gamma_orionis (![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} gamma_orionis) wrote in ![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} adventdrabbles,@ 2011-12-25 21:35:00 |
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Title: A Christmas Miracle
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Merope Gaunt
Author: gamma_orionis
Rating: PG
Word Count: 100
Challenge: adventdrabbles – #25 – Christmas star
Warnings: None
When Merope Gaunt stumbled into an orphanage, just days after Christmas, everyone assumed that she chose/ the place at random.
No one knew that she had been stumbling through the streets for hours. No one knew that, in her starvation and delirium, she was positive – more than positive – that the orphanage had been marked with a Christmas star overhead. She could have sworn that she had seen it glowing, and that it had drawn her to the place where she birthed her baby.
If Merope had lived, she would have called it a Christmas miracle.
But she did not live.