"I think cats and snakes are both descended from velociraptors," Severus comments, just a little sadly.
"It will be your staunch confiner and confuser of nightmares," he agrees solemnly.
"They're crass," he says decisively. "Openly greedy and crass." WIth a shrug, "He taught at the school for a year, if you can call it that. Insisted on sitting next to me at meals and babbling all about his books and silly celebrity status. One can't block out everything, and he had become something of an expert at certain types of politics, if in a ridiculous sort of way."
"I did intend to turn them back eventually," he points out, watching Rus be enchanted with a gentle sort of bemusement. "Turning them into penguins was only supposed to be a sort of crash course, if you will, so that the posthypnotic suggestion to think they're penguins will have something to work with."
No elderly abuse! D: YAY! And is enough for snowfolk, now? BOO. :( Hee! Maybe... hmm, might you be online at some point tonight? Drop me an email if you can and I'll come right on. Sev should probably post on his birthday, too. I tried to post the latest reply this morning, but it didn't post. >:( Up now, tho.