Drabble #12: Batty

Word count: 780

Warning: uh, Dumbledore sees something he really doesn't want to see. Draco and Harry in a closet, beware.

Note: a sort of continuation from #11. I don't really like this one, actually, and I had a hard time writing Dumbledore, I kept expecting him to turn into a perverted old man. --;


Albus Dumbledore, Order of Merlin, First Class and Grand Sorcerer, has seen many, many things over his long life, both before Hogwarts and after. Seeing students necking in secret in the middle of the night isn't something extremely uncommon. Or rather, he had never really seen anything, because Dumbledore still prefer to not witness such private things, but the living entity that is the Castle of Hogwarts tells him everything without fail. In the few times he did stumble across students, inevitably he would pull the memory out of his head and into his Pensieve to be dispersed, because he really doesn't need memories of his students snogging in the dark to disturb his contemplation of Tom Riddle, and whatever he might be up to.

The one time he forgot to pull the memories out of his head, he had a nightmare involving Tom Riddle in Dark Lord form, Lucius Malfoy, and handcuffs. To say that the Grand Sorcerer was disturbed would've been a complete understatement, and after waking up screaming bloody murder and making Fawkes screech in panic, he had promptly pulled the memory of the dream out of his head, and had a wonderful time scattering the silver mist to four winds.

One day Albus Dumbledore was making his frequent rounds in the castle, he came across a strangely placed closet in the middle of an empty hallway. Dumbledore and the castle are irreversibly linked, so it wasn't hard to realize that said closet doesn't really belong there. A closer scrutiny revealed the silence charm, as well as the tweaked transfiguration charm that changed the door of the closet from opening outward to opening inward.

Albus' eyes twinkled for a second, making a quick list of the students in all of Hogwarts who could've made such a genius change on an existing charm, and came up with only a hand-full.

Curious, Albus waved his wand, lifting the silence charm and abruptly strange noises began to emerge from the closed doors. Alarmed, the Headmaster undid the transfiguration and flung open the doors, and then froze in mid motion.

Against the back wall of the closet were two boys, one blonde with silver gray eyes, and the other dark haired with green eyes and a lightning bolt scar on his forehead. The dark haired one is currently pinning the blonde into the wall, hips grinding forward and thankfully covered by the school robes both boy still wore, and head bent over the blonde's pale shoulder. The blonde's eyes suddenly flung open at the abrupt light in the closet, hands that were previously desperately roaming over the other boy's body froze in shock.

Draco Malfoy stared up at the Headmaster of Hogwarts while Harry Potter continued to suck at his pale exposed collarbone, no doubt leaving a spectacular bruise there for Draco to try to cover up later.

Draco squeaked in panic and kicked out, sending Harry sprawling across the floor of the closet with a grunt. Harry looked up to snarl something, probably wondering why he was thus bodily attacked, and then froze with horror at seeing the old man at the door.

Albus blinked down at the scene for a few more seconds, then firmly fixed a smile over his face. "Well, your efforts at compromising House differences will be duly noted. But I'm afraid you really should take this somewhere more private, so five points from both of your Houses for indecent exposure. Really, you should both be careful that first years wouldn't accidentally stumble here." And with the frozen smile still fixed over his face, Albus Dumbledore calmly closed the doors.

Dumbledore continued down the hall in silence for a few seconds before the door to the closet abruptly banged open with a sound that resembled an explosion. A torrent of curses and vulgarity erupted from both teens as they desperately tried to fix their clothes and at the same time run down the hall far away from the Headmaster.

Albus Dumbledore had seen many, many things over his long life. And many of those things he saw, he took to a habit of pulling the memories out of his head and dispersing them, which resulted in somewhat scattered thoughts when he talk to people. Wanted or not these are still his memories that he's pulling out. Honestly, if he didn't have to see all these unwanted scenes, then maybe he wouldn't have to scatter his own memories. But unfortunately he does stumble across these scenes, and so Dumbledore resolved to immediately destroy the memory of what he just saw once he get back to his office.

Really, and they wonder why the Headmaster is so batty.