Severus Snape had seen and dealt with many things in his years as Hogwarts Potions master… delinquent students, poltergeists run errant, meddlesome Gryffindors… he had been called any number of nasty names that he would care to forget, and was in general the most disliked professor there, even amongst his peers… but what would the students and staff say when they found out that Severus had saved one young boy’s soul?