Drabble: Green Fairies

Written for the hp100 weekly challenge (this week's challenge: birthdays) because I haven't written for a while.


Title: Green Fairies
House: Ravenclaw
Word count: 100
Challenge: Birthdays
Characters: Bella, Rodolphus, Lucius


"Have another drink, Rodolphus."

Rodolphus is a Gryffindor fool or a love-struck fool – a fool in either case, Lucius thinks – for he leans towards pretty, knowing Bella Black, and licks the absinthe spoon clean.

Absinthe is forbidden at Hogwarts. After all, it could kill with one overly-generous dose. It could send those sweet young Gryffindors mad; it could make them think themselves true lions and devour each other. Lucius sips his drink and wonders what would happen if perchance some of the purest absinthe, illegal and immoral and Slytherin-loved, were to find its way into some innocent child's pumpkin juice.

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HP Snippet 'What If?' # 1.3

WHAT IF: SIRIUS HAD BEEN THE POTTERS' SECRET-KEEPER?

SNIPPET # 1.3

"Harry. Darling. It's four in the morning. You do not want to get up." Harry screams his disagreement with this assessment and Lily gives in, hoisting him up out of the pen and into her arms. Old enough to toddle around and get at things toddlers really shouldn't be touching, so she had James built a small play-pen for him, warded so he couldn't will himself out of it. The bassinet has been abandoned in the corner of the nursery for a while now, and there is no earthly way that Harry would be sharing the bed with her and James.

Outside is nearly dawn. And someone really should trim that verge, she thinks. Must get Peter on it. "James," she calls out, busy providing Harry with sustenance, "you should get up. Snape will be here in a few. Come on, it's nearly dawn."

She hears the unmistakable thud next door as James falls out of bed and staggers into the bathroom. "Your dad's a bit silly sometimes, isn't he?" She asks Harry, who giggles a reply, resolutely chewing on half a chilled banana.

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Art (well, sort of)

It's like 'spam the world with minor accomplishments' day, isn't it?

I did this wee sketch (well, wee as in, I've reduced it from huge to wee) many, many moons ago. I've only just gotten around to tidying it up pre- and post-scanning. (Also, athena25 has a scanner. Which means that we have a scanner. Now how did I miss this?)

Anyway, concrit would be welcome, especially as I do still scribble in sketchpads from time to time. This was done in pencils from pictures, photos and extrapolations, rather than from life. I tidied it on photoshop post-scanning, as it just... wouldn't.

( male nude )