Ficlet
I have joined 15_minute_fic, since I can never seem to finish anything, and can definitely use the writing practice. Heh, I write very slowly; I went slightly over the time limit and still only managed 280 words. I wrote this with a particular last line in mind, and inevitably ran out of time and had to cut it off at a different place, before the point wherein the line would have been applicable. *sigh*
Title: Accident
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Olive Hornby
Rating: G
Word count: 280
Notes: Written for 15_minute_fic, word #8- breakfast. Any feedback is loved, con crit doubly so. And anything written in 15 minutes is bound to be in desperate need of con crit. *g*
The morning sky was a perfect, glorious blue. Fluffy white clouds ambled aimlessly across it in a remarkable imitation of a herd of blissful sheep, grazing their way across the horizon. The world was insisting, despite all evidence to the contrary, that it was going to be a beautiful day, brimming with happiness and light.
In a thousand years of operation, it was perhaps the most inappropriate sky that had ever graced the magnificent ceiling in the Great Hall of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Olive Hornby had never attended a more morose meal. A gloomy chill had descended on the inhabitants of the castle. The usual loud chatter, an inevitable part of any large gathering of children, was replaced with the soft, somber buzzing of conversations too frightening to warrant more than a whisper.
Around her, there was an unmistakable bubble of silence. Olive shifted uncomfortably in her seat, and tried in vain to catch the eye of her friend Claudia, who was gazing steadily into her toast. She'd refused to meet Olive's eye all morning, which Olive thought was horribly unfair; it wasn't as if Claudia had never said anything nasty about Myrtle's glasses.
It wasn't as though she was the only one in Ravenclaw to ever make Myrtle run off to the toilet to mope. It wasn't as if it took a lot of skill to do that. The merest lack of tact would do it. Why should she be penalized, just because it happened to be her yesterday, who said- who caused- who-
It wasn't her fault. No one could deny that. It was, as Professor Dippet had said, just a freak accident.
Title: Accident
Fandom: Harry Potter
Characters: Olive Hornby
Rating: G
Word count: 280
Notes: Written for 15_minute_fic, word #8- breakfast. Any feedback is loved, con crit doubly so. And anything written in 15 minutes is bound to be in desperate need of con crit. *g*
The morning sky was a perfect, glorious blue. Fluffy white clouds ambled aimlessly across it in a remarkable imitation of a herd of blissful sheep, grazing their way across the horizon. The world was insisting, despite all evidence to the contrary, that it was going to be a beautiful day, brimming with happiness and light.
In a thousand years of operation, it was perhaps the most inappropriate sky that had ever graced the magnificent ceiling in the Great Hall of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Olive Hornby had never attended a more morose meal. A gloomy chill had descended on the inhabitants of the castle. The usual loud chatter, an inevitable part of any large gathering of children, was replaced with the soft, somber buzzing of conversations too frightening to warrant more than a whisper.
Around her, there was an unmistakable bubble of silence. Olive shifted uncomfortably in her seat, and tried in vain to catch the eye of her friend Claudia, who was gazing steadily into her toast. She'd refused to meet Olive's eye all morning, which Olive thought was horribly unfair; it wasn't as if Claudia had never said anything nasty about Myrtle's glasses.
It wasn't as though she was the only one in Ravenclaw to ever make Myrtle run off to the toilet to mope. It wasn't as if it took a lot of skill to do that. The merest lack of tact would do it. Why should she be penalized, just because it happened to be her yesterday, who said- who caused- who-
It wasn't her fault. No one could deny that. It was, as Professor Dippet had said, just a freak accident.