A/N: I have no idea where this came from. I don't know if anyone requested this but I'm positive that an iron jellybean would taste positively disgusting (or maybe you're into that kind of metallic-y flavor). Enjoy?
Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans
fourteen: iron
He loves her because she stands by what – or, rather, whom – she believes in.
He can still distinctly remember the first day he talked to her – mostly, the obnoxiously loyal way she had fled his Hogwarts Express compartment without a backwards glance as soon as he and Sirius insulted Snape.
She doesn't talk about her Snape days very much; he doesn't like to talk about them either, partially because he can't stand remembering that Snape will always have known her first and for the longest and partially because he knows how difficult they were for her. For five years, she slept in the same tower, ate at the same table, and took all the same classes as the Gryffindors, and for those five years she endured endless torture, criticism, and blatant dislike because her best mate was a Slytherin – but not once did she try to change that fact.
Not once did she publicly break into tears and start hexing everyone who picked on her, not once did she reconsider her friendship with the slimy git, not once did she even (to his knowledge) entertain the notion that Severus Snape wasn't worth it.
When he mulls over this, he can't help but think that, Merlin, she has more loyalty than the average Hufflepuff and more courage than the entire Gryffindor house combined – not to mention an unbelievably iron opinion about certain people.
Still, he can't help but rejoice when the iron finally shatters from the faults that were five years in the making.
And even though her seemingly incontrovertible opinion about him takes a year longer than Snape's did to change, he knows she's entirely worth it because she's Lily Evans and she stands by her mates even when they do something wrong and she sees the good in people even when they don't quite see it themselves and she takes six years to break and he loves her for it.
