red_day_dawning (red_day_dawning) wrote in slytherin_100, @ 2008-02-24 22:00:00 |
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prompt - corruption - "Unblemished, Unflawed"
Title: Unblemished, Unflawed.
Author: red_day_dawning
Prompt: corruption
Character/s: Draco Malfoy
Word count: 2 X ~110 - drabbles
Rating: G
Disclaimer: JKR owns the HP character and settings.
Draco examined the red, walnut-sized fruit in front of him, chewing his bottom-lip in concentration. Carefully he began to peel away the thick skin. As his blade pierced the outer surface, it plunged in, puncturing the fruit.
A noxious-smelling, brown fluid began to gush over his hands; he flinched and dropped the fruit with a cry of disgust. Drops of the foul liquid squirted into the bubbling cauldron, causing the fluid to boil over in gushes of pungent bubbles.
“It seems Draco is demonstrating the importance of using only the freshest ingredients in this potion,” Slughorn called out to the students recoiling from the stench.
Draco frowned: he had examined the entire surface. How could the unblemished, unflawed surface contain such corruption within?
~*~
Draco observed that madness could take many forms. The very times seemed to demand it.
The obvious lunatic raving of his dear Aunt Bellatrix. The red-eyed gleam of His megalomania. The Carrows, saliva dripping from their mouths, gleeful and hungry as they watched another’s agony.
And there were more subtle variations on madness. His father, combing his hair into strands of silvery-silk, while his world collapsed around him. His Headmaster becoming daily more brittle, as though his strength would never falter or bend, but he himself might snap.
And himself: befouled to the very core, distorted beyond all reprieve or repair. Or so he feared. Hoped.