- Rating:
- PG-13
- House:
- Astronomy Tower
- Characters:
- Lord Voldemort
- Genres:
- Slash Romance
- Era:
- Multiple Eras
- Spoilers:
- Philosopher's Stone Chamber of Secrets Prizoner of Azkaban Goblet of Fire
- Stats:
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Published: 12/12/2001Updated: 12/21/2001Words: 2,149Chapters: 2Hits: 6,587
A Clockwork Romance
Apocalypse
- Story Summary:
- A Spilled Potion... A Weeping Willow... A Mysterious Clock... A Revived Diary... The strangest Hogwarts year anyone has ever experienced. Unlikely Romances abound.
Chapter 01
- Posted:
- 12/12/2001
- Hits:
- 5,565
- Author's Note:
- Right… My ICQ is 109877044, my YM is Death_by_Apocalypse, and my alternate e-mail is [email protected]. Have fun reading the story, and review. Thanks!
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The clock on the wall must have been made by someone insane. If the clockmaker had, in fact, been sane at the time, they went insane shortly after its construction. You could not remain in the presence of such a mechanism for more than ten minutes before drifting into the cushioned realms of insanity.
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And so it was fitting that the aforementioned clock hung in the Slytherin Common Room. That was part of the reason why no Slytherin spent much time in the room. The other reason being that most of the Dungeon inhabitants were already insane.
It was said that the clock had been constructed by Salazar Slytherin himself. He apparently constructed it to drive his opponents mad. You see, the clock simply would not keep a beat. The rhythm was never the same twice-it followed crazy, unpredictable patterns. It was worse than 3.14.
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When Draco Malfoy had expressed these thoughts to his friends, Vincent Crabbe and Gregory Goyle, they had missed the point completely. "Pie?" they asked, "What pie? Where? Is it cherry or apple?" Stupid fools. Neither of them ever bothered to take Arithmancy. Their loss.
Draco loved mathematics. It fascinated him. Two plus two equals four-every fool knows that-but what if it didn't? And why wouldn't it? What would happen if it equaled five? Two times two wouldn't equal four anymore, but neither would it equal five. What would the square root of seventy-two be if one and one was nineteen?
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Later on, the other Slytherins who shared his dorm agreed that it must have been the clock that made Draco act the way he did. No self-respecting Slytherin would do the things Draco had done, or say the things Draco had said, without being completely off their rocker. Pansy Parkinson later described Draco as being 'Barmy. Completely mad!'
Then again, Blaise Zabini swore that Parkinson herself failed to win her certificate of sanity that year.
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