my brother is a clown

He feels it is his duty to annoy me and Vicky. I just think he's funny--Vicky, no doubt, was thinking unprintable things this morning. He's in Milan on business, which translates to--he's sitting in a bar on Saturday afternoon having a drink, which is naturally, 6 am here.

The text of the message went something like this:

So, Snape a good guy, or following orders?

My personal opinion, Snape is good and will be redeemed in the next book, but that's neither here nor there. The point is he woke our butts up to pose the stupid question.

Vicky, of course, is tremendously agitated by the experience, I'm sure. I'm with my brother--a chuckle, and I rolled back to sleep.