"What does it have to do with you?"
Did his love life need anyone else's concern?
"I was just asking. Suppose... suppose you had a friend, and he... he and the woman you liked..."
Bang!
Lucius crashed heavily onto the floor.
Snape looked down at him with an icy expression.
"Lucius, this is a warning. If you dare make jokes like that again, I won't let you off!"
"No, no, I was asking about another friend of mine... I was with the woman he loved most... and then we had a child..."
Lucius stammered out an explanation.
Snape gave him a disdainful glance. He had heard people gossiping lately that Lucius had an illegitimate child.
He had not believed it at first, but it turned out to be true—and the child was even his friend's.
"I'd advise you to run faster. If I were that friend of yours, I'd grind your bones to dust!"
"No problem... no problem!"
Snape's Memories
Snape did not take that farce to heart at all.
Lucius was an aristocrat. Nothing he did could surprise Snape.
As long as that friend was not him.
As for Lily... how could that be possible? Snape shook his head.
He returned to his quarters.
But the matter was not over. He received another notice: Darren had invented a new antidote.
It could counter more than three hundred kinds of poison.
Other than Wolfsbane, it was highly effective against all of them.
A genius!
He truly was a genius!
If Lily had married him, the child they had might have been like Darren.
Perhaps even exactly what he had always hoped for.
A face resembling Lily's, Lily's noble character, and his own talent.
Dumbledore had even recommended him for the Order of Merlin, First Class.
Why was this child not