Drabble: Destroy, Eradicate, Obliterate

[dexstarr]

Title: Destroy, Eradicate, Obliterate
Author: dexstarr
Word Count: 100 x 2
Rating: PG-13
Challenge: grangersnape100 Dystopia
Characters: Hermione Granger, Severus Snape
Warnings: Angst, AU, Major Character Death
Author's Note: I'm not entirely pleased with it, but this was the best idea I've had all week. I hope it's angsty enough, benebu!
Disclaimer: HP and all assorted belong to JKR, and are not mine.

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The Squibs had been destroyed.

The Mudbloods had been eradicated.

The blood traitors had been obliterated.

Now the half-bloods are up for extermination.

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The crowd was surprised to see him in the execution line; as a former Death Eater, favorite of Voldemort, his place in society should’ve been secured.

Whispers reached his ears; former students wondering if it was really him, really Severus Snape waiting patiently for the Killing Curse.

Severus didn’t care about the onlookers, or his impending death; he was remembering the day the Mudbloods had been eradicated, the day his Hermione had stood in this very spot.

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In the new wizarding world, where the Dark Lord ruled with an iron wand, the worst crime was love between the blood-castes.

The crowd jeered as the executioner read the charges – relations with a Mudblood, his impure ancestry – but he wasn’t listening. Instead he was replaying Hermione’s last words – I love you, Severus – and recalling her last kiss before their arrest.

I will be with my Hermione soon.

So different, the Gryffindor lioness and the Slytherin snake, yet so perfectly matched. Their love had been a balm, their salvation in the dark and deadly world of pure-blood supremacy.

“Avada Kedavra!”

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Comments

[reg-flint.livejournal.com]

Interesting concept and you pulled it off very well.
Reminds me of "They came for the communists and I didn't speak up because I wan't a communist, then they came for the jews and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a jew, then they cam for me and no one was left to speak up" or along those lines.

Severus...

[dexstarr.livejournal.com]

Thanks Kat! I was pretty uncertain on it, just something about it bothered me, but I'm happy I posted.

And you know, that quote does sum it up quite well. I didn't think of it when writing, but it certainly mirrors the first part.

[opaljade.livejournal.com]

Nicely done, dexstarr! I found the opening quite powerful. (Oh, and this is my usual pairing. :D)

[dexstarr.livejournal.com]

Thanks opaljade! HG/SS is the ship that led me to discovering fanfic, so it does have a special place in my heart.