16. Questioning: Brooding
Sybil Trelawney had often wondered if there was anything she could have done to save him. She was careful not to let that become well-known – her standing among her fellow Divination experts and Seers was tenuous enough as it was without the added burden of lack of faith in immutable destiny.
Still, he had been a colleague, if never a friend, precisely, and Sybil, always having relied more on instinct than her negligible Gift, had long believed that Severus Snape could have been her friend, if only given the chance.
And yet, redemption is only an option for the living.