Re: log: lily & james & hiding harry
[It made Harry a little uncomfortable to hear his parents talk about Snape as if he was some sort of horrible lost cause, as if he should jump in and defend the man that had done so much to save them all in the last few months of his life. Harry respected Snape a great deal, even understood him in ways he would have thought impossible years before, but that didn’t mean he liked the man. Snape wouldn’t have appreciated Harry defending him anymore than he appreciated James saving his life, and that was fact. His conscience therefore appeased, Harry relaxed a little into his eavesdropping.
The familiar rush of hot anger gathered behind his eyes when hearing about Peter, and he was viciously glad that James had come to terms with that, even if he wasn’t quite as angry as Harry might have liked. Well, he hadn’t seen the flashes of green light and Lily dying over and over, had he? No.
Harry moved closer, not thinking, and he must have done something that made James remember he was there. He saw the flick of his eyes. Perplexed, Harry glanced over his shoulder, but saw only a standing candelabra. He looked back. They were still talking.
He couldn’t quite describe how it felt to hear Lily say that he, Harry, wasn’t her son. It hurt in a whole new way, and made him not want to listen to what they were saying anymore. Of course, then James began to lay it on quite thick, and by the time James had gone on about how wonderful he was for several minutes, Harry could feel his face flaming. Harry caught the grin, which was a little to the right, but obviously meant for him. Cheeky bugger.
Harry flinched when Lily whirled around to stare right at him. He froze in place, heart beating as fast as it had that first night in the library when he had donned the cloak to sneak off to the Restricted Section. He backed up, and forgot the candelabra. The collision was light, but the candles wobbled and two of them dropped from their waxy perches, tumbling downward and splashing wax on the floor. Harry hastened a few steps in the other direction.]