Competition/Challenge: The House Competition
House: Hufflepuff
Type of Prompt: Drabble
Prompt Chosen: [Color]Green
Title: Green Through The Years
Words: 428
Emerald green eyes flashed open in the dark. The more Harry thought about it, the more he realized something. Just about everything in his life revolved around one thing. Green. Everyone told him he had his mother's eyes, his second most definable trait after his damned scar. Emerald was a shade of green, was it not?
Then there was the curse that had changed his life when he was merely a year old. Avada Kedavra. The killing curse. Most notable for snuffing the life out of anyone and everyone it touched, except him. The easiest way to avoid dying by it? To avoid it, when you see its sickly green light, jump, duck, or dive.
After his parents had died he had been sent to his damn relatives house at 4 Privet Drive. There, he would be beaten until all he could do was drag himself to his cupboard. School was no better as Dudley and his friends would constantly punch, kick, and throw him around. It was rare, but some days they would leave him alone to lounge in the lush, green grass.
In his second year, there he was, fighting a 60 foot basilisk! Yet, for a split second, the only thing he noticed were its beautiful, dark green scales. He would later realize that those beautiful scales could create great armor, something that protected him from stray curses to this day.
Queue third year, he finally saw the Avada Kedavra and remembered it. He remembered seeing Voldemort strike down his mother with that sickly green curse before advancing onto him.
Fourth year, he swam through the lake with its water tinted green and the dark green seaweed he had navigated through. He tried to rescue both his friends, but the merpeople stopped him. However, he ended up rescuing both Ron and Gabi, something which earned him a kiss on the cheek from a certain French Champion.
Skip 5th year and enter 6th, Harry and Dumbledore were in the cave, pulling out a Slytherin green locket with a large "S" on it. However, it ended up being a fake, and they had to battle an army of inferi to escape. Of course, it would all be for naught because when Dumbledore finally arrived back at school, Snape struck him down with that sickly green killing curse.
So here Harry was, on a horcrux hunt. Ron had just abandoned both him and Hermione all because of that cursed locket giving him a green attitude. Harry laughed bitterly. There was way too much green. Wasn't Fate a bitch.