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Written as part of an assignment for Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry (Challenges & Assignments)

Task: Write about someone completely shocked about a turn of events, whether good or bad.

Prompt: (Dialogue) "You don't think that was just pumpkin juice in your glass do you?"

AVPB: (To Dance Again) – "I've been waiting all these years."

Chocolate Frog: Silver – Leopoldina Smethwyck – Prompts – Pumpkin, Cauldron Cake

1000 Word Challenge: Shoulder

Gringotts: Said Words – Quizzed, Stormed, Spluttered, Snorted; Noun – Pumpkin, Juice, Laughter, Quartet, Cake, Glass, Room, Shoulder, Surprise, Flash, Red, Antidote, Power, Truth, Lips, Mouth, News, Force, Sleeve, Chance; Adjective – Funny, Deepest, Every, Smug, True; Verb – Sip, Contain, Bite, Spoil, Spill, Believe, Witness, Turn, Save, Salvage, Ruin, Knock, Trickle, Show

Word Count: 599

What Do You Really Think Of..?

The Marauders watched on as Severus took a sip from his glass of pumpkin juice, barely able to contain their laughter, knowing that it was only a matter of time before their plan started to unfold.

A loud guffaw slipped from the lips of Peter and Severus' head snapped towards them.

"What's so funny?" he snarled at the quartet of Gryffindors.

"You don't think that was just pumpkin juice in your glass do you?" James snorted raising his eyebrows at the Slytherin with a smirk on his face before he took a bite out of the Cauldron Cake in his hand.

The Slytherin's eyes flitted from the glass in his hand to the Gryffindor in front of him and back again.

His grip on the glass slackened and it slipped from his hand, smashing to pieces on the floor, whilst the Marauders burst out into fits of laughter.

"You – you – bastard," Severus stormed loudly, garnering the attention of everyone in the room. "What did you do?"

James looked over one shoulder and then the other at his friends.

"That would spoil the surprise," Sirius barked from behind James, with an equally smug look on his face. "I just hope you're ready to spill your deepest, darkest secrets."

"So tell us Snivellus, what do you really think of muggle-borns?" James quizzed, as he caught a flash of red out of the corner of his eye.

Nothing could have prepared the Marauders or Severus for what happened next

The quartet watched on as the Slytherin pressed his lips tightly together, as realisation dawned on his face. The one thing that every wizard knows though is that unless you have an antidote handy there is no fighting the power of veritaserum; sooner or later the truth will slip from your lips.

"I think they're scum of the earth," Severus burst out before covering his mouth with both hands in shock.

The Slytherin couldn't quite believe the words that had left him, but he was thankful that his Lily hadn't been around to witness this. At least if news of his outburst ever reached her he could tell her that it was all lies spawned by Potter to turn her against him even more, and ruin any chance they had of rekindling their friendship.

"Excuse me?"

Severus turned his head in the direction of the voice and found himself greeted by the sight of Lily Evans.

"I – er – Lily– it's not –" Severus spluttered, stumbling over his words as he tried to think of some way he could salvage the situation.

"Save it Severus," Lily hissed, narrowing her eyes at the Slytherin. "And to think I was going to forgive you for what you said; that I was starting to believe that you had never meant to call me a – you know what. Good thing I found out now before it was too late."

The red head spun on the spot and stormed out of the Great Hall closely followed by Marlene McKinnon.

"You-" Severus cried, lunging towards James and punching him with enough force to knock him off his feet. "This is all your fault."

James felt the blood begin to trickle down from his nose and raised his arm and wiped it away with the sleeve of his robes as he clambered back to his feet with a smirk on his face.

"I've been waiting all these years for you to finally show your true colours to Evans, and now you have," James smirked at the Slytherin. "You just sabotaged any chance you had of winning back her trust. Later Snivellus."

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