Nov. 21st, 2006

DRABBLE: Whomping Willow/Igor Karkaroff (R)

[100 words. Promised eons ago to [info]10k_drabbles.]

None of his students or colleagues would ever have pegged sybaritic, selfish Igor Karkaroff as a tree-hugger; to see his arms locked around the trunk of Hogwarts’s Vrba mesarica would have likely sent them fleeing to the infirmary for Snape’s stiffest anti-hallucinogenic potion.

However, the night they might have glimpsed this was so wintry and inhospitable that there was no one about at all-- no one to witness Karkaroff’s congress with the tree, furs forgotten at his feet. There was no one about to hear him plead, Take me. Make me so warm I can no longer feel my arm.