(I saw Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince again today and this bit made me want to prompt. Please forgive me that it's a little long and rambly. It's late and I'm unwell. I had to look the quote up as well so sorry if it's a little wrong.)
"The student who gave me Francis... A spring afternoon I discovered a bowl on my desk, just a few inches of clear water in it. Floating on the surface was a flower petal... as I watched, it sank... just before it reached the bottom, it was transformed, into a wee fish. It was beautiful magic, wondrous to behold. The flower petal had come from a lily... your mother. The day I came downstairs, the day the bowl was empty, was the day your mother..."
Mycroft (a muggle that liaises with the Minister of Magic) comes into his office one morning to find a fish-bowl on his desk. The magic happens as described. It turns out it was a gift from Sherlock while he was at Hogwarts. He thought his brother could do with a friend... and maybe rub it in that he was a wizard and Mycroft wasn't.
Many years down the line, Reichenbach happens more or less as BBC canon states and it looks like Sherlock is really dead.
The fish in the bowl doesn't disappear. (Mycroft is aware that after death, the individual's magic ceases to exist except in a few notable cases...)
This is the only sign Mycroft gets that Sherlock is still alive and out there.
What does Mycroft do next?
1000 points to your Hogwarts house if you can make a story out of this not so great prompt. An extra 150 points if you make Sherlock a Hufflepuff (he is rather loyal and unafraid of toil after all, even though he seems far from patient) because I don't think I've ever came across a fic where he's in that house yet. :)
Potterlock prompt.
"The student who gave me Francis... A spring afternoon I discovered a bowl on my desk, just a few inches of clear water in it. Floating on the surface was a flower petal... as I watched, it sank... just before it reached the bottom, it was transformed, into a wee fish. It was beautiful magic, wondrous to behold. The flower petal had come from a lily... your mother. The day I came downstairs, the day the bowl was empty, was the day your mother..."
Mycroft (a muggle that liaises with the Minister of Magic) comes into his office one morning to find a fish-bowl on his desk. The magic happens as described. It turns out it was a gift from Sherlock while he was at Hogwarts. He thought his brother could do with a friend... and maybe rub it in that he was a wizard and Mycroft wasn't.
Many years down the line, Reichenbach happens more or less as BBC canon states and it looks like Sherlock is really dead.
The fish in the bowl doesn't disappear. (Mycroft is aware that after death, the individual's magic ceases to exist except in a few notable cases...)
This is the only sign Mycroft gets that Sherlock is still alive and out there.
What does Mycroft do next?
1000 points to your Hogwarts house if you can make a story out of this not so great prompt. An extra 150 points if you make Sherlock a Hufflepuff (he is rather loyal and unafraid of toil after all, even though he seems far from patient) because I don't think I've ever came across a fic where he's in that house yet. :)