Severus could not wait to enter the dungeons and be away from their transparent professor who taught in the most transparent way. He had been in such a hurry to be the first to claim a potions station that he failed to notice his dragonhide gloves fall out of his bag and onto the corridor's cobbled floor. "Good, no one else here yet," he smirked, claiming a station for himself and one next to him for Lily.

"Sev," came her voice from behind him. "You...dropped these."

"Oh, thanks."

But then she didn't put her things down next to him.