Drabble for Challenge #198: Snape and the First Paragraph Title: Were It Not For This by psyfic Rating: PG Warnings: DH
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Let the record state that it is not my fault all the other portraits demanded their own Dicta-Quills. Mr. Potter more than made up for the expense from pre-order sales of the multi-volume Hogwarts: the Headmasters. Phineas's edition will be a best seller if the tales I've heard him dictating are true, but I digress.
People still ask me what is the hardest aspect of dying. I usually don't bother to respond, except when I am in a jovial mood, and then my answer is "just wait and see for yourself."
My humour has never been appreciated by plebeian minds...