Morals 2

"But he loves your bed time stories……." whined Narcissa.

"No, he loves the sound of a male voice, he would be disturbed by my bed time stories if he could understand them" said Severus.

He, Narcissa and Lucius were gathered around a cot. The normally peaceful blond Buddha inside was screaming its disproportionately large head off.

"If I pick him up he screams, if I try to feed him he screams, if I talk to him he screams, he doesn't need changing……" said Narcissa hysterically.

"Maybe he just likes screaming" said Lucius.

"FINE, YOU INSENSITIVE BAST…… MAN, YOU TAKE CARE OF HIM" screamed Narcissa, and she swept out of the room. Leaving the two stunned males and the happily screaming baby behind.

"Apparently it runs in the family" said Lucius quietly.

"Well done, Lucius" said Severus.

Lucius bent down and picked up the screaming buddha and started jiggling him. This had no noticeable effect. All though in latter years Lucius would claim that it made him permanently death in one ear.

"Story time little Draco" Lucius cued, looking hopefully up at Severus.

"Your turn" said Severus.

"Ummmmm……. Give me a moral".

"I don't know……… "

"…. Ummm… I Think I have one…. Let me see, would Mr Draco like to hear the story of the Tiny orphan Timmy with the Tin leg and Tuberculosis".

Mr Draco seemed unimpressed. Severus raised one of his eyebrows.

"Timmy was a Tiny orphan with a Tin leg and Tuberculosis who worked at a Tricycle factory. All of the other orphans that worked at the Tricycle factory laughed at Timmy because he was Tiny and had a Tin leg and……"

"he had Tuberculosis?" asked Snape.

"Quite, anyway, Timmy the Tiny orphan with a Tin leg and Tuberculosis decided he would work extra hard at the Tricycle factory so that the other orphans would stop laughing at him. So every morning Timmy would wake up extra early, despite his Terrible Tuberculosis, and would drag his Tiny form over to the Tricycle factory with his Tin leg. And there Timmy the Tenacious yet Tiny orphan would work from morning Till dusk"

"Do you even know what Tuberculosis is?"

"Shut up……..anyway…….. Gradually the other orphans began to respect Tiny Tenacious Timmy with the Tin leg and……"

"…..Tuberculosis"

"Shut up before I shut you up……..where was I?…………. The other orphans decided that for working so hard Tiny Tenacious Timmy deserved a party. So they baked him a Tremendous cake and invited him back to the orphanage for lunch. Unfortunately to get back to the orphanage Tiny Tenacious Timmy with the Tin leg and the Tuberculosis had to cross a Terribly busy road. Because he was so Tiny and only had a Tin leg he couldn't move very fast………"

"I imagine that the Terrible Tuberculosis didn't help either….."

"I'll give you Tuberculosis………anyway, Tiny Timmy couldn't move very fast and was killed by a Terrifyingly fast moving Truck and never got to eat his Tremendous cake. The End"

Draco had fallen silently. But this was mainly because he couldn't scream and suck on his father's hair at the same time.

"I will be truely be amazed", said Severus, "if that child doesn't end up in Azkaban before his 17th birthday. You just told him that hard work and dedication don't pay of".

"That and to Look Twice Before you Cross" said Lucius "and that Life isn't Fair, two very important life lessons".

"Timmy didn't die because he didn't look twice, he died because he was slow".

"Alright than, the moral was; Do Not Cross Muggle Roads Slowly".

"And your son's a wizard Lucius, how many muggle roads do you think he'll be crossing?"

"There was that incident the other week when I………"

"Yes but that was only because you managed to apperaite in the middle of a muggle highway. It's to be hoped your son will not be that stupid…… This on going fascination with muggle trucks, one would think you were traumatised …….".

"You'd be traumatised too if you had had one of those muggle monstrosities heading towards you like an uncontrolled speed demon of doom".

"That's another "T" word you should have added to your story, 'Traumatised Tiny Tenacious Timmy with the Tin leg and Tuberculoses".

"Are you mocking my story".

"Yes".

"Really? Mr 'Alby the Racist Dragon' ".

"My story taught Draco a valuable and……."

"If you insist"

"Don't patronise me, it taught him a very valuable lesson about..."

"Dragons and burnt Albanian Children"

"Shut up"

"Quite"

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Thanks for reviewing. I know this one isn't as funny. I'm of two minds about posting this, kinda takes away from the first.