"Are you done scaring the girl?" Snape asks, sliding his wand away. "I thought it was my job to become young people's boggarts."
Not that he doesn't know that there's a perfectly good reason WHY Neville Longbottom had him as a boggart -- beyond the fact that the boy had been raised to have no spine -- and neither is he proud of it nor, really, ashamed. That was at the moment, unimportant. What he was at this moment, was trying to remember what had been asked of him, and applying it as it was needed.
It was just so hard with Sirius Black being anywhere near him, making him remember so many things...
And seeing Nill quake reminds him of how he had just failed it. Unlike Sirius, he does not approach. Instead, he goes to gather his things, picking up the notepad and pens he'd been using, as if he might take his leave without another word.
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Not that he doesn't know that there's a perfectly good reason WHY Neville Longbottom had him as a boggart -- beyond the fact that the boy had been raised to have no spine -- and neither is he proud of it nor, really, ashamed. That was at the moment, unimportant. What he was at this moment, was trying to remember what had been asked of him, and applying it as it was needed.
It was just so hard with Sirius Black being anywhere near him, making him remember so many things...
And seeing Nill quake reminds him of how he had just failed it. Unlike Sirius, he does not approach. Instead, he goes to gather his things, picking up the notepad and pens he'd been using, as if he might take his leave without another word.