Locke's jaw hung open for a long time. What is a Potter, Black, Lupin? Black potter loop-in? Looping? Was that a code of sorts? "I..." he didn't know what to say. What could he say! He did realize that this Butter-Black-Loop-in must be a trio from his past seeing as they had characteristics he hated the most... (or maybe they were dogs.)
Really, this Severus could use a little happiness in his life, Locke thought. He figured he must have had a troubled life before him -- as he himself did before he met Phoenix.
But really, a trouble past was no excuse to talk to him like that! Locke held no restraints with the shock on his face when he had just called him 'pathetic' and called humans 'boring'. Okay, the bit about humans being boring could be positively true, but like him? Like him?
"Well, look at you, Big Bad Severus!" he began unhappily. "Talking as if you don't bleed the same way I do just because you think you're some big shot Magi-- wizard, whatever! I know of old Magi who are much better than you in magic and my fighting style is none of your business especially as you don't know what I've been through. And please, try not to exclude yourself from humans just because you know magic." He shook his head. "Because that is just downright rotten and primitive and childish." And reminded him so much of a certain character who tried to destroy the world because of magic...