Severus clucked his tongue against his teeth. It was something his mother did a lot, generally when he had been younger and use to ask permission to go and play in Lily's garden with her. It was, in a word, dismissive.

"Might not be a large house, but there's bound to be one room you don't bother with all that much?" Severus pushed the rest of his sandwich into his mouth, licked his fingers, and pulled the wand from his robes.