Forbidden
dedicated to Penskii, for the awesome prompt, and Kitty East for making me want to write a legit 100-word drabble
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Severus Snape knows all about forbidden things.
"Purple, Longbottom? Now, tell me, boy. How is it…?"
How is it they seem so alike? Is it that quirk of the head when stirring? That kittenish peek up at him from the cauldron?
"Longbottom?"
"W-well, I think Potions is a b-bit like cooking, sir."
"Cooking? Imbecile. Have you learned nothing…?"
Nothing at all from losing her, nothing at all from the stars on that godforsaken hill, that horrible autumn evening on your knees in front of Dumbledore?
And yet…
"I've always hated him…"
Oh, yes, Severus Snape knows all about forbidden things.