Title: Requiem for a Spy
Rating: G
Challenge: Written for the Snape 100 Challenge # 364: Snape and the House Party Prompts
Word count: 100
Prompts used: Lexicon, Etiolated
"Unfathomable," was the first, and least helpful, from Weasley, who knew him a little.
"Reliable," sniffed McGonagall, concise and uneffusive as a Calvinist prayer book.
"Strangely etiolated. Dungeon-dweller, you know." That's Sprout.
"Bastard. Turn-coat. Made up for it, though," was Aberforth Dumbledore's grudging valedictory.
"The man was tortured," Pomfrey told me with tears in her eyes, and she should know. In retrospect, though, it's unclear if she meant in body or spirit.
How to write an epitaph for a man known to all and by none? There is no lexicon for mourning a deliberate ciphe
Title: Passwords
Rating: PG-13
Challenge: Written for the Snape 100 Challenge #369: Beholder Redux on LiveJournal
Word count: 100
It began with a raised eyebrow, as Severus looked at the password that appeared magically on the self-destructing parchment.
"Slippery when wet," he intoned, and the staff room door swung open.
When it was his turn to set the password, he hesitated only a moment.
Minerva blinked once before giving it: "Have you seen my pussycat?"
They moved through "Touch me, Titus," "Queen Anne's clitoris," and "The early village cock/Hath twice done salutation to the morn," before anyone caught them at the game.
"A hard man is good to find," Minerva read, before she heard Filius say, "Indeed," behind her.
A/N: "Touch me, Titus" is from Robert Graves' wonderful historical novel, I,Claudius; and "The early village cock" line is from Shakespeare's Richard III.