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warning: this is silly! really, really silly! and unbeta-d! but fun '-) it's been inspired by casting rumors for the third Harry Potter movie and then, in turn, by Mr McGregor's unique way with a lightsabre in Star Wars Episode I.

Warned Brothers proudly present...

A Walk-In

starring
· Alan Rickman as Severus Snape,
· Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter,
· Ewan McGregor as Remus Lupin (gods forbid!)
· and a Grindylow

~

[Professor Lupin's office. Afternoon. RL and HP are enjoying their tea. The Grindylow is sulking in its tank, since no one was nice enough to pass it the sugar.]

[RL] [shrewdly] So you've been thinking that I didn't believe you capable of fighting the Boggart?
[HP] Well... yeah. [suddenly feeling a lot happier, perhaps it's something about the tea; brightly] Professor Lupin, you know the Dementors -
[RL] [sagely] Oh, do I -

[Here several things happen at the same time. In slow motion: RL suddenly feels a disconcerting urge to ramble, preferably with his arm comfortingly draped over HP's shoulders; HP begins to worry under the professor's glassy stare and decides that the blasted tea was funny; the Grindylow pulls a face incidentally very much resembling Professor McGonagall, and everyone's pretty light-headed...]
[Fortunately, the scene is rescued by a knock on the door.]

[RL] Duh... Come in.
[HP] [sotto voce] 'Duh'?..

[The door opens, and in comes Snape. He is carrying a goblet, which is smoking faintly, and stops at the sight of...]

[SS] [sarcastically] Lookin' good today, eh, Lupin?
[RL] Ah, Severus... [realizing that something is not going quite right] Er -
[SS] ...Though a bit off-colour, are you?
[RL] Er, could you leave it -

[Snape sets the smoking goblet down, his eyes wandering between Harry and Lupin, a smirk making its way to his lips.]

[SS] Nice 'do.
[RL] [blushes nervously]
[HP] '`Do'?!
[RL] Now, Severus...

[And here, out of confusion, RL starts fumbling with his wand, very soon dropping it, naturally. The wand spins in the air, drawing an intricate flourish and knocking Professor Lupin's battered case over. The lid snaps open and something breaks free. After a moment of hesitation it assumes a shape.]

[RL] NOOOOOOO!!! [rushes out of the room, bumping briefly into the water tank]
[HP] [overwhelmed by combined effects of the tea and the Wolfsbane Potion vapour, happily falls over]

[In the centre of the office, a man's head (greying curly hair; beard; glasses; what appears to be red and black war paint) keeps turning gently. On a stick.]

[SS] [puts his hand over his eyes] [heartfelt] Oh bugger!

~

may that never happen to us '-)