Title: The Unsettling Quiet of Absent White Noise

[droxy]

Title: The Unsettling Quiet of Absent White Noise

Team: Mod Having fun

Word Count: exactly 100

Challenge: No Dialog

Characters: Severus, Hermione

Disclaimer: No money made, JKR owns it all.   White noise is a geeky term that describes ambient noise levels sometimes created to drown out other sounds, but it is also the general noise level of living.

Comments

[a_bees_buzz]

A lovely evocation of the disquiet of quietness, when the sounds of comfort are missing.

[dacian_goddess]

Oh, very nice! The last paragraph is especially poignant.

I loved that Hermione's sense of safety was aurally connected with Snape by the signature movement of his cloak. It's not difficult to imagine that sound always accompanying him, no matter how quiet his prowl.

I also liked the diurnal/nocturnal dichotomy of her mental focus. Given that I used to need ambient noise around me when I was younger, I can rather relate. :D

[droxy]

Can I hire you to do reviews?

[dacian_goddess]

~is flattered~

At your service, Milady. :D

[schmoo999]

Lovely darling..and *sniffle* the last bit....

and I can't read or write without music or the TV on...not at all. I can't sleep without either on for that matter..

[droxy]

Here's a tissue..

I can't have noise or light.

[schmoo999]

*takes tissue*

I have the old constant ringing in my ears from way too many ear infections as a child.
So when it is very quiet that is all I hear and it makes me nuts...so I need to have some kind of backround noise so I can concentrate. My father thought it was crazy I could do my homework in front of the TV..but I did and got the As and Bs to prove it:D

[snapeophile]

Really nicely done, Oh Darque One. I LOVE the ambiguity of 'the adrenaline rush'--is it caused by fear? Or excitement? And the evocativeness (is that even a word?) of the lack of rustle/snapping and the implied lack of Snape, is powerful.

[droxy]

Yes you ambiguity junkie you!

[harmony_bites]

Really lovely and nicely done--the whole way that you used sound and its absence created a really poignant picture.

[droxy]

Is humbled by your review. =)