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A/N: Thanks for my beta, DreamShadows! Reviews are greatly appreciated.
"Third time this week, I tell you, third! I demand an explanation!"
"Yes, Severus, it's the third time, so what?"
"You should tell your son..."
"My son? My? Oh, how lovely." – She said. "So he's my son, when it comes to the bad things, but he's yours, all yours, when he made that perfect potion last week?"
Snape shrugged, and said lightly:
"After all we know who he inherited his talent for potion making from."
"And, we all know, from who he did not inherited his talent for arts. Besides our room needed –uh- a little repainting, anyway."