Private to Mr Wagtailsubtle_simmerAugust 20 2006, 02:56:24 UTC
You might want to acquire a copy of this week's Witch Weekly. I dare say I am tempted to take advantage of the poster-quality glossy center pages myself.
Private to Mr Snapediva_myronAugust 20 2006, 02:38:06 UTC
Ohhhh....
I've no idea why they would say that Oh come now, Myron, you do! - well, it's a lie. I guess they just like my music and something like that. Also I know I have rather nice looks, so.
Strange how outside praise makes me so defensive. Would you know why?
And I don't think my reputation would have been tainted if they knew. Quite the contrary. And besides, I do not exactly care what some periodicals and people I don't know think. To me it was one of the best times I've had in the last few years.
Private to Mr Wagtailsubtle_simmerAugust 20 2006, 03:07:42 UTC
Quite so. Though I think they could have chosen a better photo.
Perhaps because you are one of the rare individuals who can be honestly aware of your own aesthetic appeal without being arrogant about it. In my experience, this is a rare combination, indeed. I should be very sorry to see it change.
Come, Mr Wagtail - even you cannot be so naive as that? Had the paparazzi gotten wind of our excursion, there would have been no end to it. I can see the headlines:
Murdering Death Eater Ensnares Weird Sister's Lead Singer The Next Dark Lord Chooses a Catamite!
Details page 3
Never mind the truth of the issue in any regard. The Prophet has never been interested in facts, only Galleons.
It was? Thank you. I enjoyed myself as well. I found it surprisingly not unpleasant.
Don't you mean Merinos, as I seem to have acquired a dozen or more? Lupin damn near sliced off his finger when I walked in the door. I knew it was too much. And I still need to purchase actual teaching robes, as there is no possible way I will conduct classes
( ... )
Private to Mr Snapediva_myronAugust 20 2006, 04:05:15 UTC
Oh don't I know. I never liked that photo of myself. I look far too smart-assy in it. Or something to that effect.
I shall try not to change. Although I daresay this shall never happen, considering I've lived out 30 years of my life already, and as you can see - no rotting yet.
That's just ridiculous! Although, wait - the next Dark Lord? What a scary thought. How can they be so thoughtless with what they say? Words are material and if they expect the next Dark Lord to come around gallivanting, they will get just one! Oh. This is when my private desire to turn them all into croaking toads turns into a global mission of sorts.
Oh yes, the plural. And your beautiful shirts? And trousers? I honestly think you have a very nice build and you ought to let others see it too. Because not many have a masculine figure that can also look elegant. Take me, for example, I am a bit or too much on the thin side, and while that lends me elegance, it also makes me look more effeminate than necessary
( ... )
Private to Mr Wagtailsubtle_simmerAugust 20 2006, 04:43:54 UTC
It's the spectacles. They are too large and too square for your face.
As you say. Nonetheless, people do change, so it is well for you to be wary of it.
You missed that title in the papers, did you? I was called that shortly after Lupin's pack was registered here as their legal residence. Draco Malfoy was living here at the time as well, and Our Saviour deemed it necessary to visit on a regular basis so as to make certain I had not chopped Lupin's liver into itty-bitty pieces for potions brewing or other nefarious purposes. The paper had a field day with my 'unusual sway' over the Boy Who Lived to Torment me, and opined that perhaps, in gathering Lupin's pack here, I was preparing to exert my power and influence to become the Next Dark Lord.
It was rather amusing, though not so much as this - I've been trying to twit Lupin over it - his photo is wretched as well - but he is ignoring me at the moment - or perhaps has not seen the article yet. I was gracious enough to buy an extra copy and leave it on the table for his reading
( ... )
Private to Severussuicide_blonde_August 20 2006, 05:13:28 UTC
Obviously I'm just too popular for my own good.
Though if my father isn't dead yet, those batty reporters are going to have to step it up.
It's only because he's gone and saved the world. If I'd done that I'd have been higher on the list. Beaten out by Potter and the lead singer of the Weird Sisters isn't so bad. I just sincerely hope that witches don't go getting any ideas about me settling down. I rather like my life as a bachelor. It suits me.
Private to Dracosubtle_simmerAugust 20 2006, 05:46:19 UTC
Obviously you are too something for your own good, but 'popular' is not the word which comes immediately to mind.
Agreed.
You just like them all to pine away for you in unrequited fantasies of adoration and lascivious desires. Probably the safest choice, anyway. Your mother will choose your nice pure-blood wife for you when you decide you're ready and you will be quite expected to produce the requisite 'heir and a spare'.
Sometimes being the 'filthy half-blood' has definite advantages.
Private to Severussuicide_blonde_August 20 2006, 05:58:09 UTC
How about sexy? Charismatic? Wonderful?
Fuck you very much for reminding me. I didn't want to have to think about that. I don't want to get married you know. Or have an heir. I think it's quite likely that, being a Malfoy, there will be no spare. Do you know how funny it is that I recently had this same conversation with Harry?
Private to Dracosubtle_simmerAugust 20 2006, 06:18:04 UTC
How about annoying? Arrogant? Selfish? It is very well that I am fond of you, anyway.
I suspected as much. There is a great deal of responsibility there, and you are very young. You have decades in which to make that decision. I think it behooves you to remember that if you have no offspring, both the Malfoy and the Black lineage end completely - or at least the purest form of them.
Being half-blood, myself, yet having had the 'importance' of purity of blood quite literally beaten into me, I cannot consider that prospect without a pang of regret. Perhaps in twenty years you will consider the subject differently.
You will not find me pressuring you to do something you do not wish - but I would be remiss in my responsibility to you if I did not remind you of who you are.
I highly suspect the only reason there is no 'spare' is because your beautiful mother did not wish to damage her figure with other pregnancies, and your father holds legitimacy of equal importance to purity, and therefore would not have fathered bastards
( ... )
Private to Severusm4moonyAugust 20 2006, 05:25:13 UTC
And now it may be illuminating to yourself to note that as of half three this afternoon, that copy is no longer on the kitchen table and shall not be found in the house either.
Forget turning into a bloody beast once a month and potentially savaging the student population. I've half a mind to resign just to avoid the seventh year girls who will all no doubt have copies of the bloody thing. I watched Lily's friends in school. It didn't matter who (or what) the man was, if Witch Weekly said he was whatever, they agreed.
Just kill me now and put me out of this misery. I can't even bring myself to check the rest of this blasted journal for fear of more of this.
I think I'd like to be the next Dark Lord, now, please.
Private to Lupinsubtle_simmerAugust 20 2006, 05:43:18 UTC
Never fear, Lupin - I did buy more than one copy. It was simply too entertaining to have only one.
You'll not be resigning - I've no doubt Minerva put the same Unbreakable Clause Charm on your contract, and I assure you public humiliation is not one of the Justifiable Breakage reasons.
I worked very hard for that title, you can't have it. I think I shall have to take to calling you 'Seven' instead of Lupin. I might just have to frame that poster and hang it in my dungeons. Though I've already used Potter's photo to line the Owl cages down here.
What was it you told me when it was my name being dragged through the muck? Something stoic and placating about 'ignoring it', I'm sure. At least this is positive - though, admittedly, I find their choices of photographs highly unflattering of each of the 'Top Ten'.
I can see I will have to keep even closer than usual eye on the ingredients for illicit love-potions once we're at school. And you would do well to be wary of anything you consume.
Private to Severusm4moonyAugust 20 2006, 06:18:46 UTC
I take it all back. You are an evil man.
Funny, when you were dubbed with that title, you were quite willing to let me be the Dark Lord. Now that you've seen the alternative, you want to keep it, is that it? Very well.
And here I thought you would have used mine to line the cages and hung Harry's for target practice after particularly trying classes. Given that particular photo is the staff photo from my last tenure at Hogwarts and was taken after twelve years of living like a nomad across Europe, I can't imagine how anyone would look at it as anything but what it is -- a man bordering on starvation and looking worse than death!
I draw the line at nicknames, however. You can't even bring yourself to call me by my given name, after all.
-- RJL
P.S. I said ignore them, which I am. I never said ignore the charming members of one's house who want to rub one's nose in it. Guess which category you fit into right now.
Private to Sevensubtle_simmerAugust 20 2006, 06:35:31 UTC
Quite so! That unfamiliar sound coming from the cellar? That is me laughing until my sides hurt. Derrick finds it amusing as well. Has June heard the news? We mustn't leave her out of the fun. Mr Wagtail has some interesting things to say about you.
I don't think I realised the two of you got to know each other quite so well. I'm fairly certain I don't like the idea.
If your fan-mail starts interfering with my business-post, I will have to insist you allow your owls to come to your own window rather than the post-window. Then again, if any of them send any interesting photos, feel free to share. I can be as lascivious as the next man. Particularly when I don't have to deal with the back-lash.
Honestly, Lupin, you ought to be flattered! How much more 'acceptance' can you receive than to be publicly acknowledged as one of the top-ten most Eligible Bachelors? Congratulations are in order
( ... )
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Ouch, that took me a while to write out. But, why are you saying that?
~Myron
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~S. Snape
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That's very cute.
~Myron
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I am thinking of using Our Saviour's photo to line my Owl cages.
Or else enlarge the thing and use it as target practise.
~ Severus S. Snape
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I've no idea why they would say that Oh come now, Myron, you do! - well, it's a lie. I guess they just like my music and something like that. Also I know I have rather nice looks, so.
Strange how outside praise makes me so defensive. Would you know why?
And I don't think my reputation would have been tainted if they knew. Quite the contrary. And besides, I do not exactly care what some periodicals and people I don't know think. To me it was one of the best times I've had in the last few years.
How's your merino doing?
~Myron
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Perhaps because you are one of the rare individuals who can be honestly aware of your own aesthetic appeal without being arrogant about it. In my experience, this is a rare combination, indeed. I should be very sorry to see it change.
Come, Mr Wagtail - even you cannot be so naive as that? Had the paparazzi gotten wind of our excursion, there would have been no end to it. I can see the headlines:
Murdering Death Eater Ensnares Weird Sister's Lead Singer
The Next Dark Lord Chooses a Catamite!
Details page 3
Never mind the truth of the issue in any regard. The Prophet has never been interested in facts, only Galleons.
It was? Thank you. I enjoyed myself as well. I found it surprisingly not unpleasant.
Don't you mean Merinos, as I seem to have acquired a dozen or more? Lupin damn near sliced off his finger when I walked in the door. I knew it was too much. And I still need to purchase actual teaching robes, as there is no possible way I will conduct classes ( ... )
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I shall try not to change. Although I daresay this shall never happen, considering I've lived out 30 years of my life already, and as you can see - no rotting yet.
That's just ridiculous! Although, wait - the next Dark Lord? What a scary thought. How can they be so thoughtless with what they say? Words are material and if they expect the next Dark Lord to come around gallivanting, they will get just one! Oh. This is when my private desire to turn them all into croaking toads turns into a global mission of sorts.
Oh yes, the plural. And your beautiful shirts? And trousers? I honestly think you have a very nice build and you ought to let others see it too. Because not many have a masculine figure that can also look elegant. Take me, for example, I am a bit or too much on the thin side, and while that lends me elegance, it also makes me look more effeminate than necessary ( ... )
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As you say. Nonetheless, people do change, so it is well for you to be wary of it.
You missed that title in the papers, did you? I was called that shortly after Lupin's pack was registered here as their legal residence. Draco Malfoy was living here at the time as well, and Our Saviour deemed it necessary to visit on a regular basis so as to make certain I had not chopped Lupin's liver into itty-bitty pieces for potions brewing or other nefarious purposes. The paper had a field day with my 'unusual sway' over the Boy Who Lived to Torment me, and opined that perhaps, in gathering Lupin's pack here, I was preparing to exert my power and influence to become the Next Dark Lord.
It was rather amusing, though not so much as this - I've been trying to twit Lupin over it - his photo is wretched as well - but he is ignoring me at the moment - or perhaps has not seen the article yet. I was gracious enough to buy an extra copy and leave it on the table for his reading ( ... )
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Though if my father isn't dead yet, those batty reporters are going to have to step it up.
It's only because he's gone and saved the world. If I'd done that I'd have been higher on the list. Beaten out by Potter and the lead singer of the Weird Sisters isn't so bad. I just sincerely hope that witches don't go getting any ideas about me settling down. I rather like my life as a bachelor. It suits me.
-Draco
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Agreed.
You just like them all to pine away for you in unrequited fantasies of adoration and lascivious desires. Probably the safest choice, anyway. Your mother will choose your nice pure-blood wife for you when you decide you're ready and you will be quite expected to produce the requisite 'heir and a spare'.
Sometimes being the 'filthy half-blood' has definite advantages.
~ Severus
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Fuck you very much for reminding me. I didn't want to have to think about that. I don't want to get married you know. Or have an heir. I think it's quite likely that, being a Malfoy, there will be no spare. Do you know how funny it is that I recently had this same conversation with Harry?
-Draco
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I suspected as much. There is a great deal of responsibility there, and you are very young. You have decades in which to make that decision. I think it behooves you to remember that if you have no offspring, both the Malfoy and the Black lineage end completely - or at least the purest form of them.
Being half-blood, myself, yet having had the 'importance' of purity of blood quite literally beaten into me, I cannot consider that prospect without a pang of regret. Perhaps in twenty years you will consider the subject differently.
You will not find me pressuring you to do something you do not wish - but I would be remiss in my responsibility to you if I did not remind you of who you are.
I highly suspect the only reason there is no 'spare' is because your beautiful mother did not wish to damage her figure with other pregnancies, and your father holds legitimacy of equal importance to purity, and therefore would not have fathered bastards ( ... )
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Forget turning into a bloody beast once a month and potentially savaging the student population. I've half a mind to resign just to avoid the seventh year girls who will all no doubt have copies of the bloody thing. I watched Lily's friends in school. It didn't matter who (or what) the man was, if Witch Weekly said he was whatever, they agreed.
Just kill me now and put me out of this misery. I can't even bring myself to check the rest of this blasted journal for fear of more of this.
I think I'd like to be the next Dark Lord, now, please.
-- RJL
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You'll not be resigning - I've no doubt Minerva put the same Unbreakable Clause Charm on your contract, and I assure you public humiliation is not one of the Justifiable Breakage reasons.
I worked very hard for that title, you can't have it. I think I shall have to take to calling you 'Seven' instead of Lupin. I might just have to frame that poster and hang it in my dungeons. Though I've already used Potter's photo to line the Owl cages down here.
What was it you told me when it was my name being dragged through the muck? Something stoic and placating about 'ignoring it', I'm sure. At least this is positive - though, admittedly, I find their choices of photographs highly unflattering of each of the 'Top Ten'.
I can see I will have to keep even closer than usual eye on the ingredients for illicit love-potions once we're at school. And you would do well to be wary of anything you consume.
If you don't annoy me too much, I ( ... )
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Funny, when you were dubbed with that title, you were quite willing to let me be the Dark Lord. Now that you've seen the alternative, you want to keep it, is that it? Very well.
And here I thought you would have used mine to line the cages and hung Harry's for target practice after particularly trying classes. Given that particular photo is the staff photo from my last tenure at Hogwarts and was taken after twelve years of living like a nomad across Europe, I can't imagine how anyone would look at it as anything but what it is -- a man bordering on starvation and looking worse than death!
I draw the line at nicknames, however. You can't even bring yourself to call me by my given name, after all.
-- RJL
P.S. I said ignore them, which I am. I never said ignore the charming members of one's house who want to rub one's nose in it. Guess which category you fit into right now.
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I don't think I realised the two of you got to know each other quite so well. I'm fairly certain I don't like the idea.
If your fan-mail starts interfering with my business-post, I will have to insist you allow your owls to come to your own window rather than the post-window. Then again, if any of them send any interesting photos, feel free to share. I can be as lascivious as the next man. Particularly when I don't have to deal with the back-lash.
Honestly, Lupin, you ought to be flattered! How much more 'acceptance' can you receive than to be publicly acknowledged as one of the top-ten most Eligible Bachelors? Congratulations are in order ( ... )
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