Lily Bud

Year 3 Chapter 25

Hogsmeade was awesome!, Lily thought. There was so much to see! It was like Diagon Ally all over again, but different. This village held a different kind of life. Here there were real wizards and witches that lived their magical lives free and without fear to be discovered. The houses were all different and some look like they should fall over, but didn't. People had strange pets running around. From the two-trailed little dog that kept barking at her to cat's in every and any way, someone had some kind of monkey while others have birds in every color and size under the sun. Lily couldn't even turn her head to fast as new impressions poured down on her.

And then the shops! Lily wanted to see each and every one. Sulfia rolled her eyes at her and Dorcas hid a soft giggle behind her hand.

Lily turned around and looked over her shoulder to Sev. When she told him that she already promised Dorcas and Sulfia to go to Hogsmeade with them (back in first year really) he had looked so hurt and betrayed that she begged and pleaded until they agreed to take him along as well. Lily hoped that it would help to make Sev and the girls get on along better. Surely they just needed to know each other and would see that the other were fun too. So far it didn't work very well. Sev would only talk with her and when the other two would try to get involved he would mumble and glare at them. On the other side he wouldn't even try to add to their discussions in any nice way.

"So what do you gir- all think about the new subjects?" Sulfia asked and gave Lily a meaningful look when she changed from girls to all. It pretty much meant, 'see I'm trying, now make him try'.

"Runes is really interesting. I wish one of you were in it as well." Dorcas answered. "How is Divination?" Lily had chosen her new subject according to what sounded most magical, so she took Divination, Care for Magical Creatures and Arithmancy. But sometimes she looked at Dorcas' Ancient Runes book and felt envy. Lily would have loved to learn everything about her new world.

"The teacher is interesting. He is completely blind, but still manages to move around just fine." Lily answered. "I'm just not sure if I'm very gifted in Divination."

"Of course not. Divination is hogwash." Sulfia stated.

"And that's why you are taking it, instead of Runes with me right?" Dorcas asked in mockery.

"It's hogwash that gets you an easy grade. Same reason why I take Muggle studies." Sulfia just shrugged. Dorcas and Lily giggled with Sulfia good natured.

Sev gave a snipe snort. "If you are too stupid for anything else…"

Lily could see how Sulfia's patience snapped. Her face twisted into an arrogant sneer. "Piss off Snape! If all you do is making an ass out of yourself than get lost. It's not like we enjoy your company. You are only here because Lily is too kind and feels bad for you, because nobody else wants to hang out with you. I can see why."

"Sulfia please…" Lily pleaded. Tears stung in her eyes. Why couldn't her friends get along?

"What? He is insufferable rude and obnoxious. You wanted us to give him a chance. We did. But we don't have to tolerate it if he behaves like that!" Sulfia's ice blue eyes pinned Lily down. "You can take his shit and pretend it's chocolate cake if you want, but we won't suffer from somebody's company that can't be bothered to wash their hair." Sulfia grabbed Dorcas' arm and pulled her down the road. Dorcas looked back at Lily for a moment and just shrugged her shoulders.

The first tears ran down Lily's face. Sev put a hand on her shoulder.

"You don't need them. We don't need them. They are just stuck up holier-than-thou bitches." Sev told her and pulled Lily in a hug.

She fought against his arms. "No! They are my friends too and what you said was rude. You can't tell my friends that they are stupid." Lily's face turned red with anger and she shouted at Sev.

"You were laughing about it as well…" Sev glared back at her.

"Dorcas and I are her friends and we laughed with her. We didn't mock her like you did!" Lily dried her tears with the sleeve of her robe. "You can't talk like that to people, Sev."

Sev didn't answer and just kicked the dirt in front of him with a dark glare. After a moment he finally opened his mouth. "Can we now get a butterbeer?" He tried to smile, but Lily had none of it.

"No, Sev!" She crossed her arms. "We are not going to get a butterbeer! I want to be alone. Get one on your own." Lily turned away and marched down the main road on her own.

Was it her fault for trying to push her friends together? Lily thought while looking at the shops sadly. She just wanted for her friends to like each other.

Later that day she would return to her dorm with little gifts for Sulfia and Dorcas and they hugged her again.

Hogsmeade was not so awesome anymore. She never tried to make the girls and Severus hang out again.

A.N. We know from the books that her other friends had a problem with Snape for years and too often I read that it is only about Slytherin and that doesn't sit right with me. Snape in the books is very unlikable and he was probably terrible with other kids, especially those he didn't like to begin with, because they 'steal' Lily away from him. Maybe he didn't know better. Lily's friends tried to give him a chance, even if they didn't really feel like it, because he is strange and creepy and kids are mean like that, but they tried. Of course they could try harder, but why? Why did they have to try to get to know that person that didn't bother to know them or be nice to them? It didn't work out and they didn't hide that from Lily.

The friendship between Lily and Snape didn't break with a word or even within a day or that year. It broke for a long time, just really slowly. It was not something that was smashed by one sledge hammer hit. There was that hit, in the end, but it broke from all the small hits that picked away at their foundation for years.

I want to take the time to once again thank YouBlitherindIdiot for all your kind comments and that you are ready to overthink and analyse everything with me. But I want to thank the people that follow and favorite this story as well. It is nice to know that people like and read what I write. Thank you.

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