What was Written

disclamer: the plot is mine but the characters are not

Harry started to look at the entry in Snape's journal. He, Ron, and Hermione had found this journal with the help of Dean Thomas. Their plan was to pass it around school, except they wouldn't let the Slytherins get it. The four also had to be very careful that a teacher never recovered it. After a few weeks of letting everyone read the journal, the four would hide it again.

Harry looked again into the book and began to read.

" Hello dear friend, it is me , Severus, writng in you. Of course, who else would it be? I am fifteen today, but I don't feel any different. Father didn't send a letter. I didn't expect him to anyway. It's all the same. The cut on my arm from last time is healing well. Father didn't use as much force as he usually does. I think he's starting to forgive me for what happened to Mother. It wasn't my fault ,journal ,but he won't believe me. That's all for now, bye"

Harry stopped reading and looked up at his friends. They all seemed horrified. Snape was an asshole, but being abused as a kid was a small reason to forgive him. Of course, he wasn't totally forgiven, but the four felt a pang of guilt. Then as they were all pondering the entry, Ron spoke up.

" Obviously Snape and his dad didn't get along very well"

" Well of course not Ron, if his dad gave him cuts on purpose," said Hermione.

" Yea, said Dean, I should've warned you."

" You knew about this?" asked Harry.

Dean nodded and said," but we weren't going to let anyone see those kind of entries, I have a spell that will lock them up. We'll just pretend Snape did it"

Harry nodded and proceeded to read another entry.

" Dear journal, it's me again. I really wish Mother didn't die. I guess in a small way it was my fault. I was always asking her and Father to have another child. She wouldn't have gone to Father and asked him to get her pregant if I didn't want a brother or sister. Father knows that I wanted that, and now Mother's dead and the baby is gone."

The four looked at eachother in shock. So Snape's mother had died in childbirth. That could explain his strange behavior at times. Maybe he still felt guilty, but as he wrote, it really wasn't his fault. The friends were starting to see Snape in a new light. They all thought about the entry as Dean put the journal back and Hermione covered the hole.

" Maybe we shouldn't let everyone read that," said Ron. " I mean there's probably other ways to embarass Snape that aren't as, well, mean"

"I know what you mean, said Hermione touching his arm, I don't think we should let people read that either"

Harry was about to voice his own opinion in the matter when he saw Dean silently crying.

" What's wrong with you?" he asked.

" I never really read the journal as well as I could've, Dean answered. I knew something happened to Snape and I can relate completely" The other three looked confused." Well not completely, he continued, I didn't lose a mother, I lost an aunt."

" I'm sorry Dean," said Hermione.

" She was like a second mother to me, and the baby would've been like a sibling. I was heartbroken when they died" " Didn't come out of my room for days"

Then he stopped talking. They were all quiet on the way back to the castle. When they all got into bed each of them felt a pang of sadness. Snape had suffered, and now that they knew the secret they would also.


a/n that's it for chap 3. Next chapter will reveal a bit more of................ I'm not telling! r/r please.