disclaimer: i don't own the products or services under JK Rowling; including harry potter
author's note: this is a particularly interesting relationship
summary: they are like ships in the night/on stories with no happy endings/severusxpoppy
(once upon a time there was a boy and a girl)
He lived in Spinner's End with a father who hated him, a bitter man who wanted so much to be better but knew he would never be – and why try, afterall? His mother was afraid to teach him, hesitant to love him and the girls down the road only liked him because he was different.
She lived in a small village of a hundred or so people miles out of Cambridge. Her father was always gone on business trips, but he always brought back new plants to share with her and her mother had a soft smile. There weren't many children her age, and so she did not have many friends.
(and they went to school)
Hogwarts is a saint and a sinner, choosing only certain children to raise up. He is a dark left hand, she is too clever at fixing things to be forgotten.
(and they never fell in love)
He is a bitter, lonely man in love with a woman he would have given the sun and the moon for who will never give him the light of day and chained to teaching children who mock him and ruin his craft. His masters pay his cries no heed and he is what they claim him to be.
She is a lonely, bossy woman who has never had a chance to shine, not when confronted with so many things to patch together. She is to clean up their messes, bandage knees and to not ask questions. Her master is a wise one, she knows, but one she approaches with a wary apprehension.
He needs her to fix him when he can no longer withstand his burdens and she needs him to supply her with miracles beyond her ken, but their eyes never meet, their fingers never touch – and they are only monsters and stubborn damsels in a castle who condemns everyone.