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The Prince's Taleby *HollyBell

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“So the boy…the boy must die?” asked Snape quite calmly.

“And Voldemort himself must do it, Severus. That is essential.”

Another long silence. Then Snape said, “I thought…all those years…that we were protecting him for her. For Lily.”

“We have protected him because it has been essential to teach him, to raise him, to let him try his strength,” said Dumbledore, his eyes still tight shut. “Meanwhile, the connection between them grows ever stronger, a parasitic growth. Sometimes I have thought he suspects it himself. If I know him, he will have arranged matters so that when he does set out to meet his death, it will truly mean the end of Voldemort.”

Dumbledore opened his eyes. Snape looked horrified.

“You have kept him alive so that he can die at the right moment?”

“Don’t be shocked, Severus. How many men and women have you watched die?”

“Lately, only those whom I could not save,” said Snape. He stood up. “You have used me.”

“Meaning?”

“I have spied for you and lied for you, put myself in mortal danger for you. Everything was supposed to be to keep Lily Potter’s son safe. Now you tell me you have been raising him like a pig for slaughter - ”

“But this is touching, Severus,” said Dumbledore seriously. “Have you grown to care for the boy, after all?”

“For him?” shouted Snape. “Expecto Patronum!”

From the tip of his wand burst the silver doe. She landed on the office floor, bounded once across the office, and soared out of the window. Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.

“After all this time?”

“Always,” said Snape.

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This would be the second picture in my series "Bawling moments" (anyone who has read the book or watched the movie will find the title appropriate). The most beautiful unrequited love story ever told !

Characters and text (c) JK Rowling
Art (c) Me

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~SapphireShelle91 Jan 21, 2013

'Sob, sob' ;_;
I was doing so well while reading the seventh book for the first time , I had a bet with my parents on when I was going to start bawling. They predicted by midway and that I'd be a mess once I finished it and I was trying so hard to prove them wrong, and as I said I was doing so well, even with Hedwig's and Dobby's death (I somehow managed to hold back the tears during these two deaths, can't now, but did then) but this scene basically ruined my efforts completely.
I don't know why I started crying when I read this scene but I just found it all too heart breaking so yeah, I started bawling and my parents were so confused when I said I was bawling because of Snape, so they of course asked who had he killed now and I just kept on crying while I thrusted my book at them and they started reading it and my mum started tearing up too and yeah. It was a bit messed up.
But I've always had a bit of a, not soft spot but definately a spot for Snape ever since I read book five (when I started feeling that there was more to this guy then what we thought) and so his chapter always chokes me up.
This is a completely beautiful picture and I can already feel the tears pricking in my eyes.
Keep up the great work!