What If Lily Forgave Snape In The Afterlife? | The Final Train | Short Film

The venom... it's gone. Where is this place? No... it's a trick. The Dark Lord's final curse. It is no curse, Severus. You can stand up now. The fight is over. Do not look at me, Lily. Please. I am not worthy to breathe the same air. Look at me, Sevif. I have waited thirty-three years for you to look at me. I haven't aged a single day, while I turned into an old, bitter monster. You were never a monster to me, Sev. Only a boy who got lost in the shadows. I told him the prophecy, Lily. I delivered you to the Dark Lord's wand. I know what you did, Severus. But I also know what you did after. That day by the Black Lake. The word I called you. It has rotting in my mind for thirty-three years. I forgave you for that word, before the sun set that very night, Severus. How could you? I drove you away. I pushed you right into... James Potter's arms! You didn't push me, Sevi. You were drowning in your own pain, and you wouldn't let me save you. So I knelt to a monster instead. I wore his brand, thinking it would make me strong. And the moment you realized what it meant, you went to Dumbledore, in the wind and the rain. I begged him to hide you. I promised him my soul, my life, everything I was, and he still couldn't save you. No one could have stopped him that night, Sevif. But you gave my sacrifice a purpose. Seventeen years of lies. Playing the servant to a demon, despised by every good soul in Britain. I saw you standing on the Badlands every night. I saw you keeping watch while the castle slept. I had to kill him, Lily. I had to strike down the only man who believed I had a soul. You spared him a cruel death, and you protected a child from becoming a killer. It was mercy. Mercy? The world will only ever remember me as the traitor who murdered Albus Dumbledore. History will know the truth, Severus. My son knows the truth right now. The boy. Harry. Did he look into the Pensieve? Did he understand? He saw everything, Severus. Every memory. Every tear. Every silent vigil in the dark. He had your eyes, Lily. Every time I looked at him, I was punished and saved all at once. He lived because of you. My son survived the darkest wizard of all time. Because you never stopped fighting. Do you know what kept the darkness from swallowing me whole? My matroness. All these years? Always, Lily. Until the very last breath in that shrieking shack. Always. You brave, foolish, magnificent man. Your watch is ended, Severus. You don't have to carry the world anymore. A train? Where is it taking us? Onward. Wherever you wish to go. Far away from dungeons and dark lords. Can someone like me truly move on? After all the blood? All the lies? You died saving the boy who lived. There is no debt left to pay, Severus. Take my hand. Are you alright? I have a task to complete. It feels like the playground in Cokeworth. Before any of it went wrong. Because it is, Seviv. We're just two friends starting over. It's time. I know. Goodbye, Hogwarts. Alright.