She's staring back with a kind of horrible interest and more than a bit of nervousness.
Other timelines. Well, that was conveniently uninformative. Did he mean he'd learnt about her from the Malfoys? The Lestranges? Sebastian? "Personal experience or secondhand?" she inquired, managing to sound almost conversational, her eyebrows slightly lifted and her face rather pale.
He might have been only a few years older than her, but he reminded her of his older self, and she found herself in the terrible position of not knowing whether to expect detention, curses or civility. Her brain was hardwired to register his older self as a harbinger of either punishment, humiliation or something much worse, back when they'd all been convinced that his true loyalties laid with Voldemort, and that applied to the Severus in front of her as well.
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Other timelines. Well, that was conveniently uninformative. Did he mean he'd learnt about her from the Malfoys? The Lestranges? Sebastian? "Personal experience or secondhand?" she inquired, managing to sound almost conversational, her eyebrows slightly lifted and her face rather pale.
He might have been only a few years older than her, but he reminded her of his older self, and she found herself in the terrible position of not knowing whether to expect detention, curses or civility. Her brain was hardwired to register his older self as a harbinger of either punishment, humiliation or something much worse, back when they'd all been convinced that his true loyalties laid with Voldemort, and that applied to the Severus in front of her as well.