A/N: This is my set of drabbles for the DMHG Challenge over on LiveJournal. Each month we are given a prompt word, and all submissions must be Dramione-centric and exactly 100 words.
Disclaimer: I do not own the Harry Potter universe or franchise nor do I make any money off of these.
March 2014 Prompt: "royalty"
Title: Muddy Landing and War Sonnet 2
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: none. I tried writing the poem first, but it wouldn't fit the word count, so I rewrote it as a normal drabble.
Title: Muddy Landing
He stood straight and tall before his fellow students, glancing at all their faces, acknowledging some, scorning others, like a king among his subjects, all cool and reserved.
When he caught her eyes, though, passion flared, a challenge was issued, and they sneered at one another. Insults were thrown, then a whole manner of spells were shot about.
Possessed of a natural superiority, he would surely win the bet, but he hadn't counted on her courage and her ingenuity. A spell hit and he went down from the pedestal. The crowd cheered as he landed in the mud - such irony.
Title: War Sonnet 2
Standing straight and tall with cold demeanor set,
He reigned the student body as their royalty
And looked about the faces of an open sea,
Where flash of challenge sparked when two eyes there had met
And words were slung between to make each other's bet.
Then action opened fire with spells and alchemy,
And hatred flared between them with no remedy,
More than any wizard surely could have let.
Though power, money, and prestige had he upon his side,
The greater gifts of courage we now know she had possessed.
With fortitude her stead, and in intelligence was dressed,
She ripped the victory from him and pushed him down the slide
To land below the commoners and look up from that place,
And realise all he'd lost was writ there clear upon her face.
A/N: I like the sonnet format better. :)