‘ i…  am still searching. ’      he began, taking the seat in front of the headmaster & carefully placing a short pile of heavy books on the floor, one of them now lay open on severus’s lap.  fingers that were like the legs of a white spider flickered through the ancient, yellowish pages, searching for the thin caligraphy that imprinted his personal notes on the tome.      ‘ you can’t give up so soon.  something somewhere has got to be useful.  there must be a combination i’m letting pass. ’      /    @lamentedhope      sc