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Title:

Discourse

Author: bonfoi
Rating: G
Pairing: Severus Snape/Remus Lupin
Summary: One-upsmanship during a civil conversation between Snape and Lupin
Challenge: snupin100’s Challenge #360: No Pain, No Gain
Word Count: 100
Genre: Reader’s Choice
Warnings: none
A/N: Playing with words...in more ways than one.

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“It’s obvious. Slytherins will undergo anything as long as they gain something from the exercise.”

“You must be joking, Severus. No matter what house a student is Sorted into they’ll do that.” Remus Lupin shook his head and then sipped his tea. “I mean, it’s human nature to strive to overcome pain if there’s something to gain.”

“Ah, that old adage, Nulla poena, nullus fructus, eh, Lupin?”

“If you’re going to speak Latin, you should probably use this phrase, from Horace’s Satires: Nil sine magno vita labore dedit mortalibus. Life gives nothing to mortals without great labour.

“Bloody show-off.”

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