Happenstance / Keeping Bonds / For Lack of Redemption
three drabbles, all for ravenclaw, all 100 words.
edited (multiple times) to add: okay, for some reason the third one isn't showing up here, but if you click on either of the other two, they all show up behind the cuts. most odd.
Title: Happenstance
Characters: Hermione, Harry, and Ron
He didn't know why it happened.
It was Ron and Hermione's wedding day, and Harry was casting Sleekeazy spells on Hermione's hair when the boggart appeared. Ron insisted that he saw Hermione and Harry, slain and dead. Hermione swore that she saw Ron and Harry, joined in their graves.
They got into such a row that neither of them asked what Harry had seen. He didn't volunteer. How could he explain that he saw what each saw, a dead Hermione and Harry and Ron, and - a second Harry, the fourth figure?
It never happened again, and Harry never found out why.
Title: Keeping Bonds
Characters: McGonagall and Harry
A/N: A companion of sorts, to my Happenstance, above
Many years later, when McGonagall heard Harry's story of the boggart that he and Hermione and Ron had seen, she said perhaps it had to do with the chain of Secret-Keepers: Ron as Harry's Keeper, and Hermione as Ron's. "Secret-Keepers become part of each other," she reminded him.
"Bloody lot of good it did."
McGonagall fixed him with a bright-eyed glare, remembering the trio of Harry, Hermione, and Ron as students, and she had to swallow hard. "Or," she said softly, sounding very much like her dead predecessor, "perhaps it symbolizes nothing except bond the three of you shared."
Title: For Lack of Redemption
Characters: Parvati Patil and her sisters. Yes, plural.
A/N: This was inspired by a fic that I've been working on, and since it's rather closely intertwined with the fic, I realize this may not be acceptable here. It doesn't have to count for house points, then. In my version of events, there are three Patil girls - the twins and a younger sister. That's all you really need to know.
Cut for some violence and character death.
After Parvati Patil died, her last diary entry was discovered.
The first time I saw a boggart, it became a mummy. Like from Muggle picture shows. The scariest thing I could imagine then.
Tonight a boggart appeared, and I didn't see a mummy. I saw my sister, raped and murdered, and it wasn't the blood, or the blank death-look on her face; what scared me most were her eyes that said I betrayed her. I did nothing to help her.
Immediately everyone feared for Padma's safety. Only Padma knew full well that she was not the sister Parvati had seen.
edited (multiple times) to add: okay, for some reason the third one isn't showing up here, but if you click on either of the other two, they all show up behind the cuts. most odd.
Title: Happenstance
Characters: Hermione, Harry, and Ron
He didn't know why it happened.
It was Ron and Hermione's wedding day, and Harry was casting Sleekeazy spells on Hermione's hair when the boggart appeared. Ron insisted that he saw Hermione and Harry, slain and dead. Hermione swore that she saw Ron and Harry, joined in their graves.
They got into such a row that neither of them asked what Harry had seen. He didn't volunteer. How could he explain that he saw what each saw, a dead Hermione and Harry and Ron, and - a second Harry, the fourth figure?
It never happened again, and Harry never found out why.
Title: Keeping Bonds
Characters: McGonagall and Harry
A/N: A companion of sorts, to my Happenstance, above
Many years later, when McGonagall heard Harry's story of the boggart that he and Hermione and Ron had seen, she said perhaps it had to do with the chain of Secret-Keepers: Ron as Harry's Keeper, and Hermione as Ron's. "Secret-Keepers become part of each other," she reminded him.
"Bloody lot of good it did."
McGonagall fixed him with a bright-eyed glare, remembering the trio of Harry, Hermione, and Ron as students, and she had to swallow hard. "Or," she said softly, sounding very much like her dead predecessor, "perhaps it symbolizes nothing except bond the three of you shared."
Title: For Lack of Redemption
Characters: Parvati Patil and her sisters. Yes, plural.
A/N: This was inspired by a fic that I've been working on, and since it's rather closely intertwined with the fic, I realize this may not be acceptable here. It doesn't have to count for house points, then. In my version of events, there are three Patil girls - the twins and a younger sister. That's all you really need to know.
Cut for some violence and character death.
After Parvati Patil died, her last diary entry was discovered.
The first time I saw a boggart, it became a mummy. Like from Muggle picture shows. The scariest thing I could imagine then.
Tonight a boggart appeared, and I didn't see a mummy. I saw my sister, raped and murdered, and it wasn't the blood, or the blank death-look on her face; what scared me most were her eyes that said I betrayed her. I did nothing to help her.
Immediately everyone feared for Padma's safety. Only Padma knew full well that she was not the sister Parvati had seen.