The Snakes aren’t above standing on ceremony, but they’re also pragmatic first and foremost. If someone comes along with a better idea, they’ll give it a shot. They’d rather profit from it than simply keep the status quo for appearances sake and get stuck with a worse solution.
Draco isn’t stupid, and he’s been fairly well trained. As long as Bellatrix and You-Know-Who don’t run him into the ground, he’s capable of a lot. And after seeing what happened to Vince, he definitely won’t be sleeping all exposed in the common room. (Which naturally isn’t to say he couldn’t end up glued to his own bed with the fairy wings... 😉) (the winged Daphne pic has now been added to chapter 100, btw 😘)
In RL I like a silly game in which you try to see how many different meanings of the same word you can use in a certain space of time. (When the dog barked, she startled, barking her shin on the bark of the tree as she stumbled.) Macassar (also Makassar) is an absolutely gorgeous ebony, and also the name of a hair product (oil) that’s basically like brylcreem. They’re related by geography, at least theoretically, but otherwise not. (And the antimacassar is the doily that people used to drape over the backs of chairs to protect the upholstery from the hair oil. In this story, that’s the kind of thing that Poppy turns into blouses for Hermione. 😉)
If they ever come clean about all their little secrets, they can laugh forever.
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Draco isn’t stupid, and he’s been fairly well trained. As long as Bellatrix and You-Know-Who don’t run him into the ground, he’s capable of a lot. And after seeing what happened to Vince, he definitely won’t be sleeping all exposed in the common room. (Which naturally isn’t to say he couldn’t end up glued to his own bed with the fairy wings... 😉) (the winged Daphne pic has now been added to chapter 100, btw 😘)
In RL I like a silly game in which you try to see how many different meanings of the same word you can use in a certain space of time. (When the dog barked, she startled, barking her shin on the bark of the tree as she stumbled.) Macassar (also Makassar) is an absolutely gorgeous ebony, and also the name of a hair product (oil) that’s basically like brylcreem. They’re related by geography, at least theoretically, but otherwise not. (And the antimacassar is the doily that people used to drape over the backs of chairs to protect the upholstery from the hair oil. In this story, that’s the kind of thing that Poppy turns into blouses for Hermione. 😉)
If they ever come clean about all their little secrets, they can laugh forever.