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Severus Snape and Lucious Malfoy go to a Night Club in the 1960s i was bored when i wrote this idk if ill continue

The bouncer looked Lucius up and down with a frown, then held his hand about a foot over the boy's head. "Forget it, Blondie. You must be this tall to ride this attraction."

He turned his eyes towards Severus, whose arms were folded over his little chest and whose face bore a scowl that might one day become truly mighty. "And you, you scrawny thing, quit making that face. It's not going to make your age go into the double digits any faster."

The bouncer shook his head. "A bit of advice, boys: next time, at least have gone through puberty before trying to sneak into a club."

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Even the darkest skies have their stars. But what if the stars die; does the darkness just fade away? With the turn of each page,I can feel the stars burning out again as they did so long ago, and I fear,when I reach the last page, I may not have any left

...I'm stumped. Can anyone else deduce what this story is supposed to be about? (Reading it didn't help much.)

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"The boy reminded him of a heptagon. Hyper energy pulled in too many directions."

...what? The only way I know how to compare anyone to a polygon is by calling them "a square". Is this actually a whole class of expressions I wasn't previously aware of? And why is seven the number best representative of "too many"? Wouldn't even more be worse? "The boy reminded him of a tetracontagon." Yeah, I like that.

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Re: The 60's: This person clearly doesn't realize how young Sev and Lucius are...

"You must be this tall to ride this attraction."

If the characters weren't so young in the time this story takes place, I'm make a "riding" joke here...

The 60's: This person clearly doesn't realize how young Sev and Lucius are...

Yeah, and they kind of acknowledge it: it's "back when snape was young in the 60's". If they had been transporting more adult characters back in time, it could have been done as amusing crack. But no, they just straight-up missed.

..I'm stumped. Can anyone else deduce what this story is supposed to be about? (Reading it didn't help much.)
i think upon reading that summary that this fic must be about an emo whale who is sad for his sparkly blue socks with stars on them. the whale - whose name is Walter - is afraid that his washing machine may eat his favourite socks and he will be left without sparkly star socks. It will be full of angst and dark moments. It may contain thoughts of suicide and cutting.

...or maybe not. but i think my version is spot on. ^_________^
(have i mentioned how much i love these bits of yours? totally keep me amused!)

...Whales wear socks? :)

The bouncer shook his head. "A bit of advice, boys: next time, at least have gone through puberty before trying to sneak into a club." Looks like someone is a card carrying member of the Lexicon Aversion Society. Otherwise they'd know that it wasn't the 60s it was the 40s. Cause Lucius and Severus are like way ancient. *nods*

These little snippets are always good for a giggle. I admire your ability to slog through the tripe at FFN.

Otherwise they'd know that it wasn't the 60s it was the 40s. Cause Lucius and Severus are like way ancient. *nods*

Right you are!

I admire your ability to slog through the tripe at FFN.

I don't, really; the tripe comes to me. You can make an RSS feed out of any FFN drop-down-menus search query, so I have one for "character = Severus Snape" (have you noticed how all the ones I pluck out always have him?). I don't go near Harry/Draco or anything like that with a ten-thousand foot pole.

The odd thing is, Alan Rickman could legally purchase liquor from 1967 onward, yet he manages to make Severus Snape appear to be in his early 40s at most. It's all done with potions, I tell you.

Eh, I dunno. I've always been a poor judge of age, but mostly he comes across as late 40s to about 50 to me. There are some moments -- he looks particularly young to me in the opening feast in SS, and when he's jabbing his wand into Barty's cheek in GoF. In those I would agree he about pegs late 30s to early 40s. (Of course, in those scenes Severus is supposed to be 31 and 35, but hey.)

I guess that's good for a man who is now almost 62, but still. It's a little odd, because he looks younger in some other contemporarily filmed things, so clearly he's got it in him. I know they didn't want to make Snape too attractive, but it's like they decided to make up for Alan's lack of the ugly stick by letting him look what we would think of as more "his age". ^_-

"The boy was reminiscent of a rhombitruncated icosidodecahedron" would be the best expression of too many, I think. (http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~jsm28/polyhedra/rhombitruncated-icosidodecahedron.jpeg)

"I mean, seriously! It was like he had a football on his shoulders! What is UP with that?"