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[lancifolium]

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[lancifolium]

The Patination of Lily Evans sounds like a real page turner.

[primevenison]

I'd read it. Number one bestseller of 1978, right there.

[lancifolium]

"Had to keep a hold on it all night." James Potter, local provocateur.

[primevenison]

I like to think I provoke at least on a national level.

[lancifolium]

You'd never be able to endure the paperwork for that.

[primevenison]

Not meekly putting up with paperwork is frankly very provocateurish of me. Bonus points to the application.

[lancifolium]

From the makers of The Patination of Lily Evans, a new novel: The Provocation of James Potter.

"I was terrified." Lily Evans, international genius.

[primevenison]

I'm flattered you read it.

[lancifolium]

The effect it had on me was profound, to say the least.

[primevenison]

This is the closest you're ever going to come to calling me profound, so I'm printing it out for my wall.

[lancifolium]

Untrue, I would refer to aspects of you as profound.

[primevenison]

Oh, yeah? Like what, exactly?

[lancifolium]

You have a profound inclination to be the cause of most of my headaches?

[primevenison]

That's cheating.

But also, I'll take it.

[lancifolium]

The way the angles your hair sticks up at defy physics is profoundly mysterious and just a little cute.

[primevenison]

[A compliment? From Lily Evans? His day is officially made.]

I'm a non-Euclidian shape!

(Yes, I've read Euclid.)

(...I've read about Euclid.)

(Okay, so my dad just has a book about Euclid and one time I picked it up. That counts, right?)

[lancifolium]

You've only gone and gotten all giddy now haven't you?

(It does not count.)

[primevenison]

Who, me? Madam, you insult me. Do I seem like the giddy type?

Don't answer that.

[lancifolium]

Completely giddy. A strutting, preening fool.

[primevenison]

I resemble that remark!

[lancifolium]

Like no one else in the whole wide world ever could.

[primevenison]

In other words, nobody else can live up to the standards I set. Got it.

[lancifolium]

"When it comes to swaggering about he is unparalleled." Lily Evans, still terrified.

[primevenison]

You can burn me as hard as you like, I'm already chargrilled on one side.

[lancifolium]

Honestly I figured you of all people would take it as a compliment.