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New Zealand is not that bad, I live there, I love my country. Morag's just a bitch.
I do not intend to write Draco/Morag smut, Hayley, but you've just given me an idea and I have, because of it, changed the entire way I was going to do this chapter.
On A Crooked Path
(Ten galleons to whoever thinks they know why I've used that title)
Chapter Four: Whoops
by Adele Elisabeth
As it turned out, they didn't even make it out of Hogwarts.
Not due to any sort of danger, but because Dumbledore had unearthed something Voldemort wouldn't be able to get around, and was quite confident that they'd be far safer in Hogwarts.
Morganna and Severus were very pleased with this. They decided to let Morag know in the morning.
That morning...
Morganna went to enter the Slytherin girls' dormitory, before remembering that Morag had managed to fenangle a room of her own. She was pretty sure Morag used words like 'safety' (i.e. some of those girls' parents are loyal death eaters), but that what it amounted to was 'I want the hell out of there'.
Not thinking to knock on the door, she walked in.
There was a startled groan as she threw open the curtains around Morag's four-poster, and some movement under the thick blankets. After a few moments, Draco's blonde head emerged. "Er...sorry, Mrs Snape, Morag's still asleep..."
Morag stood by the end of the bed, in her dressing gown, and Draco had a sheet around him rather like a cloak.
Morganna was staring at the two of them. After a moment or two, she began to laugh.
The young couple exchanged a confused look, and waited for Morganna's hilarity to subside.
"All right, I'm not going to tell your father, Morag." She said finally. "I'm not a hypocrite and I'd rather not start acting like one. But I expect the proper precautions to be taken. I don't think Severus will be amused if his daughter falls pregnant."
Morag and Draco nodded wordlessly, too stunned by their good fortune (Draco had figured Professor Snape would be indulging in some amateur castration at the very least, and Morag had feared grounding until she was 30).
With a faint smile and not another word, Morganna left them to it.
"She..."
"Oh my god..."
"Wait a second - hypocrite?"
Morganna recalled her own dismay at being found in bed with Jonathan O'Connell, by Narcissa de Vries no less. Whoshe had been smugly superior at upon discovering the aforementioned girl with Lucius Malfoy.
Thoughts of Narcissa brought a lump to her throat, but she pushed it away and concentrated on the matter at hand.
Well...it wouldn't have been fair to punish Morag for what she did herself. She should have done something she supposed, but she knew from experience that Morag was more likely to behave because there was something hanging over head than because she'd been punished already.
Thank God Severus had been too tired to come with her...
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Sorry folks, that's all for now. I've been struck by accursed Writer's Block.
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