden, three women with rather high opinions of themselves grabbed me and shoved me in here, muttering to me something about "getting a move on".' -Hermione The Senseless Broom Cupboard Ficlet by Anazecria

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Same quote I've got in my sig:
Scruffie

"All I really wanted was just to get Hermione to consider the possibility that raising a bunch of bushy, black haired children with bad teeth and bad eyes with me would be nice."
- kyc639, She WILL Be Mine

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AutumnFalls

"I've got sex appeal?" -- Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Mysteries of Love


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Have displayed this to tie up with our PK Spotlight issues:


BB Ruth - I'll have to look for my screencap of the quote I borrowed from her "The Keeper" story. displayed from sep until oct 6

Harrys Mistress - Love Lost. Love Found. - ff Chap 2 quote displayed from oct 27

His heart crumbled when he saw tears shimmer in her eyes. “I know, Mione,” he said taking her face gently into his hands. “We’ll get through this, okay? We’ll be okay.” When she could only nod as she choked back her tears, Harry simply pulled her into his arms, cradling her against his chest.

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Quote: ""You will marry me and spoil me and my children—excuse me—our children with stacks and stacks of books," his beautiful and intelligent Hermione simply replied.

It was then that Harry brought his head back down to rest on her lap, a corner of his mouth creeping upward. Hermione's hand in his hair resumed with its fluffing and caressing, and her attention was diverted back to her book, letting her fall into the familiar hypnosis of words.

Black-haired/brown-haired bookworms. Late nights with story time. Daily errands to the bookstores.

Hermione."


Story / Chapter URL: http://fanfiction.portkey.org/story/8139

Suppose by Viopathartic

Thanks guys. Those would all appear in our board's home page sometime. Perhaps on a monthly interval.

I saw this on a thread that was bumped up today.

EDIT: this sig
“Er, Hermione?” Ginny said tentatively.
“What?”
“Your bra is tangled about your ankle.”
“Your hair is a right mess,” Parvati piped in happily.
“And you’ve got red marks all over your neck and chest,” Luna said in her usual dreamy voice. “You look like you’ve been mauled by a wild animal.”
She looked back and winked at them. “I was.”

~Same Time, Same Place by Caina

EDIT Jun 3: another forum sig.
http://recs.portkey.org/includes/view_rec_...s.php?rec_id=32

Harry grinned. "You're sure you want to know?" he asked. Hermione glared at him, and he sinckered. "Simple. Nuk'del'sheat could have been a Shapeshifter." He looked pointedly at Hermione. "You are aware that I can atually become a mother?"
Hermione's jaw dropped. "You-You mean-Saying-Shift into a-"
"You weren't aware of that," Harry stated dryly.
Hermione was mortified. "That's gross." she said lamely.
--"Beyond Boundaries" by Rachel A. Prongs. I love that story

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This one goes as one of my all-time favorite quotes from fanfic because I laughed for hours and it still manages to make me chuckle:

QUOTE:

URL: http://fanfiction.portkey.org/story/1929

"Automatically, almost idly, he remembered that, even before they had been married, he had known Hermione, known that she disliked the color pink, that she liked the colors blue and green and purple, that her favorite season was the fall, that she loved the first snowfall in the winter, that she took her tea with one lump of sugar and she liked her tea to always be hot. No lukewarm tea for her, characteristically, he had once reflected; it wasn't in Hermione to like half-measures." - The Truth About Love (Bingblot)


"Harry nodded and then asked the question he really wanted answered, `Why did you choose me to write about?'
Hermione shrugged, `they told us to write about the person we admired most and you were the first person who came to mind. Not that I don't admire those other people you mentioned, I just admire you more, a lot more in fact.'
`Because of what I did?'
`No, because of who you are, because of the thousand and one little things that you do everyday in the most ordinary way... that just add up to make you extraordinary.' " - Defining Harry (Ladylaughalot)

"You don't know how frustrating it was to not be able to say anything else," Harry remarked, drawing the blanket closer to his body. "I mean, I do love your name but I just wanted to say what I wanted."
Hermione nodded vaguely, gazing past the wall, her eyes slightly glazed over.
"Hermione?"
"My name is the word you think of most?" she asked softly, focusing her eyes back on Harry.
Harry smiled and nodded, "Yeah." The Return (BeaumontRulz)

"This was more than just 'brilliant but scary', this was absolute insanity. Never mind that she had a point about always being the one to help him. This was just one thing that he' have to do without her help. There would be no naked helping. There would be no naked anything. Not with Hermione." - Epression of Gratitude (Emily North)

Here's a quote from Their Way, by ironchefor. I would qoute the entire fic, but I think that's not the point of this thread.



http://fanfiction.portkey.org/story/4565/

Thanks for the suggestions, everyone. Each one would get displayed in PK forums' home page. Sometimes we pick quotes that aren't listed on this thread, 'cos they're tied in with our latest PK Spotlight issue (like the case now) or they're a perfect fit for our new skin's banner art (which would be the case for the next layout).

Saw this today in mycha_kk's sig:

It’s not about being with the girl you like to be with; it’s about being with the girl you need to be with…"*
*from bingblot's fanfic What You Need

Fuller quote:
James smiled to himself. “You know, Harry, I’ll tell you something I heard once and realized the truth of with your mother. It’s not about being with the girl you like to be with; it’s about being with the girl you need to be with.” He paused and then looked at Harry. “When you think about people you need, who do you think of?”

This is from With Malice Aforethought:

“It is insufficient, Harry, to find things worth dying for.” Dumbledore focused his brilliantly blue stare upon the exhausted youth. “Reasons to fight and die are scattered liberally in every spot one cares to look. Far more difficult and more important is finding things to live for.”

Harry pulled his eyes away from the Headmaster's knowing gaze, and looked down the spiral staircase where the top of Hermione's head was just disappearing from view. He looked back at the old teacher, and smiled. “Thank you, sir.”


I know its not shippy, but it's one of those "food for thought" kind of quotes. (and personally I think I kind of believe what he said) Though I think the next paragraph would turn the quote shippy but it doesn't add to the impact of quote IMO.

-tw

Edit:

I think this would be more effective if I placed the next paragraph (that and make more of an impact)

Okidokie.

I'd contribute:

[Hermione] stepped forward, burying her fingers in his hair, and pulled his head down so she could kiss him again. He returned it joyfully, feeling the rain cascade down their faces, drip from their fingers, as if nature itself was baptizing them, blessing their union of bodies, their melding of emotions.

This is the Best Thing by puck_nc

Yep.


Found this in katiecat's sig:

Harry stopped Ginny on her way by and said softly, “There’s no way I’ll ever snog Malfoy to get out of here.” - Choosing a Portkey by Innermurk?=*=?
“You know, in those places deep inside where you hide your guilty pleasures.” Her gaze flickered up to his face, and down his frame - Choosing a Portkey by Innermurk?=*=?
They stepped together, and Draco cupped her face in his slender hand, stroking the side of her ear.
- Choosing a Portkey by Innermurk

Choosing a Portkey's rec thread