Grime

[lokifan_import]

Title: Grime
Word count: 100
Characters/pairings: Ron/Draco unrequited
Rating: G
Summary: “Obsession. It had a perverse grandeur.”
Warnings: angst
Disclaimer: The boys and girls belong to JKR, even though I’m often much nicer to them than she is.
Author’s Notes: This was written for the old broken prompt at rondracodrabble.


Obsession.

It had a perverse grandeur. There was glamour inherent in the term, in the idea of that state of bright, raw eyes and a mind twisted and broken round one concept like barbed wire twisted round a fence. Yet obsession was ultimately a tawdry emotion. It was pathetic, to be obsessed with anything, unless it was a person who was obsessed back. And to be obsessed with someone who had no real capacity for obsession, and who bestowed what little he had on another – it was degrading.

Draco felt himself sinking willingly into grime every time he followed him.

Comments

[morettaallstar.livejournal.com]

A very powerful commentary on obsession and what it does to us.
The fact that this is exactly 100 words is something to marvel at. I don't feel it needs any more or any less to make it perfect and it tells us everything we needs to know.
Wow.

[lokifan]

Thank you so much, Moretta! Obsession is so interesting, but I do think it's overly lionised: to quote Aldous Huxley, "Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful."