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placet!Paola to trio_snape, accompanying a Ravenclaw prefect and two enormous hampers, all delivered via a Kitty-chan portkey:
Caro Severus,
I know you didn't think so, but I was in fact listening when you lectured me yet again on the reduced efficacy of certain ingredients when miniaturized or otherwise unduly stressed -- that, and I really have no desire to pack your squid beaks, spider flosses, sea-urchin squirt-paks, twenty varieties of Fukushima fungi, and other unholy, ungodly, and otherwise unlovely requests with my silks and brocades. Hence, I'm sending them ahead with Miss Kandeko (who is a most sensible child, and this was truly the best field excursion ever. I can't wait to show you the data we collected in Aizu). She is also bringing some chocolate confections from Kanazawa Station for that long-suffering partner of yours -- who knew there were so many good patisseries this side of Paris? -- and a bottle of sake from Hashiguchi-san. That you remember her fondly is no mystery whatsoever; why she remembers you with affection would be far more baffling had she not seized her first available opportunity to show off a certain set of thoroughly annotated notebooks from your last sojourn here, gabbling your praises at two hundred kilometres an hour. Honestly, Severus, your neverceasing compulsion to improve things is ... adorable (as I know Remus tells you constantly, and I somehow suspect you still don't believe). Yes, yes, I realize you're scowling at me now (as if you ever stopped); I shall Apparate home shortly so that you can indulge in the satisfaction of doing so in person -- and, of course, to address whatever traumas you'll claim to have inflicted on my classes during my absence. If you haven't assigned at least seven double-detentions to the Wimseys I shall know that you are truly becoming a softie.
Con affetto,
Paola
[Postscript - charmed for Snape's eyes only:
Yes, I also picked up the specially charmed haori you requested for Remus, and I can't wait to see him in it. Have I told you lately how much better he looks since you became a couple? (Of course I have -- but it pleases me to keep reminding you. It is far too much fun watching you attempt to accept compliments and plan vengeance on me simultaneously. Isn't it a pity that I really am the best Astronomy instructor you know?) Millione baci! P.]
_lore!When AUs collide: a note from
placet!Paola to trio_snape, accompanying a Ravenclaw prefect and two enormous hampers, all delivered via a Kitty-chan portkey:Caro Severus,
I know you didn't think so, but I was in fact listening when you lectured me yet again on the reduced efficacy of certain ingredients when miniaturized or otherwise unduly stressed -- that, and I really have no desire to pack your squid beaks, spider flosses, sea-urchin squirt-paks, twenty varieties of Fukushima fungi, and other unholy, ungodly, and otherwise unlovely requests with my silks and brocades. Hence, I'm sending them ahead with Miss Kandeko (who is a most sensible child, and this was truly the best field excursion ever. I can't wait to show you the data we collected in Aizu). She is also bringing some chocolate confections from Kanazawa Station for that long-suffering partner of yours -- who knew there were so many good patisseries this side of Paris? -- and a bottle of sake from Hashiguchi-san. That you remember her fondly is no mystery whatsoever; why she remembers you with affection would be far more baffling had she not seized her first available opportunity to show off a certain set of thoroughly annotated notebooks from your last sojourn here, gabbling your praises at two hundred kilometres an hour. Honestly, Severus, your neverceasing compulsion to improve things is ... adorable (as I know Remus tells you constantly, and I somehow suspect you still don't believe). Yes, yes, I realize you're scowling at me now (as if you ever stopped); I shall Apparate home shortly so that you can indulge in the satisfaction of doing so in person -- and, of course, to address whatever traumas you'll claim to have inflicted on my classes during my absence. If you haven't assigned at least seven double-detentions to the Wimseys I shall know that you are truly becoming a softie.
Con affetto,
Paola
[Postscript - charmed for Snape's eyes only:
Yes, I also picked up the specially charmed haori you requested for Remus, and I can't wait to see him in it. Have I told you lately how much better he looks since you became a couple? (Of course I have -- but it pleases me to keep reminding you. It is far too much fun watching you attempt to accept compliments and plan vengeance on me simultaneously. Isn't it a pity that I really am the best Astronomy instructor you know?) Millione baci! P.]