The Betrayal and the Payback
By Zero Flower 333
AU Fourth year. Lily abandons Snape not only because of his "practicing" the Dark Arts, but also because of her various selfish reasons of not wanting to associate herself with the dirty half-blood boy. With Lily's betrayal and with no true friends to rely on, what should Severus do? Should Snape forgive Lily for her betrayal or dish out revenge and find true love in the process? Would Severus join the Dark Lord or become a better man than the Marauders and Lily Evans combined? Would Lily and the Marauders regret their actions against Severus Snape or will they hate him for being sorted in Slytherin for eternity? Powerful Severus, Major Gryffindor/Dumbledore character bashing, Lily Evans bashing, Hogwarts bashing
Chapter One: Snape's Confusing Thoughts
Severus was having a bad existence. He and Lily were drifting apart. He even saw Lily talking happily with Potter, but was happy as long as she was happy. Severus tried to warn Lily about Potter and his gang, but she would had none of it and tell him to ditch his friends from Slytherin. Snape, who only had Lily as a friend, stopped talking about the topic, knowing that it would hurt Lily. Little did he know that Lily was capable of betrayal and not worthy of having Severus Snape as a friend.
What Severus Snape did not know was that the relationship between him and Lily was a one sided relationship. Severus gave his all and everything, despite his poverty, while Lily only gave him a few crumbs and he had to take it because he had no one at Hogwarts, not even a single student or professor backing him up. If Severus knew of Lily's betrayal and not only talking merrily with James Potter, he would had killed himself or become deranged. As it was, James Potter needs a spy on Snivellus' activites, and who better than Lily Evans as that spy, since he trusted her the most?
Well in the summer in fourth year, Lily never visited him. He was stuck in a home with abusive parents and Lily never even cared about his existence. He began to have doubts about their friendship, since Lily never even bothered to contact him or send him mail. He was hit left and right by his father, who never cared about his freaky son and his mother just looked at him as if he was a plague. He would need to have a serious talk with Lily to see if she was being true to him or not, or if she was being true to Potter. If she was true to Potter, he would never forgive her and he would never forgive the world. Sure, she could hurt him, but not with Potter around. If that happens, he would know that she was never a true friend to begin with.
In the beginning of fifth year, he received a letter from Lily that she was being trapped with a werewolf in James Potter's clutches in the Shack. Severus, without thought, went to rescue Lily, only to find that she was not there and that there was a werewolf waiting to bite him and kill his blood. He did not know that James, Sirius, Lily, and Peter were watching in the shadows, hoping for the werewolf Lupin to eat him up as his supper. All four watched in amusement in the show until James Potter got cold feet at the last minute, saving him for selfish reasons.
Severus knew that no matter what he did, the staff in Hogwarts were against him. Even Slughorn hated his existence because he was a poor student who could not do any favors for him after graduation. Dumbledore, the fool he was, told Severus to swear not to tell anyone about the werewolf incident or he would be expelled. He had no choice but to agree, since he had nowhere to stay. The next few days, he met up with Lily to tell her about the incident, only to say that she heard the entire story from his tormentors and that she should be grateful that Potter saved him. She did not even give him a chance to talk things and even laughed at him for being foolish in the first place. He cried his first real tears and left unhappy, not knowing that Lily knew everything from the start and thinking bad about him when he only did good for her. After that, whether he tried to talk to Lily again, she would just ignore him or go near her Gryffindor friends for protection. Severus began to have doubts about her and was beginning to slide into a downward spiral in behavior.
In the lake incident, he thought that Lily would have the courage to stick up for him since he always helped her. He was wrong and she never even mentioned the counter curse. Severus even saw Lily smiling at his torment, so he called her Mudblood in anger. He immediately regretted his behavior and James Potter let go of the spell, causing Severus to crush his head with students laughing. Severus did not know that Lily was observing him getting hit and even called him nasty names that James Potter invented for him, revealing her true feelings for her best friend at last. That feeling was revolt, hatred, and a desire to aim the Killing Curse at her best friend because of his right to exist, poverty, and the practice of the Dark Arts.
When he waited in the Gryffindor Common Room to ask for forgiveness, Lily was being very cruel to the one who introduced her to the Wizarding World. She told him to go die, do not deserve to live, his existence was revolting to her, nasty names that James Potter invented for him, and told him that he was not worthy of forgiveness, along with his practice of the Dark Arts. She even bought Potter with her and she hit him very hard, causing him to have bruises in the stomach and his body parts. She and Potter gave him a smirk that promised further retribution and then left.
When Lily, no Evans, showed no mercy for Severus, Severus began to change. He realized that he did everything for Evans, causing her to hate him. He began to snap and cried about his suffering, knowing that nobody would care for a half blood like him. He now knew that Evans was capable of cruelty and that he no longer loved her. He would no longer be her doormat and he began to cry tears of despair. He was practicing Dark Arts for protection against her real friends, not anything else.
Back then, when Lily was still his friend, he had reservations of joining the Dark Lord or to not forgive the world. Now that Evans showed her true self, Severus began to think that Muggles are no good and that he would no longer trust anyone unless it was himself. Evans broke Severus by rejecting him and toying with his feelings. Well, Severus would no longer be the toy, he would plan his revenge with a plan worthy of Slytherin and no one would be spared. With his last tears gone, Severus, with thoughts of hatred and anger, began to plan his revenge on all the wizards of Hogwarts, who were incompetent wizards who could never see under their noses. They would all pay, especially Evans, who hurt him in the worst way possible, with her callous words and betrayal.
Severus decided that he would not join the Dark Lord, for if Evans betrayed him, could another human be trusted? Only if someone was worthy of his trust would he give it and that person was no longer Lily Evans, who, by her actions, would doom the Wizarding World with another Lord that would change the tide of the war and he would spare no one that harmed him and his loved ones.
What should he do as his revenge? He would never attend Hogwarts ever again, not with the corruption and Evans abandoning him so easily as if he were a rag doll. He would plan his revenge by himself and he would make everyone pay for causing him harm. Maybe he should work as a Muggle, as much as he loathed the idea of being a Muggle, at least he would not be facing his betrayer ex-best friend and her favorite gang of bullies. Maybe he might had enough money to leave Spinner's End if he worked hard enough. Or should he sell potions to gain money in the Wizarding World? So many confusing thoughts…
The forces of magic and Magic herself were watching Severus in approval. This human was being abused by all around him that he did not even know that the Unbreakable Oath he sworn was invalid. The appearance was an illusion, for Magic had to maintain a façade for the unjust treated wizard in order to avoid suspicion. Severus would be her champion in the Wizarding World, hence why she gave him the power to create potions, invent spells, and the Dark Arts. He would lead the Wizarding World to a grand age with the help of the right individuals. The force of magic could only be invisible to human beings and the moment Severus stopped crying, the force of Magic was imbued invisibility in his skin as a mark of a unicorn maiden, sealing his fate and role as the true Lord and Savior of the Wizarding World that every creature in the Magical World could understand.
With despair, Severus never talked to anyone in the classes or the train, planning his next year and revenge. Little did he know, when he get back to Spinner's End, there would be a letter from Gringotts, discussing about the Prince fortune and an unlikely alliance and becoming an adoptive son with the goblins, who faced similar betrayal like Severus from the past…and they would together gather allies that would purge the corruption of the Wizarding World.
What do you think?
Do you think this Lily deserves mercy for her actions or should she be punished? If so, what should she be punished with? (The times Severus helped Lily become life debts each time because of her evil acts of betrayal, which Magic frowns at the first place). What should her punishment be, if punished for her crimes?
Severus has conflicted feelings for the Dark Lord. Voldemort has power, but he could turn against him the same way Evans did. Unless the Dark Lord himself sworn an oath not to take advantage of his followers, Severus would not join the Dark Lord, which has an unlikely chance of happening.
Lily keeps on getting worse. I do not know how she could treat Severus like that. Wonder if her disgust with him ended their friendship in the first place so easily? Or maybe she thinks Snivellus is no longer worthy of living because of his "strangeness"?
Severus, in this story, would become the Grey Lord, with a plot like Edmund Dantes from The Count of Mount Cristo, with his Prince fortune. He would plan his revenge like Dantes, but he would plan his revenge on where it hurts. Did I forget to mention that the tuition and supplies of every student at Hogwarts, whether pure blood, half blood, or muggleborn (especially Lily Evans) was being paid by the Prince fortune after Augustus Prince realized that he treated his daughter and grandson unjustly? To make up for the disownment, Augustus paid the tuition and supplies for all the students at Hogwarts, which is eighty percent of the funds of the school and was necessary for the school to function as normal. This is known as the Prince Scholarship Fund. Wonder what would happen if Severus finds out about this piece of information? What do you think he would do and what type of revenge he would unleash? How would the students in Hogwarts feel if this knowledge was revealed? Would they feel guilty or would they feel happy in driving the menace Snivellus out? What do you think of the irony? (Thanks to CapoExecutor for the idea)
Probably Lily Evans hated the idea of Snivellus being poor, wonder what would she think if his inheritance was being used to pay for her tuition at Hogwarts? James Potter? Sirius Black? Remember, their families may be rich, but not as rich as the Princes, who existed since the ancient times, while the other families only existed in the last thousand years or so. Also, all the pureblood families owe the Princes a blood debt for saving them from the wrath of the goblins during the Goblin Wars. Only the Princes have maximum influence with the goblins, since they helped the goblins find their true homeland in the past and invented a few traps for their precious artifacts from outsiders that were not related to them. So of course Severus would be allied with goblins because of his Prince heir status and heritage.
If Snape is a Gary Sue, sorry. He is used as an instrument of revenge of the wrongs inflicted against him, so of course he would have power, but it would take time to develop.
Keep in mind that there is no Snape/Lily pairing in this story, so if Severus is being paired, it would be with another girl who understand his needs and his wants, not a selfish, judgmental girl who wished him to die because of his existence and poverty. That would not make a good relationship, right?
Next chapter: The Visit At Gringotts
Severus Snape's inheritances were revealed. He cannot become the Lord Prince (with the full inheritance) and abolish the Prince Scholarship Fund until he reached seventeen years old, but Severus could access Prince Manor and the Prince Trust Vault. He becomes allies and becomes an adoptive blood brother to the goblins because of his favored status, despite his distrust of the world in the present moment. With eight months to wait before his first plan of revenge could be meted out, what would Severus do in his spare time? Should he train himself with magic, plan revenge, or would he slowly trust the world (creature) again? Or would he do all three at the same time? What will happen? Remember, Severus will not attend Hogwarts as a student anymore. Besides, no one cares about his existence. Wonder if the Board of Governors find anything suspicious of a student absence or remain fully blinded like the entire population of Hogwarts?
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