𝗔𝗖𝗧 𝗜𝗜 ━━ 𝗗𝗘𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗢𝗬 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗠𝗜𝗗𝗗𝗟𝗘 069. green-leather book
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𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗪𝗘𝗘𝗞𝗦 𝗣𝗔𝗦𝗦𝗘𝗗 𝗕𝗬 𝗥𝗔𝗧𝗛𝗘𝗥 𝗤𝗨𝗜𝗖𝗞𝗟𝗬 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗠, 𝗔𝗡𝗗 Scarlet sat in her Common Room by the fireplace all alone, going through her bag and taking out her diaries where homework plans were laid. Curiosity provoked her, and she pulled out the book she obtained in the library a few evenings ago when James Potter was irritating her.
However, it seemed that irrelevant, excruciatingly stupid Potter had handed her the wrong book considering the one she held in her hand right now lacked a title; missing a proper one, at least. The green-leather-covered book had a large 'S' written on it in glistening silver — so beautifully, she wondered if it were actual silver carved on the cover.
Slowly, she turned it to the first page and her head already started to spin at the number of lists in Latin. The entire book was in cursive, and the letters were not printed but rather written by a person as it seemed.
At that moment, the entrance to the Slytherin Common room jolted open and revealed Severus Snape. He glanced at some of the third-year students chattering in the corner and shot them a look of grimace.
"Snape," she hissed, gathering his attention and he turned to look at her, turning over his shoulder to make sure it was not another individual also named Snape that she was referring to, "You know Latin," she stated although it came out as a question, eyebrows raided and insane level of curiosity lingering in her eyes.
"Not fluently." He walked over to the girl, and she gestured for him to sit on the couch opposite her. He could partially make out some of the Latin words scribbled over the hand-written book that the witch held and concluded that she needed translating. "You need my help?"
The two of them had been in an unpleasant position ever since their argument back in sixth year where he called her a slut in front of Regulus Black. However, Scarlet knew that people could not exactly say no to her, and Snape would definitely help her at any given time just to make up for what he had said.
"Of course, you're smart... and you fell asleep in the library the other night — who else would I ask?" Although she was trying to compliment him, it came out as a sly insult.
