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Chapter Eight: The Threat

Lily, feeling rather hurt, sat in the common room doing her Transfiguration homework until James, Sirius, Keely, Remus, and Peter entered. They saw her and Remus said, "Hey, Lil. What's wrong?" he added seeing the look on her face
"I was going to tutor someone this morning," explained Lily, "But he left before we even started."
"Why'd he leave?" James asked as he sat down on a chair near her.
"Because I told him I knew you."
"Why would he leave because of that?" asked Remus
"I don't know, Severus must've known James before they came to Hog-" but James interrupted.
"You mean Severus Snape? You were going to tutor him?" When Lily nodded, James said, "That's just criminal!"
"No, that's being friendly."
"Either way, why would you tutor a creep like him? Especially after I told him-" but he knew that he said too much, Lily stared at him and asked, "Told him what, exactly?"
"It's nothing."
"No, tell us." said Keely.
"Okay, fine!" said James, "When we were nine, I told him to stay away from my sister and my friends."
"You WHAT?" shouted Lily.
"What would you have expected me to do? Just lay there and watch that weirdo be with my sister? He even did one of the most horrible things I've seen him do to her that will seriously scar me for life!"
"He hurt her?" asked Peter.
"No..." James paused and mumbled something so quietly that they couldn't hear him.
"Could you repeat that?" asked Keely.
"He kissed my sister!" James almost shouted causing many students to look around and stare at him, "We're in the park, I'm showing Mia a magic trick and along comes Snape. I leave them alone for a few moments and when I saw them again..." he shuddered.
"Hang on, if Severus and Mia had a thing together," said Remus, "Then why does he have a crush on Lily?"
"That's a very good question." said Sirius, his tone not believing.
"Sirius, do you also know something we don't?" asked Keely.
"No." once again, Sirius didn't sound believable.
"Sirius Black, if you don't tell us right now-"
"Okay, okay! After James threatened Snape, a few days later, Mia and I meet in Diagon Alley. And we started to hang out a lot and she ended up forgeting about Snape and started having a crush on me. Sure, Snape was heartbroken but he got over it a few months later. It seemed like he'd never love another girl again, 'till Lily Flower, here came along." Lily punched him in the shoulder and told James, "Potter, because of you I can't be friends with Severus! Now he won't be able to good marks on Potions because from what Slughorn told me, Sirius and I were his best students in first year in his class."
"It's not like he can't get help from the older students..." said James
"Yeah, but when I saw Severus this morning, he seemed to have hated the older Slytherins!" Lily grabbed her things and left the common room.
"Where are you going?" asked Remus.
"I'm going to talk to Severus."