I am the Kat that Walks By Itself

Here's a plot bunny for Lucius lovers.

I've seen more than one "Daddy Long-Legs"-style story with Hermione being the orphan and Snape being the benefactor. I think there was a challenge, a long time ago.
Thing is... Lucius Malfoy is the one in a better position to be a benefactor (since we know he's rich) and with very good reasons to want to remain anonymous.

So what would happen if Lucius was the "Daddy Long-Legs" instead of Snape? Not a romantic interest, but simply someone whom Hermione has to depend on.

Unfortunately, I can't think of any good (in both senses of the word) motives for Lucius to want to support Orphan Hermione. Not and stay in character as the racist he is.
Which would make any story that I might attempt to write for this plot bunny something dark and manipulative... and that kind of thing leaves a very bad taste in my mouth. Do Not Want! I couldn't write it.

But I do know that there's at least one person on my flist who likes Lucius, and has a handle on fanon!Lucius. So I offer up this plot bunny, in case anyone feels like writing something for it which isn't darkfic. And then maybe it will stop popping up and saying "Boo!" when I least expect it.

The Snow Queen, starring:
Severus Snape as Kai
Hermione Granger (or Lily Evans) as Gerda
Voldemort as the hobgoblin
and Albus Dumbledore as the Snow Queen.

What if Dumbledore couldn't read his own handwriting? What if he had left Harry Potter at the doorstep of #11 Privet Drive instead of #4?

(yes, I've obviously been reading too many Harry Potter AUs when I should be writing my Draco story...)

They use quills in the Wizarding World because quills are easier to cast charms on, because they aren't manufactured, they're closer to their natural state than fountain pens or biros.

Answers to the 15-character meme.
Sorry for the delay, some of the later ones have me stumped. Still I shall start posting.
( the Fifteen Characters )

( astrogirl's questions )

( cheyinka's question )

( jaxomsride's questions )

I cannot write this, but I so want someone to write it for me:
Severus Snape. And Miss Parker. On a mission. Together.

Thought for the day: Beware of quick fixes, because temporary solutions have a tendency to become permanent.

Meme from lizbee:
Give me the title of a story I've never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got posted, the scene that hit the cutting room floor but that I wish I'd been able to salvage, or something else that I want readers to know.

I had an epic dream last night. It started off with I and my father watching a movie, where a guy's son was apparently super-brilliant, and the son was taken up to a space-station, a sort of research colony. Then we're back to Earth with the father, and there's a mushroom cloud in the distance. Apocalypse! Lots of devastation. And then the people from the space-station come down all rescue-like, and the father is walking one day and sees people coming from the space-station, and lo and behold, it's his son! Reunion time.

However, this is epic movie, so instead of ending there, it goes on. Also, the PoV kept on switching from watching the movie, to being a PoV character in the actual story. ( and there is epicness )

I don't usually have epic dreams like that. This one actually had a plot! Though it sort of meandered away from a plot in the end.

Shower -> Hobbits' bath song -> "but better is beer if drink you lack" -> beer -> Methos -> Methos and a hobbit drinking beer.

8-P

Sam Carter on entering the TARDIS: It's bigger on the inside! That's impossible! How does it work?
Doctor: It's dimensionally transcendental.
Sam: But how does it work?
The Doctor opens his mouth and closes it again.
Sam: You aren't going to tell me, are you?
Doctor: You might actually understand it. That would change history.