Celandine's Chronicle (celandineb) wrote in cels_fic_haven, @ 2010-11-19 14:10:00 |
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Entry tags: | hp drabbles severus |
HP drabble: Light, Dark, Twilight [Severus, general]
Title: Light, Dark, Twilight
Author: celandineb
Fandom: HP
Character: Severus Snape
Rating: general
Length: 200 words
Summary: His dungeon rooms always seemed somehow dim, but Severus didn't mind.
Note: For juniperus; she inadvertently gave me two different prompts, and I wrote both, so she gets an extra (early) double-drabble.
His dungeon rooms always seemed somehow dim, no matter how many candles the house-elves had set to blazing in the wall sconces.
Severus didn't mind. He had spent seven years as a student in Slytherin House. While there had been less-than-fortunate moments in those years (he refused to remember the grinning Gryffindors who had brought him the most misery), on the whole they had been good.
It had not been until after he left Hogwarts that he had joined with Lord Voldemort, and that first meeting had been in sunlight. Not what one might have expected, but Severus clearly recalled the brightness of Lucius Malfoy's hair and the glint of Voldemort's rings as they spoke with him. Strange.
When, later, he had realised the error of his choice and sought out Albus Dumbledore to make amends, he had met the Headmaster in the dim smoky environs of the Hog's Head pub. Further contacts with Dumbledore and the Order had been in equally dismal surroundings.
Dark and light, evil and good—nothing was ever as it seemed. Severus would remain in this twilight, his dungeon room, trapped for his own protection until freed by changes he could neither predict nor control.