He’s not quite sure when the love affair began but it was long before the Hogwarts Express. If anything the promise of escape from Spinner’s End in that iron colossus only cemented his affinity for locomotives. Understand it’s not a passion, nor something he has ever given thought to- which, for a man like Severus Snape only proves how sincere the ( Read more... )

“Do you intend to flee if the Dark Mark burns ( Read more... )

Lils ( Read more... )

Severus Snape is old although that fact people tend to forget when meeting him. One of the tricks he’s picked up by accident; like the trick of Lazarus coming forth all those decades ago. He looks forty, and people treat him like he is; like he’s on the brink of wisdom but there’s still time- especially in the Wizarding World. He lets them treat ( Read more... )

Severus loves. That’s his dirty secret- Severus Snape loves; wholly and deeply like a greedy child. He keeps them locked up in his heart and up on their pedestals and there’s nothing that will ever tear them down; not betrayal, not abandonment, not pain or life. If he loves you- he’ll do anything for you. Ask Lily. Ask Abraxas. Ask Voldemort ( Read more... )

He supposes on some level he could claim it’s a streak of stubborn pride that kept him from getting rid of the place. A sort of deep-seated anger that coupled with pettiness that made him turn Tobias Snape’s humble Muggle home into a Wizard’s place. But if he’s honest- and Severus is loathed to ever be honest- it’s not true ( Read more... )

Magic.

Not the practice; Tobias would have never allowed it. It was too dangerous that way. But the idea of it; the knowledge that was another world out there- one that was waiting for him. Severus was raised on the idea of magic; of Hogwarts, and purity, and a world that was not this one- not confined to Spinner’s End, or the cold, common life ( Read more... )

Severus’ hands ran carefully over the steel of the sword. He could tell the value of the thing in the way a thief might or a Muggle; that it was very old and still cared for. Potter had used the sword to kill a Basilisk in his second year; and Snape knew the group was trying to smuggle it out to him and his little friends now. That was the what. He ( Read more... )

There was a girl in the flat above him ( Read more... )

8 track tapes, Jolt Cola, New Coke, Pepsi Clear, the Radio Star, The Fall of the British Empire with the 82’ Canada Act, DeLorean Motor Company, Princess Diana/Prince Charles Marriage, Michael Jackson/Lisa Presley Marriage, Thalidomide, Laurence Olivier, Sodomy Laws in Scotland and North Ireland, Idi Amin’s stint in power, a handful of Ayatollahs, ( Read more... )