No one saves us but ourselves, no one can and no one may.

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Who: Sebastian & Snape
What: Medical funtimes and fussing about alarmist conspiracy theory lit quality literature.
Where: Wherever Snape has decided to treat Sebastian.
When: Shundi Evening.
Warnings: Snape. Podder. Books. Avert thine eyes.

When Sebastian arrives to see Snape for his regularly scheduled poking, prodding, and potion drinking session he now carries with him one of the books Severus suggested he read. The collection of brightly coloured post-it notes looks at odds with the well-worn cover and sombre subject matter. He's made a few remarks in his private journal, but the majority of his thinking remains on loose-leaf pieces of notepaper marking passages he needed to expand in order to understand or to contain his commentary and questions. He is a slow, methodical reader and should Severus ever observe him with a book in hand, it's clear that he puts a significant amount of effort into reading. Sebastian hopes that one day, he'll read purely for pleasure and find it as easy as he once rode a broom.

For now, neither of those options are open to him; although, seeing Severus to get his old injuries treated and exploring the city to see if there's any good way to restore his magic are going a long way toward the second.

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Now that he's moved his workspace out of the apothecary, Severus has to meet Sebastian in the city and Apparate into his new workshop; a large, rectangle room that could be a whole studio apartment or more. Whatever its original purpose was is unknown, however, because it's already beginning to amass the semifamiliar cramped orderliness of a certain Slytherin head of house's otherworldly office.

Severus doesn't instruct Sebastian to sit on the examination table, this is something they've done enough times before, by now, and even if they hadn't, he knows the other man doesn't need to be led through every little thing on a lead. Deceptively absent, as he pulls off his coat and looks over the things he's already laid out in preparation, "How have you found the reading?"

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As Sebastian settles in for the examination, Velcro snorts to express his displeasure at being apparated. Clearly, he feels it is not a civilised way to travel.

"Slow going. I've read a few of the essays and I'm part way through this one," he remarks with a gesture towards Muggle Faith In The Wizarding World. He's flipped through the third book, but has chosen to keep it well hidden from Hermione and leave it for last. "But I'm glad for another perspective. Even if it's only to hear concerns that I've had coming through another voice."

"I remember the mess of getting my own letter and I wondered how it went for other families. If they were given the same, ah, encouragement that the Dursleys were."

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Apparently the idea of Sebastian getting a Hogwarts letter was not something he'd considered in reality, because he stops what he's doing for a moment, reflective. But then he moves past it, ignoring whatever curious little notion flickered about in his head, just there.

After he turns around, sleeves rolled up, a tray of objects in his hands, he looks like he might say something, and then just gives Sebastian a sour look, implying that he has nothing but inappropriate remarks for anything concerning the Dursleys.

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Given that expression, Sebastian suspects that Severus knows enough about his so-called family that he can be quite candid with his own opinions: "It's a terrible thing to think and say, but I've sometimes wondered why certain unwilling parents of wizards were charmed but the Dursleys never were."

He has a few theories of his own and the worst revolve around 'character building'.