Slithering, a sequel. Part 50

[twisted_miracle]

Title: Slithering, a sequel - 50
Author: twisted_miracle
Team: death eaters
Word count: 100x2
Characters/pairings: Harry/Draco
Rating: Rated PG today, NC-17 overall
Challenge: Challenge: royal
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 talks to his Aunt Andromeda.

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 49: https://dracoharry100.dreamwidth.org/233902.html#cutid1



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Draco’s Aunt answered the door layered in defensive magic, and with one eyebrow rising as high as Draco had ever seen.

“Nephew?” She said, in the cut-glass tones of a royal. Or a Black.

“Aunt Andromeda,” he said, aiming for a tone equally formal and arch. “May I please come in?”

“Yes,” she said after hesitating briefly. Her voice sounded firm and clear, yet somehow nonetheless radiated distrust. “But you will be quiet, as baby Teddy is napping.”

“Of course, ma’am,” Draco agreed.

Soon he was at her kitchen table, drinking Oolong and repeating calculated phrases Grandfather had fed him.

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“So I feel certain you already see how it would be advantageous for all four of us,” Draco was saying, when his aunt frowned.

“Enough,” she said. How was she simultaneously annoyed and forgiving? “You want my help? My sympathy? Then I need honesty. Someone has filled you with Slytherin nonsense. Who thought they could manipulate me through you? Narcissa?”

“No, ma’am,” Draco said, heart sinking deep into his belly. No advantageous lie came to mind. “Grandfather Abraxas,” he admitted.

His Aunt laughed out loud. “Child,” she said, as Draco watched her shoulders loosen. “You’ve been royally set up.”

“Ma’am?!”

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Continued: https://dracoharry100.dreamwidth.org/235954.html#cutid1

Comments

[lyonessheart]

How interesting that she speaks of Slytherin nonsense, seeing as she was a Slytherin herself.

But the phrasing is interesting, has Draco really not come up with anything of his own? Do you feel that he is so brainless that he needs to be filled with new words now from his Grandfather? I would think that he at least thought about the things that Abraxas said and put it into his own words. but you make it sound as if he has learned absolutly nothing from the last two years in his life and I refuse to look at him this way.

Andromed says that he has been set up, what will that accomplish apart from Draco trusting even less, when he is being made fun of by the adults around him? In his place I would just up and leave and tell those around me to stuff it. If he is to be their plaything again, screw them.

[twisted_miracle]

She was a Slytherin a long time ago. She was sorted at 11. She's been through 2 wars and buried a husband and daughter since then. People learn things. Something Andromeda has learned is that ambition can be defined very narrowly, or very broadly.

As for your insult about Draco's brainlessness, those are your words, and most certainly not mine. Draco was terrified of this meeting, but he bravely stepped forward and sought it anyway. He did so at the advice of one of the only beings whose wisdom he's felt able to trust for quite a long time. Months, maybe years. He followed that portrait's advice because he knew he wasn't able to solve his own — enormous — problems alone.

As for Andromeda's comment, she's in the middle of a freaking paragraph. Give her a chance.

[lyonessheart]

So it is an insult when I say how I perceive this to be written? I said I refuse to believe that he is so brainless to simply parrot what Abraxas has told him to, but you just focus on that one word. Thanks a lot.

[twisted_miracle]

Yes, I think you insulted him. And me, honestly.

[lyonessheart]

Whow, so when a reader tells you what he takes from your writing and it doesn't fit with what you meant to write it is insulting? I am sorry if I offended you, but that is taking it too far. I have always been honest in my responses on so many of your works that it really makes me sad that you say I insult you personally by saying what I take from your writing.

Are we at the point where you prefer as simple "how lovely?" then I will refrain from letting you know how these installments affect me.

[enchanted_jae]

Uh oh!

[twisted_miracle]

Andromeda isn't interested in dancing around any issues, no matter what they might be. :)