"I know! How dare he?" Lily laughed delightedly for a moment before letting the mood grow more sombre with the topic. "Longer than that. For many of us, it started early in our school years. For others, like Remus, well before that. He was so very young," she said softly, still assimilating the fact that someone she thought of so fondly had been going through such a life and she hadn't known to do anything to help him. "But, I suppose it is difficult to change one's way of thinking in a matter of weeks, or even months. I think, one has to want to change it, too. I'm not sure any of us trust that the world will allow us the time to do so." Not when they travelled through time to leave a war only to arrive in a time that looked nothing like victory.
She smiled. Even after years spent in the magical world, it sometimes still struck her as strange to hear others appreciate magic for magic's sake like that. "I think it was my first magic. It's hard to say because it seems like just something that's always been there. As a small child, I think it was hard to differentiate between actual magic and the play-magic of my imagination." Thinking about it, she nodded. "For all that I don't trust the peacefulness, I guess I still want it." And her best friend deserved it. She wanted that for him.
"Oh, Severus," Lily said on a sigh, fond exasperation clear in each syllable. For all she talked of not trusting things, she still tried to do so anyway. Severus was never going to be able to do that. "I don't mind talking to him. We're setting up a business that's centred on potions. You're a potential customer. If you're picking up any hesitation, it's just that he's my best friend, as well as my business partner, and I don't like the idea that someone is out there telling people they can go around him or get to him through me. I'm not sure if he'd be able to start work, even if he agrees, until after we've got this place settled. Most of the brewing and growing is going to be done here. But, unless the ingredients and brewing time needed justify that kind of cost, paying for our shop front outright won't be necessary."