They restrict their outings to evenings, two of the world's most skilled magicians slipping through the continents for a few hours at a time in the dead of night. [HecatexSeverus]

Hecate Hardbroom does not, ordinarily, like to concede that Quidditch is a significantly more diverting sport than Witch Ball. But it is. She's allowed herself to admit it today only because it is the Hogwarts Quidditch Cup, and today, at last, the smart money is on her husband's house. HecatexSeverus

Severus Snape has never expected to love anyone other than Lily Evans. He lives in patient acceptance of this fact until he finds himself debating gillyweed and morning dew in Mulpepper's Apothecary. HecatexSeverus