| potions_master @ 2003-11-09 21:25:00 |
| Current mood: | irritated |
| Current music: | Bach: Matthaüspassion |
In equal scale weighing delight and dole.
Progress on the experimental potion -- or, as I have affectionately come to call it, Granger's Spectacular Cock-Up -- is regrettably slow. Her notes are uncharacteristically sloppy, and I am disinclined to ask her for assistance in deciphering them. Such a request would undoubtedly lead to whinging, further protestations of innocence, and -- oh, only if I am truly lucky -- a few crocodile tears. I shall continue on by myself. By my calculations, there are only fourteen more potential ingredient combinations to test. All my free time for at least this week and for the coming weekend: gone. What joy is mine.
On to business:
Five points to Mister Gregory Goyle for the semi-convincing use of a multisyllabic word during class today.
Five points to Miss Millicent Bulstrode for her continual facial expression of fortitude and forbearance.
Five points to Miss Pansy Parkinson for possession of that excellent taste which has become a hallmark of Slytherin House.
Ten points to Mister Draco Malfoy for a perfectly brewed potion during class today.
Two points to Blaise Zabini for maintenance of a silence I find refreshing in a school full of jabbering idiots.
I believe that concludes things. I shall return to my experiments. After I feed Lilitou, of course. How pleasant it is to have an un-dead cat about the place. Pets really do make a house a home, don't you think?
Comments:
| jadedsirius @ 2003-11-09 06:46 pm UTC |
Ah, nice to see the Amazing Slytherin Point Machine at work again.
Tell me why it is again that you feel justified in handing points to Slytherin for nothing, and taking them away from everyone else for nothing? I forget, sometimes, but I'm certain you have an excellent reason.
| potions_master @ 2003-11-09 07:35 pm UTC |
Life is full of mysteries, Black. Ours is not to reason why.
Although of course the word 'hypocrisy' may come in handy for you in your search for truth. I have a dictionary for you, should you choose to look it up. Or might the term 'undermining authority' be more appropriate in this instance?
As Mister Malfoy astutely pointed out, fair is fair, "Professor" Black.
| jadedsirius @ 2003-11-09 08:02 pm UTC |
Ahhh, but I was simply, on a one-night basis, as part of a costume, giving points that you had unfairly taken from non-Slytherins. I did give the points, coincidentally, to the same students you took points from.
If I'm a hypocrite, it's not in this, Snape. And I notice you never did answer my question. How predictably like you, to evade questions for which you have no good answers.
| potions_master @ 2003-11-09 08:08 pm UTC |
How predictably like you, Black, to assume I care what you think.
You may go, now.
| potions_master @ 2003-11-09 08:23 pm UTC |
It is not a matter of thanks, Miss Parkinson. One gives one's students their due, after all.
(parent)| lupercus @ 2003-11-10 12:01 am UTC |
Do you want any help? I'm crap at Potions, but I'm very good at fetching-and-carrying.
| potions_master @ 2003-11-10 08:12 am UTC |
I believe I can manage on my own for now, Lupin. There is no need for you to come down here and break all my bottles.
Your offer of assistance, however, is...appreciated.
| lupercus @ 2003-11-10 10:04 pm UTC |
You mock my juggling skills. I am offended.
No worries. If you need anything, you know where to find me.
| wehaveseven @ 2003-11-10 12:21 am UTC |
The only reason that creature survives in close proximity to your cold existence is because it sucks blood for a living.
| potions_master @ 2003-11-10 08:18 am UTC |
Tsk, tsk. How grief and bitterness can change a man. Where went the effervescent Arthur Weasley we all knew and loved? I daresay I cannot survive another minute without an update on Muggle office supplies.
At any rate, there is no need for you to be snippy, Weasley. May one not comment in the delight one takes in one's pet in one's own journal? Or do you now endorse principles of censorship?
| wehaveseven @ 2003-11-11 04:45 am UTC |
I'd think instead you just drag us all down to your dour moods, Snape. I can't think you'd be remotely interested in hole punches, but your sarcasm is so heartfelt, I just have to reply, don't I.
So many "one"s, man. You've got solitude down to a fine art, it seems!
| potions_master @ 2003-11-11 09:50 pm UTC |
I wouldn't say "solitude" exactly, Weasley. After all, I do have a cat.
And no, under no circumstances do you ever "have to reply." Just so that is perfectly clear. In fact, you might even say that silence is golden, in your case.
| lupercus @ 2003-11-12 05:24 pm UTC |
You're being a bit rude there, you know.
Something wrong?
| potions_master @ 2003-11-12 08:52 pm UTC |
I am being a bit what?
This is none of your business, Lupin. And of course there is nothing wrong. Why should anything be wrong? I am perfectly fine. I am not worried about anything at all, so you may stop that right now. And if you will kindly excuse me (I understand that is the sort of thing polite people say), I must return to my researches.
You are not, and have never been, my mother. Please keep that in mind.
| potions_master @ 2003-11-11 09:53 pm UTC |
Two points from Slytherin for correcting a professor, Goyle, and for continuing to use that obnoxious icon.
Five points to Slytherin for initiative in developing an increasingly impressive vocabulary. However, I do suggest you learn to spell. It will only help you in the long run.