Fic: 'Almost Like Magic' (Harry Potter, gen, G, 1/1) Title: Almost Like Magic Fandom: Harry Potter Characters: Gilderoy Lockhart Word Count: 192 Rating: G Spoilers: HPCoS, HPOotP Challenge: Leap for Prompts (22/29): Harry Potter Disclaimer: No one mentioned belongs to me. Summary: He can do joined-up writing now.
Almost Like Magic
He can do joined-up writing now. He likes making the letters go together, all big and pretty. He likes adding a lot of extra loops and swirls. The nurses call them flourishes and always smile when he does them. Sometimes his writing goes slowly, but the nurses tell him it'll get easier and faster, especially now that he doesn't have to lift the quill up for every new letter. They gave him a big, pretty quill as a present, and it sort of dances across the parchment when he's writing, except sometimes he's watching that and not his letters and they get messy. They tell him to practice and he does; he doesn't have much else to do. They tell him he used to do magic, but he doesn't remember how to anymore, except that he can make his name look very pretty, and that's almost like magic.
Painting might be nice. No one expects painting to be neat or stay on the lines and it can have as many loops and swirls and flourishes he wants. Tomorrow, he thinks he might try painting.