Severus didn't venture outside often but sometimes it seemed to be the only place he could find some peace and quiet. Hogwarts was a horribly busy place, even in the Slytherin dungeons there was always something going on.
He had been studying for a while now, he was completely lost in the art of potion making, writing down things he wanted to look into more, sure that some of the ingredients in the book were not correct. He worried his bottom lip with his teeth as he read on, completely oblivious to what was happening around him.
"No... idiots." He muttered as he scribbled something on a piece of parchment, sometimes he wondered how he was to learn something if even the textbooks were written by idiots who did not know the difference between aconite and scurvy-grass.