Blurry Lines

by The Slice

Blurry Lines: A Collection of Drabbles - Attention children, this may contain any manner of things that pops into my twisted, twisted head. That means anything from war, incest, musings and fluffy bunnies. Ok. Not the bunnies, but you get the gist.

7. Knock

Blurry Lines: A Collection of Drabbles

Written By: Slice

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

- Edmund Burke

Knock

The door is locked. She has checked and rechecked and then checked once again because maybe three times isn't really a charm, but it's the closest magic she, a squib, can do, and she is just terrified enough to try it.

The windows are locked, the blinds closed; she takes sleeping pills at night in order to sleep, because otherwise she would wake up screaming, hearing a rasping growl at her door: "Alohomora!"

Or perhaps, perhaps, Sirius Black will just come through her fireplace, like the big bad wolf, only instead of a shimmy and wriggle down the chimney, appear in a burst of green flames that smoothes its way into a single strand of green, reaching out to her in a single minded malice until she can taste the terror of her death in the load of shit a sudden sound has caused her to dump.

Arabella has never hated anyone quite the way she hates little Harry Potter, just a street or two over, as she does now. They will all be blown away, she thinks, brittle sticks and wisps of straw as the monster tries to get at its prize.

Vulnerable

1 capable of being physically wounded
2 open to attack or damage
3 liable to increased penalties but entitled to increased bonuses after winning a game in contract bridge

(Inspired by the Random HP Plot Generator: Arabella Figg and Sirius Black : Alohomora! : "Little pig, little pig, let me come in.")