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Chapter 14: When We First Met…"Hullo Peeves, hullo armour, hullo tapestry," little Severus Snape chanted as he skipped through the halls of Hogwarts. "What a glorious day Mother Nature has yet again bestowed upon us all! Let us seize opportunity by the arm and…" At this point, dear little Severus' joyous monologue was stopped as a menacing shadow fell over his path, and he bumped into none other than Lucius Malfoy, the gorilla of 7th year. Gorilla… of evil!
As he tumbled to the floor, Severus' school bag fell down and tore open, and all Severus books, carefully wrapped in pink paper, spilled out over the hallway. Lucius stooped to pick a couple of them up, laughing quietly, as Severus sat gazing in rapture on this angelic appearance that called himself Lucius Malfoy. Lucius flipped through the books casually, wondering what a second years would be doing with a copy of Advanced Potion Making, and why he had scribbled all over the margins in a distinctly girly hand, when he noticed the inscription at the back.
"Property of the Half Blood Prince." He read aloud, glancing at Severus, who was already picking his books up while pirouetting across the corridor wildly. "Hhm." Lucius said. "More like Half Blood Princess."