A Dream Come True
Challenge #195: King’s Cross Station Title: A Dream Come True Author: bluestocking79 Rating: G Word count: 100 Characters: Severus Snape, Eileen Prince-Snape
No fantasy could compare to the reality of King’s Cross, with its portal to another (better) world. Best of all was the massive scarlet engine, huffing great billows of steam into the air like some exotic beast.
The side read: HOGWARTS EXPRESS.
The day had finally arrived. For one humiliating moment, Severus thought he would cry.
Not from homesickness—his mum looked resentful and uninterested as always—but out of an overwhelming, nameless feeling, rare and bewildering. It rose within him until he thought he might glow, something radiant tugging his face into an unfamiliar expression.