Author's note: This is the first Fan Fiction story I have ever written, I hope you will enjoy it. English is not my first language and that may effect my grammar or choice of words, I welcome any criticism or comments that can help me improve myself in the future. I have already finished writing the other chapters of the story but I have yet to correct minor mistakes within the text, but all the chapters should be up within a few days. While I made up the story line of this I obviously use names and characters from J.K. Rowling in the story, and in this chapter I have taken direct lines from Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. No copyright infringement intended.
Chapter 1 – Friendship Lost
"Quills down please!" She heard Professor Flitwick squeak. "That means you too, Stebbins! Please remain seated while I collect your parchment! Accio!"
Lily's Defence Against the Dark Arts O.W.L. parchment flew across the hall and she stood up, stretching. "How did you do?" Mary McDonald was skipping towards her.
"Not as well as you by the looks of you" Lily replied smiling.
"No, you've always been better in defence than I am, I'm happy to get an acceptable."
"Your talking nonsense and you know it, anyway I did better on my Charms and Potions tests" Lily said, light-hearted. They joined their friends, Emma Bennet and Alice Abercrombie and went to the lake where they met a few Ravenclaw girls.
"It's warm today lets sit down here, we deserve it!" Mary said and they took their shoes and socks off and started to bath their feet. They sat there giggling and talking and of course the talk quickly turned to boys.
"Has anything more happened Alice?" Emma asked.
"No, we don't have much time to be together because of the exams and all, he doesn't have to study as hard of course. But I really like him."
"Who are you talking about?" one of the Ravenclaw girls asked.
"Oh, haven't you heard?" Emma said giggling "Frank asked Alice out a few weeks ago!"
"Frank? Frank Longbottom the sixth year Gryffindor?" another Ravenclaw girl asked amazed as Alice went scarlet and decided to change the subject.
"Lily, you haven't been out with anyone since that sixth year Hufflepuff took you out to Hogsmead last year! What's holding you down? The boys practically stand in lines behind you! You know that Potter boy fancies you!"
"James Potter, that toerag who thinks he's better than everyone else! Please, I'd rather go out with a spider!" Lily burst out and the girls laughed.
"Speaking of Potter, looks like he's picking on your friend that Snape boy again." Mary said, speaking the word friend with disgust in her voice. "I honestly don't understand how you can like that Death Eater!" But Lily didn't hear the second part of her speech because she had stormed off and was already halfway towards the boys.
James Potter and Sirius Black had Severus Snape bound by the impediment jinx, and soap bubbles were coming out of his mouth. "Leave him ALONE!" Lily shouted. The boys looked around and James immediately ruffled his hair.
"All right, Evans?" He called to her in a pleasant voice that disgusted her.
"Leave him alone! What's he done to you?" She said, she had to hold herself together so she wouldn't attack Potter herself.
"Well, it's more the fact that he exists, if you know what I mean." He answered casually and the surrounding crowd laughed.
"You think you're so funny," she said coldly "but you're just an arrogant bullying toerag, Potter. Leave him alone."
"I will if you go out with me, Evans," Potter said quickly. This was what she hated about Potter, he was so stuck up and desperate and couldn't grasp the idea that she hated him! "Go on" he went on seeing the look on her face "... go out with me and I'll never lay a wand on old Snivelly again." Now Severus had started to inch towards his fallen wand behind Potter, spitting out soap bubbles.
"I wouldn't go out with you if it was a choice between you and the giant squid." Lily spat out.
"Bad luck, Prongs." Said Sirius and turned back to Severus, and seeing him with his wand in his hand he cried "OI!" But Severus had already aimed his wand at Potter. A gash appeared on the side of Potter's face, spattering his robes with blood. Potter whirled around and in a flash of light Severus was hanging upside down, his robes fell down over his head and everyone laughed as a pair of old greying underpants appeared under them. Even Lily had to hold her laughter in, but then she reminded herself that her friend was in need and this wasn't funny.
"Let him down!" she said, remembering how she hated Potter and his sidekicks.
"Certainly" Potter said and Severus fell into an uncomfortable heap on the ground. He got up quickly and raised his wand.
"Petrificus Totalus!" It was Black who hit Severus before he could do anything, and Severus fell over again stiff as a board.
"LEAVE HIM ALONE" Lily shouted and drew out her wand, Potter and Black eyed it warily.
"Ah, Evans, don't make me hex you." Potter said.
"Take the curse off him, then!"
Potter sighed and muttered the counter-curse. "There you go, you're lucky Evans was here Snivellus –"
"I don't need help from filthy little Mudbloods like her!" Severus said as he stood up.
Lily was shocked, Severus, her own Sev, called her...
"Fine" she managed to say in a cool voice. "I won't bother in the future. And I'd wash your pants if I were you, Snivellus –" she was about to leave when Potter cried out:
"Apologise to Evans!" She turned to face him to see that he was pointing his wand threateningly at Severus. Her head suddenly filled with anger.
"I don't want you to make him apologise" she shouted, "You're as bad as he is!"
"What?" Potter said astonished "I'd NEVER call you a – you-know-what!"
This was almost too much for Lily, "Messing up your hair because you think it looks cool to look like you've just got off your broomstick, showing off with that stupid Snitch, walking down corridors and hexing anyone who annoys you just because you can – I'm surprised your broomstick can get off the ground with that fat head on it. You make me SICK." She turned around and hurried away, tears filling her eyes, she heard Potter call after her but she didn't care.
She went as fast as she could up to her dormitory in the Gryffindor tower and there she sat down on her bed and cried for a while. Not two minutes had passed until Mary came in.
"Lily are you all right?" I heard what happened.
"I just can't believe it! Sev and I have been friends since forever!" She said upset.
"I know, and I am really sorry, Lily, but you know how I feel about him, maybe he used to be nice but he is aiming to be a Death Eater and you know it."
"I just don't want to believe it!" she sobbed, "Mary, how can I ever forgive him?"
"You don't have to Lily, he's chosen his path."
Lily broke into tears and Mary left her for some time. Emma came up with dinner a while later.
"Feeling better?"
"Yeah, Mary and all of you have been right for years." Lily said.
"So what are you going to do?"
"Nothing, except revise for the Transfiguration O.W.L tomorrow!"
"That's more like it!" Emma said smiling. "You can ask me questions and then I'll ask you." They spent most of the evening in the dormitory revising and Mary and Alice joined them.
"Damn just 40 minutes to curfew and I haven't taken my shower yet." Mary said suddenly.
"You can go if you just hurry up," Alice said.
"Lily can I use the prefects bathroom please?" Mary asked pleading.
"Do what you want but don't be seen, you remember the password, right?"
"Of course I do." Mary said happily and skipped away.
"It's been a hell of a day." Lily said, "I think I'll go to bed."
"Yeah, right there with you" Emma said.
"I'm not tired yet," Alice said, "I'm going to go to the common room to look for Frank."
Lily slept uneasily and hadn't slept for long when she woke up and saw Alice and Mary standing over her, looking worried.
"I'm sorry Lily, I didn't know if I should wake you or not." Mary said, looking odd.
Lily was trying to wake up, "What? Why? What's wrong?"
"Well it's Snape, he's outside the portrait hole. I've told him to go but he said he'd sleep there if he had too. He wants to talk to you." She said.
At this Lily got angry again! "That...! How dare...! I'll kill...!" she stuttered.
"I don't think you should forgive him, but I don't think you'll rest until you've settled this between yourselves."
"I guess you're right" Lily sighed. She put on a dressing gown and walked down to see him.
"Lily!" Severus smiled when she came out, she didn't smile back, and his faded. "I'm sorry." He said.
"I'm not interested." She replied.
"I'm sorry!"
"Save your breath! I only came here because Mary told me you were threatening to sleep here"
"I was. I would have done. I never meant to call you Mudblood, it just –"
"Slipped out?" She finished angrily. "It's too late I've made excuses for you for years. None of my friends can understand why I even talk to you. You and your precious little Death Eater friends – you see, you don't even deny it! You don't deny that's what you're all aiming to be! You can't wait to join You-Know-Who, can you?"
Severus opened his mouth and closed it again.
"I can't pretend anymore. You've chosen your way, I've chosen mine."
"No – listen, I didn't mean –"
"- to call me Mudblood? But you call everyone of my birth Mudblood, Severus. Why should I be any different?" And with a hateful glance at him, she turned on her heel and climbed back through the portrait hole.
It wasn't easy to say goodbye to such an old friend, but deep down she had seen this coming. Though that didn't make it any easier to cope with.