( miavi. un: x )

[darkart]

[ If you're feeling fancy and bored tonight (today, this morning..), here's a magic puzzle for you. It looks something like:


The parts can be re-arranged into two dozen different runes, which can then be translated into spells. The simpler ones, of which there are fifteen, simply make everything disappear when 'solved'. The remaining, more difficult nine are:

✧ Shimmery, translucent flowers appear around your head and shoulders, for about five minutes.
✧ BANG. Jumpscare.
✧ An enchanted doodle plays Hangman with you, the winning word changing periodically.
✧ Displays a recipe for zucchini bread. The best zucchini bread you've ever fucking had.
✧ Suggestions for what to try at the curry house in Hogsmeade.
✧ Creates a very cold feeling for about five minutes.
✧ Causes the message What else could you have been doing with your free time? to appear.
✧ Displays directions for a spell to turn nicotine cigarettes into clove cigarettes.
✧ Nothing. Unless you have a Dark Mark, in which case, a small black snake slithers into existence from the base of your wrist, wriggling to the inside of your elbow before vanishing.

Once each rune has been 'solved', the drawing vanishes, making doing more than one very difficult; the witch or wizard (or wizich) will have had to have made a copy or cast a charm to preserve it prior to fussing through everything.

( OP's username, x, is not anonymous, though Severus's general disinclination to socialize might leave even 'friends' in the dark. up2u, my sweet beans. ) ]

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[darkart]

[ Translation: definitely shit-stirring.

Or fishing, but Severus isn't who he really is, these days, and can't take the bait. ]

It's very sweet of you, in any event, to think of a stranger.

Are you going to try the zucchini bread?

[ Idle chatter until Bella notices, sure why not. ]

[contumelies]

[ she is the bane of pure-blood society. let's leave it at that. ]

It is the least I can do since you have given me such a lovely pastime.

I am planning to try it tonight. What do you recommend would go best with it?

[darkart]

[ And what does Severus care about pure-blood society? All his research about this world's doppelganger tells him that while he's secure in his legal standing, he's been appropriately disengaged in their drama. Thank fuck. ]

Orange butter, maybe some dry white cheddar.

[contumelies]

[ petia would love to disengage herself from their drama too, but her surname sadly forbids it. ]

Excellent. I hope I will do your recipe justice.

It is a pity I cannot have you sample it, but I suppose it would be too forward of me. If it turns out well, I must remember to make it for my mama the next I see her.

[darkart]

[ The fact that someone in this universe could decide he counts as a viable incest-free match for a tragically unfortunate girl has not yet occurred to him. ]

I'm all the way in Scotland, anyhow.

[contumelies]

[ oh, you poor unfortunate soul. ]

Are you a native there?

[darkart]

[ insert middle finger, or two fingers, it's the uk take your pick ]

No, I teach at Hogwarts.

[contumelies]

A professor! How long have you been teaching there?

[ she highly doubts he or she is one of her former professors, but it remains probable. ]

[darkart]

Not long.

[ What, your passive aggressive battle with Bellatrix isn't even going to be REAL ??? ugh total ripoff of admission price ]