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Anyone recognise this line?
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omniocular mods have very kindly given everyone a second chance at their previous challenges -- which has got me looking at the fic I started for the first character roulette again, to see what can be done with it. (I drew Rita Skeeter and Merope Gaunt -- I have about 3,000 words of Rita investigating, but that's probably only about a quarter done.)
Anyway, onto the main thing I wanted to ask. The first line of the fic as it stands reads:
Bernard Lovegood was no-one’s idea of a stormy petrel, except possibly his own.
Trouble is, that phrasing sounds naggingly familiar, and makes me think I've read something like it before and plugged it in unconsciously. Can anyone think of a fic (or published story, for that matter) which has that sort of opening, or similar character description? I don't really want to start with something that sounds ripped off!
omniocular mods have very kindly given everyone a second chance at their previous challenges -- which has got me looking at the fic I started for the first character roulette again, to see what can be done with it. (I drew Rita Skeeter and Merope Gaunt -- I have about 3,000 words of Rita investigating, but that's probably only about a quarter done.)Anyway, onto the main thing I wanted to ask. The first line of the fic as it stands reads:
Bernard Lovegood was no-one’s idea of a stormy petrel, except possibly his own.
Trouble is, that phrasing sounds naggingly familiar, and makes me think I've read something like it before and plugged it in unconsciously. Can anyone think of a fic (or published story, for that matter) which has that sort of opening, or similar character description? I don't really want to start with something that sounds ripped off!
