Challenge #18 - no deadline

[MMADfan]

Okay, challenge number eighteen!

The flashfic challenge should consist of a theme and an item (per the rules and guidelines). The response should be a one-shot, preferably between 100 and 300 words, but the word length isn’t crucial. No deadline – whoever responds first sets the next challenge.

Here it is:

Situation: Filius and Pomona are having an argument or a dispute. Include a Jarvey somewhere in the story. (If you can’t remember what a Jarvey is, refer to Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, or check out the HP Lexicon.)

I’m looking forward to a new story! ;-)

[OSUSprinks]

Thinking... is there a Jarvey in any of the books? I don't remember this at all, but it has been sometime since I read.

[MMADfan]

As far as I can remember, Jarveys only occur in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. I’m rather fond of them, myself! I put one in RaM, you may remember. Hagrid had one and named it “Jeremiah.” LOL! He later found it a mate and called her “Jezebel.”

Just incidentally, that section of RaM also has a lot of Johannes in it (chapters 74, 75, and 79 in the version on CR & the Petulant Poetess).

[MMADfan]

Since Jarveys are unusual creatures, here’s the entry in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (p. 22):

Jarvey
M.O.M. Classification XXX
The Jarvey is found in Britain, Ireland, and North America. It resembles an overgrown ferret in most respects, except for the fact that it can talk. True conversation, however, is beyond the wit of the Jarvey, which tends to confine itself to short (and often rude) phrases in an almost constant stream. Jarveys live mostly below ground, where they pursue gnomes, though they will also eat moles, rats, and voles.

Another passage from FFB describes an encounter a Muggle monk had with a Jarvey, which he described as being an enormous ferret that yelled, “Get out of it, baldy!” and then bit the monk in the nose! (FFB, xiv.)