drabble: exhausted - hogwarts

[marginalia]

[exhausted] - hogwarts
part of dorrito's every flavour mood beans. shocking.

For over a thousand years the castle has been everything to everyone, everyone who needed it, everyone whether or not they knew how to ask. Everything to everyone magical, that is.

It is stone and spell, mortar and mystery, prison and palace.

The Founders thought themselves very wise. They taught Hogwarts how to grow and change, how to both settle into the earth and reach for the stars, and, greatest of all, how to draw on power.

A building alone, however, cannot hold all things together. Those inside and out are torn, divided. The foundation cracks, supports unsteady.

Hogwarts trembles.

Comments

[dorrie6.livejournal.com]

I love you for writing this. I feel silly complimenting someone's characterization of a building, but dammit, this is great.

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

thank you so much! i was so excited when i thought of it, but then i was afraid it would only work inside my head :)

[kylegirl.livejournal.com]

Ooh! Love!

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

thank you!

[birds-sing.livejournal.com]

I have such a fondness for stories with non-human subjects. This was a fantastic example of why.

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

i'm trying to think of more possibilities. there are lots of moods yet to go ;) thank you!

[celeloriel.livejournal.com]

Oooh. Well done. I never thought of using the castle as a character. So awesome.

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

thank you!

[jenish.livejournal.com]

::BIG EYES::

Oh, man. An Every Flavour Mood Bean! And one about Hogwarts itself! And it's so good. Atmospheric, and just somehow exactly right for the castle. I love how the stone itself is just exhausted. Wow. The last line's amazing, too. I got shivers.

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

thank you so much! here's hoping i get back in the mood bean groove again :)

[dacro.livejournal.com]

Beautiful.

I've always thought of the castle as a character. I can almost hear that tremble, feel the frustration of only being allowed to watch.

It is stone and spell, mortar and mystery, prison and palace.
Gah. Love that sentence. So much there.

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

thank you, dear!

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

Oh wow. This feels so powerful and true.

[marginalia.livejournal.com]

thank you!