Originally Posted: Feb. 1st, 2006
Length/Rating: 100 words, PG, Gen
Pairing/Warnings: none
Summary: Snape’s lucky charm. (Prequel to In Dreams of Wings)

HARRY POTTER is trademark and copyright JK Rowling, her publisher Bloomsbury, and, to some extent, Warner Bros. All rights reserved. No copyright infringement is intended nor implied.

He had found it as a child, discarded by a roadside by some passing muggle. A tiny plastic toy, no bigger than his thumb, with wings outspread and mouth opened in a soundless roar. He’d kept it, though he wasn’t sure why. Through the years it had followed him, like an angry good-luck token, a ward against the jeers and torments from his peers. He even took it to Hogwarts, a quiet friend among a sea of ruthless children. And then… he learned that he could make it live.

It didn’t take him long to warp the magic for himself.