Time to Get Even [[James/Open]]

[severus]

Severus Snape walked up the grand staircase towards the seventh floor. He was on his way to the room of requirement, he had hid some of his dark arts books up there since most of them were classified as illegal. He'd always found the dark arts interesting even before he arrived at school. He wanted to learn if more for self defence when he was younger but now, it was more for revenge.

He wasn't a popular student, he didn't have many close friends. The only reason he hung around other students like Lucius Malfoy and the black sisters was that he wanted to gain their respect. He was a half-blood but didn't dare tell anyone. His father was a muggle who drank until he knocked himself out. His mother Eileen Prince came from a respectable pure-blood family but they had banished Eileen when she married a muggle.

Severus arrived at the 7th floor, outside of the entrance to the ROR. He spend hours in there somedays going through various objects left there and forgotten for centuries. He thought of what he needed, paced back and forth a few times before the door opened. He glanced around to make sure no one was watching him and entered.

There on the shelf was exactly where he left his books. He took one of them of the shelf, found himself as spot to sit and opened it to where he'd left off.

[jamespotter]

The 7th year Marauder was enjoying a normal day with his best mates out on the ground. But after some time, Remus had left to go to the library as he had some homework that needed to be finished, and Peter, well that bloke had left slithering away almost like a snake. Sirius, well he found himself someone to talk to, one of the ladies that were out on the grounds. Which left him with nothing to do, so the 7th year had said goodbye to his best mate and walked inside the castle's doors.

Aside from the fact he and his best mates had pranked most of the Slytherins in the years they had been at Hogwarts, their favorite target had been Severus Snape, a slimy...greasy git, who had been the former best friend of the woman he loved. The two boys would never get along partially because they had different ideas of what was right, but because of the fact they both cared for the same woman, even if it wasn't reciprocated. This wasn't to say he knew how Severus felt for sure about Lily only that he cared about her as a friend, even if after fifth year he'd never say it.

Today he wasn't trying to prank anyone. He'd had his fill of that when he had been with his mates only a few hours ago. It was the afternoon, and there were no classes he had to worry about as of today. Although if the oppertunity knocked to pull a prank, he'd take it. The 7th year hadn't been a fool, he knew he'd changed some over the last two years. Because although he was always going to enjoy a good prank, it wasn't the center of his life anymore and neither was Quidditch for that matter. None of that would truly matter when he left Hogwarts.

When he left Hogwarts, it was going to be a dangerous time, witches and wizards were going missing, dying even, as were the muggles that some had fought so hard to protect. He knew where his future was going to lead him and he would do it with a smile on his face. He was going to fight for something he believed in, a cause worth dying for. Coming out of his thoughts, he realized that he had managed to walk several flights of stairs while he hadn't been paying the best of attention. The closer he had gotten to the seventh floor, subconsiously he pulled out his wand. Why, he didn't know but something told him he might need it. He'd barely stepped into the corridor, where the Room of Requirement was when suddenly he heard the door shut, the echo filling up the hallway. Someone was inside, but who? He opened the door slowly, not sure what to expect, and slowly began to enter the room.