HP Drabble Series # 1
I discovered the joys of drabbling recently and decided to put them up here for posterity.
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#1 - Prompt Butterbeer. Word count 296
It had been a particularly long, arduous day and Minerva McGonagall was tired. No, she was beyond tired – she was positively exhausted. The class of second year Hufflepuffs were unlike to ever Transfigure anything at the rate they were going. There were some amongst their number who would be lucky if they could ever Transfigure a blue teatowel into a green teatowel. Upstairs in her office she spent a pleasurable few minutes unlacing her boots. On removal, she wiggled her toes with relief, the digits resplendent in their red and yellow striped Gryffindor stockings. She noted, with some irritation, that there was a hole where the left big toe was poking out.
"Darn," she said and smiled at the double implications of the word. Really, sometimes she was too clever for words.
She had been teaching here at Hogwarts now for more years than she cared to remember and in that time had seen many students come and go – and in the case of some of the newer teachers who passed through, come again.
Minerva closed her eyes and put her be-stockinged feet up on the table, a scene of repose that would have had her students gasping in surprise. She was renowned for her strict nature, for the way that she would be on your back like a tonne of bricks if you so much as forgot to say 'thank you' at the dinner table. If her students could see her now, leaning back on the chair, her feet on the table, a bottle of butterbeer in one hand and a box of Honeydukes Special Selection waiting for her attention, what would they say?
She neither knew, nor cared. This was Minerva time, and nothing, not even her students, would be stealing it from her.