Okay, when I first saw this post, I gave a silent squeal of glee (see previous comment). Then I read the chapter. Then I went back and reread the series from the beginning, including Dr. Faustus's arrest, and in the meantime flailed at a friend about it until she read the whole thing too.
I felt you should be informed.
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Aw, poor Horatio.
“So,” announced Severus to no one in particular. “Here we are in Verona. On our way to visit some perfect strangers. Who thought this was a good idea, again?”
*cracks up*
You know, whatever their faults in terms of feuding and melodrama, it does seem to say something for Lord and Lady Capulet in this story that they're on good terms with the disowned portion of the family.
While they were having a wash which they hadn’t particularly wanted, Severus attempted to explain to Horatio what a soap opera was. Horatio was puzzled as to why it wasn’t called a soap opus, if it was singular, but when he finally understood the concept, he agreed with Severus that there was something very peculiar and melodramatic about the Capulet household.
I believe I cracked up three separate times in this paragraph.
who appeared to have slicked his hair back with olive oil.
Severus, should you really be critiquing other people's hair?
The safest course for strangers in the city is to appear to be civil to both families, but not specially intimate with either.
A particularly challenging course, no doubt, for guests of one of the families.
“I don’t know.” Severus fell back on the excuse that had generally served him well every time he had to admit his ignorance of English life in the 1540s. “I have never concerned myself with the diseases of Muggles.”
“Well, perhaps you should! How did you come to be a court wizard to a Muggle king, if you are so indifferent?”
It amuses me that this means nobody in Hamlet's court usually questions this, perhaps because they simply assume that Severus avoiding Muggles in England has nothing in particular to do with the circumstances in which he got involved with them.
Helena frowned, and thought for a long moment. “So be it,” she said at last. “We will stay, and do what we can.”
It was not until after she had agreed that Severus began to wonder why he cared in the slightest what had caused Juliet’s death, or why he was, still more inexplicably, thinking of himself and Helena as a unit.
Aww. ;)
Severus has more of a sense of responsibility here than he's really willing to cop to verbally, I think.
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Date: 2013-08-24 04:55 pm (UTC)I felt you should be informed.
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Aw, poor Horatio.
“So,” announced Severus to no one in particular. “Here we are in Verona. On our way to visit some perfect strangers. Who thought this was a good idea, again?”
*cracks up*
You know, whatever their faults in terms of feuding and melodrama, it does seem to say something for Lord and Lady Capulet in this story that they're on good terms with the disowned portion of the family.
While they were having a wash which they hadn’t particularly wanted, Severus attempted to explain to Horatio what a soap opera was. Horatio was puzzled as to why it wasn’t called a soap opus, if it was singular, but when he finally understood the concept, he agreed with Severus that there was something very peculiar and melodramatic about the Capulet household.
I believe I cracked up three separate times in this paragraph.
who appeared to have slicked his hair back with olive oil.
Severus, should you really be critiquing other people's hair?
The safest course for strangers in the city is to appear to be civil to both families, but not specially intimate with either.
A particularly challenging course, no doubt, for guests of one of the families.
“I don’t know.” Severus fell back on the excuse that had generally served him well every time he had to admit his ignorance of English life in the 1540s. “I have never concerned myself with the diseases of Muggles.”
“Well, perhaps you should! How did you come to be a court wizard to a Muggle king, if you are so indifferent?”
It amuses me that this means nobody in Hamlet's court usually questions this, perhaps because they simply assume that Severus avoiding Muggles in England has nothing in particular to do with the circumstances in which he got involved with them.
Helena frowned, and thought for a long moment. “So be it,” she said at last. “We will stay, and do what we can.”
It was not until after she had agreed that Severus began to wonder why he cared in the slightest what had caused Juliet’s death, or why he was, still more inexplicably, thinking of himself and Helena as a unit.
Aww. ;)
Severus has more of a sense of responsibility here than he's really willing to cop to verbally, I think.