Beginning in his first year as a staff member at Hogwarts, Severus Snape spent long nights wandering the halls of Hogwarts, looking for students who decided to sneak out of bed. The Potions professor would end up deducting points from students he didn't show favouritism towards. The houses of the perpetrators would usually end up with less points in the morning. No matter the situation, he would fearlessly deduct points from anyone who dare snuck out of their room. He showed favouritism towards all of the Slytherin students, that having been his own house while at Hogwarts. This meant he never deducted points from his own house.
The Potions Master always hesitated to take points away from kids who had red hair or green eyes, Those students reminded him of the one he had lost; Lily Potter nee Evans. In his fifth year of Hogwarts after being humiliated by Potter, Black, and the other two, he had accidentally insulted his love and ruined their friendship for good. Their friendship had been falling apart for a long time before that; he had been becoming more interested in the dark arts- but that insult was the final straw.
One night, he was aimlessly wandering around the hallways, wanting to do nothing more than to head into his chambers and sleep the entire night.
He couldn't just do that.
He just couldn't.
His sleep was forever plagued with nightmares of his lost love screaming. Lily's dead body haunted his once peaceful dreams. Even when his dreams weren't nightmares, he would still hear her voice reprimanding him for his actions. Students who looked closely at him would notice dark circles under his obsidian coloured eyes. He hated himself for becoming nothing more than a Death Eater.
Severus continued his journey down the hallway and within his field of vision he couldn't see any students. He was was glad for this, he wasn't in the mood to deal with anyone.
On the left side of the hallway, there was a door that was beckoning Snape to come into it. The Potions Professor wasn't sure he had seen it before. Something compelled him to open it up. He hesitated for a moment before choosing to go inside. Inside the room was a mirror. Severus walked up to it. Something in his gut told him to look into the mirror. Severus gazed into it and he saw the face of Lily. She smiled and waved at him.
Severus was taken aback by this; he never thought he would get to see that amazing face again. For a moment, in his mind he heard something.
"Severus, I forgive you."
House: Gryffindor
Category: Drabble
Prompts: Mirror of Erised
Word count: 441