Happy birthday, raphsody606!- Down In the Shadows to Pray, NC-17

[lomonaaeren]

Title: Down In the Shadows To Pray
Disclaimer: J. K. Rowling and associates own these characters. I am writing this story for fun and not profit.
Pairings: Harry/Draco, Narcissa/Lucius
Warnings: Het, slash, sex (both het and slash), voyeurism, some slight bondage, DH spoilers but EWE, odd pagan religion. Non-linear; tense switches; Narcissa POV.

Comments

[helenadax]

Wow, this is amazing! I love how Narcissa understands and accepts that she's mistaken about what Draco and Harry have and share. I find a little creepy that she watches him having sex with Harry, but ok, purebloods are that way. And I love Astoria's cameo ^^

I've always thought the most of the purebloods, especially the Slytherin, are pagans. Why would they be Christians? They had to have their own religion and Christianism has never been fond of witches.

[lomonaaeren]

Thank you! I do like portraying a character changing his or her mind about certain things, and this was a character I haven't yet done that for.

Narcissa would do far worse than watch her son have sex to secure his happiness. :)

I think there probably are influences that aren't Christian in the wizarding world, since they parted company with Muggles some few hundred years ago, but I don't think they could be the whole of the wizarding world. They do still celebrate Christmas and Easter, after all.

[a_malfoy]

Very reasonable thinking, but I assume it`s the muggleborns and half-bloods who (under the influence of their muggle relations and relatives) originally brought Christianity among the wizards and witches.

Anyway, I agree with you about the story. :)

Additional Information: Paganism vs. Cristianity

[a_malfoy]

Besides, it was Christians who actually "stole" Christmas from the Paganism. If we`d were truly celebrating the REAL time of Christ`s bith, that would be somewhere in March. (Can be traced back to the history of the Roman Empire: their own official notes that have remained to these days, their coins of that time plus the astronomical history.)
So... long ago there was the pagan feast Yule to celebrate the darkest time of the year and the moment when the days start to get lighter and longer again. Christians have through the centuries stuffed their own stuff and beliefs to the ancient feasts - turning `em eventually to exist as they wanted `em to be: Christian times of celebration. Despite of that there are several features e.g. in our Christian Christmas which originates to the paganism. (E.g. turkey/ham, x-mas tree and even the word "yule" which nowadays is intepred more as a synonym for Christmas.)

[helenadax]

Yes, I assume the same thing. In my fics, most of the purebloods, especially if they're Slytherin, still follow the old religions. But some of them are Christians or don't think in religion at all.