dracoharry100 | Slithering, a sequel. Part 27

Title: Slithering, a sequel (27)
Author:

twisted_miracle
Team: death eaters
Word count: 100x4
Characters/pairings: Harry/Draco
Rating: PG-13 for this installment, NC-17 overall
Challenge: Challenge: high
Disclaimer: They aren't mine, they belong to the clever Scottish lady. I just bend them and love them. Please don't smack me for playing. It isn't like I am going to earn any money from this!

Author's note: Comments are love!

Summary: Draco's mother responds.

Author's second Note: This is a sequel to "Slither In," which starts here: http://dracoharry100.livejournal.com/286839.html
and ends here: http://dracoharry100.livejournal.com/460335.html

Sequel "Slithering"
part 1: http://dracoharry100.livejournal.com/1207586.html
part 26: https://dracoharry100.dreamwidth.org/151717.html#cutid1

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November 30, 1998
Dear Harry Potter,

I wish to thank you for writing. I am always glad to hear news of my Draco. Please also be reassured I hold a most high opinion of you. You are a fine young man. Any mother would be pleased to hear you had developed a friendship with her child.

I will admit some surprise that your friendship with Draco has taken a turn for the romantic, but not because I thought him heterosexual. Draco’s father refused to see reality on this detail, but I have always looked at my son with open eyes.

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I do find it curious no one in the Slytherin dormitories has heard Draco talk in his sleep. I myself have heard him more than once. He did this more often as a boy, but I have even heard him speak this way more than once about you, though you should be warned it was never in complimentary tones.

But of course, you know better than I how thoroughly your faces have turned toward one another. I am not even slightly sad to learn of your heightened regard for him, and his for you. On the contrary, I welcome it.

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Likewise, I am dismayed to hear Draco has been speaking cruelly to you, and of the pure blooded young ladies his father would have me parade before him. When he comes home for Christmas he and I shall have much to discuss. Draco has apparently not become aware of all the many changes his father’s new status brings.

First and foremost, there shall be no “little blonde high born twits being snookered into taking the Malfoy name.” If Draco was somehow not aware of this important new expectation for his future, I worry about what else he has not realized.

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I do thank you for bringing all this to my attention, dear Harry. And I hope you will join Draco and me for a relaxed high tea on Boxing Day. Since the two of you have grown close, it would be my great pleasure to host you in our London home, where Draco and I will take the holiday this year.

I would also invite you to spend Christmas with us, but we will unfortunately be spending the 25th visiting Draco’s father, who is, as I am sure you are aware, permanently sequestered in the north.

Sincerely,
Narcissa Black Malfoy

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Part 28: https://dracoharry100.dreamwidth.org/157807.html#cutid1