School of Fine Arts

[sab]

x-posted to hp100, for this challenge something something about the fact that there must be fine art in the wizarding world beyond the Hogwarts portraits and whatnot. Which is pretty cool. Anyhow.

Title: Still Life
Author: Sabine
House: Gryffindor
Words: 100
Characters: Narcissa Black Malfoy
Author’s Notes: For the SOFA challenge. Also, this is my first HP 100 post, so, hello!



It was the only thing she spent time with now, a squarish device, blackish-silver with a snouty front bit; Muggles’ morbid idea of a camera.

She loved the smell of the brine, here in her rented darkroom in London’s South End. Loved the horrified looks on the Muggles’ faces when she popped out of alleys and seized her targets with that satisfying click. She savored those twisted expressions and those pupils glowing red, the souls of hundreds of Muggles frozen stiff in grainy light and shadow for eternity.

Lucius would love the prints. Something to brighten his cell at Azkaban.

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Comments

[runpunkrun]

Snouty!

[pauraque]

Hm, perhaps you've filtered it now, but last night I saw a post you did that talked about the different areas of fandom. (That *was* you, right?) Anyway, it reminded me of this.

Also, the way you talk about people being different colors and textures and things... I think we have the same brain. I sometimes can't manage to feedback a story because all I can think to say is "it's dry yellow!" or somesuch.

At any rate, I friended you because I'm a longtime fan of your writing, and just found your LJ. I should send you some proper feedback, but I have to say -- your West Wing stuff is so dead-on it's scary.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Try now; it was friends-grouped before I friended you, is what. I was trawling your journal and came across your great color-coded map of XF and Harry Potter pairings. Brill.