Guys, Guys, Guys! It's May 2nd! It's been 17 years since the Battle of Hogwarts!

RIP to those who lost their lives in the battle including a particular character who plays a very large role (although you wouldn't know it cause i have a bad habit of rambling on for millions of chapters before adding him back in) in this story, Snape :)

This next is during the Battle of Hogwarts so May 2nd (hehe mental high five for that coincidence) ;)

No the characters of Harry Potter aren't mine, they are J.K. Rowling's

oh and also i decided to raise the rating to T cause um I kinda went into a little more detail than i meant to with the whole snake scene bit ( Whoops)


James, Sirius and Lily rushed towards Remus and Tonks as they found themselves joining the trio. "Remus, Tonks, your son... I'm so sorry!" Lily said in a rush pulling them both in for a hug, "Harry was in the same spot and he's turned out great believe me, oh you two would be so proud of him!" Tonks said hugging Lily back. "Oh we know hurry, we'll show you how we've been keeping an eye on him!" James said ushering them all towards Dumbledore's office. "I have to say, it's good to see you again Moony!" He added clapping Remus on the back. "It's good to see you too Prongs!" Remus said with a smile he had seriously missed his two best friends. The five of them leaned into to pensieve and their vision clouded, when the scene focused, they found themselves behind Harry, Ron and Hermione as they crouched hidden from view of Voldemort who had confronted Snape. Lily, who hadn't truly gotten over the killing of Dumbledore flinched. She had trusted him, forgiven him even after he had called her that awful name those many years ago and yet he had broken that rust completely when he had pointed his wand at a man who trusted him, more so than anybody, and uttered the horrid curse that ended Dumbledore's life forever. Lily had thought that after Dumbledore's death he would have for sure met up with herself, James and Sirius but he hadn't she had thought she saw him once while walking along the lake but shook it off as her imagination. Remus rested a hand on her shoulder, she turned and gave him a forced smile. "You've been a good and faithful servant Severus." Voldemort was inching towards Snape, "But only I can live forever." Lily's heart stopped. they heard Voldemort hissing in parseltongue, for a minute they didn't understand but soon his intentions became clear, Nagini began to slither and coil itself around Snape's body Lily watched in horror as the snake bit her old best friend's neck, sinking its teeth into his neck, Snape's knees seemed to finally give away and he fell against the wall and onto the ground breathing heavily. Voldemort then called to the snake and vanished out of the room. Lily stood rooted in her spot as she shook her head in denial. The five of them continued to watch, still in shock of what had just happened, as Harry started to move forwards. "What is he doing!?" James hissed as Harry crouched next to the man James had hated for as long as he could remember. Snape's eyes widened at the sight of Harry and he gestured to the silvery liquid pouring out his eyes, "Take..it, Take..it" Snape choked. Harry held the flask that Hermione handed to him up to the liquid letting it pour into it. He glanced down at the flask, "Look...at..me..." Snape half whispered. Harry's bright green eyes looked into the eyes of Severus Snape, the man he had hated for years. "You have your mothers eyes." Snape managed to say before his eyes glazed over and rolled into his head as he let out a final sigh. James turned to look at Lily who was on the ground with her hand across her mouth to stifle the sob that was urging to come out.

What felt like hours past and the five said nothing, Remus finally spoke up, "Lily? Harry's going to the pensieve now, do you want to watch or do you want to go for a walk?" Lily stood up off the floor, "Thanks but no I- I think i need to see what he wanted Harry to see." She finished walking up behind Harry, it was a funny feeling looking into a pensieve, when you were already looking into one, she watched as the scene began to take shape. Her eyes widened, they were at her and Severus' old spot, the day they met to be exact. "Freak!" Petunia shouted, Lily winced at the name she so often heard her sister call her. "I'm gonna tell mummy! You're a freak! You're a freak Lily!" Petunia suddenly stopped chasing the young Lily up the hill as a pale and scrawny young boy emerged from behind the tree. Severus. The young Severus smiled at the young Lily and she smiled back. James turned to Lily, "You never told me you two met when you were so young Lily." he said this was what a year before Hogwarts?" Lily looked at him, "Two actually, we were nine, and i have told you, but you just blocked out anything I ever had to say about Severus that wasn't a complaint." she turned back to the scene, as it faded into a young Lily being sorted into Gryffindor and a young Severus being sorted into Slytherin. they watched as the scenes progressed showing how Snape had heard of the prophecy, and how he had gone straight to Dumbledore when he realised that it spoke of Lily and James' son. "Hide them, Hide them all, I beg you!" Snape pleaded with Dumbledore "He's the reason why we had to go into hiding!" James hissed turning to Lily, "He's the reason why we lived as long as we did!" she said back plainly. they watched as Snape stood on the street outside of Godric's Hollow the night of their deaths, he walked through the house, up the stairs pausing at James' lifeless body, and shaking his head. He proceeded up to the nursery where Harry was crying. Lily watched with a painful twist in her heart as Severus saw her lifeless body sprawled on the ground and fell against the broken door frame. He bent down hugging Lily's lifeless body in his arms, while tears slowly fell down his face. "Well what do you know ol' Snivellus has a heart after all." James muttered and Lily hit his arm, "You'd best mind to hold your tongue James." she said glaring at him. the scene changed and they were in Dumbledore's office Snape looking like he had lived a thousand years stood in the doorway, "You said, you would keep them safe." he half moaned at Dumbledore. "Lily and James put their faith in the wrong person, rather like you, the boy survived." He said calmly looking at Severus. "He doesn't need protection the Dark Lord is gone!" Snape scoffed. "He will return, and when he does he will be in terrible danger!" The old man answered. he then added, "If you truly loved her..." Lily took a sharp intake of breath, she had always guessed but brushed it off, he had actually had feeling for her, after all those years? "No one can know." Snape said and walked out the door. the scenes progressed in almost a blur, showing that Snape had in fact been on Dumbledore's side all along, he had in fact, being extremely skilled in occlumency, been able to deceive Voldemort into thinking that he was working for him when in fact he was doing quite the opposite. They learned that Dumbledore's death was not infact murder, but planned, when Dumbledore had been pleading with Snape he hadn't been pleading for mercy he had been pleading for death. Lily's heart had begun to beat faster, she had been right - up until the death of Dumbledore at least - Severus had good in him all along. The scene showed a patronus leading Harry towards the sword. "Severus' patronus there, its - why it's a doe... Lily isn't that what your's is?" Sirius said turning to Lily, Shocked at the use of Severus' proper name probably for the first time coming out of Sirius' mouth she nodded. "Yes... yes mine's a doe as well..." The scene shifted one last time to Dumbledore's office again where he was conversing with Snape, "The time will come when Harry Potter must be told something-" He started "Must be told what?" Snape inquired raising an eyebrow. "On that night in Godric's Hollow when Lily Potter cast herself between Voldemort and Harry, the curse rebounded, when that happened a part of Voldemort's soul latched itself onto the only living thing it could find... Harry himself...A part of Voldemort's soul lives inside him." the old man finished turning towards his desk, "So when the time comes... the boy must die?" Severus questioned. "Yes...yes he must die, and Voldemort must be the one to do it." Lily and James looked at each other with worried face's... their son, would have to die. After everything he had gone through, he had to die. "All these years of keeping him 'safe' of protecting him of me sacrificing my life for him, it's all so that he can die at the 'proper moment'? You've raised him like a pig for slaughter!" Snape said raising his voice, "Don't tell me now that you've grown to care for the boy?" Dumbledore said tilting his head to the side as if challenging Snape. "Expecto Patronum" Severus said waving his wand, out gleamed a brilliantly silvery doe that bounced through the office and out the window behind Dumbledore. "Lily?" He said with tears in his eyes, "After all this time?" "Always." Severus answered plainly looking the man straight in his eyes.

The five of them stood there in silence as the scene dissolved and they were brought back to Dumbledore's office, there stood Dumbledore himself with a smile on his face, "A man of many secrets Severus was." He said gently looking between James and Lily. "I trust you have somewhere you're wanting to go now Lily?" he added with the same twinkle in his eye that he had always had. "Yes- uh, I'll catch up with you later then James,: she said glancing at her husband who nodded. "He- he was on our side all along... he was Dumbledore's ever since-" Sirius started looking at James. "No Padfoot... He was Lily's." he said looking down at his feet. Dumbledore nodded and left the room.

Lily rushed down the stairwell, she wasn't sure what exactly she was doing and she didn't know if he'd be there but she rushed towards the Shrinking Shack. Glancing in she saw Severus' motionless body laying against the far wall. Lily walked slowly towards her old friend, bending down and placing a hand on his leg, she couldn't quite feel the fabric of his cloak but imagined that she could. "Sev I- I'm so sorry, I- " but she was cut off by the sound of footsteps coming up behind her. Then a voice called out opening the door to the shack, "Lily?"


So that's Chapter 7, hopefully i get the next chapter up soon. :)

I just wanted to apologize for using a lot of the dialog from the book/movie, i just wanted to make it as much like how everything really happened as I could so yea.

-Tori ;)