Hello.

So this is my first try in writing a fanfiction this long. I have written fanfictions years ago but they weren't all that great plus not that long. I'm actually not someone who writes fanfictions a lot. If I do then it is mostly due to not being able to forget about certain events or characters in a story. So I tend to write my own thoughts down whenever that happens.

This story is the outcome of pondering about how Snape would react if a woman resembling his forever beloved Lily was suddenly stepping into his life. While I was watching the movies and reading the books I was sort of smitten with this tragic part of the story and couldn't help but think that he needed comfort and someone to care for him to be able to overcome the shadows of the past.

I chose to go with the timeline of the past since the books were already finished at that time and Snape was dead, so since I tend to follow the actual happenings as accurate as possible there was no way I could have put this into a timeline after the defeat of Voldemort.

As for the continuation of this story: It's been quite a while ago since I wrote it and while I was pretty eager to continue this 'saga' throughout the other books this story didn't meet with much of response I sort of lost interest. I however decided to republish the story here to see if I would meet with more response. Currently I am writing another fanfiction about a completely different topic, but if this story becomes more popular I might decide to actually really continue it.

Reviews, Favs and Follows are greatly appreciated and everyone who does one or more of these things has my thanks.

Have fun reading c:

Prologue

Lillian Ellen Block was an usual young woman of twenty five winters. Her height was average and her shapes rather a bit curvier but in a healthy way. Her hair was long to her blade bones, smooth, wavy and red and along with her light skin tone it underlined her bright green eyes. Her eyes actually were most unusual, because they were of such an almost unnatural pure green. Sometimes she looked into the mirror and thought she was a witch. But unfortunately she wasn't. Unfortunately she was just an ordinary human being.

Lillian lived in a small apartment with only one room, a small kitchen, a tiny hall and a small bathroom, but that was actually enough for her. She even had a narrow balcony where she grew some herbs and flowers. But Lillian was lonely. With only very few friends who all didn't live very close to her she spent most of her time with her computer or by reading books or watching movies. Whenever she finished a book she felt the deep desire of just vanishing from the real world to live within a book, as a witch or a detective or maybe even a princess or heroine. But that of course was more than impossible.

So it happened that she started to read all the wonderful Harry Potter books again. She actually knew the story by heart but after a few years, maybe two, you could just read them again and still find them amazing and entertaining. So this was already the fifth time she read them. It didn't even take her a full week to finish them all. The last book always made her feel rather melancholic. She wasn't one of those fan girls and felt somewhat too old to have a favourite character or favourite couple, but this thing about Snape and Lily was somehow tragic and made her feel very sorry for his fate.

When she went to bed on a Friday evening after finishing the seventh book she was lying awake and thought, that it must be wonderful to be a part of those books, to be part of this fantastic world full of magic, adventure and emotional embroilment. Before she fell asleep she wondered if there was a way to comfort the characters, especially Snape, even though she never overly liked him, at least not until now.