The Death of Severus Snape and The Consequences

By Zero Flower 333

After Lily refused to forgive Severus for the Mudblood incident, Severus kills himself outside the Gryffindor Common Room. As a result of Severus' death, justice must be served and the Gryffindors had to face the consequences of their actions. Severus' death will change the fate of the Wizarding World forever. What happens when the truth was found out on how Severus Snape was treated at Hogwarts? Will everyone be spared or will they be punished? AU Fifth year

Harry Potter is copyrighted by J.K. Rowling, I own nothing

Chapter One: The Death of Severus, Gryffindor Chapter

In James, Sirius, Remus, and Lily's perspective, all other characters are considered unimportant unless readers wanted their perspectives, too

The Gryffindors were prepared to go to the Dining Hall to eat their breakfast, when suddenly one of them said,

"Snivellus Snape is dead! Now there is one less menace in our hands!"

Well, the Gryffindor who said this was James Potter. He knew what he did to Snivellus was wrong, stealing his spells, bullying him, and breaking up his friendship with his Lily, but it was for Snivellus' own good. Now that the creep was dead, he did not need to worry anyone tainting his Lily anymore and that he would use another Slytherin, preferably Regulus Black or Dennis Avery to torment this time, now that Snivellus was gone.

James Potter had a lot of violent tendencies, like his best friend Sirius Black, but only towards Slytherins. They believed that Slytherins (at least ones that are easy to bully) deserve all the punishment and bullying they should get because they "exist", not because they were evil. James Potter would had killed Snivellus a long time ago, probably as a first year, but did not because he feared punishment when another wizard was killed, regardless of status, which was a one-way ticket to Azkaban and having his magic stripped from him at the same time, if convicted.

Suddenly, thinking about Azkaban made James fearful. He did not want to get punished, especially by the death of Snivellus. He wanted to hide the body, but cannot because of the massive pool of blood and that he feared that Snivellus would haunt him if he or any other Gryffindor dared touched anything of his, now that the wizard was dead. He knew that Dumbledore, his godfather, cannot protect him from this incident like every other incident he bullied Snivellus, because the slimy git was dead and there was bound to be an investigation on how this had happened on his godfather's watch, even though the wizard was a Slytherin.

Thinking about his godfather made his terrified. James loved his godfather dearly and believed him when he told him that all Slytherins were evil and that only poor ones deserved to be bullied by any means. None of them deserved to die, because they could be used as cannon fodder. Albus once told James that if any Slytherin was killed while he was at Hogwarts, he could lose everything, all of his positions and achievements, if he got convicted. James did not want to tell his godfather about the death of Snivellus. He did not want anything to his godfather and if it was found out that Albus Dumbledore had condoned the abuse and bullying of Slytherins, he could be fired by a Slytherin Head in the Ministry of Magic.

Suddenly, his best friends Sirius, Remus, and Peter saw him and Snivellus' dead body. All of them, except Remus, cheered for the death of Snivellus Snape. Suddenly, Remus went to the Gryffindor Common Room and alert Lily, Snape's ex-best friend on what had happened, but not before taking a liquid substance (a Pensive) from the dead body of the boy he never helped since he first attended Hogwarts.

Sirius and Peter were hugging each other as if there was no tomorrow. They happily discussed every prank they did against Snivellus and glanced at James, who was nervous at the fact that the menace was dead. They were talking the entire times, with James trying to put his voice about the punishments they might face, but gave up when he saw his friends' happy expressions about how Snivellus had died and killed himself.

As for Remus Lupin, he needed to tell Lily on how her ex-best friend died outside the Gryffindor Common Room. He knew that Lily never cared about Snape as much as Snape cared about her and he was ashamed to admit that if Lily was even half as a friend Snape was to her or if he had decided to help Snape instead of reading his head in a book, Snape would had lived and they would not be facing the consequences of their actions later.

Unlike his best friends, who did not care about rules as long as they could target Snivellus, Remus knew that one of these days, Snape would finally snap and either kill himself or become a devious mind and punish them after he finished Hogwarts. He knew that he, with his silence, was one of the causes of the wizard's death. He knew that the Pensive he was carrying had memories that could get them all convicted, especially Lily and every other Gryffindor, because of the way they treated him. Even Lily, who claimed to be Snape's "best friend", always henpecked him and never gave him a chance to make a good decision. Now their folly would cost them something that they were not willing to pay.

Remus picked up the Pensive not because he wanted to remove the memories, but because he wanted to see how Snape suffered while he did nothing, not even trying to offer comfort to the boy before his untimely death. He wanted to see the damage he and his friends had caused before they would be sentenced at the stake, to see if doing nothing was worth it or not in the end. He did not want to be reminded of Snape's dead body, filled with blood in almost outside the Gryffindor Common Room, but cannot get the image out of his mind, no matter how many times he wanted to remove the thought away. He had Snape's death on his conscience. He did not want another Slytherin to die the way Snape had.

Suddenly, he ran to the Gryffindor Common Room, where Lily was talking with her friends Mary and Alice near the fireplace. Remus told Lily, "Come with me, Lily."

Mary said, "Oh, if it's your next prefect duty, we will not get in the way. See you, Lily." With that, Alice and Mary went back to their four-poster beds, missing breakfast because they had not successfully finished their Muggle Studies assignment, which was to talk about Hitler and Grindlewald during World War II and how they are similar and different from each other.

Lily went with Remus and she said, "Is Snivellus still begging to me for forgiveness? Because I will never grant it to him and he hurt me so badly with the Mudblood insult yesterday, so-"

Suddenly, with the strength he never knew he possessed, Remus slapped Lily in the face. He was very angry and upset. Lily said, "Why did you hit me? I told you that I hate Snivellus very much, a slimy git that does not deserve to exist-"

Remus said, in a very hard voice, "This is not the time to talk about the Mudblood insult from yesterday or about Snape's right to exist as a human being. You did not forgive him just because of one insult in the heat of the moment. I admit that I made my fair share of mistakes when dealing with Snape, but yours may be the worst and would cause our ultimate doom."

Lily said, "What are you talking about? Snivellus is an evil, slimy git, just as James and Sirius had said-"

Remus gave her a glare and said, "Wrong! Severus Snape is not evil! You never even cared about him as a person at all, always talking about James and Sirius postively in front of him! Defending them when your so-called best friend was suffering from abuse to abuse from them and you never even asked him on how he was doing when he was pranked by my friends! Listening to James and Sirius when you should had listened to your best friend, if Snape was your best friend to begin with! I should had done so in the past; now Severus Snape is dead and it is thanks to our lack of understanding and your unforgiveness towards him!"

Lily gave a smirk and said, "Snivellus dead? Are you joking me? He had his evil Slytherin pals-"

Remus hated himself and everyone in Gryffindor at this moment. They do not even care that one of their fellow classmate was dead. They did not even care about the consequences of bullying someone too much, where the straw would break the camel's back. He had a sudden urge to defend Snape and his rose tinted glasses toward his best friends were broken. They were savage bullies and he learned his lesson. If he ever got out of punishment, he would quit becoming a Gryffindor and Hogwarts.

Remus said, in a very low voice, "What evil Slytherin pals are you talking about, Lily? This is not the time to discuss about them! If you do not believe me, take a look outside the Gryffindor Common Room to see what our actions, especially yours, had caused!"

With that, with strong strength, Remus dragged Lily to outside the Gryffindor Common Room, where they heard Sirius said,

"…having Snivellus and Moony alone in the Shireking Shack in the Full Moon was nice and joyful! It was too bad James saved him and lied to Lily about saving Snivellus, when it was us that actually dragged Snivellus to Moony without any warning at all! Who cares about Snivellus-"

Remus glared and snapped. He said, "I had never thought that you would be so cruel to sic me on a fellow human being, especially on our fellow classmate! No wonder why Snape killed himself; with all the torment we had inflicted it is not a surprise that he had not killed himself before."

Sirius said, "Moony-"

Remus said, "Don't Moony me! As of right now, we are no longer friends! And I hate you all! Never talk to me ever again, Black! Potter, keep yourself away from me!" With that, Remus left the Portrait hole, telling everyone on what had happened to Snape, because he cannot keep it to himself and knew that no matter what happens, everyone at Hogwarts would had to bear the consequences their actions had caused before the end of the day.

Sirius asked, "What has got into Moony?"

Everyone except Peter ignored him. James knew that everyone was doomed and he wanted to comfort Lily, since seeing the death of her ex-best friend should had shaken her, but she smiled. A smile that James wished he could see, but not in this situation. James did not like it one bit. It was like she set Snivellus to be killed on purpose so they could get punished by her reckless temper and her lack of understanding.

Lily said, "Good riddance! Snivellus is dead! Now he no longer has to hurt me with his Mudblood insult! As you can see, friends do not hurt each other and Snivellus had hurt me more than I could count! Seeing him dead makes me happy and makes me feel like the Mudblood incident had not happened-"

Sirius said, "You, too, Lily? If we had known, we would had used you to plot Snivellus and punish him as he deserves!"

Lily said and smiled, "I had to keep up appearances, as you could see, and an excuse where I can set Snivellus alone at fault for breaking the friendship, when I left him in my heart since third year, when I feel his usefulness had diminished, but keep it up, hopefully that he would slip so he would love me forever and feel tormented because of his existence! Or kill himself, removing his existence in the world that never wanted him. James, let me tell the rest of my Gryffindor friends about this!" With that, Lily left, notifying her friends about Snivellus' death. They would be happy that that git would no longer exist to bother or torment them. None of them wanted to touch the body, only look at it, for fear of a disease and fearful that Snivellus' ghost would haunt them if they dared touched his remains.

Sirius said, feeling famished for the lack of food, "Let's go…I feel hungry. Let's take a look at Snivellus later. I had wished this would happen since the Werewolf incident." With that, the three Gryffindors went to the Dining Hall to eat breakfast, only to see Remus and everyone in Slytherin glaring at them, with the professors trying to keep control, but failed to control the Slytherins throwing their food to the four prankster Gryffindors, making their robes dirty. None of the Slytherins, especially the first years, had eaten their food, since they were notified of the death of their fellow Slytherin by Remus Lupin. The Gryffindors also threw their food at the Slytherins, but somehow the food was bounced back to the Gryffindors, thanks to one of the spells of Severus Snape and contributed by Avery before Severus Snape died yesterday outside the Gryffindor Common Room/Portrait Hole…

When Lily and her friends came thirty minutes later, they were being glared at, also…with professors and prefects trying to keep calm, but the Slytherin students went out of control, leaving the Dining Hall and going to the Gryffindor Common Room, in eerie silence…while Avery and ten Slytherins were throwing all the food the Slytherins had not eaten at the "Mudblood" who killed his best friend and their fellow Slytherin, while Mulciber would look to see how their friend was killed outside the Gryffindor Common Room. Now the Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs joined in throwing their food at the Slytherins, but like the Gryffindors, their food bounced back to them. The professors, again, tried to keep calm, but failed. Horace Slughorn and Minerva McGongall followed the Slytherins, curious why most of them went to the direction of the Gryffindor Common Room.

None of the Gryffindors, save Remus Lupin and possibly James Potter, felt any remorse of their actions driving Snape to suicide or to even consider the consequences of their actions they caused, by their own…

How is this? Do you like James in this? Remus? Sirius? Lily? Do you think they should be punished? Do you think the professors, especially Dumbledore, should be responsible for the death of Snape? Or should only the students be held liable for the death of Severus Snape? What do you think should happen? Who would be the next Savior of the Wizarding World, or would it be doomed forever?

Avery and Mulciber wanted to help their friend, but landed themselves in detention the fateful day in the Lake incident, thanks to James and Sirius framing them for pranking their Head of House, Horace Slughorn, when it was the Gryffindors who had really done so…

Next chapter would be: The Death of Severus Snape, Slytherin Chapter

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