drabble (HP): walls

[kangeiko]

Fandom: Harry Potter
Story type: drabble (100 words)
Rating: PG
Summary: If you can read this, thank a teacher.
Characters: Snape, Dumbledore, etc.





Hogwarts has no graveyard.

Its fields are vast and open; its children play games and roll along the thick, lush grass.

When it is his turn, he knows, no one will claim him. Bone by bone, brick by brick, he will be walled into this place he shed his lifeblood for, drop by drop, until he seeps into the very walls. He hears the echoes of those before him.

The fields outside are vast and green, as healthy as the Meadows grown atop those dead of plague.

Hogwarts has no graveyard.

Hogwarts needs no graveyard.

Its dead still dwell within.

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fin

Comments

oooh *shudders*

[athena25.livejournal.com]

Did you know that in the Edo period in Japan it was considered luck to build the bodies of the dead into a bridge so that their ghosts would protect it from harm.

A cheerful thought for the day.

Re: oooh *shudders*

[kangeiko]

I didn't, although it doesn't surprise me. I got the idea for this from a graveyard in Basingstoke, where the outer walls (and the walkways) are built out of old bones and headstones. And, of course, there's that church in central Europe that is entirely decorated with the bones of the priests that died there... charming.