The Bravest Man I've Ever Known (A Severus Snape Fanfic)

Chapter 7

Cheers errupted all around Harry as they came around him, patting his back and congratulating him. Once the cheering died down, Harry spoke again. "I didn't do it alone. I had help from a lot of people. Dumbledore for one. He told me about the horcruxes that Voldemort made." Most of the crowd shuddered at the sound of Voldemort's name, as Harry continued, "Hermione and Ron helped me while we were on the run. Luna's dad helped me learn more of the story of the Deathly Hallows, which is true by the way. I have the cloak, I dropped the ressurection stone somewhere in the forest, I have the Elder Wand." Harry raises Dumbledore's wand, then continues, "I am the master of death, if the story is right. The story is based on the Peverell brothers. I'm related to the youngest, Ignotus. Voldemort was related to Ignotus' older brother Cadmus Peverell. The Peverell Brothers created the Deathly Hallows. Most of all I had help from Severus Snape. He shared with me his memories, memories I needed to see. I saw how he was raised, how he lost his only friend, how he vowed to protect me, for my mother, Lily. How he switched sides, the moment my mother was hunted down and killed," Here, Snape bows his head, his shoulder shaking slightly, before falling to his knees. Tears falling from his hook-nose. His hair covering his face. Harry looks over at him as he continues, "Severus really did love her. Still loves her. He wouldn't have protected me and spied on Voldemort if he didn't. Yeah he was snarky and sarcastic. He will always be that way, but the reason he would rather be alone and close his heart from everyone, was because he fears of making the same mistakes , as he did with my mother. He regrets to this day for calling her a....a mudblood," Snape's shoulders shook more at the word Harry uttered. "He said it out of anger. He was humiliated in front of almost the entire school, by my father and godfather, "Harry said bitterly, then sighs, "Snape was angry at them for being humiliated. I bet you're all wondering how he was humiliated. My father used Levicorpus, a spell, Snape here, invented, and hoisted him into the air by his ankles. Students wore those flowing robes at the time. So, his robes fell over him exposing his..." Harry paused and looked at Snape, Snape only nodded for him to continue. Harry sighs and continues, "His Knickers. Everyone laughed at him." Everyone around him gasps in response as Harry continued, Minerva looking appropriately ashamed of herself,

" My mom, Lily, told them to leave him alone. Remus even told me he regretted not stepping in at the time, since he was prefect. He knew they were going too far, but he could never stand up to them, like Hermione. She stood up to Fred and George in our 5th year. Anyways, my father said he would leave him alone, if she dated him. He was arrogant when he was at school. As was my Godfather. Severus was right. I don't think my Godfather would have raise me right, if he had custody of me. He would have probably raise me to be like my father. Since I look so much like him. My father did grow out of his arrogance though and died trying to protect my mother and me, but one thing that I didn't like about my father was that he started bullying Severus the moment they set eyes on him on the train. They were going to Hogwarts to start their first year. On the day Severus was humiliated and my mother was defending him, she had asked my father, 'What's he done to you?' My father replied with, 'Well, its more the fact that he exists, if you know what I mean.' He and Sirius bullied Severus just because he existed and was in Slytherin. They never even tried to get to know him. True, Severus is no saint, but he doesn't deserve to be bullied mercilessly day after day and humilated like that. Add his home life and you can see why. Calling her that name, cost him his friendship with the only person that saw him for him and accepted him. He tried many times to apologize to her, but she never accepted his apology. He never meant to call her that. You have to remember the peer pressure he had to endure from his fellow slytherin peers, while he was at school, his home life and the constant bullying from my father and godfather, that would drive anyone to join Voldemort. You can only be pushed so far, you know? The reason he join Voldemort, was because he wanted to feel accepted and as he lost the only friend he ever loved, he had nothing to live for. He knew if he joined, he would die if he left. Something, I think he looked forward to, at the time. He regretted ever calling Lily that word and he blames himself for her death, because he did tell Voldemort of the prophecy, but he never knew Voldemort would interpret it to mean me, and in turn, my mother." Harry sighs, "Snape's patronus is a doe, like my mother's. If that isnt love, I don't know what is. Only one memory was happy enough, powerful enough to produce that patronus, Snape's happy memories of my mother." Harry sighs again, "After watching his memories it gave me something to think about, besides knowing, that I have to allow Voldemort to use the Killing Curse on me, to remove the horcrux that inside of me. One he didn't mean to make. It was why I had a connection into his mind and why I could talk to snakes.