His hands were shaking as he folded up the Prophet. He didn’t usually read anything but Good News, Bad News, Magic News, International, and of course, Potions sections - but his own name had caught his eye in the Opinion section, of all places. And not only that, but Rita Skeeter’s column. And while he was growing more and more used to this occurring, he had expected something else about his supposed lies and deceit during the war. But what he had read was…. far different.
He tried to put it out of his mind, it was Rita Skeeter after all. But she hadn’t been the one to propose the idea had she? Who had sent it in? Not knowing made him wary, as he couldn’t know the credibility. What if it had been Ivy? Surely, she would have told him. Wouldn’t she? He did the math quickly in his head - he didn’t like the answer.
Before he knew it, and without really remembering how he had gotten there, Severus stood on her doorstep, banging heavily on her door, paper still clenched tightly in his other hand.
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