I was told that I don't have to stand in line at the job center, my employment will be extendet despite the changes due to the economic crisis.
As you can imagine, I'm frenetically happy about that. To celebrate this occassion I even indulged in homemade hot chocolate and a movie evening with hand-picked horror movies, the worst I could find in my extensive collection.
I laughed a lot.

There is one problem with my continually good mood:
i'm not able to write like that! I need to be my cynical pessimistic self for writing.
So, give me a bit of time, I'm sure I will be back to normal in no time at all

This chapter was written before all this happened.


The obituary of Severus Tobias Snape.

Albus Potter never saw something that represented better the strange status his chosen person had had in his lifetime and even in his death. And that was after it was known what had happened and on which side he really stood.

Severus Tobias Snape
Headmaster of Hogwarts
Order of Merlin, 1. class
Master of Potions, DADA, Experimental Potions, Creator of Spells

Fallen in the Battle of Hogwarts

The funeral will be held at the graveyard of Hogwarts
Sunday, 7 June, at dusk

There was the symbol of Hogwarts seeing that he had been the Headmaster and the little symbol for Slytherin as his house. The few words were in the middle, otherwise the whole page of the "Daily Prophet" was blank. It was a very old tradition and had not been used for a while, but it seemed fitting. The obituary matched Snape's personality: direct and to the point.

The time the funeral was being held was strange also. The british wizarding world had 3 traditions defining when they held funerals: at dawn, in the late morning or at midnight, depending which tradition you followed.

At the 7th june every other who died in the battle was already buried.

His remains were given to Minerva McGonagall after they had the evidence that was left by Dumbledore to exonerate Snape.
Albus Potter thought of the tomb of Headmaster Snape in the graveyard of Hogwarts.

It was exactly like the obituary, traditional, a bit antiquated in the way it looked, direct and to the point.

Just the usual information and an inscription:

Dedication beyond all measure

It was fitting.

The "Daily Prophet" of the day after the funeral held a recount of it.

We heard so much about Severus Snape, so much nobody ever imagined.
Who was this man, this guy who worked half of his life just to bring the Dark Lord down?
A brilliant wizard in many fields, wasted on his surroundings. And after everything there is nobody that can say they really knew him.
Strange that he had to die to be accepted for his work, regardless of which work we are talking about: The demanding and grim teacher, the distrustet spy, the ground-breaking potioneer or the youngest Headmaster in the history of Hogwarts.
Yesterday was his funeral.
The graveyard of Hogwarts looks strange at dusk.
His tomb is like the role he played: straight, dark and bleak.
People waiting and watching.
There was a sign at the gate leading in the graveyard: "
If you don't know what to say, say nothing."
It was silent the whole time.
by Gaylord Scribble

He had just found the intro to his work.

Albus Severus Potter smiled.