It was the next day when Hermione ran into Lily and Severus kissing goodbye before his first class. She was almost too late, but luckily he was late too.
"What happened to your mother? They are kissing out there!", Hermione rushed to her seat next to Harry and Ron.
"They decided to not keep it a secret any longer", Harry answered, when suddenly the door crashed and Snape rushed into the room.
„You got 40 minutes! No talking!", he said in his usual Snape voice, „turn around the sheets… and start"
They did as he told them, when Harry started reading the exercises. All the questions were based on last year.
Inconspicuously, he glanced at Hermione's sheet. She had whole different questions.
Did he really do that? He gave him easier questions, so he could pass it on the first try.
It was totally unfair and Harry knew that.
In confusion and surprise he looked at Snape who actually watched him as well.
He smiled a tiny bit, when his Professor nodded, almost not noticeable.
It was really easy for him to answer all of them, and so he did and finished almost 20 minutes early.
"Have you finished… Potter?", Snape slowly walked up to him and gave him a strict look that told him to act with him.
"No. No Sir. I was just thinking", he answered fast with a bit of a shaky voice.
"You better be thinking about your questions!", his Professor said, strict and harsh, as he walked away again.
"Thank you, Professor…", Harry came up to Severus just after they finished the lesson.
„Do not tell anybody", he said calm and sounded a bit bored.
„I won't… but wasn't that unfair?", Harry also spoke more quiet now.
„I don't want any of my students to fail.", he looked away from his sheets and to Harry,
„No matter what kind of relationship lays between us, Potter"
And with that last sentence he just walked out of the room. Not giving Harry any more look.
He thought about it once again. When he first started school he saw Snape as the most scary professor, which throughout the years just slightly changed.
Ever since he knew about him and his mother, his point of view changed.
Now Harry knew that Snape actually just pretended to be that dark teacher. He knew that he was actually nice and caring.
Somehow he knew that he could rely upon him. He could tell him all his secrets and Severus would understand.
Harry knew that Snape loved his mother with all of his heart, and that he made her the happiest since a very long time.
„Professor!", Harry called after him.
Snape stood in the doorstep and turned around.
The young wizard turned towards him and checked twice that there was no one around.
„Thank you for making my mother so happy. You give her so much"
„I never loved anyone more than your mother, Harry. I fall in love with her when we were 9 and ever since then, nothing changed that. It was her, always her." Severus told him.
He saw that his eyes started shining as he spoke. He meant it. He meant what he said.
Harry was blown away but the soft, kind words from his professor.
"Guess we both love her unconditionally.", Harry smiled up to him.
"Yes…", Severus whispered, when suddenly he seemed to be back in reality, "don't you need to be in your next class?"
"Yeah. Yes, I'm going. See you tonight?", Harry asked and rushed out of the classroom, because he already lost Ron and Hermione.
Snape you looked after him and felt this strange warm feeling inside, as he watched Harry disappear in the crowd of students.
He had suddenly become a father. At least a kind of father figure to Harry.
The feeling of a family made him smile a bit.
"Hey…", Lily walked up behind him and placed her hand on his shoulder, which made him turn around.
"Hey", now he smiled, not just inside.
Lily propped up on her tiptoes to kiss him. Surrounded by approximately 40 students.
They really did act like wild teenagers.
"Are you crazy?", Severus whispered in his girls face, smiling.
"Crazy about you", she whispered and kissed him once more.
They felt the eyes of everyone in the corridor staring at them.
Whispering.
"I think Harry wants dinner with us again tonight", Severus told Lily.
"I'll talk to him later.", she answered, "actually I wanted to tell you that Dumbledore wants to see you"