Crooked

[dickgloucester]

Title: Crooked
Team Name: very tired DEs
Word Count: 8 x 100
Rating: G
Challenge: Nursery rhyme
Characters: Hermione/Severus
Authors Notes: This is an old English nursery rhyme that I have always liked. Usual disclaimery stuff.

There was a crooked manShe watched him thrash against the restraints as he slept. They'd had to tie him down after

Comments

[septentrion1970]

welcome back! *hugs Dicky*

It sounds like a nice nursery rhyme (have you noticed how absurd nursery rhymes often are?), and it's a nice story of hope.

[dickgloucester]

Thank you!

I think nursery rhymes quite often conceal a grain of truth or history behind the absurdity.

[septentrion1970]

That they do. Some of the mot popular French ones speak of rejection, eating a human being, refusing to help, being eaten, favoring wealth, etc.

[dickgloucester]

Now why would French rhymes go on about eating so much...?!

[septentrion1970]

LOL they're not all about eating, but those ones (promenons-nous dans les bois and il était un petit navire) are more or less stuck in my mind for the time being.