for the 'your favourite hogwarts house boot camp challenge'. i chose slytherin, as that's my house. this first drabble is for the prompt stars and i'm using the character severus snape, as i wanted to write something about him, since i bought his wand when i went to the studio tour (be jealous, be very jealous)
i don't own harry potter - that's an honour for jkr alone.
Stars are a reminder of every night that ever was, for Severus Snape. They remind him of the good, the bad. They remind him of the emptiness he's never truly been able to get rid of since Lily Evans was murdered.
I killed Lily Evans, he reminds himself. It might have been The Dark Lord who aimed that wand, but Snape tells himself over and over again that it was he who murdered Lily. If he hadn't overheard that prophecy… if he hadn't told The Dark Lord of what he heard…
Lily Evans might still be alive. She wouldn't be lying in the ground next to her husband. Severus could have stopped her death from happening.
He doesn't even begin to think about the fact that he killed James as well.
He used to love the stars, as a boy. However he could, he'd escape from the house, escape from the yelling, smashing, screaming. He'd run, go as far as he could. At night, he'd look at the stars.
They'd speak to him of a better life, of some kind of hope. They'd tell him of a chance that perhaps, maybe, he wouldn't be screamed at and scorned. And so he thanked the stars the day that he met Lily Evans.
Now they speak only of misery and misfortune. They remind him of the woman he killed, the woman that he loved. They remind him of the fact that everything is his fault.
The stars are a reminder of every night that ever was, and a forecast of everything that ever will be. Severus Snape does not look at the stars anymore. For him, they do not shine so bright.
{When he dies, he cannot see the stars. For the first time since Lily's death, he wishes that he could. Instead, he is bid farewell by her eyes.}
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