Ch 10 Christmas for everyone

While the boys were planning their pranks, Lily was at home with her parents and sister eating dinner.

"Lily, how is Hogwarts? It seems you haven't mentioned any of it."

"Oh," Lily said, glancing at Petunia. She didn't want to say anything that would upset her sister. "Well, it's ok."

"Well we want to hear all about it!"

"Really mom, it's not that exciting."

"Have you made any friends?"

"Well Mary MacDonald is one of my friends and there's Sev, the boy who lives near here."

"That Snape boy!" Petunia said suddenly. Her parents looked at her.

"Yea, Severus Snape, is that ok?"

"He's a Snape, that family is not right."

"Well, his mom's a witch, like me and his dad is a mug-. I mean a non-magical man."

"We should have them over for dinner sometime." Lily's mom said.

"No mom, it's fine. Sev wouldn't want it. Besides he stayed at Hogwarts for Christmas. His dad had to go away and his mom went with him. Really it's no big deal."

After dinner Lily went to Petunia's room.

"Tunny, will you talk to me?"

"Well, I haven't seen you in four months and every time you sent a letter home you never said anything to me."

"I always told mom and dad to tell you hi!" Lily said.

"They sent me that message but there was no how's she doing? Or Ill write to her soon."

"I was mad at you before. I thought you hated me!"

"I do now!" Petunia said, she went to close her door but when she reached for it Lily said no and the door wouldn't move.

"Lily! What are you doing?" Petunia sounded scared.

"I don't know what happened. It's like my magic is stopping the door from closing cause I want to talk to you."

"Well you talk but I'm not listening." Petunia sat on her chair by her desk and opened her homework.

"Tunny please. I'm sorry if I did anything to hurt you."

"No your not. Just leave!"

Lily was upset at this but she let her guard down and let the door swing shut on its own. She walked into her room, took out a piece of parchment and wrote a letter to Severus.

Dear Sev,

I feel very alone at home. Petunia still hates me and now she won't talk to me. I guess I've ruined things with her. I miss you. I know you'd understand how I'm feeling. Write me back soon, I really need to talk.

Lily.

Lily rolled the parchment up, tied it to Hermy's leg, her owl, and sent the letter to her friend. Perhaps that'll cheer him up and he will cheer her up.

Snape was sitting in the Slytherin common room. Hardly anyone stayed for the holidays. He was alone in the common room at the moment because it was lunch time. He wasn't hungry because he was too depressed. He was missing Lily too much.

Suddenly he heard a tapping noise on the common room door. He wandered over to the door.

"Who's there?" he asked. There was no answer just more tapping. He decided to open the door.

In flew an owl. It was a barn owl. It looked oddly familiar but he couldn't figure out who it was from. It wouldn't be his parents, they never sent him mail unless he sent them first. It couldn't be any of his relatives, why would they be writing him, his birthday wasn't even yet, it was a few days away. It could be birthday greetings but he highly doubted it.

He pulled the parchment off and recognized the writing and then realized who the owl was. The note was from Lily and this was her owl Hermy. He opened the parchment and read it. Just knowing Lily was thinking of him made him happy but when he read the note it made him feel even happier.

Lily was just as miserable as him. He took out a quill and parchment out immediately and wrote Lily back.

Lily,

I'm sorry to here you are so upset. At least your with your family. I'm here alone with nobody. Even though your sister isn't talking to you, just remember you always have me. When I first got your note I thought it was from one of my family members, like a birthday wish but I was happier to hear from you. Ando don't worry, your sister will eventually come around and if she doesn't then it's her loss to lose someone as great as you. I miss you as well and please keep writing so I don't get lonely again.

Sev

Snape rolled the note up and tied it to Hermy and sent the owl back to Lily. At least this gives him something to expect through out the holidays. Suddenly he had an appetite and walked out the common room and up to the Great Hall for some food.

Meanwhile back at the Potter house Remus, Peter, James and Sirius were sitting in the games room going over plans.

"Ok, so we have a few ideas but we need to decide what we are actually going to do."

"Well, I like the idea Sirius came up with but I'm not sure if it's legal."

"Well, all we were going to do is tie him up and throw him in the forest."

"Exactly, I think we'd get expelled for that."

"It was a good plan though."

"Well, what else do we have?" asked Remus.

"Well, there's your plan. But I don't think it's a prank, more, well, it's not very good."

"Come on, if it happened to me-."

"Remus, switching his text books isn't a prank. Well, not a very good one anyways. You would care because you want good grades. Snivellus probably couldn't care less."

"I guess your right. So my plans out and Sirius's plans out. Peter didn't come up with anything." Peter looked ashamed at this.

"Well, there's always my plan." James said.

"Only problem is, you're not telling us what it is."

"Well then lean in close and prepared to be amazed.' James said and his friends leaned.

Lily was sitting at home. She had just gotten Severus's reply. It made hr happy but sad too. To know Severus was lonely made her sad, but it made her happy to know she wasn't the only lonely one. She read his reply several times before replying to it. She had forgotten his birthday was coming up. She decided she'd go out and get him a gift before replying though. She wanted to surprise him. She told her mom she'd be back in an hour and she took her Christmas money to get Severus an amazing gift.

Lily walked out the door and into town. She wasn't sure if Severus would want a muggle gift but would have to try. She knew he was half muggle but she didn't know what he had that was muggle. She remembered he had changed into his Hogwarts robes as son as he could so she had a feeling he didn't like the muggle world, but she also knew he's love anything from her,

She opened the door to her favourite book store. Maybe she could get him a special book. Lily looked around but didn't see anything that would suit Severus. She went into a supplies store. But didn't see anything. She finally knew what to get him though, Lily walked into the science store. It was a special store that sold special ingredients. She also happened to know, thanks to Severus, that a wizard owned it and had a secret room to a potions section.

Lily walked up to the counter and looked around. Severus told her that when ever he visited the place he had to make sure no one was watching and that the right man was behind the counter. Morty was a man with brown hair and was missing an eye. In it's place was a red glass eye that could detect magic on a person.

Morty looked at Lily and Lily looked back. She knew what to do, Severus had told her everything.

"Potion lotion."

"Ah, a young witch eh?"

"Well Morty, Severus Snape's birthday is coming up and I need a gift."

"A Christmas gift isn't enough?"

"Morty, Sev told me you two were some what close. He said he always spent his time here when ever his parents fought,"

"Ar, that was often. He loved it here. I suppose your right, Snape was a young lad who liked the room and was always looking at the books and even once or twice made up a potion. He made an excellent Sleeping Draught."

"That would be why he made an excellent one the first time we had to in our first class. He was helping me out on the train, giving me tips and stuff. I made a pretty decent one."

"Well little lady, you'll make a nice little potioneer. What house are you in anyway?"

"Gryffindor."

"Ah, a brave young girl, are yeh?"

"I guess, I didn't think a muggle born would be in any worthy house. I was wrong."

"Snape is friends with a mudblood?"

"What's a Mudblood?" Lily asked. She'd never heard of the term before.

"Oh, it's nothing. I just didn't think Snape, or al people, well, I guess that's what happens when you live in a muggle neighbourhood."

Lily was confused but she didn't let it show. She asked Morty what to get Severus.

"Snape would like potion ingredient with a splash of muggle chemistry acids."

"Wouldn't that be dangerous?" Lily asked. She knew from Muggle School that acids were not to be messed with.

"Snape's a smart lad. He knows what to do."

"Of course he does. So, is that going to be a lot of money?"

"Well, for a smart young potioneer like yourself, and for being a young witch, that'll be five gallons, 7 sickles and 2 Knuts."

"Well, I have four gallons, seven sickles and two knuts."

"Well, I guess I'll have to tab the gallon."

"Thank you Morty. I'm so glad Severus will have one good gift for his birthday." Lily paid Morty and had the gift wrapped. She walked out the door feeling happy and knowing Severus will have a happy birthday.

Sev,

I'm sending you this early so it cheers you up. Happy Birthday. I hope you like it and your friend from the store says hi. It was easy to find and he was a lot of help. I never realized how experienced you were in potions. I miss you still but I know you'll miss me more once you get this but just remember I'll be back in a week.

Lily.

Severus was at Hogwarts. It was the last day of holidays and everyone came back tomorrow. He was feeling lonely because he had not heard from Lily yet. He decided to walk up to the library and get some books so he could finish his potions essay. He still needed to explain exactly why the Polyjuice potion was illegal. He knew the basics but he needed the facts.

Severus walked up the dungeon steps and into the main hall. The great hall was to his left but he needed to turn right and go up the marble staircase to get to the library. Suddenly an owl swooped down in front of him and laded on the marble stairs railing. Snape recognized it as Lily's owl and noticed it he had a package.

Severus decided to ditch the library and see what Lily had sent him. He grabbed Hermy and ran back down the dungeon steps and into the Slytherin common room. It was still empty except for one boy. The only other Slytherin that stayed here was a seventh year who had a really big test to get ready for. It was odd for a Slytherin to study so hard but he was in his Newt year and therefore had it harder.

Snape ignored him and ripped open the package. The first thing he noticed was a letter. He opened it first. When he finished reading he was excited. Lily had got him a gift for his birthday. He had never had any real friends that bought him gifts before. He was a little confused on what Lily meant by his friend from the store. He was liking Lily more and more as he realized how much she cared about him.

He opened the gift and realized immediately what Lily meant about the store man now. She had gone to the science store in the muggle town but Morty, the owner, sold potion ingredients to witches and wizards that showed magical powers, and knew the password. He was so happy about the ingredients she got him. Basic potion kit items and a few muggle acids. It was the perfect gift and he had the feeling Morty had picked it out. He was going to write Lily back and thank her but he realized she was coming home tomorrow so he would just wait and meet her when she entered the school. He was so excited to thank her he could barely sleep that night.

A/N: Well, I hope you liked it and if anything confused you just let me know and ill help you!