Malfoy Manor Revisited

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Title: Malfoy Manor Revisited
Author: Kate Marley
Prompt: Yellow
Characters: Draco Malfoy, Luna Lovegood
Rating: G
Word count: 100
Warnings: none
Also available on AO3.


Draco took the steep flight of stairs down to the cellar. He tapped the heavy door at its end with his wand, opening it to the musty smell of an unaired room. Its clammy atmosphere made him shiver.

“Are you sure you want to come in here?” he whispered. “I think I’d avoid this room if I were you…”

“I am,” said Luna, stepping past him into the darkness. The tip of her wand lit up to a wordless Lumos, giving her long hair a yellow sheen. “I need to see it again. That’s how I get over my fears.”


Luna’s words echo Marie Curie’s famous quote “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” The title is a nod to Brideshead Revisited, of course.