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Severus Snape (delicate_power) wrote in indarkness_logs,
@ 2010-10-26 09:08:00

Entry tags:

!complete, 2032 10, lily evans, severus snape

RP: Filthy!
Characters: Severus, poking Lily
Time/Date: Oct. 26, afternoon
Location: Outside
Warnings/Rating: Low
Summary: Re-potting Mandrakes
Status: Complete

Thankfully, Mandragora was a fairly hearty plant. Probably not even he could kill the little buggers. Still, it would probably a good idea for him to simply fill the pots he'd found with sod, and let Lily actually transfer the plants. That way they could be sure the Mandrakes would be trying to move into one another's pots before long at all. The randy little things.

At times like these, Severus sincerely wished he had been better at Herbology. He knew the theory back to front and sideways, even, but that had never really helped him much when confronted with an actual plant. They hadn't been too impressed that he practically had One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi memorized, had they? No, they had still determinedly shriveled and died, no matter what he did. Ah, well. He just ... wouldn't touch the Mandrakes.

To that end, as he waited for Lily to arrive, Severus filled the bottoms of the pots with sod, leaving a sizable hole in the center of each for the Mandrake itself. It was filthy work, and most certainly not the sort of thing he would have preferred to be doing, but even as his nose crinkled in distaste, he knew it was necessary. He could only hope their captors didn't intend to set a basilisk on them.

But Mandrake was used in a number of antidotes, however, and not just something as potent as the Mandrake Restorative Draught. Hopefully this was simply so that they would have the plant on hand, with the added possibility of knocking out a few unsuspecting people, for their amusement. Hopefully.

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emerald_eyes
2010-10-26 02:21 pm UTC (link)

While she had thought about asking Balthazar or Dave if they wanted to come along, she thought better of it. She thought, too, about asking Remus or Tristan or her granddaughter or Harry, but she supposed if Severus had wanted other company, he'd have invited them himself. For a moment, she amused herself by wondering if he was just using her for her amazing herbology skills.

She still didn't like the way things were laid out. Easy access to plants? Moonstone? Live animals with parts they needed? Even as she thought this, she saw a black beetle scurrying across the path in front of her. No, she didn't like it. Not at all.

She watched the beetle vanish under a fern before she continued on her way toward where Severus was waiting.

"Obviously, nothing's going to happen, right? They've prepared us for everything, given us access to things to make just about any potion. So what do we do? Assume the ingredients will remain or make up every potion we can think of while they're here, just in case?" A smile flit briefly over her lips as she regarded him, the soil, and all the pots.

She hated this place, more and more every day. Most of the people were lovely, granted, it was the ... element of not knowing what was coming next that was unnerving her. She thought that since nothing had happened yet, this week was going to be free and clear. A break, such as it was.

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delicate_power
2010-10-26 05:21 pm UTC (link)

"Obviously," Severus answered dryly, with a raised eyebrow, but then he smiled as Lily joined him. "I set the caterpillars I collected loose," he added, shoveling a bit more soil into his current pot. "No sense in keeping them, I don't think, since the moonstone is all right, and I've three doses of the Draught of Peace already."

Three down, three to go, he thought, standing and starting to dust off his hands before he moved to the next pot. But really, why bother? His hands would only get filthy all over again. Might as well save all his dusting for the end. "How is Jaime doing, by the way?" he asked, as he began piling the potting soil into the fourth pot.