Eeevil!Snape was Snape in Shrieking Shack

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 142386

 
> Nora: 
> IIRC, you like a scenario where Harry finds out that Snape 
> is 'innocent' (or at least not as culpable as Harry thinks), and 
then 
> Harry has to deal with this shocking knowledge. 

Here is Snape's Song of Innocence:

My mother bore me in the Muggle World
And I am dark, but oh! my soul is white.
As white as snow, although not so cold,
But I am dark as if bereaved of light.

My mother taught me Potions and Dark Arts,
We used to start before the heat of day,
And since I was a lad of many parts
(And most of them unsafe) she used to say: 

"We all are put on earth a little space
That we may learn to bear the beams of love;
Your robes are black; yours is a sullen face
But deep inside you're gentle as a dove. 

And you must learn where your heart to wear, 
To be mysterious and speak in silken voice,
To hone your skills, to hide your love and care
And in cold revenge sometimes rejoice!"

Thus did my mother say, and kissed me;
And thus I say to little cheeky boy:
When this is over and we all are free 
And round the White Tomb like lambs we joy,

I'll shield him from the ills he cannot bear
(While still in mourning over Bumblebee) 
And then I'll stand and stroke his jet-black hair,
And be like him, and he will then love me.

a_svirn