Shaped Like Bruises
By Nanaho-Hime
For sick-atxxheart
Disclaimer: I do not own Harry Potter
Even in the dim light of the dungeons Miss Pricket's attempts to hide her visible winces did not go unnoticed by the Potions Master. Severus Snape could vaguely remember his mother doing the same when they were in the company of other people. It was typical of battered and abused women to attempt to hide their bruises in fear (fear of what he didn't know).
He couldn't stop the internal argument from brewing. On the one hand it was really none of his business; he had no dealing with his students apart from the student-teacher relationship (highly unpleasant). Lila Pricket was a scrawny, little muggleborn Hufflepuff, a first year that had not the faintest sign of talent. He had no fondness for her whatsoever. She cowered whenever he glanced in her direction.
(Very much like his mother)
The deciding factor was Lily (she was always the deciding factor), and he grudgingly ordered little Lila to stay after class, they had something to discuss, because Lily would have never sat by and watched.
He coolly ordered her to show him her arm, and she stuttered and floundered and looked as though she might cry, but he was not one for theatrics. He informed her that if she did not show him what happened to her arm, the headmaster would force her into it, and there was really nothing she could do about it.
With big, teary grey eyes, she pushed up the black robes up to her elbows, and he could make out shapes in the pattern of her bruises, big, purple, and ugly on her stick like arms. He marched her over to the headmaster, irritated with her sniveling, and arranged that she stay at a friend's home during the summer days. When she stopped looking so scared, and started laughing a whole lot more he was not exceedingly pleased but he was somewhat satisfied with his handiwork.
Sometimes, more than anything, he wished that a Professor had intervened for him, but there was no time for such pointless reminiscing.
Severus Snape was never worth rescuing.
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