"I still wish to meet your young man's parents, Severus," Eileen Prince paused to impress upon her only child the full weight of her feelings on this topic. "If you two are to be betrothed–"
"Neither of us has proposed!" Severus was glaring daggers at his mother.
Eileen ignored her son. "It is only a matter of time, is it not?"
Severus chose wisely to sip his tea instead.
"Perhaps," he ground out, eventually, after Eileen had let the silence sit for long enough to make him itchy.
"Well then, I wish to meet Lily and James. So we can discuss our children's future."
"They hate me, truly loathe me for taking up with their son. And they're the same age as me, mother!"
"Then perhaps you should have thought about that before you started dating their child, Severus? I don't see why I can't adhere to proper etiquette just because of your choices."