Seven Drabbles--and a Gripe

[gehayi]

Seven drabbles, all done for the "Swollen" challenge at hp100:

Title: 1970s Torch Song
Characters/Pairings: MWPP
Summary: "At seventeen, Peter fell in love."

Comments

[gehayi]

I loved the extended metaphor

Thank you. I like it too; I just wish I could have come up with a story to go with the image. Oh, well.

Princess Leia made me giggle

::grin:: The Peter in my head is a total sci-fi geek. I just know he went nuts over Leia. (I also know that, scared of Death Eaters or not, he would have snuck out of the Burrow in 1983 to see RotJ. Because, Leia. In that slave girl outfit.)

Sirius' struggle to trust in Dumbledore made me mad - I still do NOT understand why nothing was done to clear Sirius' name in a society with a working truth serum, and legilimency.

That whole situation makes me mad. In fact, based on the events surrounding Sirius Black's imprisonment, I hate the entire wizarding legal system.

Sirius gets thrown in Azkaban--the worst prison in the wizarding world--without a trial. Now, why? He never confesses. His wand is apparently never checked with Priori Incantatem; if it had been, the Aurors would know that his wand did not cast the spell that killed James or Lily. He is never given

[reikah]

I'm suspecting corruption inside the government, myself. People like Lucius Malfoy - not yet convicted or even suspected, though captured spies might implicate them several months later.

[katsaris]

I used to also believe that Sirius' lack of trial makes for a rather unfavourable view of the wizarding world compared to our own. Until ofcourse we had in our own world hundreds of "suspected terrorists" imprisoned without a trial -- and our society was never actually in as much danger from terrorists as the the wizarding world was from Voldemort.

Crouch couldn't give Sirius civil right and a fair trial, because then every suspected Death Eater would have to be given civil rights and a fair trial. Crouch couldn't use truth serum (assuming it was even discovered back then), because what if Voldemort discovered a way to counteract it?

So the wizarding world gave the Ministry right to imprison anyone they want without a trial indefinitely, same way that many people in the United States nowadays believe people should be imprisoned in Guantanamo indefinitely without trials.

[reikah]

I told you I loved the Princess Leia one. Buahaha.

Good luck with the doctor! o_o

[gehayi]

Thanks--on both counts!

[arseaboutface]

Loving Astronomy Lesson.

[underlucius]

These are all excellent - true drabbles. Leia made me lose my beer - and the extended metaphor was lovely - feel free to post it on hp_lit - there is no reason why we can't have lovely drabbles too!

xxx

ps good luck at the hospital - stupid that they make you walk all that way. When i was having physio after I broke my leg they did away with the free transport and i had to get 2 buses and walk half a mile. *grrr*

[gehayi]

Okay! I'll post the drabble over at hp_literotica.

It wasn't quite that bad for me (walking half a mile? Are they MAD?), but it was bad enough.

I left a Snape filk for you in your LJ.

[waimeawahine]

I hope the doctor's visit went well. *hugs*