A/N: I was planning to do a Snape chapter anyway, and then I had a request, so I had to do it.
****Snape****
I watched the students enjoying their end of the year feast. They all seemed so happy and so joyful. Even my fellow teachers were laughing and joking. Pathetic. Just because I'm no longer a Death Eater, certainly doesn't mean that I want to be surrounded by such foolishness. Given the choice, I would have rather been in my office doing anything but this.
All the petrified students were back with their houses. Thankfully, no Slytherins had suffered.
Ugh, the other houses. So, loyal, so smart, so brave. Just looking at those Gryffindors made me sick. "Ooh, we had so many petrified. The Slytherins are evil!" Well, Mr. Potter appeared to have saved all of their wretched selves from certain disaster again.
Potters. Always have to play the heroes. Bloody hell. It's like looking at James looking at that boy. Merlin, why do I need more reminders of my days here? It's not like I had fun.
He looked so gloomy. I knew why. Miss Granger was on his mind. Another stupid Potter; couldn't see what was right in front of his eyes. Sure, they were only 12, but all of the teachers were in agreement (even secretly myself) that they were mature beyond their years. Minerva insisted that they were soulmates, to which Sibyll always replied that soulmates end up dead. Crazy old bat.
Still, I hated seeing James and Lily when I see those two. Another Potter who didn't realize that the best thing that will ever happen to him was constantly sitting next to him at dinner. I had hoped that perhaps now he'd have known what he was missing. Sitting there in a funk. Pathetic. Someone should have told him sooner that she was fine, but I enjoyed just siting there and watching him worry.
Ah, and there she was…his soulmate. Finally, he looked up and saw her (mind you, he had to lean very far back to get around Weasley's big head). How happy Granger seemed, so like Lily did when she saw James. As much as I hate both of those wretched Potters, it was quite a sight to see these two. I must not smile or show emotion. I'm still a Slytherin and I hate to see Gryffindors happy, yet it seems like their love transcends houses, transcends hatred, perhaps even transcends all of magic.
Then they began hugging. Of course they did. Inseparable, those two. Never one without the other - Potter/Granger, Granger/Potter. During those days when Granger was in the hospital, we almost had to use a severing charm to keep Potter from holding her bloody hand. Talking to her like she was going to hear.
"Harry, she can't hear you," Minerva told him.
"I don't care, Professor. I think you're wrong. She can hear me and she's going to be fine," he sharply replied.
If he would have spoken to me like that, I would have taken points away and probably struck him. But not Minerva. She's got a soft spot for her worthless Gryffindors. She merely nodded and left them alone again.
Honestly, those two should have been expelled that first year along with Weasley (any of them). But no, Dumbledore and his affection for trouble-makers. Potters and Weasleys and muggle-borns. All things Dumbledore loves wrapped up in the nice little package of those three Gryffindors.
Merlin, I looked down and they were still hugging. We're we going to have to break out the severing charm again?
Finally, they separated and both Potter and Granger seemed confused to see Weasley not join in the happy hugging fun. Typical. James was blind to Lily's charms for so long, so why wouldn't his little twin do the same thing. And of course, Weasley probably had no clue either. None of them saw the strange triangle that was forming. Everyone else did. Weasley liked Granger. Granger liked Potter and Potter was too blind to see any of it.
Yet, there was something about these two. I'd never admit it to anyone, but maybe I was pulling for them just a little. *Shudder*
Then Minerva clinked her glass to end the awkwardness on the floor of the Great Hall. Dumbledore began his typical end of the year speech full of sappy things and things only he thought were funny.
Perhaps in the years to come, there'd be a new James and Lily at the school. And maybe it would have a happier ending.
And if you tell anyone that I said any of that … 50 points from your house!!