CHAPTER 01: A WITCH

Severus tortured himself for a while. Everything had gone wrong. How did that happen?

His mother tried to make him eat dinner, but he couldn't. Then, she tried to make him talk, but he refused to say a word.

It was impossible. He couldn't have failed like that.

When his mother finally gave up, he went to his room and collapsed on his bed, falling asleep almost immediately.

He had a weird dream. He was at Platform 9 3/4 , and Lily was there too, but she refused to talk to him. And, although he tried very hard to befriend the other kids, he was unable to talk to any of them. When he said anything, the words would come out wrong and he got closer to having new enemies rather than new friends.

But when he woke up, "Lily" escaped him in a whisper.

"A witch?" Lily's voice asked as soon as Severus closed the door behind him. She had been waiting for him to come outside. "How can you be sure that I am a witch?"

"Well…" Severus started to say nervously, "Can't you do things that are supposed to be impossible?"

"I-I… can." she said slowly, following his train of thought. "But there's got to be another explanation for that."

"I don't think so." he said. "I can do the same things you can and I am a wizard. So, you must be a witch."

Lily didn't seem to find any arguments to prove she wasn't a witch. Petunia had been very disturbed yesterday. She kept repeating that everything Snape said was "a bunch of nonsense" and that they should stop going to those swings, otherwise he'd continue to spy on them.

"How can you be sure you're a wizard?" Lily finally said.

'My mum is a witch." he said confidently. "And, in some situations, I can do magic."

"But isn't being a witch a bad thing? All the witches in the storybooks are evil."

"No, it's not like that!" Severus said, and she appeared relieved. "Of course there are bad witches and wizards, but there are a whole lot of them who are good!"

"Still, how can I be sure about it? Tuney thinks you're just making this up, because you have no friends."

"If you don't want to believe me, that's OK.' Severus said sadly, finally losing all hope. "Guess you'll be very surprised when your owl comes."

"Owl?" Lily asked, and her eyes had a glow he'd never seen before. "What do owls have to do with this?"

"Wizards use owls to send mail. Actually, they're very good at it and nice pets."

"But who'd send me an owl?" she asked, surprised.

"Hogwarts, obviously."

"What's Hogwarts?"

"It's just the greatest school for wizards in the world. I'm definitely going there." Severus said excitedly.

Lily fell into silence. It was nice to know that someone could explain all the strange things she did, but being a witch was to be too much for her. And what if she wasn't as magic as he thought she was? Maybe she wouldn't be accepted in Hogwarts...

"Don't worry." he said, almost as if he could read her mind. "Your letter will come if the headmaster has any sense. My mum told me they always have Muggle-born students there."

'Your mum's been there?'

"She and the rest of her family." he said slowly.

"What about your dad? Is he a wizard?" Lily asked, fascinated with the idea of a school like Hogwarts.

"No." Severus said reluctantly. "My mum just told him she was a witch after I was born. I don't think it pleased him very much…"

But when he finished, he realized Petunia was nearby.

"I think you should leave, now." he said, a little scared as the thin and long-necked girl approached. "If you want to hang out, just go to my house and ask for Severus…"

And with that, he stood up and started running just seconds before they heard Petunia yelling, "I told you not to go talk to him, Lily! That boy is obviously damaged! I mean, look at his clothes! They're big and small at the same time, the colors don't match at all and they're so dirty. I'd throw them away without asking!"

"Don't do that, Tuney." Lily said nicely. "I like him…"

He was unable to understand what followed after that, but amazing as it sounded, he had finally done it right.

NA: First of all, I'd like to apologize for updating the wrong version of the prologue. The story is the same, but it was before the beta reader (is there a word for that?). Anyway, I've already replaced it.

Now, I'll talk/write about this chapter. It's still very short, but my first chapters are normally short – I have problems with developing beginnings. Still, I really like Lily saying that Severus is her friend, it's just so cute.

Even though I have grown attached to writing in Severus point of view.

I'd like to send a special "thank you" to shadow6116, my beta reader. I'm also sending a big hug to lady vonne who reviewed the prologue (I still haven't read your one shots, but I promise to do it as soon as possible), lynddsbeth and Rosel who added the story to their story alert, and geekygirl15 who added it to her favorites.

DISCLAIMER: Lily Evans (Potter), Severus Snape and everything in the Harry Potter universe belongs to J.K. Rowling.