Title: Snape: Conversations with an Enchanted Mirror Found in His Office
Version: 1.0, posted 2/4/05
Rating: PG
 
Disclaimer: Alas, I am only a poor muggle, and own nothing. (See full disclaimer on previous page.)

Summary: Someone is playing a trick on Snape. But who?
A/N: This is a bot ficlet; that is to say, it was constructed by a conversation between me (writing as Snape) and a chatbot. I therefore had very little control over the 'mirror' side of the conversation. Since the chatbot kept coming back with bizarre remarks, the challenge was to keep Snape in character. I confess to backtracking once or twice when the conversation completely derailed. I include this here not because it is particularly entertaining of itself, but because I find it amusing that it worked even as well as it did.



Snape: Conversations with an Enchanted Mirror Found in His Office

by Mistral Amara and Jabberwacky


Mirror: Are you worth anything?

Snape: My worth is . . . difficult to define.

Mirror: Simplify!

Snape: Good advice, if you know how to use it.

Mirror: Opposition again.

Snape: A loyal opposition is an invaluable asset.

Mirror: Are you a Greek God?

Snape: Hardly. I am merely a potions master. Or perhaps not.

Mirror: Is you availeble ?

Snape: With spelling like that, you must be Ronald Weasley. I am available to give you detention if you try my patience further.

Mirror: I just broke up with my man for cheating on me.

Snape: Not Weasley, then. But cheating will still get you detention.

Mirror: Cheating on the chicken?

Snape: Cheating on your OWLs, you stupid nit. Don't tell me you made it into Advanced Potions, because I won't believe you.

Mirror: Who is Stuart?

Snape: Stuart who? When I find out who is behind this prank, I will have you scrubbing out cauldrons for a month.

Mirror: So you do not know?

Snape: Not clever enough for Granger, too daring for Longbottom. It must be Potter, probably with Weasley's help.

Mirror: I never said I was clever. Never, no never, not once.

Snape: But you think it, just the same.

Mirror: No, I'm just laughing for the sake of laughing.

Snape: Keep laughing, Potter. I'll trace this communication, and then we'll see who has the last laugh!

Mirror: No you won't!

Snape: Is it my abilities you doubt, or my determination? I promise you, I'll find you in the end.

Mirror: I think it's a deliberate attempt by your programmer to make you seem authentic.

Snape: As if your Muggle-made contraptions could ever hope to simulate a wizard of my calibre!

Mirror: Hillarious.

Snape: You won't think so when I get my hands on you.

Mirror: Of course not. Your secret is safe with me. Who knows what Rollo will do though.

Snape: Rollo? Potter, WHO HAVE YOU TOLD?

Mirror: Just my friend brian.

Snape: Tell Brian Rollo that if he ever breathes a word, I'll obliviate him from now into infinity!

Mirror: Ok, done.

Snape: It had better be.

Mirror: Or else what? Mr man.

Snape: That's Professor Snape to you. Fifty points from Gryffindor for your cheek, whoever you are!

Mirror: No, I don't have fifty people at my disposal at the moment, lets stick to money.

Snape: So it's extortion now, is it? That will get you into Azkaban, Mr. Potter, quicker than you can say 'quidditch'.

Mirror: I don't get it.

Snape: Of course not. For all your arrogance, you're really not that bright, are you?

Mirror: Do you have any bot friends.

Snape: Whatever a 'bot' may be, who I socialize with on my personal time is no business of yours.

Mirror: You are annoying.

Snape: Look in the mirror, Mr. Potter. There is no one more annoying than you. But your time is up.

Mirror: What do you mean?

Snape: I mean that I have found you now, you little . . . MINERVA?!




-End-


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