Chain of Drabbles
Butterfly
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter.
Title: Chain of memories? No! Chain of Drabbles!
Pairing for the chapter: Lockhart/Harry
Warnings: none
Prompt: Butterfly
When Gilderoy Lockhart saw the boy for the first time, he thought of a an scrawny caterpillar, he thought the boy was ugly, with hair all over the place and those awful glasses which just made his eyes seem shaded and bigger than was probably normal. And those clothes! Dear Merlin, if said boy wasn't the boy-who-lived Gilderoy would surely try to put the boy out of his misery. Instead he decided to turn the ugly caterpillar into a butterfly.
Too bad he went about it the wrong way.
The trapped caterpillar tried to put even more distance between them, closing himself off in a cocoon of his own making losing everyone in the process.
Years later, while Gilderoy matched his colours in the Janus Thickney Ward, he saw the man walk in and couldn't help but clap in delight. The man was a mix of greens and blacks and blues and he couldn't help but cry "Butterfly!" when he saw him.
The man just raised an eyebrow at him.
"Funny, you used to call me caterpillar."