Young Snape

Chapter Six

The great hall was noisy as Severus sat down for breakfast, alone, on the far end of the Slytherin table. He was getting used to this routine: get up early – earlier than his house-mates – shower and dress quietly, and sit on his bed with the curtains closed around him, wand clutched in his hand. He’d listen as everyone else rose and got ready. Occasionally, someone from Avery’s group (a minority group, now that Slytherin was in the bottom of the running for the House Cup due to their behavior) would taunt him from the other side of the emerald drapes, but rarely did anything...

A/N: So, this chapter was beyond difficult to write and I'm still not pleased with how it ended. Any suggestions and heavy critiques would be greatly appreciated.
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Chapter five
1 September 1976

The Welcoming Feast had been awkward, to say the least: the Slytherins hadn't, despite the summer holidays, gotten over what they saw as Severus' “betrayal.” They had taken up the entire compartment, effectively blocking him out of the Slytherin portion of the train; shoved him towards the back of the...