hphalloween_mod (hphalloween_mod) wrote in hp_halloween, @ 2005-10-31 12:06:00 |
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Entry tags: | !2005, #gen, *rivendellrose, ^minerva mcgonagall, ^severus snape, rating: g |
Gift for shadowycat
Original poster: mchoneygoose
Gift for: shadowycat
From: rivendellrose
Halloween had never been a favorite holiday of Severus Snape’s, growing up - the usual pranks and tricks were a good deal less funny to the scrawny, bone-poor boy than they were to his schoolmates - but as an adult he'd come to appreciate something of the holiday's morbid appeal, and to enjoy the following darkness that would somewhat subdue the hormonal quiverings of the collective student body. Hanging on the knife’s edge between light and darkness, he enjoyed every minute.
Even forgetting the dreary chill of the season, there was another benefit to All Hallow's Eve that never failed to bring a smirk to Severus' thin lips - the perfect opportunity for the most disgusting and morbid of potions work, under the guise of 'getting into the holiday spirit.' Nothing avenged hours of tedium quite like watching the bright eyes widen in horror, sticky little fingers recoiling from whatever foul ingredients he conjured. Some of them even retched.
"...Severus?"
He blinked reverie from his eyes, lifting his gaze from the bowl of candy corn on the staff table. "Yes, Minerva?"
"You were... grinning, Severus." Her expression suggested she'd never seen anything so disturbing.
"Lesson plans," he informed her crisply.