The brick house was medium sized with a window giving view of the spacious living room, containing a sofa and two armchairs, a fireplace and some book shelves. To get to the front door, you had to walk along a short pebble path through the front garden. It was well mowed and ivy grew up one of the walls. Flowers of all sorts framed the path.
Severus Snape, former Death Eater and potions master, assumed dead by the wizarding community, approached the simple house. His soles crunched on the pebbles. He cut across the freshly cut grass to the window, careful not to step on the flowers.
Severus stared through the window at Hermione and Ron Weasley, both sitting on the floor among baby toys and books, cuddling with their child. He sighed, and turned away. Starting to walk back into the opposite direction, he thought about when he first fell in love with her.
Maybe, if you really love someone, those feelings will never go away.