A drabble for the Suspicion challenge on xoxLewrahxox's forum.
Suspicion
Write a 100 or 500 word drabble to do with the theme suspicion. Now, this could be anything from: Something really serious, or something not so serious such as: Which DA member stole the last chocolate frog.
The boy does nothing with his life.
He's nineteen. He should have a job, a wife... Yet still he delays.
Bartemius doesn't know what is wrong with his son. He brought him up well, though. He abhorrs laziness.
His offspring, he decides, is a waste of space: brilliant under school rules, yet thoroughly unable to mould his fate on his own. It is his mother's fault – she spoiled him.
Only in a trial room does Crouch find out what path exactly Barty Junior chose to take. Truth, the man discovers, tastes a lot more bitter than he could have imagined.