"I said, you miserable animal, that Harry Potter gave me that. He brought it to me my first miserable day in this city. It was a hard won moment, you--"

Wait, is the door opening?

The Duro potion is wearing off, and he's starting to really feel the earliest bruises. The potion has handled the rest, but -- there's nothing making that blinding headache any better.

But then there's Andromeda's voice-- and it sounds like thunder in his ears right now. He slides about until he's on his backside, sitting forward, blood starting to trickle from his nose.

"...not what it looks like." Which is them trying to kill each other. Resting his head on his knees, he breathes hard and fast, he's just going to sit there; Sirius will behave with Andromeda there as a witness. Bullies always go weak when there was a witness.

Snape was the rare type that'd bully WITH a witness, all the same.