TBAY: LICKS

[Diana Williams]

No: HPFGUIDX 70708

"HIS DEATH EATER DAYS!!!" Oryomai shrieked.  "If he had a family and was out
> and about gambling, losing all their money and all that jazz - WHEN WAS HE
A
> DEATH EATER?!??"  She paused.  "Unless...Veritaserum makes a person tell
the
> truth as they know it, right?  Maybe Florence told Lil Flor that Severus
was out
> gambling and such when really he was Death Eating.  Florence wouldn't want
> her darling daughter to know about her own Death Eating days... And for
that,
> why would a normal good girl marry a Death Eater unless she was one
herself, eh?
>  I give you FADE - Florence: A Death Eater?"

Diana had been chewing her lip and thumbing through her Lexicon, and once
Captain Oryomai's triumphant cry faded, she looked up with a puzzled look.
"Captain, that little brat - er - child's story just doesn't wash.  It says
here in the Lexicon that Bertha Jorkins was two years older than Severus and
the gang, which means that she left school when they were Fifth years, or
shortly after the whole Pensieve incident.  Now, we all know that Severus is
terribly clever, but the period of time between the underpants incident and
the end of school was pretty darned short for even him to have spun out a
whole campaign to seduce this Florence person so that Bertha could catch
them kissing behind the greenhouse.  Besides, much as we love Severus, can
even we believe that he kept this woman in thrall for two years so he could
marry her after finishing Hogwarts?"

Diana shook her head.  "Besides, the Lexicon mentions Bertha complaining
when she around sixteen about being treated badly by others, so what if
that's when Florence and the Greenhouse took place?  And Severus may be
precocious, but seducing girls at 14?  More in Sirius Black's style, isn't
that?"  she added, casting dirty glances over at SAD DENIAL.  "So what if
Berta saw someone *older* kissing Florence?  Someone who had something to
lose by being seen kissing Florence when he had an advantageous marriage
lined up?  Someone who had a reason for hexing Bertha for spying?"

With a triumphant look, Diana held up a baby bib with the word LICKS printed
on it.  "Yes!  This precocious brat is *not* Severus Snape's child!  It is
Lucius' Illegitimate Child Kept Secret!"


Diana Williams
"I was raised to be charming, not sincere," Prince Charming, "Into the
Woods"
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