Lily Bud

Year 1 Chapter 4

"Don't you know that you will get bitten when you hang out with snakes?"

Potter's words rang in her head after she finished defending Sev against Potter and Black again. Their "pranks" made Lily angry. Just because Black got that stupid screaming letter from his parents didn't give them the right to play some stupid prank on Sev. Lily was sure that it was just a coincidence that Sev had laughed at the same time Black's letter arrived. Sev knew what it was like to have a parent scream at you. He wouldn't think it was funny, when it happened to others. Dorcas and Sulfia thought that Sev had laughed at Black too, but her friends just didn't know Sev like she did.

But even more than the stupid prank, it was Potter's words that annoyed her. She grasped Sev's hand tighter as she pulled him away from the taunting Gryffindors. If she was honest with herself she knew why, the words wouldn't leave her head. She still hadn't talked with Sev about Slytherin.

Maybe it was time. Lily brought Sev to a hault when they reached the outside.

"Sev?" Why was her voice so shaky? She cleared her throat before continuing, "Is it true that Slytherins don't like muggleborns?"

Lily absentmindedly played with her fingers while Sev was quiet for some time. "Why do you ask that?" Lily sighed as he had avoided her question. "Is it something Potter or Black said? Because you know, they are idiots."

"No… It's something that the girls said…"

"I told you that they don't like me!" Sev hissed back. "Why do you care what they say?"

"This is not what this is about!" Lily shouted back in turn. "Is it true that Slytherins don't want muggleborns in their house?" She asked again, intensely staring at her friend.

Sev looked away and shrugged his shoulders, as if the answer wasn't important at all.

"Well then it is probably better that I am in Gryffindor." Lily told him and crossed her arms as well. "If they wouldn't even want me in your oh so great house."

"It's not like we would have told them that you are muggleborn…" Sev mumbled and kicked a stone away. "We could easily say that you are an illegitimate halfblood from a Weasley or Prewett or soemthing."

Lily stopped and watched him for a moment. Her tummy felt funny in an unpleasant way.

"I forgot my charms homework in my dorm." She told him and turned around to run back to the Gryffindor tower. Lily quickly brushed underneath her eyes as she left Severus. She wasn't crying though, she just got a water drop on her face.


AN. Thank you hurricanhairandemeraldeyes for being such a great beta reader.

In this we see an aftermath of The best second chapter. James' words stick with Lily for some time, because she still don't know what to think about Slytherin.

Severus here is very clumsy with his words. He just can't admit that he was wrong, that wishing Lily into Slytherin would be dangerous and wrong for her. He is just trying the justify why it wouldn't be so bad, but the idea that Severus wants her to deny her family in front of other people hurts. It feels like betrayal to her. Lily doesn't want to hide her family or be ashamed for them.

Snape ever seemed to be the guy that was good at maning up to his faults, considering that he still hates James for things that Snape isn't innocent in.

The world of magic isn't how Severus always described it and now that starts to have a troll on their friendship.