Drabble

[charliesmum]

I did a Drabble for Harry Potter:

There was a shop in Muggle London Molly sometimes liked to look at that sold things for the home; paintings, decorator plates and so forth. Once she noticed a plaque in the window that read ‘Being a mother is like wearing your heart on the outside’. Seemed a bit grim to her, but there was no accounting for taste, especially with Muggles.

Now she thought she knew what that meant. She was a mother with a heart in eight separate pieces, each one in mortal danger every day.

Carrying the clock was the only way she could keep from crying.

What do you think?

Comments

[deviantauthor.livejournal.com]

Very nice!

[wolfma.livejournal.com]

Very good.

[meadowrue.livejournal.com]

I like it!!!

[nam-jai.livejournal.com]

I must admit I have a hard time imagining Molly frequenting a Muggle shop given her attitude toward Arthur dabbling in such things. But I can overlook that quibble because I loved the last three sentences. So sad, and beautifully expressed.

[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

I actually had Arthur in there at first - she went to the shop with him, since he's so Muggle mad, but it made it go over 100 words, and I was really trying to do the 100 word thing.

If I ever expand it, I'd have Molly only going because of Arthur. And they just look in the window.

[nam-jai.livejournal.com]

With Arthur there, I definitely would have bought it. Darn that word count!

[zambonigirl.livejournal.com]

GREAT! Love it times infimity. Really good.

[carlanime.livejournal.com]

I like it--and I loved Molly's original distaste for the plaque, and its Muggle-ness.