Sand / Wind / Candlelight / Ghosts

Title: Sand
House: Ravenclaw
Word Count: 100
Characters: Sirius
Challenge: Elements - Earth


Sirius buries his toes on the sand and sighs. The weather is beautiful, the ocean calm and the beach empty. The only sounds he can hear come from the singing birds. He needs the peace after all the years in Azkaban.

Sirius plays with the parchment and the quill he holds. He really should write to Harry. The boy needs all the reassurance he can get after everything he had been through.

But the sun is warming the sand around him and finally Sirius gives up. He leans back, closes his eyes and enjoys of his chance to just be.


Title: Wind
House: Ravenclaw
Word Count: 100
Characters: Hermione
Challenge: Elements - Air


Hermione has stared the same page for the past half an hour, not that she’d ever admit it if anyone would point it out. She has been strangely restless and moody lately, and that’s why she prefers to sit under a tree and read there.

It has nothing to do with Ron and Lavender, Hermione assures herself. Or Lav-Lav, she sneers and then regrets it immediately. Lavender is a nice girl, after all, if a little air-headed.

Hermione doesn’t notice how the wind turns the pages. And if it dries the bitter tears on her cheeks, well, that’s nice, too.


Title: Candlelight
House: Ravenclaw
Word Count: 100
Characters: Remus
Challenge: Elements - Fire


The wine looks like blood, Remus muses and makes the liquid swirl. No fine wine-glasses for him because they are too expensive. Besides, Remus rather likes ordinary things. They hold no secrets and are easy to understand.

Like the armchair he’s sitting on. It’s old and looks like it, made in the fifties. But it’s also comfortable, not hiding poking springs or sharp slivers. It’s no wonder that after moving in Remus has taken a habit to spend his evenings on it, reading in a candle-light and not thinking anything particular.

He never notices how the shadows behind him dance.


Title: Ghosts
House: Ravenclaw
Word Count: 100
Characters: Luna
Challenge: Elements - Ether


The first ghost Luna saw was the Grey Lady of Ravenclaw. Of course Luna had heard of ghosts before but she’d never been particularly interested in them. They were so ordinary it didn’t even require faith to see them. Boring, she had thought and poked her fork through the Lady to see if she’d notice. She hadn’t.

But sometimes Luna rather hopes that her mother would have become a ghost, however boring that’d be. There were certain things mothers were supposed to explain to their daughters. Like, for example, why forks weren’t made in all the colours of a rainbow.