Drabble Challenge: Secrets

[Hedwig]

Hey everyone! Sorry this is late!

Announcement: I guess there was never a rule that was set in stone, and I apologize for that. From now on, just to clear things up, I will try to post the contests on Wednesdays, and your entries will be due on the next Wednesday (a week later). Also, I promise to try to post the winner of each week's contest by or on the Friday.

Even though I'm late in posting this this week (apologies again) your entries will still be due on Wednesday for the sake of not messing up this schedule on its very first week (haha).

This week your prompt is: Secrets (thanks to Boss Nio!)

Remember to write exactly 100 words - no more, no less, keep your drabbles PG-13, spell-check before you post, and ensure that your drabbles take place in the HP Universe, though they may be as AU as you want.

Good luck!

[Nio]

Godric relied on the power of greater people or goblin than himself, mostly Rowena so that he could do the opposite, encouraging the Gryffindor courage.

Rowena had already lost two possessions. She had long since lost her daughter and the diadem, her claim to Ravenclaw was now gone.

Salazar had failed. His is the more widely known. The snake of Slytherin not so cunningly kept down low.

Helga was the most successful. None would know what she had planned. Like a true Hufflepuff had worked hard at maintaining the loyalty of her House in keeping it.

Their dirty little secrets.

[The Taco]

Many Death Eaters had secrets. Lucius and Narcissa were two of those Death Eaters. They had a secret not even Draco knew. Only one living person other than themselves knew this secret. They had a daughter. They had given her up when she was a baby, to keep her from becoming a Death Eater. Their daughter looked like them, but she also looked like her adopted family. Gray eyes, platinum blonde hair, and the trademark Malfoy smirk. Yet nobody noticed how much she looked like her older brother. And now, Luna was in their cellar, kidnapped from her adopted father.

[Sadira Black]

Secrets were things that everyone had. Some had more than others. Severus guarded his secrets with his life, because most of them would cause chaos if they ever got out. In many ways, he was a secret keeper. He never told anyone about the affair Lucius Malfoy was having with his housekeeper. He never told anyone about the time he caught Dumbledore and McGonagall shagging like rabbits on the Headmaster’s desk. Most of the time the people they were about didn’t even know he knew. That was what made them secrets, and was why he kept them all to himself.