Snape's Adventures Part 5 -A Chat Over Coffee



"Ronnie, what was that muggle building you were crowded around when we bumped into each other?" Snape asked while he sipped a Mocha chino.

"It's a theatre! There is going to be a play called 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' and they are taking auditions. I was going to try out for Helena, a muggle. It is a story based in a place called 'Otherworld' with faeries and such in it. I'm a big Shakespeare fan!" Ronnie explained, starry eyed.

"Who's Shakespeare?" Snape asked. Being totally oblivious to the great playwright's fame, Snape would have sounded quite stupid.

Ronnie laughed at him. "Severus! Don't tell me you don't know who William Shakespeare is!"

Snape reddened, "Well, it may ring a bell..."

"Shakespeare," Ronnie beamed, " is one of the few great wizards that posed as muggles AND were never caught! You should have learned this from Professor Binns! Will wrote great plays about things that went on long, long ago! Back, even before Binns was living!" Ronnie stopped and quieted down. "Shakespeare wrote some plays about the Famous Four. Over half over his plays aren't recorded in muggle history!"

"Oh! You mean THAT William Shakespeare...Yep, I know that one," he lied.

Ronnie playfully punched him in the arm, "Sure ya did!"

"Well if you don't hurry, you'll miss the auditions Ronnie. Maybe I'll try out as well...who else is in the play?" Snape asked.

"You? Have you ever acted? I think the only character you would fit is Lord Oberon. Anyways there isn't enough time to get there," Ronnie sighed sadly as she said the last part.

"I'll try that part then!" Snape paused for a second then whispered, "Sid you forget, my dear Ronnie, that we are wizards? We have many options...The best easily being apparation."

"Appar-oh, Severus I haven't learned to apparate!" Ronnie moaned.

"Yes. You. Have." Snape stated.

"What are you talking about?!"

"Have you forgotten the end of our sixth year when were trying (although not really succeeding) to apparate? Well, I really should have listened to you about the fact you can't apparate inside the Hogwarts grounds. I still feel stupid about that. But we tried it over the summer and succeeded extremely well! BOTH of us! You just...well you really didn't agree well with the status of your stomach..." Snape glowed at the memory. Even though they were breaking the law it had been good times!

Ronnie frowned, "that was not a very fun experience, Severus."

"Face it, you know how. And it's like riding a bike, you'll never forget how!" Snape said.

"A bike is a muggle object. How do you know anything about it?!" Ronnie asked, maybe trying to avoid the subject?

"Picked it up from some muggle-borns," Snape said offhandedly. "We're gonna havta go soon. What time does it start?"

"Quarter past 2," Ronnie sighed.

"OK then we'll go now. We only have 5 minutes! Let's go. I noticed a secluded alley on the way in we'll apparate from there." Snape decided very un-snapeylike.

So the two left the Starbucks to go to the alley to apparate into the theatre.

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Will Snape get the part as the jealous Lord Oberon? Will Ronnie make it as Helena? Will Ronnie throw up on someone after they apparate into the theatre? Find out tomorrow hopefully! Please R&R with your suggestions and/or coments!

Disclaimer: J.K. Rowling owns Snape and the Famous Four and muggles etc. Shakespeare although dead, owns A Midsummer Night's Dream and Starbucks doesn't belong to me. But Ronnie does...and that would be all...

UPDATED: September 16th, 2001