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in_the_grass (in_the_grass) wrote in wished,
@ 2010-09-25 00:10:00

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!2003: 09, !complete, essery oakby, severus snape

Who: Severus Snape & Essery Oakby
What: Chatting, etc.
Where: Hogwarts, Headmaster's office
When: Tonight
Warnings/Rating: TBA

Severus had had a few years to adjust to being able to tell the truth on a regular basis. He didn't do it gratuitously, still - there were plenty of things he saw no reason to bring up even if they weren't strictly off-limits, and a few that he still kept as close as he ever had. But he had more or less grown accustomed to the fact that there was no longer any grand, over-arching reason to say as little as possible. What was new and unfamiliar was the fact that now there was actually someone to whom he might care to say anything. Dumbledore, Malfoy and the others he'd been (somewhat) open with during the war were a different phenomenon. He couldn't imagine wanting to chat with any of them. The urge to go beyond the barest bones of pleasantries with someone with whom he had no pressing business was peculiar enough that it couldn't help but be striking.

Which made him wonder, now, why it hadn't quite stricken him before, but. It was ridiculous to delve into all of that over this, surely. First of all, he wasn't going to tell her what he knew about Goyle, at least not the more sensitive parts; in that he considered himself to be doing her a bit of a favor. (Who would want to know? It would be better if he didn't spend too much time thinking about it himself, because the thought of it still threatened to make him livid.) And then, he did owe Goyle something, and he wasn't going to risk having all of those careful plans upset by something that could see him tossed out, however unlikely she was to spread rumors.

The uncomfortable truth was that whatever he had said or insinuated, he had done it almost entirely because he wanted to talk to her, and that really ought to have been unacceptable. But he found he didn't really care. He was almost certain that it was no great sin to want to talk to someone, not anymore. Especially when they were ... well. Pleasant. And so he waited in his office, as casual as he ever was, standing at one of the shelves and thumbing through one of his collections of treatises on hellebore. He could distract himself as he pleased.

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	in_the_grass 2010-10-05 02:47 am UTC (link)
	"Oh, never too old. But if I let Longbottom answer my mail I'd have every last governor walking all over me, and ever last parent feeling free as anything to come visit their darling children every time they so much as sniffled." He snorted. He'd rather have made Trimble do it. He wasn't fond of the man, but at least he wasn't wet. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	oakbye 2010-10-05 02:50 am UTC (link)
	"Oh, horrors..." Essery laughed at the idea, harried and too involved parents traipsing all over Hogwarts. She rather liked the distance the kept, really. "That wouldn't do the students any good at all. Hogwarts is where most of them come to escape their overbearing families." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

in_the_grass
2010-10-05 03:00 am UTC (link)

"And it's much better for their absence, yes." Overbearing or simply incompetent, there were a lot of parents who had done their share of damage before shipping their spawn off to be educated. Some spoiled, some so terrified of failure that they could hardly dress themselves ... And he didn't want to cope with the parents, either. "I'm sure I can't imagine what I might have done, had I been trapped under the parental eye for quite that long."

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	oakbye 2010-10-05 03:03 am UTC (link)
	"Well, I think we manage well enough here without them," She said with another chuckle, then she sighed, looking out the window again, then back to him. "Should I be going?" She'd had a very good time, but she'd taken up most of his night, at this point. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

in_the_grass
2010-10-05 04:27 am UTC (link)

"Much better." Who needed the extra supervision? Certainly not him, certainly not now. "You don't need to go," he replied immediately, although it would have been the sensible thing to do. He did have work to do, and it was getting awfully late to have people around for a social call. And they had polished off a bottle of wine. ... There were plenty of reasons to be parting ways, actually, as little as he wanted to. "But the mail comes early, and most of it doesn't open itself."

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	oakbye 2010-10-05 11:43 pm UTC (link)
	"I'll have to do something about that, then." She gave him another smile, and then with a sigh that said she didn't really want to be doing it, she moved so that she was standing - not at all unsteady on her feet, thank Merlin, which would have been embarrassing. "We'll make this a habit, though." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	in_the_grass 2010-10-06 12:11 am UTC (link)
	"The only self-opening ones I've seen thus far are the Howlers - I can try to see to it that we get more of those, if you like. Otherwise, you'll have to unroll them yourself." He stood, heading slowly back to his desk, close enough to see her to the door on his way. "Certainly. Perhaps next time I'll have something worth telling. I shall keep an ear open." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	oakbye 2010-10-06 12:17 am UTC (link)
	"I will too, so I can show you how it's done." Essery laughed, walking with him across the office floor and then touching his arm for a moment, then letting her hand fall away. "Goodnight, Severus." (Reply to this) (Parent)

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