Title: Power
Author: Ligeia
Characters: HP, SS
Rating: G
Category: general, drabble/ficlet
Word Count: 100
Summary: Snape muses over teaching
All characters in the Harry Potter universe belong to JK Rowling. I'm just a devoted fan with an overactive imagination.
Power.
Wonderful. Addictive. Intoxicating.
Teaching is a dreadful job. Repetitive, pointless, frustrating. But it gives you power. Fragile, tiny little lives laid on the palm of your hand, just waiting to be crumbled.
But he wouldn't crumble. Since the very first day of class he had refused to bow his head. He looks at me defiantly when all the others cower in fear. He talks back when no one dares to take a breath. He shrugs when I subtract points and add detentions. His smile screams at me that I've got no power over him.
I will crush the boy.