A drabble whenever you want is really helpful for plot bunnies.
(Used to be 'a drabble a day keeps the plot bunnies away')
Chapter 7! Greaat!
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7. Lust – Harry/Astoria Malfoy (née Greengrass)
This was totally wrong. They shouldn't be together like this, but it wasn't as if there was any love in what they were doing. It was just for the sex.
They didn't love each other, but they enjoyed the time they spent together, as most of it was spent shagging each other instead of actually talking to each other. They were both happily married, even if both parties didn't love their partners like they were supposed to.
Harry didn't love Ginny, but had married her like people expected him to. He was, after all, the Boy-Who-Lived-To-Defeat. He couldn't ruin his image by not marrying a girl he had gone out with to get Mrs. Weasley off his back.
Astoria, on the other hand, only married Draco because they had a contract after the one Draco had with Pansy Parkinson had been cancelled and nullified. She did it to get her parents off her back about fulfilling the contract they had with the Malfoy family, even if she didn't want to.
Their respective partners weren't fulfilling in bed for their sexual desires, so instead they found each other at a Magical pub one night and decided to go to a hotel room together. After that night, they were happy with what happened, so they carried on with it, despite being married. And it would be all over the papers if anyone ever found out about it. It was all hush, hush, and Harry had a reputation to uphold. Astoria had to look like the perfect pureblood wife to the Malfoy family, providing him with an heir – and that was it.
So in the end, it was not love that made them do this, but lust.