Drabble: Slaughtering Shadows

[alectoperdita]

Title: Slaughtering Shadows
Fandom: Harry Potter
Coupling: HarryxSnape
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: Exactly 100

Slaughtering Shadows
Following Fleeing from Shadows

We stand in triumph over the mangled corpse of our enemy. It is a small victory, but a victory nonetheless.

This is not our first kill. Nor will it be our last. Our wands are lost. These are our only defence- a pair of short swords and Godric's Sword that you can barely wield but you deal much harm with all the same.

Your hands tremble with their tight and sticky crimson grip around the hilt of your sword. I wonder if you were Sorted into the House of Lions for this reason.

You look splendid garbed in Gryffindor red.

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Previous: Fleeing From Shadows
Next: Embracing Shadows

I decided to try at Severus's voice. I wonder if this made any sense at all... Did anyone actually get what I meant with ?Gryffindor red"? I fear it does not make much sense in the end...

I am contemplating naming this series of drabble Sihouettes of War. All reviews appreciated.

Comments

[ravish-potter.livejournal.com]

I really really really REALLY like the last line to this drabble(as opposed to just really really really liking the rest of it). Hehe...although I think Harry looks strapping in any color. Red does bring out the color of his eyes though, don't you think?

[luzkun.livejournal.com]

Wow. Chucked right into the scene, and quite vividly at that.

You make me wonder so much with just 100 words; who have they killed, why are their wands gone, where did the swords come from?

Lovely descriptions, with Harry's hands trembling, House of Lions, Snape thinking of him in Gryffindor red (ooo, so many ways to take that).

[bluerose16.livejournal.com]

I love the way you call it the 'House of Lions', and I agree with Luz that him being 'garbed in red' could have many different interprettations.

Amazing and outstanding as always. This is the perfect drabble, honestly.

[alecto-chan.livejournal.com]

Now you got me thinking of DarkLord!Harry for some reason...

Run!

[alecto-chan.livejournal.com]

Hehe. Thanks. The aim of my drabbles is to hit the reader hardest with the first and the last line. Glad to know I left some impression!

[alecto-chan.livejournal.com]

I guess there can be. I had one specific one in mind when I wrote it.

o.O I just noticed something with the whole "House of Lions" bit that I never noticed before. Wow. Talk about random connections. Of course that had no part in me changing the title last minute...

*whistles innocently*

[bluerose16.livejournal.com]

What about it? ::confused::

[alecto-chan.livejournal.com]

Lions -> slaughter/kill/hunt -> blood -> red

...

Not sure there's a connection now... I think sleep would be advisable for me at this point...

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