Celandine's Chronicle (celandineb) wrote in cels_fic_haven, @ 2012-01-26 09:37:00 |
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Entry tags: | hp ficlets dennis/harry, hp quill-it 100.3 |
HP ficlet: Creating Beauty [Dennis/Harry, general]
Title: Creating Beauty
Author: celandineb
Fandom: HP
Pairing: Dennis/Harry (future)
Rating: general
Length: 443
Summary: Dennis came to photography in memory of his brother, and nervously asks Harry to be a subject.
Note: For quill_it, 100.3, prompt 27, "beauty". For kaellite, who asked for Harry/Dennis.
Dennis had played around a little bit with cameras before his brother died, but after Colin was gone, he became serious about it. During the summers and then after he had finished at Hogwarts he took courses in photography, learning the principles of composition, experimenting, gradually developing his own style. It took the better part of a decade, but he became quite well-known as an artist, with shows in both the Muggle and wizarding worlds.
Along the way he realised that he was gay, and eventually decided to make that a theme of his art. He didn't necessarily photograph men in erotic or even sensual poses, but often captured his subjects in the midst of ordinary life, merely hinting at their preferences. He might, for instance, photograph a man standing at a bar having a pint: totally innocuous unless one noticed and recognised the meaning of the bandanna in his back left pocket. From time to time he would approach men whom he knew and ask them to serve as models, assuring them that he would not ask them to pose nude unless they wanted to, and that any photographs of that sort would not be made public without their permission.
It was with some trepidation that he asked Harry Potter to be one of his subjects. He remembered Colin telling him that Harry had always been annoyed by Colin's photography at school, and he doubted that Harry had had good experiences with reporters and photographers since. But Harry was gay, that was an open secret, and Dennis very much wanted to photograph him, even if he could never publish the images, even if Harry insisted on remaining fully clothed.
Greatly to Dennis's surprise, Harry did not make any conditions. He seemed thrilled that Colin would ask him, in fact, and cooperated willingly with all of Dennis's suggestions as to clothing (or lack thereof), poses, and the use of various props and backgrounds.
At the end of the session, when Harry was dressed again, Dennis offered him a drink. Harry accepted.
"Why did you agree to do this?" Dennis asked, watching Harry's throat move as he swallowed.
Harry lowered the glass and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, a curiously young and endearing gesture. "Because I've seen your work," he said. "In the end, all those things that made me famous? All they amounted to was destruction. What you do is to create, and create beauty. I wanted to be part of that somehow."
Nodding, Dennis reached out to clasp Harry's hand. He was flattered beyond measure by the compliment, but all he could manage to say was, "Thank you."