>VERBOSE

Snape turned around in the chair, clearly annoyed at being interrupted, but spoke with a touch of amusement, resting his chin in his hands. "I cannot believe you thought you had the right to enter without knocking. Wizarding manners these days... And as much as I'm sure the fish impersonation you are currently performing is a riot at whatever sort of parties you attend, it is not impressing me. ...Well? Don't just stand there. I'm sure there was something specific you wished to bother me with."


Just a snippet I left in a comment for this pic by sullen-skrewt on DeviantArt (links to xir gallery page):



This was one of those cases where I look at a prompt and just hear the whole thing, almost instantly. I usually find this particular voice fairly easy write in, probably because I have my own stream of sarcasm running in my head almost all the time. (The snark, we loves it, yes, precious.)

Line that needs to get used:

Harry correcting one of his children, as Dumbledore always did to Harry, on referring to Snape as Professor.

You know, something like this (picture Albus Severus being, oh, six years old):


Albus picked up the photograph with one sticky hand and tugged on Harry's robe with the other. "I bet I know who this is. I've got his name, don't I, Papa? It's Snape!"
Harry smiled indulgently and futilely smoothed his son's hair. "Professor Snape, Al."

starlightforest: I even have another snippet of ficlet after the one with the books. I don't get it! Where are all these words coming from?

enotsola: I think it's called a Muse.

starlightforest: But why now? Why not, say, twelve years ago when I had that actual creative writing class in high school?

enotsola: No Snape?

starlightforest: (opens her mouth as if to say something, but seems to have no counterargument, and merely leaves it hanging open in consternation)

Severus: (rolls his eyes) Ms. Forest, I assure you we're all thoroughly familiar by now with the story of how you suffered through years of orthodontics; there's no need to remind us again of the results.