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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.
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.