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 Three: Severus Snape's POV, Part One

Severus' POV

- Gryffindor Common Room Incident

I had known calling Lily mudblood was wrong, so I waited outside the Gryffindor Common Room to say sorry to my best friend. Suddenly, two days later, she came, but with Potter in town. I thought at first that both would say sorry to me, (even though I know Potter will not), but I was wrong. Instead, Lily told me to kill myself so the world for her would be a better existence. I stood in shock. How could Lily think of such things to her best friends? I searched to see if Potter put any curse on her, but her eyes and expressions shown that she was acting on her free will. Lily even told me that she had been thinking to ditch me during our fourth year, but cannot find any excuse to do so. She told me back then she liked Potter and both smiled, then turned their hate filled eyes at me. I stood in shock, crying my tears out in front of my arch enemy. Both of them just laughed at me, smirking at my suffering. What had I done to deserve such treatment from my best friend of seven years? After promising more torments, they left me alone, letting me see them being intimate with each other. By the time they finished, I was crying tears and no one, not even a single Gryffindor, stood to help me.

I cannot believe that my Lily abandoned me for her fairy tale prince, Potter. I always thought that we would be friends forever, but that was not to be, for not only she was happy with Potter, she told me to die and that she already prejudged me as a Death Eater without any reason. This already made my heart broken, but she even kicked me and harmed me in front of Potter. They were both also laughing at my torment. At that moment, I realized that the Lily, no Evans that I loved was an illusion and that I wanted nothing to do with her, not with the terrible way she was treating me. I was crying in front of them and they even gave me a smirk that promised further harm if they see me again. I cried my heart out because I had no friends and I had no hope in my life anymore. Not even the beatings by my father and the loathing of my mother had made me cried like this, with tears leaking nonstop because of the betrayal I just endured by my ex-best friend. Evans had made a schmuck out of me with Potter seeing my true emotions and I swore to myself that this is the last time I will show weakness in front of Miss Mudblood Evans and her bullying lover, James Putrid Potter.

I should had realized Evans' selfish attitude before, but I blinded myself, believing that she cared for me because we were best friends. How wrong I was and for the first time, I saw Evans as a femme fatale who was a backstabbing girl who only cared for herself and for her lover, James Potter. If that was what she wanted, she could have him! I am still crying from my heartbreak and no one, not even my roommates from Slytherin, cared about me because I am nothing but a half blood stricken poverty boy. I realized for the first time that Hogwarts, if that is even a school, was a prison for me; while everyone roamed free with happiness, I was the scapegoat who gets tormented because I exist. Unfortunately for the entire population of Hogwarts, the moment Evans hurt me, I will no longer take the fall for them as an innocent victim or as a schmuck who was hanging out with his backstabbing best friend. I will also no longer attend Hogwarts, seeing everyone, especially the Slytherins, treating me as if I was a disease because they think I am a lazy bone who was unable to do anything. Even Slughorn, my head of house, never cared about my talents; he always favored the more likable Evans because of the knowledge I gave her. If I had not revealed my knowledge and the Wizarding World to her, Evans would be an outcast and I would had been in a better position at Hogwarts. Now it was too late to change things and I will make the backstabbing Evans and the stupid Slughorn pay for ignoring me and treating me as if I was a leper.

Well, all of them were wrong; I will prove them wrong. The Slytherins wanted me to join the Dark Lord, but I will have none of it and do not want to hear this power hungry Lord who wants pure blooded and various Slytherin followers. Where were they while I was tormented by the Marauders? They never helped me, not even once, in my battles alone against them. So why should I join the Dark Lord, who might treat me the same way as the Slytherins in my room did? He might be like the Slytherins at Hogwarts, taking turns to have me alone so I could be tortured like I was at Hogwarts. Evans and everyone at Hogwarts think I may join the Dark Lord, but they were wrong. I will never join him, not because of his power, but because I do not believe anyone at Hogwarts is worthy of my trust and besides, the Dark Lord could be a faction of the Slytherins who wanted to fight for equality, but why should I trust them, given their treatment of me in the past and present? Not even Avery and Mulciber, my supposed Slytherin friends, treated me with genuine friendship and respect. In this aspect, they were not much better than Evans, but at least they do not hit me because of my existence and the right to live.

From now on, Evans, the Marauders, the Slytherins and the entire population of Hogwarts will no longer have any hold of me as their scapegoat anymore. I will never give my homework to Evans again; she caused me to get detention and zero marks (a Troll grade) whether I give her my homework. I should had realized it at first, but I was in love with her back then. Now I knew better and realized that I had given her too much in the relationship. Well, no longer! Evans and everyone at Hogwarts will suffer for treating me like this; I will make sure of it. They will also suffer for harming me since Year One, when I told everyone of my desire to be sorted to Slytherin. No one will get away with this, not even the foolish and stupid Albus Dumbledore who started the trouble in the first place with his preaching.

As I was thinking about my plans of revenge, a comforting force in my magic soothed me. I was heading to the Forbidden Forest at first, thinking to end myself after I take my revenge, but this force, whether it was, was like heaven. It makes me want to live and wants me to unite with it. I wanted to have this power with me forever, yet I do not know what it was. While the power was soothing me, I also felt a little pain, probably from the overload of the soothing power that was bathing my entire body. While I was in pain, three unicorns, probably young, saw me and while I was in both pain and in heaven, one of them, who was the eldest, wanted to give me a ride. I accept, knowing by the soothing magic that the unicorns are to be trusted. Little did I know, the soothing power had made me a Beastmaster, enabling me to mind speak to any magical creature at will by just giving me my thoughts…

-Deep in the Forbidden Forest

The three unicorns had taken me to the edge of the Forbidden Forest, where all of the creatures of the Forbidden Forest gathered around me. Centaurs, grindylows, spiders, young dragons…you name it, all of them were around me. At first, I thought they wanted to kill me because I was alone in the Forbidden Forest and that no one cared about me, but instead, all of the creatures treated me as one of their own, even the centaurs that used to not care about the wizards that populated Hogwarts. They told me that they know of my suffering and that a great time is about to come, with me as my guiding force.

Me, as a guiding force? How can I when the entire Wizarding World hated me because I exist? The centaur leader, Centuari, said, "I know what you suffer at Hogwarts and it was not deserved for someone as good as you. You practice the Dark Arts only because of protection against the bullies at your school. You have a good soul, but that soul could be corrupted if lead astray. Despite the unending suffering you endured at school and home, you managed to remain neutral to the end. As a result of your favored status and bravery, we, the creatures of the Forbidden Forest, from the centaur to the most scariest creature, sworn alliance to you and your cause and only yours." Then the soothing magic accepted the contract and each leader of the creatures in the Forbidden Forest (Aragog, etc.) swore the same oaths, knowing that this abused, yet powerful wizard has the mark of magic with him.

I said, "Why did you all swear your loyalty to me? Do you know I am considered a scapegoat or an untouchable at Hogwarts?" In Hogwarts, Slytherins suffered rampant prejudice from the three other Houses, but I suffered the most because no one, not even a single student or professor, really cared about me. Not even Evans, who in her own way, climbed up at her station at my expense. I suffered for five years, which included various torments, tortures, and even getting hit in the head various times by Potter and his loving gang. No longer I will endure this treatment, so I hoped that, despite the shaky alliance, the creatures of the Forbidden Forest would grant me shelter.

Aragog said, "Of course we do, yet we know you are chosen to lead all of the magical creatures to a great age, at least us. Probably all will swear loyalty to you, if you have the right talents. In the meantime, I realized my respect of my old friend Hagrid had dwindled. Not only he had failed to protect you, my youngling, he also was lead astray by the foolish Dumbledore. If I had to, I would fight against my old friend to protect the peace of the Wizarding World. I, along with my spiders, would die to fight for your cause; but if you could, let me be the one to handle Hagrid."

I was shocked. No one had said this about him before. Every professor at Hogwarts had either ignored him or treat him as if he was a plague. As for Hagrid, I had not decided what I want to do with him yet, since I never even met him in the first place. I decided that I do not want to see Hogwarts ever again, so I said, ignoring the comment and plea about Hagrid, "If you will accept me, can I stay with all of you in this Forest until the semester ends?"

All of the creatures gave him a bow and said, "Of course, Severus. You and your power made us united when we should had been fighting against each other. You could stay with us and we will protect you against the evil of Hogwarts. Now what do you want to do?"

I said with a smirk, "Since you all wanted to help me unconditionally even though I do not deserve it, I wanted to help you restore your powers. The soothing power was telling me that wizards had taken away your magic. What is this soothing power and can you tell me how to restore magic?" Since the creatures of Hogwarts had sworn their loyalty to him, knowing about his state, he decided that he wanted to help them because of a sense of loyalty and he wanted to gather as much allies as possible against both Dumbledore and probably Voldemort, the Dark Lord that was said to be recruiting followers at Hogwarts.

The unicorn leader, Unity, said in the mind link, "The nature of magic, Severus. It decided that you are worthy and we know the power from anywhere. Restoring magic is a hard piece of work, but if you could, all of us will be indebted to you."

I smiled a rare smile and stayed in the Forbidden Forest for one whole week before the Hogwarts Express appears to pick up all of the stupid students from Hogwarts…

-One Week Later

I was learning a lot while he was in the Forbidden Forest for one whole week. With the help of Unity and the unicorns, he managed to get some hairs to make some powerful potions once he got a potions lab for himself. All of the creatures considered him as one of their own; they will even strike anyone against him as long as they got detention in the Forbidden Forest. While in the Forest, I had learned a lot from each animal; from the astronomy studies to the history of the Forbidden Forest, I had learned most, if not everything the creatures told me about. I was a very fast learner and a master genius; if I was not beaten by the Marauders every day or getting insulted by the Professors at Hogwarts, I would had known all the seven years worth of material and spells within my first or second year of attending Hogwarts.

However, what was past cannot be changed. I plan to better my future, despite the recent betrayal from Evans. While I was alone in the Forbidden Forest, I invented a few spells, which I had shown to the creatures of the Forbidden Forest. They were all impressed and I wished that the professors in Hogwarts were proud of me as them, but that was not to be, for they never cared about me nor my existence in the first place, so why should I care what they think? One of my spells was Temporo Invis, which makes the caster invisible like Potter's cloak for thirty minutes with each casting. Another spell was Revealo Publica (subject or topic), which is a spell that will reveal the expressions with a maximum volume in voice as long as the subject or anything related to it was mentioned; I plan to use these spells before the Hogwarts Express landing before I cannot use spells for the summer. I plan to use the Revealo Publica spell on Evans, Potter, and Black since I considered these three to be menaces, even though one of them was my former best friend, but she betrayed my trust in her by treating me like I was scum on the earth.

Within two days, I had mastered wandless magic. With the help of the soothing power, or the force of magic as Unity calls it, I managed to even cast Sectumsempra wandlessly and every time I cast a spell, I could feel the force of magic comforting me and giving me the strength to survive even in the nastiest trials. Without this soothing power, I might had killed myself in despair and misery, not even caring about my existence, since no one wanted to care about me in the first place.

In that one week in the Forbidden Forest, my life changed for the better. No longer was I the friendless outcast, at least in the Forbidden Forest, where Dumbledore has no intention to protect or ward against. In there, I am my own person and every creature there, from light to dark, treat me with respect and considered me as one of their blood. I had learned to trust the world a bit; at least with the magical creatures, since they helped me while I was in my lowest point. I also considered them part of my family and when I told them I needed to go, all of them cried and gathered, giving me a surprise gift that was invented by all of the creatures of the Forbidden Forest while I was away from them.

When I open the gift, I realized that it was a necklace amulet, with unicorn hair, spider venom, and centaur tails with a circle gem. I was surprised and Unity said in my mind, "Severus, this amulet allows you to teleport to the Forbidden Forest just by pressing the circle of the gem. We creatures had created this amulet with our love, hoping that you will restore us to a better age other than this Dumbledore age. The force of magic will teleport you here once you press the green part of the gem, but once you come here, you cannot return back until the next Hogwarts Express ride, since even the force of magic has a power limit, so be careful and good luck!" With that, every creature in the Forbidden Forest gave me a respectful bow, putting the precious amulet in my breast. In return, I gave all of them a bow and left them, crying tears of true happiness for the first time in my life…

-In the Hogwarts Express

While walking to detestable Hogwarts and nearing the Express, I saw Mudblood Evans, Pukehead Potter, and Stupidus Black talking to each other about me. I casted the Invisibility spell on myself and while I stalking them, I casted the Revealo Publica spell on all three of them whether they talked about me or any topic that was related to me. This was only my pre-plan, which involved humiliating them while they talked about me in the London station and anywhere Muggle for an entire week. They would be stared at by the Muggles; I know they are so used to their inflated egos and I plan for their humiliation by the Muggles first so the Muggles would understand how dangerous these three were toward society. I also wanted people to stare at the Mudblood Evans as if she were insane; how she got so popular I will never know. I want the former Mudblood best friend to see that she is not to be adored by everyone and that she will get what she deserved for treating me like scum. The next part of my revenge will have to wait, since I had no plans to be near them unless I needed to be near them for their next punishment or revenge plan.

After casting the spell on the terrible trio, I was in a isolated part of Hogwarts Express, casting my Invisibility spell every thirty minutes, knowing that none of the stupid students at Hogwarts would spot me. After three hours and almost seven wandless castings of my Invisibility spell, I left the stupid Express, only to hear the evil Evans talk about me and Petunia. Wait a minute, why am I hearing this harlot talk about Tuney? Unless- then I suddenly heard in Evans' annoying loud voice,

"Snivellus and Petunia are related to each other…"

Could Tuney be my sister? If so, why has this not be revealed to me before? I know that Evanses hated me, but could it be that they sheltered my sister, if Tuney really was? Or does their hatred go deeper than that? Oh well, I do not care about the reason for their hatred. I once even saw the Evanses treated Petunia like a servant and Evans bossing her around. Did they know that Tuney was my sister before I even befriended that chit Evans? If so, the Evanses will be part of my revenge. I even heard Evans' annoying speech against me and decided to hear more, until I heard someone called, "Snape!"

I glanced and was surprised. It was Petunia, how had she come to be here alone? Normally, Tuney would not be in the London Station unless something had happened. She said, "Snape, is what Lily saying about is true, that we are both siblings?"

I said, "Probably. I really do not know and I do not care about her anymore, since she treated me worse than a trash bag or even a dead person."

Sadly, Petunia said, "I know, Severus. She also treated me like that while I was at home. Now I know why my parents and prefect Lily treated me like I am a servant-I am not even their real daughter! Why?!"

I said, "I do not know." Hoping to comfort her as my sister, if she really is by taking a blood test, I also said, "Can you come with me and we discuss this while walking?"

Petunia nodded, distraught by the revelations and not wanting to return to the home where she was treated as a servant. I noticed she even forgot her resentment of magic. While we were walking and talking about the Evanses, we were walking to Spinner's End. Petunia was not even upset that she came to the neighborhood she once detested. Probably that has something to do about the recent knowledge that she was no longer her parents' true daughter, and the Mudblood Evans was.

When I came to Spinner's End, I saw a letter from Gringotts in the door step, just delivered recently. Petunia was crying and while I am trying to comfort my sister and touching the Gringotts letter, both of us were teleported to Gringotts, to King Ragnok's office, where we both received the highest respects, much to my and Tuney's shock…

Sorry if I did not write the Gringotts chapter. I wanted readers to see things in Severus' POV because I wanted readers to understand his feelings. How could Lily abandoned him? Why did no one cared about him? Did anyone miss him? Snape is a very complicated character and I do not know how to write it the right way, so I am hoping that this is the correct way. Hope Severus is not too much out of character!

Severus will gather more followers and planning more sinister plans of revenge as the story goes on…with creatures and some wizards who understood Dumbledore and Voldemort's manipulative ways. He is smart and a genius mind like Albert Einstein. What do you think Severus should use his knowledge and newfound powers on? Revenge? Power? Create a new world order?

Lily is not a "kind person", otherwise she would had forgiven Severus for the Mudblood incident. What type of suffering do you think Lily should deserve? James Potter? Sirius Black? Albus Dumbledore? I suspect that she had been in love with James Potter so much that countless apologies from her best friend do not matter to her. A true friend would forgive anything, like Severus Snape would had done if Lily realized that she was wrong. But Lily did not forgive Snape for one heat of the moment word, so this reveals Lily's character more: she never cared for Snivellus Snape in the first place, despite all he did for her.

In this story, Albus Dumbledore is pro-Marauder and pro-Gryffindor. He is against Severus Snape and hated him because he was believed to be a half blood like Tom Riddle. Both Slytherins suffered abuse and Dumbledore hoped that if Severus was bullied and abused by all around him, he will not become the Dark Lord like Riddle was. One Dark Lord was bad enough for the world. Little did Dumbledore know, he would be wrong regarding Severus in joining the Dark Lord and wrong in the fact that he was evil because of his existence and heritage, hence why Dumbledore never stick up for Snape in the Werewolf incident, which will cost him at the end…

Like Cristo, Severus will inherit a huge fortune (the Prince fortune) and use it to fight against his enemies, which is almost every wizard in the Wizarding World. What do you think will happen once Severus' finds out about his inheritance being used for the ungrateful students and professors of Hogwarts for their tuition, supplies and salaries? Do you think the wizards of Hogwarts regret their decision of driving Snivellus out or rejoice in the fact that he would no longer bother them with his slimy ways?

The Visit of Gringotts will be discussed in the next chapter! What do you think will happen?

On a side note, this is first time writing in first person point of view. Do you like it or not?

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