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busaikko ([personal profile] busaikko) wrote in [community profile] snupin1002005-09-30 10:08 am

Jobberknoll

title: Jobberknoll
Words: 100
Author: [livejournal.com profile] busaikko
Rating: G (SS/RL angst; what else do I write but angst?)
Spoilers: Nah. If you've read HBP it works; if you've not, it also works.
Note: For Challenge 21, “Feathers.” (If you don't own a copy of Fantastic Beasts, you can find out more about the Jobberknoll at The HP Lexicon.)


Hands move independent of the soul; cutting, shredding, grinding, mixing, and he but an observer, remote.

It is only when he takes up a handful of blue feathers that something cracks. He rips the barbs from the shaft, and the barbules catch in the rough whorls of his fingerprints like silk, like fine brown hair, and he bows his head.

He wonders when he dies will every secret of his blackest heart come tearing from his throat, every dream he's never dared. His fingers clench, just the once, and then he sifts the blue into the cauldron, where memory melts.
aunty_marion: There's no need to call me Sir, Professor (Call me Sir)

Japanese translations...

[personal profile] aunty_marion 2005-10-04 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
The only Japanese pun/joke I remember learning when I was studing Japanese (30 years ago...) was something to do with hashi (chopsticks) and hashi (bridge). Or was it the poetic one with hana (nose) and hana (flower)? Or tyoo-tyoo (chō-chō) (town mayor) and tyoo-tyoo (butterfly)....

Of course it's nothing like so funny when you see the kanji, because they're different....