It's the fifteenth Christmas since that day. Do you remember? You must of course, you always had such a beautiful mind. You were Head Girl, Lily, surely you remember that too. Surely you remember me. Us.

I regret ever speaking those words to you-I really did not mean to hurt you. But didn't you see how he always hurt me? Yet you loved him. You never loved me that way.

It's the fifteenth Christmas I've spent alone.

It's been fifteen years and I still haven't been able to let go. Have you?

Are you there Lily? It's me, Severus.