Birds are pretty great

sweeping her off her feet / falling head over heels

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eileen knew they had talked about her, how eileen prince could have gone and married a muggle.

her response if she hadn’t stayed her tongue was this - who wouldn’t have fallen in love with a muggle like tobias snape? although older than her by a number of years, he was steadfast, loyal, and honorable. a soldier through and through and worth at least three wizards.

how could she have known then how they would have ended up?

she couldn’t have.

Headcanon: I can’t believe that Tobias Snape ever got himself to call his son by that outlandish name of Severus. So he basically refers to Severus as “young ‘un” all the time.

And yes, I do think there is a certain deliberation in little Severus’s strange clothes. When I was little, I used to dress up in all sort of items to try and look medieval (I have vivid memories of playing Sheriff of Nottingham in a tunic made of an old tablecloth, a cape made of an old curtain, several of my mother’s vividly-coloured silk scarves and a pair of white suede boots that were several sizes too large), and in my head I looked great in them, but my mum was invariably mortified when she discovered I’d actually left the house dressed like that. :P