Minerva goes on Fanfiction

Minerva was bored. Since it was the summer holidays, there were no homework to grade, no paperwork to manage, no detention to give, and no corridors to patrol. "What should I do?" Minerva muttered to herself. She had already finished reading every single book in McGonagall Manor, and she really doesn't want to go to Diagon Alley at this time of the day for a book, thank you very much. She looked around the room one last time for a distraction.

Finally, her eyes rested on the sleek black laptop her friend, Arabella Figg, gave her for her birthday. "Come on, Minerva, Muggle inventions aren't all bad, you know," Arabella had laughed at the expression on Minerva's face when she saw her birthday gift. True, she doesn't like Muggle inventions, but was she that desperate for something to do? Debating with herself, Minerva decided she was. Grabbing the laptop from the shelf, she headed for her private study.

Hunting down her secret store of ginger newts, she switched on her laptop. Nibbling on a biscuit, Minerva went on the internet on Arabella's favorite search engine. "Fiction," she typed, and waited for the computer to finish with the results. She searched through the list of suggestions, looking for something interesting. "Wait a minute," Minerva thought. "This looks kind of interesting." The heading read: Unleash Your Imagination – . Underneath, it reads: World's largest fanfiction archive and forum where fanfic writers and readers
around the globe gather to share their passion. Smiling slightly, Minerva clicked on the heading.

She arrived at the website. "What stories should I look for?" She wondered. "Let's see if they have stories on me." Grinning, she typed her name.

"Oh. My. God," Minerva thought. There were 873 stories – and all about her! Curious, she clicked on some of them.

"What the heck?" Minerva cried. Since when have she had a relationship with Albus Dumbledore? Or Severus Snape, of all people. And when on earth had she become mother of that repulsive Bellatrix Lestrange? And how in the name of Merlin did she have an affair with Tom Riddle when she was young?

"These Muggles must have more imagination than I thought," Minerva said with a shake of her head.

From that time on, Minerva signed up to be a member of Fanfiction. She wrote hundreds and thousands of stories all on true stories of herself and the other characters of Harry Potter. You'll like to know what username she's using? I'm afraid I can't tell you.

But, if you read a very believable story on Harry Potter… Who knows? It might be written by Minerva Marie McGonagall, deputy headmistress of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry!

A friend of mine, Zoe tabbycat, gave me the idea of Minerva going on Fanfiction. Hope you enjoy it, even though it's just a silly drabble to me... Anyway, criticism welcome!

Bianca tabbycat