He didn’t think he had ever despised it more than he did now though, as he trudged through portrait after portrait at the various homes he believed Theodore Nott might be hiding in. Severus was quiet when he was alive. Speaking only when necessary. He was also a spy, so he inserted himself into as many different facets of Voldemort’s regime as he possibly could in an effort to learn valuable information. This earned Severus a place, so to speak, in many different Pureblood households. He held a place in portraits hung at estates across the European continent. 