...Carnations
Title: ...Carnations
Character[s]: Moaning Myrtle's mother.
Rating: G
Challenge: Mothers
House: Hufflepuff
Word Count: 100 by semagic
Author's Notes: I don't know where the idea came from.
She stayed indoors on the second Sunday of May. Painful to see the families going out to brunch or dinner. Worse still to see the shattered families all with white carnations pinned on.
There were no carnations for a mother whose child had died. These mothers were all but forgotten. As she was.
A beautiful short-eared owl tap-tapped impatiently on her window and she raised a tear-streaked face to take its note and give it a few Knuts.
The message was signed by Dumbledore.
Her mother rushed for her cloak and broom. Her daughter was a ghost!
Character[s]: Moaning Myrtle's mother.
Rating: G
Challenge: Mothers
House: Hufflepuff
Word Count: 100 by semagic
Author's Notes: I don't know where the idea came from.
She stayed indoors on the second Sunday of May. Painful to see the families going out to brunch or dinner. Worse still to see the shattered families all with white carnations pinned on.
There were no carnations for a mother whose child had died. These mothers were all but forgotten. As she was.
A beautiful short-eared owl tap-tapped impatiently on her window and she raised a tear-streaked face to take its note and give it a few Knuts.
The message was signed by Dumbledore.
Her mother rushed for her cloak and broom. Her daughter was a ghost!