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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
2010-10-27 02:46 am UTC (link)

Lily stuck out her tongue at him before she moved around to the other side of the patch, dragging one of the pots alongside her. She slipped her own earplugs in, ensuring the soft rubbery buds were buried in her ears. She watched a moment as he started to work on his.

Crouching down, Lily began to dig at the earth, focusing on her own work and not worrying about his. Surely he would find a way to alert her if there was a problem. Even so, she did glance up now and again as her fingers pried away the dirt.

She had a moment to wonder (and she wondered it suddenly and with alarming clarity) if they'd planted traps in the dirt, knowing that she (well, someone) would be digging there. Jerking her hands up abruptly, Lily flushed at herself.

Surely not. She was just ... being paranoid. That was all.

But the fact that she was reacting like this dismayed her. How long could that really go on before she really did make herself crazy? Jumping at shadows and assuming the worst because to hope for the best was becoming a foreign concept.

	delicate_power 2010-10-28 05:49 am UTC (link)
	Severus snorted quietly. "Yes, I imagine the signs would be quite ... interesting." And they might even spell enough of the words close to correctly for people to get the gist. Possibly. "Maybe some other time," he finally added, shaking his head slightly. "Would you like my help with anything else before I go?" he asked after a moment, with a slight shrug. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)