Another drabble for KH

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So you want to go to Hogwarts? It’s a lonely old place, you know. Since they drove the dragon out, nobody much has anything to do with it. Yes, yes, I know I’m a chattering woman. Give me one second, would you? It ain’t the dragon. Even the other dragons disliked her, and helped the monks destroy her. You won’t find no dragons there, no, sirs and madam.
No, it’s just that nobody likes the place. Since the dragon died, good plants just don’t grow there. Good fat kale and barley like you get in Hogsmeade down the valley just won’t rise, and the cattle won’t eat the grass. Some people say it’s cursed, anyway, it’s empty.
I’m getting there, I’m getting there! Don’t push me. Well, see that hollow between the mountains? Yes, that one over there? That is the pass you want. Walk through that and you will in the Strath Hog, the Valley of Hog. And what would you want there, anyway?
Already gone! I knew it, I just knew it. No time to talk, no time to do anything, always rushing somewhere or other. Wizards, if I ever saw them. Two wizards and two witches. Going to the empty lands of Hogwarts? I wonder what two wizards and two witches want there.

Comments

[kennahijja.livejournal.com]

Oh, brilliant. Thank you! I loved the narrator's voice, slightly exasperated and given to rambling, and had all kinds of weird theories until you put everything in place in the last line :). Such a wonderful twist. Again, thanks so much!

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(*blushes*)