Title: Innocent Ideas
Author: Nesma
Summary: It's hard to predict the results of words and actions at such a young age. It's difficult to fathom that an idea formed without much logic or reasons at a young age will carry on through to adulthood. It's terrifying and exhilarating that the ideas and stories from childhood have such curious results in adulthood. And this could be no truer than with the case of Lily and Petunia Evans and Severus Snape.
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Petunia Evans knew something about Severus Snape that would take Lily five years to realize.
Severus Snape was a racist. Petunia would listen to his speeches about purebloods and the 'muggles' and how 'muggles' weren't all that great. And while she appreciated how her sister tried to correct him, Lily often shrugged it off.
Petunia didn't want her little sister, her baby sister, to go off to world that would look down her because of her family. She didn't want her sister to be threaten or hurt or tortured or killed because of her background. Petunia certainly didn't want Lily to turn her back on the very people that raised her and loved her so much. Petunia wanted to keep her sister safe.
And perhaps her tactics were bad when she yelled at Severus, but she believed that her sister realized what she was doing. Petunia thought Lily was smart enough to pick up Severus' snide remarks and terrible, horrible, and cruel jokes. She thought Lily realized that Petunia was only shouting and yelling and stomping and threatening to save Lily's life.
But Lily didn't realize that her sister was trying to protect her. Lily only saw the hatred for Severus Snape. Lily only could hear the insults towards the wizarding world. Lily didn't notice the subtleties of Petunia's words and how they were aimed more at Severus' beliefs and not the whole world.
It would take five more years until Lily saw what Petunia did all those years ago. But by then, it would be too late to settle the rift that separated the sisters.