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A/N: This is Luna's Challenge! And here are the reviews so far....

Lee Hart- Thanks and I like how Lily and Severus act around each other too. I will forever be a Slytherin!

GoddessMoonLady- Glad you find it interesting! And I can't wait to see what I'm going to do next. (Sev: She called me an idiot!) ....And yes, I know Sev is.....(Sev: HEY!)

Bluebird161221- Don't we just all love the Sev?

Ice Sphinx- Thank you! I'm glad you like!

WARNING: This chapter has spoilers for the Fifth book, more specific "Snape's worst Memory"! So if you haven't read the fifth book, read it now! Then come back and read this and review!

Chapter Two:

Lily fidgeted nervously as she waited for Severus in front of the Great Hall entrance. Today was testing for Defense Against the Dark Arts. Their O.W.Ls. Mentally, Lily screamed but on the outside she just twitched and looked all around nervous. She just had to get good marks on the tests. In exactly fifteen minutes the testing would start.

"Are you alright, Lily?"

Turning around to her right, Lily saw Severus standing there, looking at her with an almost worried gaze. Well, as worried as you could get with Severus Snape. Sighing, Lily looked a bit sheepish at her Slytherin friend.

"Just a bit...apprehensive" she told him with a shrug.

With this, Severus just looked at her with more concern "Why?"

"Do O.W.Ls ring a bell?" Lily asked pointing to the Great Hall doors.

Severus waved a dismissing hand at the Great Hall doors. "Oh, yea. Those are today aren't they?"

The red headed Gryffindor that was NOT a Weasely glared at the smirking Slytherin. "Right, I forgot. You're a genius, aren't you?"

Her voice was filled with sarcasm and she stressed the word 'genius' with a little added sneer. Snape gave a small chuckle and flashed a smirk at her. Standing up a little straighter, he beamed smugly at absolutely nothing. "Yes, I am rather a genius, aren't I?"

"You're a git, that's what you are!"

"What's worse, the git or the best friend of the git?"

"That has yet to be determined. When I turn into a pureblood and marry Lucius Malfoy then it'll be the latter rather then the former."

As they kept up there fun little conversation, Madeline (or Maddy as she's known to be called) of Hufflepuff and Reni of Ravenclaw caught up with them. Maddy was a rather medium sized girl with a usually smiling face that made her brown eyes sparkle and was matched with dirty blonde hair (many had said she was Helga Hufflepuff reincarnated). While Reni had light brown hair and blue eyes that seemed to dull since the girl hardly smiled, she was also short at a whopping 5'2''. The two other girls blinked as Lily and Severus kept talking, not noticing them.

"How long do you think it'll take them?" Maddy asked as she leaned closer to Reni, all the while still watching Lily and Severus go through their daily bantering.

"I give it another full minute" Reni said carelessly and waited. Maddy followed her example and simply waited for her friends to notice her.

As if Reni was a Seer and she had saw into the future, Lily and Severus noticed them a minute later.

"There you two are! Tell me you girls are nervous about O.W.Ls as I am?" Lily pleaded with them while Severus rolled his eyes.

"Yes!" Maddy said while nodding her head so vigorously that Reni and Severus feared her head might actually fly off.

"No" was Reni's answer though none of her friends were surprised.

"Reni is a Ravenclaw, remember? If she was ever nervous or unprepared for a test, I'd be rather shocked" Severus said and it earned him a glare, a look of agreement, and a smirk.

"It'd almost be the same thing as if Severus was nervous or unprepared for a test" Reni added and Lily rolled her eyes. Maddy could only think for a moment then nod in agreement to what Reni and Severus were saying.

Those two were excellent students and always liked to be on top of things. The only ones who presented them a challenge were three of the Marauders. They would of course be James, Sirius, and Remus.

Reni looked down at her watch and looked back up to her friends. "We should get inside. I hear that they're giving us assigned seating so might as well see where we are"

The others all agreed and together they all entered the Great Hall to take their O.W.Ls, with Lily and Maddy still nervous.

Fast forward to Dinner that same day (A/N: This is after "Snape's worst memory")

Reni walked down the halls with a plate of food in one hand and a cup of pumpkin juice in the other. When she hadn't seen Severus at Dinner, she knew that the boy wouldn't eat so she set out with food and a drink to find him. She mentally cursed the Marauders for taking it to far. Why did they HAVE to pick on Severus? And in the lowest of ways.

She shuddered as she entered the dungeons and found the Potions classroom where Severus was bent over a cauldron. Sighing, Reni was glad that Severus was that predictable to her, Maddy, and Lily. Her lips formed into a frown at the thought of Lily. Her Gryffindor friend and Severus weren't talking, which never bode well.

Before Reni could say a word, Severus looked over his shoulder at her only to then look back at his potion. Silence fell between them and Reni couldn't find anything to say. So, she said nothing at all and just put the food and drink next to him. Taking a seat, Reni watched him work and it wasn't until ten minutes later after he added the spider legs did he glance at the food.

"Thanks" His voice was hoarse and Reni knew why.

"Did it amuse you to watch me be humiliated, Lily?"

"Of course not, Severus..."

"Then why?"

"Why what?"

"Why did you look like you were about to smile!? I saw it, Lily!"

"Why did you call me a Mudblood!?"

"Because you seemed to be enjoying yourself while I swung upside down!"

"Perhaps I was! I'm only human, Severus! I can't be expected to cover up my emotions as well as you!"

"GO TO HELL EVANS!"


Severus ate slowly, as if he was too tired to deal with it but he did for sakes and purposes. It made Reni's heart ache to see her friend hurt like he was. Loyalty among friends was one thing that Severus prided on. He may have been Slytherin and would do almost anything to get what he wanted, he still held his friend dearly.

"Did you find it funny?" Though Reni wasn't looking into his eyes, she could just see them full of smoldered rage.

"No" She didn't find it amusing at all. Fortunately, she had only saw the first part of what had happened before she and Maddy had ran off to get a Head of House or any professor they could find. When they had got back, Maddy had cried at the humiliated sight that Severus was in and Reni didn't look at all. She couldn't.

"Lily did"

The words seemed to echo in the dungeon classroom and Reni found that she could say nothing to comfort her friend. So, she sat by him in silence. Instead of comforting him with words, she comforted him with being there.

Sometimes being a friend was saying nothing at all.

Outside of the Great Hall: just after Dinner

Leaning against the wall right next to the Great Hall doors, Maddy wiped at her face to get rid of the tears that were there. She was rather unsuccessful. When the Great Hall doors opened and students filed out, Maddy bowed her head down so that no one could see her tears. All of the students passed by except one. And that was the one that Maddy needed to talk to, Lily.

The red headed girl meet up with her Hufflepuff friend with a smile, though Maddy couldn't bring herself to smile back.

"What's wrong?" Lily asked, concerned for the other girl.

"Severus-" Maddy had been about to say more but Lily cut her off.

"I don't want to talk about him" She said sternly and was about to walk away but didn't get far before Maddy started sobbing.

"You didn't see what they did to him!"

That single sentence made Lily stop but she didn't turn around.

"When Reni and I found him...he had been chained up to the wall, Lily! Chained up so that his robe was open!...They....they had ripped his...and it....everything was showing.." Maddy trailed off as she sunk to the ground, still sobbing.

Turning around, the Gryffindor girl went over to Maddy and knelt before her, then gathered the Hufflepuff into her arms.

"I'm sure he was okay-"Lily tried to reassure the girl but Maddy then yelled out.

"THEY LAUGHED LILY! EVERYONE!" her voice seemed to echo off the stone walls "No one helped him! The idiots...they all just stared and laughed...morons....insensitive bastards..."

Lily's eyes turned wide, never had she heard Maddy insult someone, never. It was like a rule with the girl; no matter how badly someone treated her, she never lowered herself to insult back. But here she was, a usually happy go lucky girl crying for what had happened to her friend and cursing those who had refused to help him.

"Have you ever seen Reni mad?" Maddy asked silently. Lily could only shake her head 'no'. Reni wasn't one to get angry, she just didn't see the point in it.

"Well, once some vile bitches started catcalling and making lewd comments, Reni snapped" the Hufflepuff told her Gryffindor friend "After they got Severus down, Reni went after every single girl who dared to comment on Severus' predicament. They're all in the hospital wing now and they won't tell anyone it was Reni, they're all to afraid. Sometimes, I think Reni should've been in Slytherin"

A very uncomfortable silence went over the two girls. It wasn't until Lily pulled away from Maddy did Maddy see the tears streaking her friend's face.

"He called me a filthy Mudblood, Maddy" Lily whispered.

Gently, Maddy pushed Lily away and stood up then started to walk away, following the girl was her words to Lily.

"I'm not going to say that what he said was right. It's not. But no matter what, he's still our friend. And that guarantees we help him, even if he doesn't want it or what he says"

The hallway was soon empty as Maddy went to the Hufflepuff Common Room with the exception of Lily, who still knelt on the floor with tears flowing down her cheeks.

Slytherin Common Room

A young blonde man laughed loudly at what had happened to Severus Snape. Lucius Malfoy couldn't wipe off the gleeful expression off his face as he turned to Avery.

"This should practically drive Severus right into our ranks. You'll have to remind me to thank Potter and Black" he said with a sinister smile.

"I don't know why we need him in the first place" Avery replied coldly.

Gray eyes looked at the other boy and Malfoy simply smirked. "With Severus' talents, it'd be better to have him on our side then on Dumbledores"

End Chapter

A/N: Wow...That's a long chapter....for me anyway...

I'm sorry I had to make the marauders sound really mean but I wanted this to be an absolutely horrid memory. I'm so sorry SEV!

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