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sam_storyteller) wrote2005-07-15 08:43 am
sam_storyteller) wrote2005-07-15 08:43 am
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Two Drabbles for Writing Night
Title: White Which
Prompt: One of the Malfoys as the White Witch.
Pairing: None given.
Rating: G.
Warnings: None.
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Narcissa was so fair that her father always doubted she was really his. He wouldn't make her heir; Bella teased her, made her believe when she was nine that she wasn't a Black at all.
Sirius found her crying behind the garden shed. He flopped down next to her and offered her a lolly.
"Bellatrix says I'm not really a Black," she wept. "She says I'm a white witch."
Sirius pondered this.
"That mean anything?" he asked.
"Huh?"
"Well, what's a white witch? Doesn't mean anything. You can be a Black and not have black hair. S'not law," he said.
She drew her small mouth up in a pout.
"I'll marry you," Sirius offered. "Then you'll def'nitely be a Black."
Her eyes brightened. "Promise?"
"Sure."
But all that was a long time ago. Now Sirius looks on Draco, thirteen and asleep in his dormitory bed, and he does wonder.
"Remember," he whispers, "you were almost mine, white witch."
Title: Dreamers
Prompt: "Logic!" said the Professor half to himself. "Why don't they teach logic at these schools?"
Pairing: Any Professor/Student
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
***
Tom Riddle was a logical boy, fascinated by anagrams and crosswords, things others thought were fripperies, a kind of mental disease. He learned magic in a sensible fashion, reducing each lesson to its component parts; he understood the formula for transfiguration rather than merely knowing how to turn doves into handkerchiefs.
"Why don't they teach it this way?" he asked Dumbledore. "Why don't they teach technique?"
"These things take time, Tom," Dumbledore replied. "You can't change the world with a handclap."
"I could," Tom said. "If I had power I'd make people change."
Dumbledore smiled gently. "What about the dreamers, Tom? Should they suffer your logic's chilly clasp too?"
"Not all of us find it cold," Tom answered.
Severus Snape looked up at his tutor and smiled. "I understand now. Why don't they teach it this way at school?"
Tom put a hand on the young man's shoulder. "The world is too full of dreamers, Severus."
Prompt: One of the Malfoys as the White Witch.
Pairing: None given.
Rating: G.
Warnings: None.
***
Narcissa was so fair that her father always doubted she was really his. He wouldn't make her heir; Bella teased her, made her believe when she was nine that she wasn't a Black at all.
Sirius found her crying behind the garden shed. He flopped down next to her and offered her a lolly.
"Bellatrix says I'm not really a Black," she wept. "She says I'm a white witch."
Sirius pondered this.
"That mean anything?" he asked.
"Huh?"
"Well, what's a white witch? Doesn't mean anything. You can be a Black and not have black hair. S'not law," he said.
She drew her small mouth up in a pout.
"I'll marry you," Sirius offered. "Then you'll def'nitely be a Black."
Her eyes brightened. "Promise?"
"Sure."
But all that was a long time ago. Now Sirius looks on Draco, thirteen and asleep in his dormitory bed, and he does wonder.
"Remember," he whispers, "you were almost mine, white witch."
Title: Dreamers
Prompt: "Logic!" said the Professor half to himself. "Why don't they teach logic at these schools?"
Pairing: Any Professor/Student
Rating: G
Warnings: None.
***
Tom Riddle was a logical boy, fascinated by anagrams and crosswords, things others thought were fripperies, a kind of mental disease. He learned magic in a sensible fashion, reducing each lesson to its component parts; he understood the formula for transfiguration rather than merely knowing how to turn doves into handkerchiefs.
"Why don't they teach it this way?" he asked Dumbledore. "Why don't they teach technique?"
"These things take time, Tom," Dumbledore replied. "You can't change the world with a handclap."
"I could," Tom said. "If I had power I'd make people change."
Dumbledore smiled gently. "What about the dreamers, Tom? Should they suffer your logic's chilly clasp too?"
"Not all of us find it cold," Tom answered.
Severus Snape looked up at his tutor and smiled. "I understand now. Why don't they teach it this way at school?"
Tom put a hand on the young man's shoulder. "The world is too full of dreamers, Severus."
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Maybe that'll make it into the Deleted Scenes from the River House.
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The first was rather odd... *snicker* Narcissa as Jadis. Interesting concept.
Thanks again Sam!
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That's right. I said it.
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I find him endlessly fascinating, as I do Remus Lupin, because they both have so much potential to be SO MUCH MORE INTERESTING THAN JKR MAKES THEM. :D
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There are things I adore about HP books (except for the last one) but your statement could apply to just about any character in the first 5. JKR had great potential and wasted a lot of it on petty romance stupidity and taking the easy way out, instead of writing to the potential of the universe she created.
And I agree with Simon -- your young Tom ROCKS!
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