Blurry Lines: A Collection of Drabbles
Written By: Slice
I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore, I must stop what I've been doing.
- Alice Koller
Lessons
Professor Karkaroff has always wanted his students to do well. He is determined that Durmstrang alumni will outshine everyone else.
Sweat pours down Poppy's face and the muggle bound to the chair before her whimpers nonsensically. "Are you a witch, or aren't you, Miss Pomfrey?" he lectures, crisp and professional, just slightly stern. "Spell craft requires effort from the caster. You can't just say it; you have to mean it. Again."
Poppy raises her wand, the muggle flinches, and Poppy's soul breaks a little bit more. She dreams, desperately, deliriously, of a place where she no longer causes pain.
"Crucio."
Tutor
a person charged with the instruction and guidance of another: as a a private teacher b a teacher in a British university who gives individual instruction to undergraduates
(Inspired by the Random HP Plot Generator, which gave me Poppy Pomfrey and Igor Karkaroff : crisp : "You have to mean it.")