--starter for @rxmusjohn
severus didn’t exactly hate remus lupin, he tried to save the word hate for people who actually deserved it and -- as much as he didn’t want to admit it -- lupin was not one of those people. that wasn’t to say that he liked the lycanthrope, far from it. ((actually, he secretly feared the boy still, a shiver ran its way up his spine when he thought of that “prank”)) but severus got pleasure in having something over him and made a mental note not to avoid him this evening.
when he finally caught lupin alone, seemingly abandoned by his friends for a moment, he couldn’t stop himself from walking up and starting something. “what are you here for lupin? open bar?” he raised his eyebrow in mock question and leaned closer, speaking lowly, to finish, “or to keep up the masquerade that your kind belongs here?”