Severus Snape and Lily Evans walked through the entrance hall, as James Potter dashed across their path. Snape looked at him in disgust. Lily didn't seem to notice him.
Let us pause here to describe these three main characters.
Snape: a young, handsome seventh year, happy, cheerful, and ambitious.
Lily: a young, pretty, seventh year, envied by other girls, ready to take on life.
Potter: a trouble maker, popular, in his seventh year, a handsome quidditch star.
Snape and Lily entered the great hall and sat down to eat.
It was dinner time, and the couple had just come from a difficult transfiguration lesson.
"I swear, if McGonagall gives us another lesson like that, I'll break!" Lily cried.
"That's ok, I'll help you." Snape, who was good at the subject, replied calmly.
Just then, Potter and Sirius Black sat down beside them. Snape only glowered at them. "What are you looking at?" potter sneered at Snape. Lily had not notice the heated glared her boyfriend had been shooting at potter.
"Excuse me, but we're trying to have a conversation here." Lily said angrily to her fellow Gryffindor. Potter ignored her. "I don't believe slytherins are supposed to sit at Gryffindor tables." He sneered. "I can sit wherever I want potter." Snape retorted quietly.
Potter didn't answer, but turned to his friend. "He's really beginning to annoy me, that one." They heard him say. Lily frowned. "Ignore him. He's just trying to bother you."
When they were both finished eating, they stood up and headed for the library, to finish their transfiguration homework.
Soon after they sat down and go to work, potter entered the library and sat down at the table beside theirs. He did not do anything however. He only sat there and stared at lily, in the most annoying manner. Lily, noticing this, tried to ignore it, but finally could not take it anymore. "I can't concentrate with him staring at me like that!" she exclaimed in a whisper to Snape. "I'll finish this in the common room." With that she gathered her things and left, Snape staring angrily into space.