A/N: Okay… so this isn't actually a scene in the sixth book. It's from the new seventh one. But I just HAD to do this so… bear with me please. :D Thanks. Now, the song will be "Defying Gravity" from Wicked. Thanks to my reviewers, you all rock!

--WARNING!!: Spoilers from Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows are enclosed in this chapter!—

Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter or Wicked.

Harry Potter: A Hot New Musical!

Snape Defies Gravity

Phantom Commentary: You know… some people really don't appreciate the art of foreshadowing. I think I do it brilliantly. Everyone else seemed to think that getting an advance copy of the new Potter book and trying to turn a scene from there into a teaser for my next musical is wrong. Well what do they know? I'm the genius here.

So, here's a scene that I originally used to interpret a scene between Severus Snape and Lily Evans during their school days. Enjoy.

-Black Out-

-Lights Up-

A young girl with flaming red hair stormed onto the set, eyes leaking tears and fists clenched in rage. The girl is Lily Evans and she was currently waiting for her so-called best friend to arrive.

"I can't believe he would call me a… a…" Lily stuttered and shook her head in anger. "And James was the one to defend me? Ugh!" she continued to rant, clenched fists occasionally being flung into the air for emphasis.

In short… Severus Snape was so dead. He had called his best friend, Lily Evans, a Mudblood for all the school to hear, breaking her heart right in two.

In fact, he was hiding around the corner, listening to Lily shout to herself and wincing each time. He hadn't meant to let the words slip from his mouth. He was just so mad that Potter had the nerve to attack him in broad daylight… and then the smug look on Potter's face when Lily came to defend him… it made him shudder. But he knew he would have to face her eventually.

Eventually happened to be a lot sooner than he would have liked.

"Snape?" a cold female voice asked and Severus winced, grimacing at the cold tone to her words and the fact that she used his last name. He sighed and came round the corner and tried his best to smile.

"Lily…" he began but stopped short when he saw the murderous expression on her face. Oh he loved her so much… he didn't want to hurt her… couldn't she see that? "Lily, please let me explain…" He was cut off.

"Severus, why couldn't you have stayed calm for once?" Lily demanded furiously, "Instead of flying off the handle!" Snape once more tried to make himself heard.

"Lily…" he began again but Lily was having none of that.

"I hope you're happy," she snarled as the orchestra blared in an equal tone to her fury. "I hope you're happy now! I hope you're happy how you've lost my trust forever!" Snape winced again but Lily took no notice. "I hope you think you're clever!"

"I hope you're happy!" Severus hissed despite his horrible feelings of guilt. "I hope you're happy too. I hope you're proud how you would grovel in his direction to feed your own ambition!" he snapped, referring to James. Lily blushed a deep red at his implication but this only fueled her anger however and Severus almost wished he hadn't said the words.

"So though I can't imagine how!" they bellowed at each other, both too hurt for words. "I hope you're happy right now!" Lily saw Severus's face darken and he began to turn away and though she didn't know why her heart lurched painfully.

She had to stop him.

"Severus!" she cried, her words a little softer now. Severus stopped and seemed to wait. "I hate fighting with you. But I can't just let you call me and all my friends Mudbloods whenever you feel like it," she whispered, voice dripping with hurt. Severus turned back around and his face too was filled with anguish.

"I didn't mean to call you… that…" Severus stuttered. Lily's temper flared up again.

"So you're fine calling my friends that too then?" she snapped. "I've put up with it for so long and still you continue to follow your new friends' examples and torture anyone who isn't Pureblood!" Severus's expression darkened again.

"Lily… they're different. You don't understand," he began to explain but Lily apparently had heard enough.

"No, they're not! Just because they're not me doesn't mean that they deserve less respect from your lot!" she snapped, not caring that Severus recoiled away.

"At least my friends aren't prats like Potter is!" Severus fired back and Lily rolled her eyes.

"Yes, James Potter is an ignorant toe-rag. But at least he doesn't threaten the lives of innocent people every day," Lily responded. Severus's face blackened and he once more turned to leave. Lily watched him go, fuming for a moment before once more feeling helpless and hurt. "Why are you doing this?" Lily asked, voice breaking. "Please Severus don't go down this path." Severus paused. "Just say you're sorry!" she pleaded before breaking into song again.

"You can still be with the wizards," she sang and motioned to the school with a smile. "What you've worked and waited for. You can have all you ever wanted," she promised, thinking of Severus's dislike of his own parents' methods and her smile grew. She knew all he used to want was to prove himself worthy to be with the good guys. To make some good in the world instead of filling it with bad.

Severus turned to face his best friend in the whole world and smiled sadly.

"I know," he whispered. "But I don't want it… no," Severus changed his mind and shook his head, "I can't want it anymore." The music changed from hostile to dreamy in an instant as Severus turned away from Lily once more, even though it broke his heart to do so. Lily frowned and closed her eyes, stubbornly refusing to think about what Severus was telling her.

"Something has changed within me," he explained, his tenor trembling in excitement. "Something is not the same. I'm through with playing by the rules of someone else's game." Lily was bewildered and she drew nearer to Severus's still figure as he sang. "Too late for second-guessing. Too late to go back to sleep it's time to trust my instincts, close my eyes…" Severus suddenly paused and leaned forward as he imagined himself rising to power with his fellow Slytherins. "And leap!"

Lily gasped and stood still, seeing her friend in a new light and not liking it one bit.

"It's time to try defying gravity," Severus continued with a small smile forming on his lips. Lily gasped again; realizing that Severus's outcast days in school caused this change. "I think I'll try defying gravity," Severus turned to look at a Gryffindor banner that was draped across a wall, "And you can't bring me down."

Lily could contain her fear no longer and grabbed Severus's shoulder in a fierce grip, forcing him to face her frantic face.

"Can't I make you understand," she nearly shouted, "You're having delusions of grandeur!" Snape scowled at her, not wanting to be distracted from his dreams, and swatted her away. Once he was free he backed away as quickly as he could with all the ferocity of a caged animal. Lily snapped her hand back and bit her lip.

"I'm through accepting limits 'cause someone says they're so," he snapped, glaring at Lily's Prefect badge. Then he looked back up to her, eyes pleading. "Some things I cannot change, but 'till I try I'll never know." Lily paled, knowing that this was about. She closed her eyes and tried to pretend it wasn't happening. "Too long I've been afraid of losing love," Snape shot a quick glance at Lily's distraught face and looked away again just as quickly, "I guess I've lost!" Now he was frustrated at her, wondering how she could be so blind. "Well if that's love it comes at much too high a cost!" Severus wheeled away, not wanting to look at Lily anymore.

"I'd sooner buy defying gravity!" he sang, once more dreamy and excited. "Kiss me goodbye I'm defying gravity! And you can't pull me down…" Suddenly, Severus paused and thought for a moment. He couldn't readily leave Lily without giving her a choice… a chance at life…

The music changed and it became more desperate but retained the dreamy quality from before.

"Unlimited…" he began, imagining all the possibilities that he could have with Lily. Then he spun around to face her, face contorted in excitement. "Together we're unlimited! Together we'd be the greatest team there's ever been… Lily…" Lily's eyes widened as she caught Severus's drift and wondered how in the world he could even suggest that she should follow him! But then he said the words that nearly convinced her. "Dreams the way we planned them…" Lily hesitated to accept Severus's outstretched hand but tentatively took it.

"If we work in tandem…" she breathed, not willing to just let Severus leave her. She wanted to cling to their friendship for as long as she could. He was her best friend. How could she live without that?

"There's no fight we cannot win," they sang in unison now, smiling at each other as they imagined a future with them in it together. "Just you and I defying gravity!" Lily laughed as Severus grabbed her other hand but could never know how much he delighted in the feel of her warm skin against his. "With you and I defying gravity…" Lily was nearly high off the feeling that the dream had that she barely knew what she was saying. But then Snape said the words that now brought her back to earth.

"They'll never bring us down," he promised with a grin. Lily knew that 'they' would be her other friends… the innocents that she would have recently been a part of as well as those who would defend them. Alice, Remus, Peter, Sirius… James. Severus's lot would never take her anyway…

Lily nearly ripped her hands from Severus's grip and backed away quickly, heart hammering at how convinced he had her. Her breath came in large gasps and her eyes stared at him in widened terror. Severus felt the hurt rip through him as she silently rejected him… and he knew. And his heart ached.

"Well…" he muttered, hoping he had read the signs wrong. Lily looked down at the ground and when she looked up at him again and her eyes were heartbroken.

"Severus…" she whispered, mouth trembling with emotion. It was time to end it… their friendship. Now. "You're trembling," she finally forced out and picked up his cloak that had fallen to the ground. "Put this around you," she insisted and handed it over wordlessly. Severus slipped it on without really thinking, heart pulsating in pain.

They stood in silence as they stared at each other, knowing what was next. The music changed to fit the mood… slowing down considerably after the previous rush of speed and excitement that the characters had faced recently.

"I hope you're happy," Lily sang quietly, trying to show how much she regretted this. She knew she couldn't change Severus's mind now. "Now that you're choosing this." Severus had to swallow a lump of emotion down his throat and he nodded distantly.

"You too," he responded kindly. "I hope it brings you bliss." Though a future with her and Potter together was something that he hoped would never bring her bliss.

"I really hope you get it," they sang together, grasping hands one last time. "And you don't live to regret it!" They moved a little closer and took in the other's face. "I hope you're happy in the end! I hope you're happy… my… friend." Severus's face was wiped smooth and he turned away to walk down the hallway.

This time, Lily did not stop him.

But in Lily's mind she imagined him grabbing a hold of a nearby broom as he soared into a black sky with numerous others as they swept through the sky like hawks. And she imagined that he gave her one last goodbye.

The set changes to Lily's imagination, including fog to remind the audience that this isn't actually happening in the real world.

Severus was climbing further and further up into the sky on his broomstick, looking down at Lily through a mask with his new friends and bellowing out his freedom and new lifestyle.

"So if you care to find me! Look to the western sky!" he called and his voice lifted along with his height. "As someone told me lately 'Everyone deserves the chance to fly!'" Lily cringed on the ground because she had a guess as to who said these words of 'encouragement' to him. And she didn't like it at all. "And if I'm flying solo at least I'm flying free!" He glanced down to Lily once more but then looked upwards in triumph. "To those who'd ground me!" he spat, imagining himself ridding the world of the

Marauders once and for all, "Take a message back from me!"

He rose even higher, dangerously high in Lily's opinion, and his grin grew maniacal

"Tell them how I am defying gravity! I'm flying high defying gravity! And soon I'll match them in renown…" Severus took a gulp of air and then continued in his liberation act.

"And nobody in all the world! No wizard that there is or was," he solemnly swore, the smile no longer on his face, "Is ever gonna bring me down!" Lily rushed forward into the fray of wizards shooting jets of light up at Severus and his friends and simply looked up at him, feeling useless and distraught.

"I hope you're happy," she called up into the sky as loud as she could, blinking back tears as her friend put himself deeper into trouble. She stretched an arm up to him needlessly and quickly withdrew it again. Suddenly it seemed that all the Marauders were all around her and pointing up to Severus in vehement hate.

"Look at him, he's wicked!" they declared and began to also shoot spells up to disarm and stun the wicked. Lily reached out and stood next to James Potter so that they're arms touched and sent halfhearted spells up towards Severus as well. At least she was close to him… as long as she had James she was safe.

"Bring me down!" Snape repeated and soared even higher.

"No one mourns the wicked," the rest sang, with the exception of Lily. "So we've got to bring him…" the freedom fighters paused as Severus opened his mouth once more.

"Aaaah!" he bellowed as a war cry of some sort and the rest finished their statement.

"Down!" they harmonized loudly and stopped shooting spells just to point up at their target.

And in the very end Lily joined them.

-Black out-

Phantom Commentary: It was soo cool… I even had a pulley system for the broom sticks and all the lighting worked out and everything but noooo. Every single one of the cast members were so sensitive and prissy. I wasn't able to have any fun…

A/N: I dunno… imagining Snape as Elphie kinda made me laugh. Though I felt this one was more serious than the others. Anyway, please review!