The Golden Snitch

Challenge: Tiggerific Times

Prompt: (character) Draco Malfoy

Characters: Astoria Greengrass, Draco Malfoy

Word Count: 511

Other: Written by collapsar, Slytherin, Hogwarts

Points: 5 points [go Slytherin!]

you're just a lost boy

but not in neverland

you're stuck inside your

great BIG home

but you don't love it

not at all

—

a prince

but you're not going to the ball

[you've gone to balls before,

of course,

but it's not the same]

you have witches at your feet

a marble floor underneath

but no,

your perfect princess isn't anywhere in sight

{not, yet, at least}

{no, not tonight}

—

well, then,

you think,

I must be a puppet

and maybe, in that regard,

you're not that wrong

[so many sins you are forced to do

the list is a mile long]

there's your master,

can you see him?

not very well, probably,

through your button eyes

—

but you think you've found

who you really are

[in the storybook, at least]

hello, mr. beast,

don't let the rose lose its petals

—

[tick-tock, the seconds pass by

filling the time before you die

tick-tock, another one falls

wait and soon you'll be gone]

—

you think that you used to be a prince.

you were wrong.

—

you weren't peter pan,

you were captain hook

—

you weren't prince charming

you were the evil stepmother

[or, well, evil stepfather? you don't know you just don't know anything anymore]

—

you were the puppet, however

{always getting pulled by strings, mr. malfoy}

—

you are evil

and evil doesn't win fairytales.

no,

evil loses.

—

but evil can still love

it isn't good love

it's bad love

(but what else did you expect?)

—

so

you

grow

UP

—

warwarwar is your childhood

—

and you lose

[but you knew that all along]

and they win

[now it's unfair, stay strong]

—

[your clock is still ticking, beast]

tick-tock

tick-tock

find love

before it stops

—

draco malfoy, you're a bad boy

—

mal-foi = bad faith

—

and you're gonna get a bad girl

—

astoria greengrass, what a lass

—

she breathes smoke

instead of air

you breathe blood

she doesn't care

—

deatheater DeAtHeAtEr DEATHEATER

inscribed into your arm

she kisses the mark

—

you found your perfect pretty pure princess

except -

no -

cut out the perfect

—

you have scars from fighting

almost until your last breath

she has scars from fighting

her family to the death

—

[not very different, ways you fight]

suddenly, the rose is alright

—

go back to the beginning:

an innocent five-year-old

reading stories as they're told

—

but that boy has grown up

and that boy has given up

—

(most people don't know, but yes, villains exist too)

—

you are one,

and you will always be one

because villains aren't allowed to redeem themselves

—

they call themselves good

hahahahaha

—

in two2two thousand years

when his/story talks about

THIS WAR

[your war]

you're going to be the villain

—

because you made the wrong choice,

and you can't change that

—

{fairytales are true, fairytales are you}

—

draco malfoy: a boy who chose wrong (because there was no choice at all)

an: i have . . . poetry block, too? i don't know. sorry for this trash but i needed to write it