1 00:00:07,640 --> 00:00:24,840 Proximity by Great 78 Chapter 2. Discovery Still. 2 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:31,720 Thursday, 10 June 2010. Damn that skirt is short and her 3 00:00:31,720 --> 00:00:35,520 tits look great at that blouse. Wonder if her Fanny is as tight 4 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:38,360 as it used to be. Nearly cut off the circulation 5 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:42,680 and my fingers years ago. She was so tight and gods that 6 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:46,840 sweet taste of her. Even though Draco had escaped 7 00:00:47,160 --> 00:00:51,480 the physical presence of Ronald Weasley, the man's intrusive 8 00:00:51,480 --> 00:00:54,800 thoughts continued to echo inside of his brain in the way 9 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:58,200 that was almost physically painful to the former Slytherin. 10 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:03,120 Draco had no idea why this was happening to him of all people, 11 00:01:03,640 --> 00:01:06,400 but he was ready and willing to do anything to make it stop. 12 00:01:07,440 --> 00:01:11,240 The lift reached the Ministry for Magic Atrium and the doors 13 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:14,600 dinged open. Draco rushed to the closest flew 14 00:01:14,960 --> 00:01:17,440 as though being chased by a herd of dementors. 15 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:22,200 Once in his childhood home, he ignored the surprised greetings 16 00:01:22,200 --> 00:01:27,160 of his elves offering brunch and took the stairs 2 at a time up 17 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:30,600 the grand staircase to the Malfoy Manor Library. 18 00:01:31,760 --> 00:01:36,160 Over his lifetime, this vast collection of information found 19 00:01:36,160 --> 00:01:40,560 within these four walls had educated him in all the areas 20 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:46,560 that his Hogwarts professors had not Sex, witches, carnal 21 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:50,040 pleasures, dark arts, arcane magic. 22 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:54,560 And he was counting on the library's omniscience today as 23 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:57,160 well. Standing in the centre of the 24 00:01:57,160 --> 00:01:59,920 room, Draco called to the sentient space. 25 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:02,440 Show me every book with the phrase. 26 00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:07,080 Hearing the thoughts of others, several tones floated down to 27 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:11,160 him from the stacks in the mass of library, and with no small 28 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:15,240 measure of trepidation, Draco collected them and settled upon 29 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:17,960 a nearby green velvet sofa to read. 30 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:21,600 The first two books were generally useless. 31 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:26,880 They were outdated texts about psychotic breaks, lobotomies, 32 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:31,120 melancholia, delirium, and other such afflictions. 33 00:02:31,640 --> 00:02:34,600 Salazar's ass. He hoped it wasn't any of that. 34 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:39,520 The third text was more helpful, mentioning the onset of such an 35 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:43,920 issue at the age of 30. Yes, now he was getting 36 00:02:43,920 --> 00:02:47,440 somewhere. Further on in the chapter, there 37 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:50,720 was mention of pure blood betrothal customs. 38 00:02:51,160 --> 00:02:55,680 Andraco frowned. Show me all books that mention 39 00:02:55,960 --> 00:03:00,160 hearing voices in your head at the age of 30, cross referenced 40 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:02,520 with pure blood betrothal customs. 41 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:07,520 An ancient tome sailed towards him, covered in thick dust. 42 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:11,160 The book settled on the table and flipped to the appropriate 43 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:14,480 passage. Draco checked the cover, quickly 44 00:03:15,160 --> 00:03:17,960 scuppering the skull. Duddery, it said. 45 00:03:18,880 --> 00:03:22,440 Withdrawing his reading glasses from his robe pocket, he began 46 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:27,240 to read, finally discovering an actual answer to the problem 47 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:33,040 plaguing him. It is a tale as old as time 48 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:37,520 itself. For untold centuries, the union 49 00:03:37,560 --> 00:03:42,240 of the purest among us has preserved and protected our 50 00:03:42,240 --> 00:03:46,840 magical existence as we know it. Carrying on our wizarding 51 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:51,720 traditions through the acts of marriage and child bearing has 52 00:03:51,720 --> 00:03:56,560 continued to weave the fabric of our perfect wizarding society. 53 00:03:57,440 --> 00:04:02,200 However, for every 10 perfect unions between cutting young 54 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:07,240 Wizards and unspoilt young witches, there are at least one 55 00:04:07,240 --> 00:04:11,880 or two amongst our ilk who prefer to take the solitary 56 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:16,279 primrose path of folly and self gratification. 57 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:20,880 These most mischievous and carefree members of younger 58 00:04:20,880 --> 00:04:26,120 generations often wish to shuffle off the stifling coil of 59 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:30,120 responsibility that pure blood adulthood heralds. 60 00:04:30,920 --> 00:04:34,480 Often the hedonists do not realise that they are 61 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:38,640 jeopardising their family lineage by these selfish acts. 62 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:43,440 A season of vice before betrothal is perfectly 63 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:46,920 understandable and even encouraged by some. 64 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:52,600 But would a witch or wizard carry on too long in this vein? 65 00:04:53,080 --> 00:04:59,080 They must be reigned in. Thankfully, our ancestors saw to 66 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:03,680 it that even those most resistant to betrothal shall 67 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:09,320 eventually find themselves eager to acquiesce in order to sire a 68 00:05:09,320 --> 00:05:14,640 proper bloodline. Upon reaching the ripe, dare one 69 00:05:14,640 --> 00:05:19,920 say positively elderly age of 30, the unmarried pure blood 70 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:23,920 witch or wizard shall find themselves Privy to the 71 00:05:23,960 --> 00:05:28,160 innermost thoughts of the Pure blood to whom they are closest. 72 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:33,560 It is the hope of many pure blood mothers and fathers that 73 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:38,360 this familiar intimacy will result in a betrothal contract 74 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:44,200 between the two pure blooded folk and eventually a proper 75 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:47,240 heir for their own wizarded lineage. 76 00:05:48,040 --> 00:05:50,920 How is this achieved, one may ask? 77 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:55,560 That is elementary. At the occasion of every pure 78 00:05:55,560 --> 00:06:00,480 blood birth, a proverbial hourglass is upended and the 79 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:05,000 countdown is begun. This clock lies dormant, the 80 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:10,160 sands of time slipping by unnoticed for the 1st 29 years 81 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:16,320 and 360 some odd days. But at the stroke of midnight on 82 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:21,520 the 30th birthday, if the vow of marriage remains unspoken by the 83 00:06:21,520 --> 00:06:27,600 witch or Wizard of the hour, time has, to speak plainly, run 84 00:06:27,720 --> 00:06:32,440 out. At this moment, the magic of the 85 00:06:32,440 --> 00:06:37,280 blood curse is set into motion. The witch or wizard will become 86 00:06:37,280 --> 00:06:42,360 Privy to the innermost thoughts, feelings, and ruminations of the 87 00:06:42,360 --> 00:06:44,520 pure blood with whom they are closest. 88 00:06:45,280 --> 00:06:49,720 Often time. This propinquity or nihilus is 89 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:53,560 defined in terms of both proximity and affinity. 90 00:06:54,200 --> 00:06:58,200 It stands to logic that if the witch or wizard spends the vast 91 00:06:58,200 --> 00:07:02,480 majority of their idle time in the company of this fellow pure 92 00:07:02,480 --> 00:07:06,520 blood, there is a certain tranquillity and shared 93 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:08,680 affection within their relationship. 94 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:14,520 As many wizarding folk know, familiarity begets intimacy, 95 00:07:15,080 --> 00:07:21,240 intimacy begets betrothal, betrothal begets marriage, and 96 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:28,600 marriage begets progeny. Draco read the ungodly passage 97 00:07:28,680 --> 00:07:32,120 three times, his horror and disbelief mounting. 98 00:07:32,720 --> 00:07:36,760 Each time he read, more stomach bile rose in his throat. 99 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:41,680 This entire thing, It wasn't just a figment of his 100 00:07:41,680 --> 00:07:46,120 imagination, and it wasn't some cruel joke or hex cast by 101 00:07:46,120 --> 00:07:49,880 Weasley. It was real, and it was an 102 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:54,560 intentional ploy on the part of his ancestors to guarantee his 103 00:07:54,560 --> 00:07:58,280 betrothal. Once Upon a time, amongst pure 104 00:07:58,280 --> 00:08:01,360 bloods, it was assumed that if you were constantly in the 105 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:05,560 company of a certain other pure blood, it must mean there was an 106 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:07,920 attraction between the pair of you. 107 00:08:08,840 --> 00:08:12,160 The curse was intended to reveal that attraction. 108 00:08:13,040 --> 00:08:16,920 Too bad the curse didn't account for working alongside the 109 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:20,560 Wizarding world's biggest dangling ball sack in the form 110 00:08:20,560 --> 00:08:25,760 of Ronald Bilious Weasley. He thought back to Theo's words 111 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:28,640 about the man's colleague, Ava Bradley. 112 00:08:28,840 --> 00:08:32,880 Nae Cunningham. She turned 30 a few years ago. 113 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:38,240 Nearly drove her mental. If Ava had suddenly become Privy 114 00:08:38,440 --> 00:08:41,960 to the salaciously lewd in her thoughts of her closest pure 115 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:46,000 blood colleague Theodore not, she'd probably wanted to run 116 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:48,120 screaming into the channel to escape him. 117 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:53,320 At times Draco was scandalised by some of the things that came 118 00:08:53,320 --> 00:08:57,160 out of Theo's mouth, and it took a lot to scandalise Draco 119 00:08:57,160 --> 00:09:00,280 Malfoy. He was certain that the wizard's 120 00:09:00,280 --> 00:09:04,600 stream of consciousness was likely 100 times more tawdry. 121 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:10,320 But why, of all the witches and Wizards around him, had the 122 00:09:10,320 --> 00:09:13,000 Fates chosen Weasley? He groused. 123 00:09:13,560 --> 00:09:17,240 The Ministry was full of eligible unmarried witches. 124 00:09:17,680 --> 00:09:20,640 He could think of at least one or two all right. 125 00:09:20,920 --> 00:09:25,160 Mainly just one whose thoughts he would love to have accessed. 126 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:29,840 The more he thought about it, however, the more he supposed it 127 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:34,320 made sense as an aura. He might prefer to partner with 128 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:38,600 Granger or Parter more often, but this sort of ancient blood 129 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:43,280 curse would not recognize either of their blood statuses as pure 130 00:09:43,280 --> 00:09:46,760 enough. He sat near Weasley for hours in 131 00:09:46,760 --> 00:09:49,560 the office. He visited crime scenes and 132 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:53,240 interviewed witnesses with the wizard all over the continent. 133 00:09:53,880 --> 00:09:57,920 They'd even performed a handful of overnight stakeouts together, 134 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:01,920 just the two of them. Weasley was easily the pure 135 00:10:01,920 --> 00:10:04,440 blood with whom he spent the most time. 136 00:10:05,560 --> 00:10:08,960 A new and chilling thought flitted into his mind. 137 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:11,880 Could Weasley hear his thoughts as well? 138 00:10:12,680 --> 00:10:16,800 He hurried back to scan the text in his book, but at least in 139 00:10:16,800 --> 00:10:21,400 this regard it reassured him. The curse only affected the 140 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:24,480 unmarried wizard. A witch and Weasley had been 141 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:29,240 married since the age of 22. This also likely explained why 142 00:10:29,240 --> 00:10:33,120 the curse wasn't well known. The vast majority of pure 143 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:37,160 bloods, tired of being harangued by their parents, were already 144 00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:41,960 married by 25. Few bachelors and spinsters made 145 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:43,720 it to 30. Unwed. 146 00:10:44,560 --> 00:10:47,280 No. This issue with Weasley was 147 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:49,920 entirely Draco's affliction alone. 148 00:10:51,040 --> 00:10:53,960 The knowledge was little comfort to him. 149 00:10:54,560 --> 00:10:57,640 He slumped down further on to the green velvet sofa in the 150 00:10:57,640 --> 00:11:01,960 Malfoy library and decided to take up his elves offer of 151 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:05,360 brunch in the form of a stiff drink. 152 00:11:09,400 --> 00:11:15,720 Tuesday, 29 June 2010. Draco tried his best to avoid 153 00:11:15,720 --> 00:11:18,520 spending much time with the Weasel for the next few weeks. 154 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:22,360 He found that Weasley's thoughts jumbled in his brain like a 155 00:11:22,360 --> 00:11:26,280 horde of shouting Cornish Pixies, and he rather hated it. 156 00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:29,440 Many of the thoughts that slithered through Weasley's 157 00:11:29,440 --> 00:11:33,600 mind, and therefore through Draco's, were harmless enough. 158 00:11:34,240 --> 00:11:37,880 For example, the red headed Gryffindor was positively 159 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:41,680 obsessed with food. There was a continual and 160 00:11:41,680 --> 00:11:45,720 persistent complaint of hunger even when the man had food in 161 00:11:45,720 --> 00:11:49,520 front of him. Internally, he waxed poetic on 162 00:11:49,520 --> 00:11:53,200 Mondays over whatever culinary monstrosity his mother had 163 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:58,400 prepared for Sunday dinner. At idle times in the afternoons, 164 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:01,760 he was preoccupied with wondering what his wife Lavender 165 00:12:01,760 --> 00:12:04,160 might be concocting for their dinner that night. 166 00:12:04,920 --> 00:12:08,280 It was common for Weasley to ruminate upon snacks left in the 167 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:12,560 break room, daily specials in the Ministry cafeteria and what 168 00:12:12,560 --> 00:12:16,200 flavour crisps might be sold out in the Atrium commissary. 169 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:19,760 There were clumsily worded sonnets about sausage 170 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:24,880 sandwiches, haikus about hot cross buns, verses about venison 171 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:28,400 Stew. In addition to Weasley's food 172 00:12:28,400 --> 00:12:31,960 obsessions, there were the occasional worries by the red 173 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:35,640 headed wizard that he wasn't measuring up in some way or 174 00:12:35,640 --> 00:12:39,320 another. Draco got the sense that these 175 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:43,440 sorts of inner concerns had been ongoing since childhood, judging 176 00:12:43,440 --> 00:12:46,360 by how little they seemed to affect the man's outward 177 00:12:46,360 --> 00:12:50,080 behaviour. Weasley worried that Hedora 178 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:53,520 Gawain Robards did not think highly of his work, that 179 00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:57,800 Lavender wasn't satisfied with their sex life, that Potter was 180 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:01,680 outshining him as always, or that Draco was better looking 181 00:13:01,680 --> 00:13:05,040 than he was. Draco did not have much insight 182 00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:09,160 about the first 3, but of the last concerning his own looks 183 00:13:09,280 --> 00:13:13,560 compared with the Gryffindors, he was certain that Weasley was 184 00:13:13,600 --> 00:13:18,000 correct. Lavender Weasley's wife was also 185 00:13:18,000 --> 00:13:21,520 a preoccupation for him. There was a general sense of 186 00:13:21,520 --> 00:13:24,520 unease from the man surrounding thoughts of his wife. 187 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:29,240 Judging from the meanderings broadcast within Draco's brain, 188 00:13:29,640 --> 00:13:33,680 Lavender Weasley was rather naggy and enjoyed riding 189 00:13:33,680 --> 00:13:37,720 roughshod over her husband. Frankly, this should have been a 190 00:13:37,720 --> 00:13:41,880 surprise to no one who'd ever met her or Weasley's mother, 191 00:13:42,200 --> 00:13:45,320 Draco thought snidely. Of all the Wizards in that 192 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:50,360 family to end up with an Oedipal complex, this particular Weasley 193 00:13:50,360 --> 00:13:54,560 seemed the most likely by far. There were frequent stray 194 00:13:54,560 --> 00:13:58,800 thoughts about nearly every woman the ginger wizard met. 195 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:03,120 These were accompanied by exhaustive commentary about 196 00:14:03,120 --> 00:14:07,760 breast size and perkiness, the roundness or lack thereof, of 197 00:14:07,760 --> 00:14:11,640 every ass, and a peculiar focus on shoes. 198 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:15,440 Apparently the Weasel had a bit of a foot fetish. 199 00:14:16,280 --> 00:14:19,960 But worse than Weasley's generalized sexual internal 200 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:23,800 monologue were the thoughts from the deaths of the wizard's mind 201 00:14:24,160 --> 00:14:29,240 when Grainger was around. For a married man, Weasley was 202 00:14:29,240 --> 00:14:34,320 quite keen upon noticing every physical attribute of his former 203 00:14:34,320 --> 00:14:37,800 girlfriend and current Aura team member. 204 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:43,480 Draco knew that Grainger and Weasley dated briefly back after 205 00:14:43,480 --> 00:14:47,960 the unpleasantness of the war over 10 years ago, but from the 206 00:14:47,960 --> 00:14:51,880 pair's brief mentions of it over the years, the relationship had 207 00:14:51,880 --> 00:14:55,720 not seemed very serious. It had lasted less than a full 208 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:58,200 summer before the couple parted ways. 209 00:14:58,680 --> 00:15:01,080 Grainger moved on and dated other people. 210 00:15:01,560 --> 00:15:05,840 Weasley married Lavender Brown about a year later, and from all 211 00:15:05,840 --> 00:15:09,680 accounts they all seemed happy enough to remain friends. 212 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:14,400 So it was a bit of a surprise for Draco to learn from these 213 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:18,600 private thoughts of Weasley that the wizard, it seemed, still 214 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:21,640 held something of a torch for the Gryffindor witch. 215 00:15:22,560 --> 00:15:26,240 Which, to be entirely honest, should not have been a surprise 216 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:29,040 at all when one really thought about it. 217 00:15:29,280 --> 00:15:32,680 Draco mused. Grainger had long ago outgrown 218 00:15:32,680 --> 00:15:36,760 her bushy hair, overly large buck teeth, and scrawny 219 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:40,160 appearance. Aura training made her spelt and 220 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:44,160 live, and apparently she'd learned a handful of charms to 221 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:48,000 evict the family of sparrows that used to nest in her hair. 222 00:15:48,080 --> 00:15:52,280 Back at Hogwarts after his Wisengemot trial concerning his 223 00:15:52,280 --> 00:15:56,760 role in the war resulted in a probationary sentence, Draco had 224 00:15:56,760 --> 00:16:00,600 conducted his eighth year at Hogwarts by correspondence from 225 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:02,960 the relative comfort of Malfoy Manor. 226 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:07,600 He then attended 4 years of aura training in France with the 227 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:11,520 Security de Saucier before applying to join the Ministry of 228 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:15,080 Magic. Upon his return to England, he 229 00:16:15,080 --> 00:16:20,120 was positively floored to find a drop dead gorgeous Hermione 230 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:25,320 Granger in place of the scrappy, tenacious, and sometimes feral 231 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:28,640 young Gryffindor. She'd always had eyes that 232 00:16:28,640 --> 00:16:32,960 burned like melted copper when they stared into his, even when 233 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:35,840 she was winding up to slap the ever loving shit out of him. 234 00:16:36,560 --> 00:16:40,120 Perhaps especially then, he thought with a wry grin. 235 00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:46,840 Now, Drako had had to admit that she had a body to match, but 236 00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:50,280 Granger, always striving to be better than everyone else, 237 00:16:50,720 --> 00:16:53,240 wasn't just content with being a pretty face. 238 00:16:53,840 --> 00:16:57,840 As he'd gotten to know the witch over the last eight years, away 239 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:01,680 from the Hogwarts House divisions and blood prejudices 240 00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:05,880 from their youth, he'd found her to be rather delightful in her 241 00:17:05,880 --> 00:17:11,440 own swatty, mugglish way. Any time he had a word or a name 242 00:17:11,760 --> 00:17:14,720 on the tip of his tongue, she could be counted upon to figure 243 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:18,400 out exactly what he meant. She was able to read through a 244 00:17:18,400 --> 00:17:22,720 case file and come up with a dozen working theories, all of 245 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:27,480 which seemed plausible. She had a passable knowledge of 246 00:17:27,480 --> 00:17:30,360 enough subjects that she could be counted upon to get them out 247 00:17:30,360 --> 00:17:35,120 of all sorts of tight scrapes, and she even let him answer once 248 00:17:35,120 --> 00:17:38,120 in a while during trivia nights at the Leakey. 249 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:43,000 Add to this, Draco would readily admit that the treats she 250 00:17:43,000 --> 00:17:46,840 brought in from both the Muggles shops and her own kitchen were 251 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:51,040 rather delicious. He'd never had gooey squares of 252 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:55,760 crispy puffed rice before, but now he found that he craved 253 00:17:55,760 --> 00:17:57,120 them. Quite often. 254 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:02,080 Draco had asked his elf, PIM to try to replicate them, which had 255 00:18:02,080 --> 00:18:05,640 been an abysmal failure. Grainger had shown him where to 256 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:09,360 find the store made ones in the shop himself, but they were 257 00:18:09,360 --> 00:18:12,960 never as good as the ones she prepared and brought into work 258 00:18:13,320 --> 00:18:18,360 on rare occasions. And so it was no surprise that 259 00:18:18,360 --> 00:18:21,760 Draco had had his own occasionally salacious thoughts 260 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:26,080 about Granger. The severity and frequency of 261 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:29,720 these thoughts were sometimes dependent upon Granger's outfit, 262 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:34,040 but they were just as often tied to her quick wit and easy 263 00:18:34,040 --> 00:18:37,360 manner. He'd never acted upon them, of 264 00:18:37,360 --> 00:18:39,640 course. He was certain that the witch 265 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:44,280 would reject him as a matter of principle, him being who he was. 266 00:18:44,280 --> 00:18:47,160 And who had been in the past, after all? 267 00:18:48,160 --> 00:18:52,960 But over the last several days, Draco now had to contend with 268 00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:57,120 the far more salacious running commentary concerning Grainger 269 00:18:57,440 --> 00:19:02,160 that skittered within the mushy mind of 1 Ronald Weasley. 270 00:19:03,280 --> 00:19:06,800 Be serious, tosser. His own rational inner voice 271 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:10,320 lambasted him. You know it doesn't matter the 272 00:19:10,320 --> 00:19:13,440 ensemble she wears, you're going to take a good look. 273 00:19:14,360 --> 00:19:16,320 He scoffed audibly at this notion. 274 00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:19,320 Well. The instinct driven half of his 275 00:19:19,320 --> 00:19:22,800 brain volleyed back. There's absolutely nothing wrong 276 00:19:22,960 --> 00:19:26,640 with looking. It couldn't be helped if the 277 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:30,680 occasional Daydream of laying Grainger across his desk and 278 00:19:31,000 --> 00:19:34,960 diving face first into her muff flitted through his own mind 279 00:19:35,360 --> 00:19:39,360 during idle afternoons waiting for a meeting or writing up a 280 00:19:39,360 --> 00:19:43,280 report. But, he rationalised, that did 281 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:47,000 not mean that he should be forced to listen to the same and 282 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:49,760 worse thoughts from the likes of the Weasel. 283 00:19:50,560 --> 00:19:55,400 And yet he did. These were the thoughts that Ron 284 00:19:55,400 --> 00:20:00,200 Weasley could never, would never express out loud for fear of 285 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:03,920 getting hexed by the witch in question into a puddle of goo on 286 00:20:03,920 --> 00:20:07,560 the ground. They were the ideas not fit to 287 00:20:07,560 --> 00:20:11,360 be heard by human ears and still, somehow. 288 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:15,760 Draco found them broadcast directly into his mind. 289 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:21,000 Weasley waxed poetic over Granger's lusciously round ass 290 00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:24,760 and thighs. He ruminated over the plumpness 291 00:20:24,760 --> 00:20:28,120 of her lips. He fantasized about coiling 292 00:20:28,120 --> 00:20:32,840 brown curls round his fingers during a warm spell. 293 00:20:32,920 --> 00:20:36,040 When Granger made the unfortunate choice of open toed 294 00:20:36,040 --> 00:20:40,640 sandals, Draco thought he might go spare at the constant refrain 295 00:20:40,640 --> 00:20:44,520 about pink toenail Polish that played on a loop inside 296 00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:49,240 Weasley's frontal cortex. Still, when it came to making 297 00:20:49,240 --> 00:20:53,080 Draco want to crack open his own skull and scoop out his own 298 00:20:53,080 --> 00:20:57,240 brains, it was the occasional jolting flashback of Weasley's 299 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:03,400 very real, very graphic memories that nearly did Draco in. 300 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:08,480 Apparently, Grainger and the Weasel never actually had bog 301 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:12,840 standard penis in vagina sex, at least not judging by Weasley's 302 00:21:12,840 --> 00:21:17,560 memories of their relationship. To that end, the wizard seemed 303 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:20,480 to bounce between three different memories of his time 304 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:23,200 dating Grainger. All of them were from the 305 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:27,240 Weasel's point of view, and all of them were silent, something 306 00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:29,520 for which Draco was most appreciative. 307 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:34,160 There was no need to ruin perfectly good visuals with 308 00:21:34,160 --> 00:21:36,800 Weasley's annoying grunts, he thought. 309 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:41,560 In the first of his Granger memories, Weasley clumsily 310 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:45,360 fingered the witch's cunt. Judging from Granger's guarded 311 00:21:45,360 --> 00:21:48,760 facial expressions in his memory, she had not enjoyed it 312 00:21:48,760 --> 00:21:50,720 nearly as much as she should have. 313 00:21:51,440 --> 00:21:55,640 Draco prided himself on his own dexterity and prodigious skill 314 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:59,480 in his field, enough to know the difference between a real orgasm 315 00:21:59,760 --> 00:22:03,320 and a fake one. The weak attempt by Granger to 316 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:07,320 give a close approximation of rapture from the man's manual 317 00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:12,840 efforts were cringe worthy. In another memory, the witch 318 00:22:12,840 --> 00:22:16,400 knelt in front of the Weasel, removing his lackluster cock 319 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:20,440 from his wife once with delicate fingers before sucking it into 320 00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:23,520 her mouth. This seemed to be one of the 321 00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:27,320 Weasel's favorite memories, and Draco begrudgingly understood 322 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:30,480 why. Seeing Swati Hermione Granger 323 00:22:30,480 --> 00:22:34,880 forced quiet, her lips wrapped around his thrusting cock would 324 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:38,600 have easily made Draco's top three memories in life as well, 325 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:42,560 he was sure. Such a shame, then, that the 326 00:22:42,560 --> 00:22:45,680 cock that Granger was sucking in this particular memory was 327 00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:50,480 rooted in a thatch of ginger pubic hair and had a decidedly 328 00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:54,760 starboard orientation rather than standing proud and straight 329 00:22:55,120 --> 00:22:59,760 like Draco's own perfect cock. Weasley revisited this memory 330 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:03,640 often in his mind, much to Draco's private anguish. 331 00:23:04,160 --> 00:23:08,160 It rankled his nerves that the memory made Draco's own cock 332 00:23:08,280 --> 00:23:13,400 warm and swell in his trousers each and every time this vision 333 00:23:13,400 --> 00:23:19,080 played inside Weasley's head. The last memory was not nearly 334 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:22,880 so pleasant, but still appeared in Weasley's thoughts, and 335 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:25,400 therefore Draco's thoughts. Quite often. 336 00:23:26,080 --> 00:23:30,800 It was the young couple entirely Starko's, nearly about to do the 337 00:23:30,800 --> 00:23:34,440 deed in what looked like a ramshackle structure held 338 00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:37,440 together by magic and six rusty nails. 339 00:23:38,120 --> 00:23:41,760 Judging from the juvenile and haphazard decor of the room, 340 00:23:42,160 --> 00:23:45,040 this appeared to be Weasley's childhood bedroom. 341 00:23:45,720 --> 00:23:48,600 Granger looked just like she had soon after the Battle of 342 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:52,760 Hogwarts, meaning that this was likely round tin or 11 years 343 00:23:52,760 --> 00:23:55,400 ago. The which had been on top of the 344 00:23:55,400 --> 00:24:00,160 wizard, a point of view that Draco had 0 objections to. 345 00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:04,720 Her petite tits were firm and perky, slightly smaller than 346 00:24:04,720 --> 00:24:08,600 they were now, and her inviting smile lit up her face. 347 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:13,440 The 10 years that had passed since this memory had not 348 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:16,560 diminished the witch's beauty or sexuality. 349 00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:21,080 If anything, Draco felt that she was more attractive now at 30 350 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:25,800 than she had been at 20. She seemed far more self assured 351 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:29,480 and at ease in her own skin. At the start of this memory, 352 00:24:29,920 --> 00:24:32,400 Grainger appeared nervous but excited. 353 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,960 As the memory between the witch and the Weasel progressed, 354 00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:40,800 things irrevocably shifted between the two of them in what 355 00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:43,440 looked to be their final sexual encounter. 356 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:46,800 There had been a bit of foreplay, though. 357 00:24:46,800 --> 00:24:50,440 The fact that Weasley considered pinching her nipples to be his 358 00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:53,920 big move spoke volumes in Draco's esteem. 359 00:24:54,560 --> 00:24:59,160 However, just as the witch rose up, centring Weasley's average 360 00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:03,520 sized cock below her pussy, both of them had been distracted by 361 00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:06,800 something behind and to the side of the witch. 362 00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:11,840 Weasley had not turned in the direction of the distraction, so 363 00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:15,280 in the memory Drako had no idea what it was. 364 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:19,040 Granger had looked back over her shoulder for several seconds, 365 00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:22,400 appearing to speak to someone whilst frantically trying to 366 00:25:22,400 --> 00:25:26,080 cover her own breasts. During this brief discussion, 367 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:30,400 the wizard's attention had refocused on his own cock with a 368 00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:35,720 growing sense of horror. Then the naked witch twisted to 369 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:38,960 look back at Weasley with wide, scared eyes. 370 00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:45,040 At that moment, young Weasley in the memory had blown his entire 371 00:25:45,040 --> 00:25:50,200 wad, his come geysering up into the air in pulsing bursts. 372 00:25:51,160 --> 00:25:54,520 In the memory. Granger's face said it all as 373 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:58,400 the come spurted up between them, then fell back down to the 374 00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:01,920 wizard's stomach. Their moment was over. 375 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:06,920 Her look of excitement and attraction now held nothing but 376 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:13,720 horror, revulsion, and pity. That was where the memory 377 00:26:13,920 --> 00:26:18,800 mercifully ended. Draco, with the advantage of 378 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:23,800 having bedded dozens of women, almost pitied the Weasel himself 379 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:33,120 almost Friday, 9 July 2010. Draco had somehow been getting 380 00:26:33,120 --> 00:26:36,560 through the last month with a handful of coping techniques. 381 00:26:37,240 --> 00:26:40,720 Any time the Weasel's thoughts became too much for him, Draco 382 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:44,800 would either distract the man by asking him a question or simply 383 00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:47,800 leave the room. It wasn't foolproof. 384 00:26:48,480 --> 00:26:52,560 Draco had to endure weekly staff meetings during which the Weasel 385 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:57,000 idly ranked the female auras in attendance by beauty, breast 386 00:26:57,000 --> 00:27:02,360 size and shape, ass shape and shaggability, and feet. 387 00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:08,280 For some lunatic reason, he felt rather guilty knowing that 388 00:27:08,360 --> 00:27:12,560 during boring meetings of the past he had done much the same 389 00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:17,640 thing, minus the feet. Then, one day in early July, 390 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:21,400 Weasley hit upon an idea that would take the irritating 391 00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:25,520 connection that he unwittingly shared with Draco from mildly 392 00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:31,040 infuriating to positively a vodacadavra inducing in a matter 393 00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:34,640 of minutes. That Friday, over lunch, the 394 00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:37,680 redhead Gryffinder casually mentioned to the other three of 395 00:27:37,680 --> 00:27:40,680 them that he was thinking of pinning a novel. 396 00:27:41,360 --> 00:27:43,920 Their reactions had been predictably mixed. 397 00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:48,040 Draco and Potter exchanged an amused glance, but the 398 00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:51,240 scarheaded wizard only offered. That'll be great, Ron. 399 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:55,120 To his oldest friend. Draco lifted a brow. 400 00:27:55,840 --> 00:28:00,600 Typically, 1 needs to read a novel before 1 writes a novel, 401 00:28:00,600 --> 00:28:03,440 Weasley. The ginger wizard's face 402 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:06,800 reddened at this, but his muttered insult barely 403 00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:10,800 registered with Draco, who by now had spent weeks perfecting 404 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:13,200 the art of ignoring Weasley's words. 405 00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:17,000 Granger's reaction was unsurprisingly positive. 406 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:21,000 How lovely. Ron, what genre are you thinking 407 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:23,240 of? Do you have your characters and 408 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:25,960 plot outlined? Weasley smiled. 409 00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:28,760 I was thinking perhaps a crime drama. 410 00:28:29,720 --> 00:28:32,960 The witch beamed at him. That sounds like a perfect fit 411 00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:35,520 for you. When you finish the first draft, 412 00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:39,800 I'd love to read it. Yeah, Weasley, bunk us down for 413 00:28:39,800 --> 00:28:43,920 advanced copies as well. Draco drolled. 2 putters, barely 414 00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:47,600 suppressed giggle. Soloff, Malfoy, you can order it 415 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:49,880 and flourish in blots like the rest of the riffraff. 416 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:53,200 Weasley replied with a challenging smile. 417 00:28:53,760 --> 00:28:57,720 They all laughed, even Draco, and talk of novels and 418 00:28:57,720 --> 00:29:02,520 characters and genres was forgotten until later that 419 00:29:02,520 --> 00:29:08,600 afternoon when Weasley's inner dialogue made a sudden and awful 420 00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:14,520 pivot. Rod, well built, strolled into 421 00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:19,040 the office, tossing his hat and cloak to his inept assistant, 422 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:23,320 Damien Malmurd. Malmurd fumble with the hat, 423 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:27,280 dropping it to the floor before tripping over Rod's cloak and 424 00:29:27,280 --> 00:29:31,680 stepping on the collar. If you mess up my Bola hat, it's 425 00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:36,280 coming out of your pay, Darren. Rod said in warning to the short 426 00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:41,760 mousy blonde man. Draco sat up straight in his 427 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:45,240 chair, forgetting that Weasley did not know that his every 428 00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:50,680 thought was an open book. Rod Wellbuilt and Damien 429 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:52,400 Malmurd. What the fuck? 430 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:55,000 Who did Weasley think he was kidding? 431 00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:01,360 Yes Sir, Mr. Wellbuilt Sir, it won't happen again Sir. 432 00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:05,240 The unattractive underling said to the impressively jacked 433 00:30:05,440 --> 00:30:09,480 Wellbuilt. Make sure it doesn't Daniel, and 434 00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:12,080 get Persephone in here to see me. 435 00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:15,120 Yes Sir, Mr. Wellbilt, right away. 436 00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:19,280 She sure is great, Sir. I wish I could land a beautiful 437 00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:24,480 girl like that. Draco closed his eyes, gritting 438 00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:28,280 his teeth as he pictured against his will what was like the 439 00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:30,880 coming. He would be willing to bet the 440 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:34,760 contents of his largest vault at Gringotts that Weasley would 441 00:30:34,760 --> 00:30:39,720 describe this Persephone as having curly brown hair, big 442 00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:44,280 brown eyes, and the bounciest tits known to man. 443 00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:51,040 Rod, well billed, smiled down at his mousy assistant, Darius 444 00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:53,320 Malmurd. I like her. 445 00:30:53,840 --> 00:30:55,920 I could watch her the rest of my life. 446 00:30:56,520 --> 00:31:02,480 She has breasts, that smile, you know, a really nice pair of 447 00:31:02,840 --> 00:31:08,360 beautiful round jugs. Salazar's sack. 448 00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:12,840 Draco thought this man's imagination and vocabulary was 449 00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:15,040 shallower than a puddle of cat sick. 450 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:20,520 Persephone Grammar knocked on Rod's office door. 451 00:31:21,000 --> 00:31:26,600 She had curly brown hair, big brown eyes, and the bounciest 452 00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:32,720 tits known to man. Draco died a little inside. 453 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:39,360 She moved with a cute bouncing Bunny step into Well Built's 454 00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:44,040 office, her skirt riding up her ample hips as she walked, 455 00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:49,680 revealing her smooth long legs. How can I help you, Mr. Well 456 00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:52,320 Built? She asked in a honey voice. 457 00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:56,480 When she reached the edge of the desk, she tipped her tits over 458 00:31:56,480 --> 00:32:00,640 his desk blotter, showing off the edge of a Lacy pink bra 459 00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:03,520 underneath her blouse. Persephone. 460 00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:06,920 Excellent. Did you have those items to look 461 00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:08,880 over? Wellbuilt asked. 462 00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:12,520 Oh, Mr. Wellbuilt, you know I do. 463 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:16,720 With a flick of her small fingers, two more buttons popped 464 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:21,120 undone on her blouse. I put my notes inside my bra to 465 00:32:21,120 --> 00:32:24,880 keep them safe, you see. Oh goodness, my shirt came 466 00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:28,600 undone. Rod, well built, stared down 467 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:31,960 into the slot between Persephone's enormous knockers, 468 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:36,040 imagining running his well hung cock through it. 469 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,240 Draco was nearly steaming from the ears. 470 00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:43,560 Weasley, let's take a walk to the archives, yeah? 471 00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:48,520 The Weasel looked over first at the well endowed Grainger, then 472 00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:53,160 at him, clearly torn. On the one hand, the git thought 473 00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:56,520 he was composing the next great novel of their time inside of 474 00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:59,640 his head. On the other hand, to get to the 475 00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:03,160 archives, one had to walk past the cafeteria. 476 00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:07,680 Not to mention the archival assistant Jesselyn was a ditzy 477 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:10,320 blonde waif who flirted with everyone. 478 00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:14,880 Draco didn't especially want to spend one-on-one time with a 479 00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:18,880 man, but at least it would get the sodding Gryffindor's mind 480 00:33:19,000 --> 00:33:23,080 off of Grainger. Without a word, Weasley stood 481 00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:26,280 and entered the lift, pressing the down button before turning 482 00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:29,000 back to Draco. Mind if we stop for a bite to 483 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:31,160 eat? It's a long time till dinner, 484 00:33:32,160 --> 00:33:35,080 and Lavender's always sore at me, so she's probably not 485 00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:37,680 cooking. Weasley's thoughts said in 486 00:33:37,680 --> 00:33:41,800 Draco's head. So how are things at home? 487 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:45,440 Draco asked. Is Lavender happy about the wage 488 00:33:45,440 --> 00:33:48,560 increase? Robots had informed everyone at 489 00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:52,120 the last staff meeting that the next paycheck would include A5 490 00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:55,840 per cent pay increase. Draco had hardly paid attention. 491 00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:59,800 He had no need for his paycheck, instead anonymously depositing 492 00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:03,720 it directly into whatever feel good cause Grainger had been 493 00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:07,880 faffing on about that month. But he knew plebeians like the 494 00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:10,239 Weasel relied upon the paltry some. 495 00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:15,040 Yeah, she was happy to hear it, Weasley said, but his thoughts 496 00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:18,880 seemed to express otherwise. Just more for her to spend on 497 00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:20,920 clothes and going out with her friends. 498 00:34:24,080 --> 00:34:29,480 You've decided to write a novel, that's something, Draco offered. 499 00:34:30,159 --> 00:34:31,600 What will your characters be like? 500 00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:35,480 I thought I'd base the main character of myself. 501 00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:39,440 It's a crime drama and I'm an aura, so it seems simple enough. 502 00:34:39,960 --> 00:34:43,920 Well, you are quite simple, Draco thought uncharitably, as 503 00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:47,800 we easily ordered a sandwich in the cafeteria to Weasley. 504 00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:50,080 He only said. Of course. 505 00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:53,960 Well, at least for the main character, that only makes good 506 00:34:53,960 --> 00:34:56,120 enough sense from a legal standpoint. 507 00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:59,600 What do you mean? The ginger wizard said, tearing 508 00:34:59,600 --> 00:35:02,960 off half of the sandwich in a single bite and chewing noisily. 509 00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:08,240 Well, if a character's description or a name is too 510 00:35:08,240 --> 00:35:11,800 similar to a person you know in real life, that person can sue 511 00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:16,120 you for character assassination, defamation, the works. 512 00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:19,000 But of course, you knew that already. 513 00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:23,720 Draco said. Sure, I knew that, Weasley said. 514 00:35:24,320 --> 00:35:26,640 I didn't know that, said his thoughts. 515 00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:30,840 These things were incredibly difficult to prove, and most 516 00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:34,640 judges would throw out such cases, offering the excuse of 517 00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:39,080 creative license, but it was clear to Draco that Weasley did 518 00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:44,640 not know this either. Ah, well, that's not a concern, 519 00:35:45,240 --> 00:35:47,880 my characters are nothing like anyone we know. 520 00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:52,400 Weasley said uncomfortably. Draco gave a small sigh of 521 00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:54,880 relief. He felt reasonably confident 522 00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:58,880 that this spelled the end for whatever the hell his name was, 523 00:35:58,880 --> 00:36:02,120 Malmerd. By now they had reached the 524 00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:05,840 archival department and Draco offered his wand as verification 525 00:36:05,840 --> 00:36:10,080 to Jesselyn in order to request a file to the petite young 526 00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:10,840 witch. He said. 527 00:36:11,320 --> 00:36:13,880 Good day Jesselyn, you look lovely today. 528 00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:16,880 Is that blouse new? The young woman tittered a 529 00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:19,480 little laugh and said. It is. 530 00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:22,240 You're always so observant or a Malfoy. 531 00:36:23,320 --> 00:36:27,280 As she walked away to retrieve the requested file, a thought 532 00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:31,480 ran through Draco's mind. Nice, very nice little rack on 533 00:36:31,480 --> 00:36:33,120 her. It really is true. 534 00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:36,240 Sometimes anything more than a mouthful is a waste. 535 00:36:37,240 --> 00:36:42,200 It irritated Draco to no end to realise that he was uncertain 536 00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:46,600 whether or not the thought was the Weasels or his own. 537 00:36:48,640 --> 00:36:55,240 Friday, 23 July 2010. Unhappily for Draco, Weasley's 538 00:36:55,240 --> 00:36:58,960 horrid novel was an ever present composition within his mind 539 00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:02,880 nowadays, whilst it was relief that the character of Derek 540 00:37:02,880 --> 00:37:05,560 Malmurd had disappeared from Weasley's thoughts. 541 00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:09,120 The clandestine trysts between the hapless Burke. 542 00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:14,600 Rod Welded and his buxom, ditzy and ever willing colleague, 543 00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:18,600 Persephone Grammar had continued at an alarming pace. 544 00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:22,840 Persephone, it seemed, could never get enough of Rod's 545 00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:27,000 massive Rod and would happily drop to her knees to gobble his 546 00:37:27,000 --> 00:37:30,000 cock with her luscious mouth at a moment's notice. 547 00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:33,880 Likewise, Rod had bent Persephone over the evidence 548 00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:38,600 table to take her from behind so many times that Draco was sure 549 00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:42,520 Persephone had long ago solved whatever inane case they were 550 00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:45,920 working on in Weasley's novel simply because she'd been 551 00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:50,800 staring at the evidence so much. The constant visions in his mind 552 00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:55,520 of Grainger as a mindless fuck doll was killing him in more 553 00:37:55,520 --> 00:37:59,240 ways than one. That it was Weasley doing the 554 00:37:59,240 --> 00:38:04,240 imagined fucking drove him mental to be sure, but that this 555 00:38:04,240 --> 00:38:08,680 absolute bell end could imagine Hermione Granger as so 556 00:38:08,680 --> 00:38:14,000 dimwitted, so brainless as this nubile alter ego Persephone 557 00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:18,160 Grammar, Something about it irritated Draco far worse. 558 00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:23,080 To add insult to injury, Draco found that at times the other 559 00:38:23,080 --> 00:38:26,840 Wizards lewd thoughts persisted long after he left Weasley at 560 00:38:26,840 --> 00:38:29,440 the office. Thankful to have the manned out 561 00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:34,080 of his mind for a bit, one Friday in late July, he went out 562 00:38:34,080 --> 00:38:37,960 to the muggle pubs after work to pull a bit of fresh Fanny. 563 00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:42,960 It was July, which meant sun dress season, ordinarily Draco's 564 00:38:43,000 --> 00:38:47,360 favorite time of the year. Still, as he eyed at the fresh 565 00:38:47,360 --> 00:38:51,560 offerings in the pub, Weasley's objectifying words about 566 00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:55,000 Grainger would pop into his head and he would suddenly feel 567 00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:59,120 disgusted about himself. Had he really just been 568 00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:02,560 imagining the shape of that woman's clitoris, or was this 569 00:39:02,560 --> 00:39:06,480 only echoes of Weasley's vulgar stream of consciousness? 570 00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:10,960 Near the end of the night, an adorable Raven haired woman with 571 00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:14,440 an ass firm enough to bounce a sickle off of approached him. 572 00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:18,920 After a few minutes of polite small talk, Draco was beginning 573 00:39:18,920 --> 00:39:21,760 to get bored. The woman wasn't the best 574 00:39:21,760 --> 00:39:25,520 conversationalist. Cynthia, lovely to have met you, 575 00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:27,960 but I think I'll be heading out now. 576 00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:32,480 He said, standing to go. How about I come with? 577 00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,320 She asked. Draco hesitated. 578 00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:39,040 Ordinarily he would have accepted her offer easily. 579 00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:43,440 After all, she had a great rack. What did it matter if she 580 00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:46,040 couldn't string together 3 coherent thoughts? 581 00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:49,240 Instead, Draco found himself saying. 582 00:39:49,600 --> 00:39:52,600 No, that's all right, I've got to get up early in the morning. 583 00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:57,160 Which was complete rubbish. Draco made it a policy never to 584 00:39:57,160 --> 00:39:59,520 get out of bed before Tin on Saturdays. 585 00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:02,240 Cynthia made a sound of discontent. 586 00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:06,120 Are you sure I'll make it worth your while. 587 00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:09,200 Tell you what? Draco drawled. 588 00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:12,520 How about a quick jobby in the alley out back? 589 00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:14,920 Cynthia shrugged. Why not? 590 00:40:15,920 --> 00:40:20,240 Which worked out fine for Draco. He got his knob sucked off and 591 00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:24,360 didn't even need to buy the girl breakfast or wonder when she was 592 00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:28,720 going to leave. 2 minutes later he was leaning against the brick 593 00:40:28,720 --> 00:40:32,760 wall out back smoking a fag whilst fondling 1 of Cynthia's 594 00:40:32,760 --> 00:40:36,160 pillowy breasts that spilled from the top of her rucked down 595 00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:38,760 sun dress. Her tongue might have been 596 00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:42,960 abysmal at conversation but it was excellent at blow jobs, he 597 00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:46,000 thought as the woman gagged on his solid length. 598 00:40:46,880 --> 00:40:51,600 It was all going so well until midway through when, like the 599 00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:55,320 thoughtful man that he was, he reached to pull back the woman's 600 00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:58,240 hair so that she wouldn't get any in her mouth while she 601 00:40:58,240 --> 00:41:01,760 sucked him off. Suddenly an image popped into 602 00:41:01,760 --> 00:41:06,280 his brain of rod, well built, holding Persephone Grammar's 603 00:41:06,280 --> 00:41:10,400 curly hair like a handle as he pumped into her open sucking 604 00:41:10,400 --> 00:41:14,360 mouth and called her his baby Bunny witch. 605 00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:18,840 Fuck, he thought. Here he'd been trying to do the 606 00:41:19,120 --> 00:41:23,160 gentlemanly thing, holding the woman's hair back so she didn't 607 00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:26,040 swallow any, and this was his reward. 608 00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:30,840 It took quite the wind out of Draco's sails and he could tell 609 00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:34,240 that the dark haired Cynthia was getting impatient with him as 610 00:41:34,240 --> 00:41:37,360 she did her absolute level best to make him come. 611 00:41:38,280 --> 00:41:42,120 It took him nearly 11 minutes before he was able to pump his 612 00:41:42,120 --> 00:41:46,960 spin all over her perky tits, and when he was done, he felt 613 00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:51,120 something almost like shame for having done so. 614 00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:57,640 An hour later, Cynthia had cleaned herself up and gone home 615 00:41:57,640 --> 00:42:01,200 alone, and Draco had resigned himself to the same fate. 616 00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:04,840 He dropped a handful of muggle notes on the bar to cover his 617 00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:09,040 tab, then stood to go, shrugging on his muggle suit jacket. 618 00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:13,840 Draco, isn't it? A vaguely familiar voice said 619 00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:16,960 from nearby. You're Theo's friend, right? 620 00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:21,160 He turned, finding an attractive, well built blonde 621 00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:24,160 woman seated next to an overweight, dark haired man in a 622 00:42:24,160 --> 00:42:27,120 booth. He smiled, trying to place her 623 00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:29,560 face in his memory. She said. 624 00:42:30,000 --> 00:42:32,760 Ava Bradley, We went to school together. 625 00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:37,280 Uh, uh, of course, yes. You work with Theo, isn't that 626 00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:39,920 right? She gave Draco a tight smile. 627 00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:44,240 That's right, Ava Bradley. Nae Cunningham. 628 00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:48,640 He remembered Theo's story of the witch's odd behaviour, 629 00:42:49,080 --> 00:42:51,760 followed by her holiday and sudden marriage. 630 00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:55,960 Suddenly, he wanted nothing more than a talk with this woman. 631 00:42:56,400 --> 00:43:00,320 She might be the only person he knew who'd gone through what he 632 00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:05,680 was experiencing right now. Yes, he told me you got married, 633 00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:09,480 Draco Mouthley. He said, offering a handshake to 634 00:43:09,480 --> 00:43:12,280 the man next to Ava. Laszlo. 635 00:43:12,840 --> 00:43:16,880 The man said boldly, hardly meeting Draco's eye as his gaze 636 00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:18,880 followed something behind the blonde wizard. 637 00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:21,920 Listen Ava, I'm going to the toilet for a minute, all right? 638 00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:25,880 The man got up, dashing away quickly into the back of the 639 00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:28,520 pub. Ava sighed, mumbling. 640 00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:32,000 Sure Laz, why don't you have a seat? 641 00:43:32,520 --> 00:43:34,960 She asked Draco. He raised a brow. 642 00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:40,360 You 2 seem happy together. The witch scoffed. 643 00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:45,720 As happy as a woman and her gay husband can be, yes. 644 00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:49,240 Draco frowned. I don't understand. 645 00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:55,200 You're married to each other, but he's only interested in top 646 00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:56,920 quality beef. Yes? 647 00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:01,280 Ava Provided that's likely what's occupying him now in the 648 00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:04,520 toilet, I think. The former Slytherin shook his 649 00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:07,520 head. Why exactly did you marry him 650 00:44:07,560 --> 00:44:10,200 then? Ava smirked at him. 651 00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:15,080 Draco, you just turned 30 according to Theo, isn't that 652 00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:19,040 right? And you aren't married One of 653 00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:21,360 the Sacred 28, if I'm not mistaken. 654 00:44:21,920 --> 00:44:25,960 Surely you can figure out why I married Laszlo? 655 00:44:27,240 --> 00:44:29,760 Draco dropped his voice to nearly a whisper. 656 00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:33,360 So it was the curse? Yes. 657 00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:38,200 Ava answered wistfully. Before I turned 30 my life was 658 00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:41,840 rather perfect. I had good friends, I liked my 659 00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:47,800 job, Theo was a good colleague. I just thought he was a a sweet 660 00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:51,200 kid, kind of like the younger brother I never had. 661 00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:55,000 To learn That he was almost constantly thinking about 662 00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:58,880 bending me over the table and taking me from behind was 663 00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:02,960 jarring. I mean, anytime we were 664 00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:06,880 together, he was imagining fucking me and till I couldn't 665 00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:09,720 walk straight. His phrasing not mine. 666 00:45:10,520 --> 00:45:14,360 Draco rubbed at his temple. To be fair, I think that's just 667 00:45:14,360 --> 00:45:16,320 the way Theo is towards everyone. 668 00:45:17,000 --> 00:45:19,520 Ava smiled ruefully. You're right. 669 00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:24,760 Believe me, I heard it all about every one of our colleagues. 670 00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:30,040 Truly, I didn't think one man could walk around with that much 671 00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:34,040 sex on the brain. Draco nearly offered Weasley as 672 00:45:34,040 --> 00:45:37,160 proof that there were at least two men who thought that way, 673 00:45:37,720 --> 00:45:41,840 but then memories of his own evening, including his alleyway 674 00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:44,760 encounter with Cynthia, popped into his mind. 675 00:45:45,520 --> 00:45:49,600 Would Ava have lumped him into the same category with such 676 00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:54,240 tosses as Weasley and Theo? He shuddered to think. 677 00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:57,480 So you figured out a way to solve it? 678 00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:02,080 He said instead. Yes, I got in touch with Laszlo. 679 00:46:02,640 --> 00:46:07,040 He's my 4th, a fifth cousin on my mother's side, and he had no 680 00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:10,240 interest in marrying a woman, but his parents were pressuring 681 00:46:10,240 --> 00:46:14,480 him to settle down. Not to mention he was coming up 682 00:46:14,480 --> 00:46:18,280 on his 30th birthday as well and already knew about the curse 683 00:46:18,280 --> 00:46:21,800 from his older sister, so he was keen to avoid it. 684 00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:26,560 It just made sense, you know? So there's no other way of 685 00:46:27,040 --> 00:46:31,520 getting rid of it then? I would need to get married. 686 00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:35,360 Draco said, trepidation gathering in his chest. 687 00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:39,680 Afraid so. Believe me, I tried everything 688 00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:44,480 to avoid it. Earplugs, day drinking, I even 689 00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:47,120 tried to imperious myself to tune him out. 690 00:46:47,720 --> 00:46:52,440 Nothing worked. I liked my life as it was. 691 00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:57,880 I didn't want it to change, but apparently our ancestors 692 00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:00,120 couldn't leave well enough alone. 693 00:47:01,200 --> 00:47:04,320 Draco leaned back into the booth, his mind reeling. 694 00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:07,880 He supposed a part of him always knew that this was the only 695 00:47:07,880 --> 00:47:10,360 answer. It wasn't as though he could go 696 00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:13,960 the rest of his life listening to descriptions of food and 697 00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:17,400 women through Ronald Weasley's inferior eyes. 698 00:47:18,320 --> 00:47:21,680 Ava looked past him, catching sight of her husband coming back 699 00:47:21,680 --> 00:47:25,440 from the toilets. Looks like Lazlo's Don, we're 700 00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:27,800 heading out. It was good to talk to you. 701 00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:32,400 He nodded and murmured his goodbyes to the pair of them, 702 00:47:32,880 --> 00:47:36,240 lost in his own thoughts. Salazar's tits. 703 00:47:36,760 --> 00:47:40,760 Was he really going to have to get married to stop the grating 704 00:47:40,760 --> 00:48:00,840 voice inside his head? Thank you for listening to 705 00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:06,480 Proximity by Great 78. If you enjoyed this story and 706 00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:10,000 would like to listen to more, please subscribe to my podcast, 707 00:48:10,200 --> 00:48:14,560 Silver and Copper on Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts. 708 00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:17,560 You can also find a link for this story in the show 709 00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:22,680 description, or search archive of our own for Great 78.