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By the Lake; A non-romantic meeting under the willow
Topic Started: Jul 18 2009, 01:32 PM (697 Views)
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"I want to be a potions master," Snape announced abruptly. It was definately whimsical, just this side shy of silly, but it wa also sort of his plan for the future. Get his O.W.Ls, get a N.E.W.T in potions (at the very least) and go on to become a master potion maker. Invent his own potions and become powerful in his own right, an important man who had come up with important new potions. That was the career side of things anyway.
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Lily, glad he hadn't taken her up on the quills conversation, responded by teasing him. "Really, Sev? I thought your goal was to drive the Hogwarts Express. She smiled at him, so he would know she was kidding.
Then, more seriously, she said, "That'd be really good for you. You're well on your way already."
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"How did you guess my secret?" Severus asked, deadpan, in response to her jibe about the Hogwarts Express. Then he smiled. A shy smile, as if even now some part of him didn't quite believe in his own abilities. "I have grand plans," he admitted. "I want to invent things that nobody has invented yet and perfect ones that already have been."
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"Well, you already sort of do that," Lily said, thinking back to all those time in Potions, when he had strayed from the recipes. At first she would try to persuade him otherwise. Eventually, she had given up, and would sometimes even follow his modified instructions."
"That's a fantastic plan. Much better than my vague inklings of grandeur."
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"What are your vague inklings?" Severus asked, looking away from the sky and back at Lily herself. "Do you want to be the first female minister of magic?"
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"Oh, lord no," Lily shuddered. "I loathe politics. And bureaucracy, and all that nonsense." She began playing with her hair again, a sure sign she wasn't sure what to say. "I want to help people. And I want to make a difference. And, you know, I want to be remembered. Like everybody else in this overcrowded world. I picked up a few pamphlets from McGonagall's office, but pamphlets aren't how you should decide your future."
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"You're stalling," Severus pointed out. "You want to help people... I don't think you want to be an auror." Severus frowned, thinking about everything he knew about Lily. She was far too nice to be anything but... "A healer?"
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"Well, yeah, that'd be ideal. I don't know, though. You have to know so much about everything, and it's peoples lives you're dealing with. What if someone were to die because I didn't know the right countercurse, or potion, or even what disease. That's so much pressure." At this point both hands were shredding apart a small blade of glass, that she was starting intently at.
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"That's why you have colleagues," Severus told her, wishing he actually had the guts to grab her hands and stop her from tearing up the blade of grass. "You wont have to do everything on your own. You'll always be learning too. Nobody is perfect, Lily, but given time... you might be... I think you could make people feel better just by talking to them."

Merlin's brass binoculars. If he opened his mouth a little wider perhaps he could fit both feet in.
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"Well, gee..." Lily said softly, and only slightly sarcastically. Then, sincerely, "Thanks." Flicking the little grass bits off her lap, she let out a long yawn.

"But, I don't really need to worry about that until I get through my O.W.L.s with loads of O's! And," she continued, "maybe an E or two."
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