No hesitation, no delay, it comes on just like special k.

[mortal_sand]

I have found the downside to having my parents visit for Sunday lunch, instead of going to them. My dad has this spectacular ability to find fault in everything

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[ravingamy]

Parents fuss. It's their default state, the day they no longer fuss is the day they are no longer parents.

I'm Amycus Carrow by the way, might have heard of you in your years here at Hogwarts.

[mortal_sand]

Quite probably. I'd just like to turn them off for 10 minutes or so.

I..believe I have heard of you. You're mates with quite a few Slytherins, aren't you? That's probably why.

[ravingamy]

It would be handy, a big red button to press when the nagging gets too much.

A few... Not too many. And I wouldn't consider it mates either. What have you heard, then?

[mortal_sand]

Something that would just put them to sleep for a few hours and let us have lives.

Ah, right. I haven't heard much, I just always saw more of you than other not-Slytherins and figured as much.

[ravingamy]

At least your parents don't try to dictate your life. Or do they?

Hmm. It's just that most people I've known even before school through my mother and father's many social gatherings were sorted into Slytherin. I might have seen you at one or two too.

[mortal_sand]

Mainly not, it just can seem that way, with me and my dad both being Healers.

Ah, I see. I may well have met you at some of them, then.

[ravingamy]

But being Healers is a perfectly respectable job. I can see why you'd work towards that.

[mortal_sand]

Very true. It's just people around here insist on telling me I only wanted to be a Healer because my dad's one.