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Greetings from the wind battered Northern Tundra!  I'm Merrymoll, also known as Moll, "Who?" and "Oi, you!".   I started reading the HP books a few years ago after seeing the "Philosopher's Stone" .  Alan Rickman - it's all his fault. XD  Throughout the series, I found myself being more intrigued by Snape, a complex kind of character whose like we don't see enough of in most fiction.  He's sarcastic, cruel, bad tempered, wears funky villain clothes and yet is ultimately on the side of goodness, fluffy puppies, and all things nice.  Although I wouldn't fancy the chances of any fluffy puppies around Snape - good potions ingredients are hard to find.

I've recently decided to widen my horizons, stop lurking and try to participate in interesting things.  And try to get my fic writing groove back.  Oh, look, you cna pimp your own fic on Fridays.  That's handy...

This was going to be my entry to the Severus Big Bang, but Real Life got in the way (bloody thing), and I didn't manage to finish in time.  I've recently managed to get back to it, and it should be completed in the next few weeks.  In the meantime, I'm posting  one chapter per week on my Live Journal until it's done. 

I hereby humbly present my first chapter:

 Title: Stewed Screwed and Tattooed - Chapter One
Author: Merrymoll
Beta:  dreamy_dragon73 
Genre: AU Humour, Romance  • Rating: R • Warnings: Smut, Comedy Violence, Glaswegianisms
Pairing: Severus/OFC • Characters: Severus, OFC, Lucius Malfoy
Summary/comments:  Severus Snape was discovered to be a spy by Voldemort shortly after his resurrection, and was saved by a dissolutioned Lucius Malfoy. Now joint No.1 on Voldie's shit list, they're stuck at Hogwarts and bored out of their skulls. During a maudlin drinking session, they decide to try to get rid of their Dark Marks. Snape has confiscated a tattooist's business card form one of his Muggleborn students - and, completely smashed, they decide to get a tattoo to cover up the Marks and apparate to muggle Glasgow, into the parlour where Cat Duncan, the owner of the business card, works.
All poor Cat wants to do is get a mocha and go home, now she's got two drunk wizards on her hands. Fortunately, Cat knows about wizards as the student Snape took the card from is her little brother. Unfortunately, something has begun to block all forms of magical transport, and it's up to Cat to try and get Snape and Malfoy back to Hogwarts as quickly and secretly as possible, without Voldemort finding out...
Disclaimer:  All Wizardy thing belong to J K Rowling.  Cat Duncan belongs to me.  Monty Python quotes belong
to Monty Python.  Contents may settle in transit.  Close cover before striking


"I believe I am having a mid life crisis."

Has anybody thought about who does the laundry at Hogwarts? I was discussing Snapes Worst Memory with a friend and we remembered Lily's comment about "I should wash my pants if I were you, Snivellus."

I had always assumed that the house elves did the laundry, but my friend disagreed, since that would mean that if they touched the clothes, the elf would be free. I thought that maybe there was a special dispensation or something, such as, dirty clothes were okay to touch, but then of course in CoS, Harry's old slimy sock is used to free Dobby, so that can't be right.

Do the children do their own laundry, perhaps? Never having attended a boarding school in my life, I don't know what the procedure is, but I couldn't imagine Harry or Ron doing much in the way of laundry. Maybe that's how Severus's pants got into such a state, if he had the typical teenage male's "relaxed" approach to personal hygiene!

Can anybody remember anything in canon where laundry is discussed? The only one I can remember doing anything like that was Molly, when she'd ironed all of Ron and Harry's uniforms in one of the books before they went off to Hogwarts, and Hermione, who I think packed Ron's jeans for him in the last book. So maybe laundry and clothes et al are specifically a female-oriented chore in the Potterverse? Perhaps wizards implode if they have to do their own? What do others think about the state of laundry in the Potterverse?

Alison ;D