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Severus Snape (potions_hbp) wrote in loremrpg,
@ 2011-04-29 02:44:00

Entry tags:

!incomplete, james potter, severus snape

Backdated 27 October
Characters: Severus Snape and James Potter
Setting: Hospital Wing Wednesday night after curfew
Content: possibly nsfw only because of the discussion of violence
Summary: Severus visits James in the Hospital Wing to shed some light on how James came to be laid up with little to no memory.

Severus lingered in the Slytherin Common Room after most of the students had gone to bed. The fire was down to a soft glow and Severus was sitting at the table closet to the fire pretending to study Ancient Runes while keeping an eye on a small group of slightly rambunctious third years. After a few cold glares from Severus the young students made their way to their dormitories. Waiting a few minutes to make sure the coast was clear, Severus quietly slipped out of the Common Room and up to the Entrance Hall. Severus was careful to take the least traveled corridors and stairways to get to the Hospital Wing without being seen. He had to duck into a hidden room behind a tapestry to avoid being seen by one of the prefects, but eventually made it to the Hospital Wing.

He hesitated before opening the door, slipping inside, and securing the door behind him. No immediate screeches meant that Madame Pomfrey had turned in for the night and that Severus and James would have privacy. Severus turned and quietly walked over to James' bed and sat in the chair close by. Here goes nothing.

"Potter...er...James, you awake? It's Severus."

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stagswagger
2011-05-07 04:36 am UTC (link)

When Severus scooted back, James' look changed to one of deeper concern. It wasn't until the boy apologized that he considered the reason for the strange behavior. It probably had something to do with what Severus had told him earlier in his journal. Though he doubted he could ever be brutal to someone without reason, Severus' reaction to him suggested otherwise. He knew the boy couldn't be exaggerating anything at that point. He was truly uncomfortable around James. Forcing a smile, James gave a wave of his hand as if to say no apology was necessary, at least not from Severus. "I reckon I deserved that," he added, trying not to flinch from the weight of the former statement.

James kept his eyes fixed on Severus, only nodding when he agreed to try and fill the clueless boy in on everything he knew. He was already grateful for that much, and though Severus didn't admit it, James could tell reliving the night was certainly not something he wanted to do.

Once Severus got into the fine details, James figured out exactly why he didn't want to go there. Sirius had put the boy up to it all along. James was confused. It didn't seem like something his alleged best mate would do. Then again, maybe it did. James could hardly speak on Sirius' behalf at this point, having only met him days ago. It left a bitter taste in his mouth, considering that his friend would hate someone enough to endanger his life. Sure, Sirius seemed to act based upon the heat of the emotion on occasion. Of that much James was well aware by now. He'd stormed out of the hospital wing a time or two since James had woken up and had even managed to come back with a broken hand at one point after punching a wall. All that aside, James didn't think he was capable of potentially murdering someone.

The boy snapped out of his thoughts long enough to piece together what Severus truly saw when the dog and "small creature" had run past him. That had to be what Remus had told him about in his journal just yesterday, the animagi forms he referred to. James still didn't know what to make of that, but at least it made sense when put in perspective. Sirius turned up as a dog, Peter as a rat. Severus must've not been aware of their animagi, and Remus made it sound as if very few were. James knew better than to breach the trust of an alleged best friend, so he gave a reassuring nod as he watched Severus fidget.

The more the story continued, the more James was able to work through. The howling Severus had heard must've been Sirius or Remus, though he couldn't quite pick out which it would have been. Before he'd realized what was coming out of his mouth, James asked his question. "What moon phase was it that night?"

He ran a hand over the back of his neck and blew out a huff of hot air as he worked through his thoughts, finally shifting his eyes back to Severus' when the room went silent again. "I feel like I should apologise for that. Sounds like Sirius set you up. Don't reckon he thought it through too much, obviously." James motioned to himself to lighten the load a bit, smiling slightly before his face took on a more somber countenance again. "Then we walked up to hospital wing to get Pomfrey? And somewhere between point A and point B, I lost my sodding mind..."

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potions_hbp
2011-05-13 07:27 pm UTC (link)

Severus sensed James' confusion at Sirius' actions and understood only because James had been reintroduced to Sirius mere days prior to this conversation. Sirius no doubt had left out quite a bit of the past, most likely playing up the "brothers" pact and choosing to ignore the rest.

The wheels seemed to be turning in James' mind and Severus picked up on the fact that James was beginning to make sense of some things. Severus tucked that observance away for now but would pry James about it later. Just then James' question caught Severus off guard. What difference did it make what moon phase it was?

"Um, the moon was full. What does that have anything to do with-" something clicked in Severus' brain. One of the Marauders is a werewolf. That would explain the howling which definitely did not come from the dog.

Severus scoffed at James' apology. "Black rarely thinks anything through because he thinks with the wrong head." Severus tries to hide his smirk but it quickly vanishes from his face when James asks about getting to the hospital wing.

"No, not exactly. When I said you fell...it was more like you got thrown from about two stories high. I froze the tree in time so you wouldn't get completely obliterated. When I ran over, you were unconscious. The howling was getting closer so I basically dragged you to the castle. No one saw us that night except Madame Pomfrey." Severus purposefully left out the part about levitating James' body through the castle, he felt it wasn't that pertinent of a detail to be revealed. He scratched the back of his neck and gauged James' reaction.

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