Title: Invitation, VII Challenge: Most Extraordinary Society of Potioneers Word Count: 100
Minerva simply did not believe that the Open Reception of the Potioneers was the rough equivalent of washing one's wounds in a tank of hungry of piranha. Severus decided that she needed to be enlightened, and sent an exceedingly polite note accepting the Potioneers' kind invitation and asking if he could bring a guest.
The response was swift: the Potioneers would be delighted to host Professor Snape's distinguished colleague, Deputy Headmistress McGonagall, whose “renown as a transfiguration expert was exceeded only by her beauty.”
Severus told Minerva about the acceptance, but not the gush. Some things were best kept private.