Blurry Lines: A Collection of Drabbles
Written by: Slice
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"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary;
men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."
- Joseph Conrad
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Judas
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School has started again, and with it, war.
The students are children shrouded in a world of desperate make believe. A wide grin - no one can touch us – laughter - we're safe here. Fragile like a dream, just waiting to fragment and shatter under reality.
Harry Potter patiently waits for them to wake up and smell the fear.
One day, Professor Snape does not appear to teach his classes and Harry's scar has been burning with a fierce kind of joy. The students begin to chatter nervously, speculations, rumors arise. One child shouts, I always knew he was a Death Eater! while another wails that he is Dead dead dead and that they will be next.
Through it all Draco Malfoy watches with a satisfied, secret, cruel smile and Harry watches him, meditatively drumming his fingers atop his desk amongst the uproar.
Distantly he recalls that betrayers suffer the worst Hell has to offer. Harry doesn't believe in the kind of Hell Dante did but knows that whatever Voldemort and his followers do to the traitor in their midst will be the closest to Cocytus the mortal world has to offer. Which is pretty damn close he admits cynically.
He's suffered under human hands too often to think them incapable of horrors and evils.
If Harry believed in hope or in a higher being capable of love he might have prayed that Snape would die quickly and as painlessly as possible.
But Harry knows hope is a lie and instead wonders idly if the Professor will have his face chewed off.
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Traitor –
1 one who betrays another's trust or is false to an obligation or duty
2 one who commits treason
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