Hi guys... so I've been writing all this random stuff with Severus Snape in it. They're the conversations you never got to see. Well, not really because I don't have the license to say they ever took place in the Harry Potter world, but I imagine they might have. The first one's short because I don't think Snape and Harry could ever have a heart-felt conversation. Other scenes are longer. I'm trying to keep Severus Snape as in-character as possible throughout. We need more Snape. Haha it's 3 AM and caffeine is running through my veins. Enjoy.

Note: I found 3 typos, so I fixed them from last night.

November 1992

The second-years were all scrambling to get their materials together and leave for the day. Severus Snape was watching three students out of the corner of his eye as he tried to focus on reading a piece of parchment. Potter was sitting in between Granger and Weasley. They were having a discussion in a hushed tone. Both Granger and Weasley were shaking their heads. Then Granger got up and hurried away. The room became quieter as the students shuffled out. Weasley was shaking his head and telling Potter not to do something, but Potter said, "I'll be fine. See you later. Don't wait for me."

Severus saw Potter stand and come toward him. Severus pretended to read the parchment. It was only after Potter was standing right in front of his desk did Severus speak.

"What do you want, Potter?" he said without looking up.

But Potter didn't answer. Severus looked up in irritation and made eye contact. The skinny twelve-year-old was cracking his knuckles as if he was wringing his hands out of nerves. Severus had never seen him do this before and he wondered what on earth kind of a request Potter was going to ask.

"Did -" Potter began in a small voice. "I mean, did Lord Voldemort speak Parseltongue too? Sir?"

"What?" Severus said flatly, completely taken off-guard.

"Voldemort. Did he speak Parseltongue?"

Severus was dumbfounded. Why on earth was Potter talking to him? Why didn't he go to Dumbledore? Both Severus and Potter had accepted that they hated each other long ago, so he couldn't understand why he would come to him about something like this. Potter didn't even like to ask a question that related to Potions and Severus liked it that way. In fact, Severus could not recall Potter ever asking him a question ever. Yet here he was looking at Severus nervously with those green eyes waiting for an answer.

"Why are you asking me?" Severus said finally.

There was a flash of a small smile. "Er, well, you were in Slytherin, right? So I thought you'd know... I didn't know that speaking to snakes was rare, so... When I was at the zoo once, a snake told me it had never been to Brazil and I had no idea I was speaking some kind of creepy hissing language."

Severus just glared at him for a second. In other words, Severus would know because he was an evil Slytherin. A snake told me it had never been to Brazil. My God, this boy is nuts. Then he said, "Yes. The Dark Lord could speak to snakes."

Potter swallowed. There was shock etched on his face. His eyes started to fill with tears and he looked down. He looked utterly devastated. It bothered Severus to see Lily's green eyes full of tears, even if the rest of her son was a copy of James. But then Potter backed away and he looked as if he was going to turn around, but he stopped and stood still.

"How do you know?" Potter said.

"Because I was in Slytherin house," Severus replied with disdain.

Either Potter didn't get the humor or he chose to ignore it. He looked down at the ground, nodded, said a small, "Thank you," and left.

The problem with Harry Potter was that he was 99% James and 1% Lily. Severus hated the 99% part, but he would die for that 1%.

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