Chapter 4
Severus Snape Journal Entry, October 1st - day
We spend breakfast sending owls to each other, as not to attract an annoyance from classmates that can't handle when a Gryffindor sits at the Slytheran table... and Gryffindor would have some clever way to get me detention if I tried to sit there. I couldn't help but think about the house elves that made all the food we consumed over the years. I bet they save a fortune using them. After breakfast, Lily insisted she had homework to catch up on. I wish I had been able to take her out, so that she could see what a REAL date should be.
Before she left, I kissed her, and she wasn't embarrassed. I only wished HE could have seen the way she looked at me. Eat your heart out Potter.
Hogwarts School, October 1st - day
While Lily ate her breakfast, and giggled over notes that Severus sent her. (One being: "Nice robes. Did your mother pick them out?" to which she replied: "Shut up please, I'm trying to enjoy my eggs. P.s. no, my mother did not pick out my robes... my grandpa did. Maybe you know him, Dumbledore.")
Their conversation turned from robes to Dumbledore being Lily's grandfather, to him being her GREAT grandfather, then just assuming he was old enough to be Adam or Eve's grandfather too.
When Lily finished her breakfast, she didn't want to leave. She loved things this way. Why did something always have to change one's course of happy being?
An enormous white and grey owl flew into the Great Hall, and landed elegantly in front of Lily. She laughed at the thought of Severus starting to send different owls, as though people would think that she was just really popular that morning, rather than the truth that Lily had an admirer.
She untied the letter from the owl's leg, and unrolled the parchment. To Lily's surprise, the handwriting was not that of Severus'...
It was from James.
Her heart leapt as she hid the letter under the table so no one would see her reading it.
She read the note twice before looking up, which read:
Lily,
I can't begin to tell you how embarrassed I am about our date.
Let me make it up to you.
Meet me at the portrait hole around 10 tonight.
-James
Lily thought about what he meant by the letter. How could he make it up to her? Were they going to go out again? Every student knows that they're not to leave Hogwarts after hours, and 10 at night was definetly out of the question.
She also had that sickening feeling that she was going to have to bring money again for butter beers or something.
Then the real feeling of sickness hit her.
Severus.
How was she to explain it to him? 'Sorry Sevie, I have another date. Wait up for me though, because I'll probably want to see you afterwards incase he's not enjoyable again.'
Lily looked up at the Slytherin table to see if Severus was looking her way and possibly wondering why she wasn't responding to his last note about giving the Divination professor a dung flavored jelly bean. But he wasn't sitting at the table anymore.
She looked around to see if he was on his way out the door, or maybe up talking to someone else. He wasn't. She crumpled up the note James sent her, and shoved it into the pocket of her robes. She grabbed her backpack and swirled around in her seat to stand up, and Severus was standing there behind her.
"Oh! Severus! You startled me!" said Lily nervously.
"I was wondering if you had been offended by my last letter. Because I did mean what I sad about our lovely Divination teacher... he's a complete disgrace, and he would be well deserving of a foul flavor of Bertie Botts beans." he replied.
Lily giggled in relief. He had not seen the note.
"Actually, I happen to agree with you whole heartedly." she said.
"I knew you would." he said happily. "So, do you have time for another adventure tonight?"
"Haha, yes, that was quite the adventure! Oh... but I have a lot of homework to catch up on..." she said hastily contemplating whether or not to meet James' request or not.
"Oh..." said Severus in a manner that was clear to Lily that he thought she didn't really want to spend more time with him.
The sound made Lily's heart sink.
"I might be able to... late tonight. I don't know when... if you want." she said, trying to be reassuring.
Severus smiled almost evilly.
"I knew you couldn't resist me." he replied, and to Lily's surprise, he took one of her hands into his own and kissed it.
Lily walked quickly back to the Gryffindor Tower. She had so much work to get done, as well as take the time to decide whether to meet James at 10, or just ditch out early and see Severus instead.
All instincts told her to not meet with James... But when 10pm rolled around, Lily found herself sitting on the big plush couch in front of the fireplace.
"Glad you could make it." said a voice from behind her.
"Er, yeah. Me too." replied Lily. She stood up to see James in a tasteful muggle-like
outfit that pleased Lily greatly. In his arm was a colorful cloak that Lily had never seen before.
"Where did you get the cloak?" she asked him.
James smiled and said nothing. Lily cocked her head to one side as she watched James flip the cloak around his shoulders. Everything but his head suddenly vanished. Lily covered her mouth as to keep herself from making a sound of shock.
"How... what... how did you do that?" she asked bewildered.
"It's an invisibility cloak. Pretty cool huh?" said James coolly.
Lily couldn't deny the awesomeness of the invisibility cloak. She had head of such things in existence but never dreamed anyone she would ever know would own one. They were, after all, very rare.
"So, are you ready to go then?" James asked her, removing the cloak and coming fully into view once more.
"Go?" Lily asked, touching the robe's fabric in curiosity.
"Well, we can't have a decent date in the common room, now can we? I though a nice little jaunt to Hogsmeade would suit us well. I know a way to get there quickly." he explained.
"You mean...? Oh... Yes, I see. We hide under the cloak and sneak out, right? And no one will ever know we broke SCHOOL RULES... is that about it?" she asked, eyebrows raised.
James thought about it a minute, wondering if this was a trick question. But finally he replied, "Yep. That's about it."
A smile spread across Lily's face. "Let's go."
Severus Snape Journal Entry, October 1st - day
We spend breakfast sending owls to each other, as not to attract an annoyance from classmates that can't handle when a Gryffindor sits at the Slytheran table... and Gryffindor would have some clever way to get me detention if I tried to sit there. I couldn't help but think about the house elves that made all the food we consumed over the years. I bet they save a fortune using them. After breakfast, Lily insisted she had homework to catch up on. I wish I had been able to take her out, so that she could see what a REAL date should be.
Before she left, I kissed her, and she wasn't embarrassed. I only wished HE could have seen the way she looked at me. Eat your heart out Potter.
Hogwarts School, October 1st - day
While Lily ate her breakfast, and giggled over notes that Severus sent her. (One being: "Nice robes. Did your mother pick them out?" to which she replied: "Shut up please, I'm trying to enjoy my eggs. P.s. no, my mother did not pick out my robes... my grandpa did. Maybe you know him, Dumbledore.")
Their conversation turned from robes to Dumbledore being Lily's grandfather, to him being her GREAT grandfather, then just assuming he was old enough to be Adam or Eve's grandfather too.
When Lily finished her breakfast, she didn't want to leave. She loved things this way. Why did something always have to change one's course of happy being?
An enormous white and grey owl flew into the Great Hall, and landed elegantly in front of Lily. She laughed at the thought of Severus starting to send different owls, as though people would think that she was just really popular that morning, rather than the truth that Lily had an admirer.
She untied the letter from the owl's leg, and unrolled the parchment. To Lily's surprise, the handwriting was not that of Severus'...
It was from James.
Her heart leapt as she hid the letter under the table so no one would see her reading it.
She read the note twice before looking up, which read:
Lily,
I can't begin to tell you how embarrassed I am about our date.
Let me make it up to you.
Meet me at the portrait hole around 10 tonight.
-James
Lily thought about what he meant by the letter. How could he make it up to her? Were they going to go out again? Every student knows that they're not to leave Hogwarts after hours, and 10 at night was definetly out of the question.
She also had that sickening feeling that she was going to have to bring money again for butter beers or something.
Then the real feeling of sickness hit her.
Severus.
How was she to explain it to him? 'Sorry Sevie, I have another date. Wait up for me though, because I'll probably want to see you afterwards incase he's not enjoyable again.'
Lily looked up at the Slytherin table to see if Severus was looking her way and possibly wondering why she wasn't responding to his last note about giving the Divination professor a dung flavored jelly bean. But he wasn't sitting at the table anymore.
She looked around to see if he was on his way out the door, or maybe up talking to someone else. He wasn't. She crumpled up the note James sent her, and shoved it into the pocket of her robes. She grabbed her backpack and swirled around in her seat to stand up, and Severus was standing there behind her.
"Oh! Severus! You startled me!" said Lily nervously.
"I was wondering if you had been offended by my last letter. Because I did mean what I sad about our lovely Divination teacher... he's a complete disgrace, and he would be well deserving of a foul flavor of Bertie Botts beans." he replied.
Lily giggled in relief. He had not seen the note.
"Actually, I happen to agree with you whole heartedly." she said.
"I knew you would." he said happily. "So, do you have time for another adventure tonight?"
"Haha, yes, that was quite the adventure! Oh... but I have a lot of homework to catch up on..." she said hastily contemplating whether or not to meet James' request or not.
"Oh..." said Severus in a manner that was clear to Lily that he thought she didn't really want to spend more time with him.
The sound made Lily's heart sink.
"I might be able to... late tonight. I don't know when... if you want." she said, trying to be reassuring.
Severus smiled almost evilly.
"I knew you couldn't resist me." he replied, and to Lily's surprise, he took one of her hands into his own and kissed it.
Lily walked quickly back to the Gryffindor Tower. She had so much work to get done, as well as take the time to decide whether to meet James at 10, or just ditch out early and see Severus instead.
All instincts told her to not meet with James... But when 10pm rolled around, Lily found herself sitting on the big plush couch in front of the fireplace.
"Glad you could make it." said a voice from behind her.
"Er, yeah. Me too." replied Lily. She stood up to see James in a tasteful muggle-like
outfit that pleased Lily greatly. In his arm was a colorful cloak that Lily had never seen before.
"Where did you get the cloak?" she asked him.
James smiled and said nothing. Lily cocked her head to one side as she watched James flip the cloak around his shoulders. Everything but his head suddenly vanished. Lily covered her mouth as to keep herself from making a sound of shock.
"How... what... how did you do that?" she asked bewildered.
"It's an invisibility cloak. Pretty cool huh?" said James coolly.
Lily couldn't deny the awesomeness of the invisibility cloak. She had head of such things in existence but never dreamed anyone she would ever know would own one. They were, after all, very rare.
"So, are you ready to go then?" James asked her, removing the cloak and coming fully into view once more.
"Go?" Lily asked, touching the robe's fabric in curiosity.
"Well, we can't have a decent date in the common room, now can we? I though a nice little jaunt to Hogsmeade would suit us well. I know a way to get there quickly." he explained.
"You mean...? Oh... Yes, I see. We hide under the cloak and sneak out, right? And no one will ever know we broke SCHOOL RULES... is that about it?" she asked, eyebrows raised.
James thought about it a minute, wondering if this was a trick question. But finally he replied, "Yep. That's about it."
A smile spread across Lily's face. "Let's go."