Severus Snape

( [Warded Private] )

It appears to me that in all of the flailing and bleating in the aftermath of the Ministry's delightful ball that the most pertinent questions have been neither asked nor answered.

How were our surprise guests able to not only apparate and disapparate from the room and how were they able to use offensive magic when the ability to do those things had been denied to everyone else? Who placed the wards forbidding apparition and offensive magic on the room and do they have an explanation for what happened?

I, for one, would very much like to have those questions answered. Will the Ministry provide those answers or are we to be greeted with its continued deafening silence and ineptitude on the matter?

( [Warded Private] )

How delightful that I now have a tattoo on my right arm to match the remnants of the mark on my left arm. There's nothing quite like symmetry.

The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and strain from the lees of the vat.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

( Severus Snape )