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Fire
Snape's POV on Lily, after she gets killed.
I wanted to have her cremated, that was always the way I wanted to be buried, but Dumbledore said that she had already made burial arrangements, with him. (But she never talked to me much in those last years; everything was about him). Fire seemed to be the only way to commemorate that beautiful hair of hers; that was one of the reasons I always fell asleep watching the fire.
Lily was always there for me in those tough fist years before I found my place in the vindictive social system of Slytherin, and she was my sole friend in the few years before Hogwarts, I mean we even went to Kings Cross together on those first few times. Her parents would always give me lifts home, too, if mine didn't turn up. Even back then she reminded me of a fire, fiercely protective of her loved ones, but all-consuming at the same time.
I used to wonder why her patronus was a doe; I thought it would be much more fitting that she have a phoenix or a salamander, creatures that thrived on fire, but he more I thought about it I realised that even the most roaring of fires have soft, weak spot, the very tips of their flames, for example, or the glowing coals left behind, and the same applied to Lily, no matter how much she yelled or put on a show she would always have a soft, sweet centre, that was why I loved her.
Review, and tell me what other pairings you want, I can't do it without inspiration. I was thinking of doing Remus and his Chocolate, for a laugh. Tell me what you think.