This is a play I wrote from Snape's perspective. It starts halfway at the beginning of the first book and then jumps to the fourth book where it goes to the end of the series. I really hope you like it! Disclaimer: I don't own anything you recognize. There are some parts that are either taken straight from the book or adapted from the book.
PROLOGUE
ACT I
Scene
In Great Hall during the opening feast. Professor McGonagall
stands facing a group of assorted eleven year olds with a piece
of parchment in one hand. Directly in front of her is the Sorting
Hat on top of a three legged stool.
MINERVA MCGONAGALL
Harry Potter.
Crowd whispers to each other gawking at Harry as
he makes his way up to the Professor McGonagall
where he outs the hat on his head and sits on the stool.
SORTING HAT (voice)
Gryffindor!
Lights go out except for a spot light on Severus
Snape before they cut completely. When lights
come back on they are slightly darker to indicate
a flashback. In a train compartment. Young Lily
Evans, Young Severus Snape, and Young James
Potter sit on one side and Young Sirius Black sits
on the other.
SEVERUS SNAPE (Young)
(to Lily)
This is it! We're off to Hogwarts!
Lily nods.
SEVERUS SNAPE (YOUNG)
You better be in Slytherin.
JAMES POTTER (young)
Slytherin? Who wants to be in Slytherin?
(To young Sirius)
I think I'd leave, wouldn't you?
SIRIUS BLACK (young)
My whole family's been in Slytherin.
JAMES POTTER (YOUNG)
Blimey, and I thought you were alright.
SIRIUS BLACK (YOUNG)
Maybe I'll break the tradition. Where do you want to go?
JAMES POTTER (YOUNG)
(Raising an invisible sword)
Gryffindor, where dwell the brave at heart.
Severus laughs.
JAMES POTTER (YOUNG)
Got a problem with that?
SEVERUS SNAPE (YOUNG)
(sneering)
No, if you'd rather be brawny than brainy.
SIRIUS BLACK (YOUNG)
Where are you hoping to go seeing as you're neither.
James cracks up and Lily looks at James and Sirius with dislike.
LILY EVANS (YOUNG)
Come on Severus, let's find a different compartment.
JAMES POTTER (YOUNG)
See ya, Snivellus!
Scene
In Headmaster's office. Albus Dumbledore is sitting behind the
desk reading a magazine and Severus Snape is pacing in front of it.
SEVERUS SNAPE
I don't understand what you want me to do with him; he's just like his father was then. He's as obnoxious, mediocre, arrogant as his father, a determined
rule breaker, delighted to find he's famous, attention seeking, impertinent...
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
You're seeing what you expect to see, Severus. Other teachers report the boy is modest, likable, and reasonably talented...Please just try Severus.
Lighting changes to the darker lights to indicate a flashback.
Still in the Headmaster's office. Dumbledore is seated behind
the desk and Severus is slumped in the chair in front of the desk.
SEVERUS SNAPE
I thought...you were going...to keep her safe...
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
Lily and James out their faith in the wrong person. Her boy survives... Her son lives! He has precisely her eyes.
SEVERUS SNAPE
Don't! She's gone! ...dead...
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
Is this remorse, Severus?
SEVERUS SNAPE
I...I wish I were dead.
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
What good would that be to anyone? If you loved Lily Evans, if you truly loved her your way forward is clear.
SEVERUS SNAPE
What do you mean?
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE
Do you not know how and why she died. Make sure it was not in vain. Help me protect Lily's son.
I hope you like it. Please review with feedback.
~You Go Girl~