#flobberworm

Manacled, chapter 14-(ish...) by SenLinYu

“If he asked me to farm flobberworms I would be doing it with equal devotion.” 

All the worms are of course named after the constellations, being Malfoy’s precious little babies now <3

Here’s the letter Lily wrote Scorpius (without interruptions) from my fic Lily Potter and the Villain in the Valley: 

Dear Scorpius,

I cannot bear to be around you lately and it is entirely your fault.

You cannot be so stupid as to be blind to the fact that there are now at least two quidditch teams worth of your admirers at Hogwarts (I do hope your abysmal lack of quidditch knowledge is not so terrible that you do not even know what number that equals!).

And did you realize that most of these witches have never even spoken to you before? And yet they have decided that you are handsome and charming enough when seen from afar to be completely smitten by you regardless.

So how is it, might I ask, that you expect ME, who has spent quite some time speaking with you over the last four years and knows how clever and kind and strong and loyal and just you are, to remain immune to this kind of silliness?

I think that any reasonable person would agree that it would be incredibly hard for me to not have felt, at some point in time at least, a flicker of affection or desire towards you that transcends that of a friend.

And yet I have done my very best not to feel such silly things because I knew that feeling so could be detrimental to our friendship.

I dare say I would have succeeded in this endeavor if it were not for you.

You have destroyed me from the inside out. I can no longer go about my day without longing for you like a nibbler after gold. You have rendered me more useless than a flobberworm.

That day in the snow you ruined everything. You ignited something inside me and now one simple glimpse of you causes me to feel as though I have been stung by a hundred Billywigs.

After doing what you did, how can you possibly expect me not to want you so?

You should be knowledgeable enough about healing by now to know that whilst there are ways to reverse the effects of a love potion, there is no such cure to reverse the effects of true love.

So go ahead, forget about what happened that day. But do not forget that your kiss has trapped me in a prison as inescapable as Azkaban and I am doomed to want nothing but you from now until forever.

Lily

This week’s Beast of the Week is the rather un-exciting Flobberworm!

Bundimun, Flobberworm, & Hungarian Horntail