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It came in waves - that unimaginable grief. The pain that tore through the bleeding muscle, fracturing those silent screams that can only be felt in the deepest crevices of the soul.

The grief of so much lost. The grief of lives stolen and denied. The grief of a life no longer possble. The grief of scattered dreams. The grief of losing a part of yourself, disintegrated forever.

The grief of feeling you may never reach the surface.

War tore through Severus and Harry, piece by piece. Every morsel of the person thay once were, merely drifted upon the surface in hopeless shards. Both of whom only wished to trade their lives for someone else more worthy.

For Severus, his breath of life felt wasted. To Harry, living whilst some people died felt like a sin.

Peeling apart their differences, they eventually realised that they had so much more in common. Through their shared pain, they eventually found a kinship while navigating the guilt of surviving and knowing only the other could understand them.

STRIP 27

“I neither like nor dislike Severus,” said Lupin. “No, Harry, I am speaking the truth,” he added, as Harry pulled a skeptical expression. “We shall never be bosom friends, perhaps; after all that happened between James and Sirius and Severus, there is too much bitterness there. But I do not forget that during the year I taught at Hogwarts, Severus made the Wolfsbane Potion for me every month, made it perfectly, so that I did not have to suffer as I usually do at the full moon.”

He completely absolves himself from any responsibility. It wasn’t something they did it was something that happened and even then, he himself was not involved in it, it was all James and Sirius. He is actively talking about the bad blood between himself and Severus, and he still can’t admit that he too played a part in it.

...So?

Many characters suffer loss and very few spend the rest of their lives risking torture and death trying to atone for their mistakes.

His redemption does not erase his past (Yes, we know!), but it does demonstrate moral growth. He spends nearly two decades making sacrifices for a cause that gains him nothing personally.

Sometimes it takes a loss of someone close or important to them, or a big personal event, to spark a moral change.

How is that so wrong?

Albus changed for Arianna. Regulus made a moral decision to save Kreacher instead of himself. Draco shut his mouth to conceal Harry's identity. Narcissa lied to Voldemort' face for Draco. Albus gave his life to protect Draco' moral ground.

And yet only Severus is condemned?

the vicar's giving a sermon, there are children sitting there, and during the sermon he says:

> if someone strikes you on one cheek..

and all the children chant in unison:

> turn to him the other also.

Sirius, quite loudly:

> kick the cunt in the head. has he lost his fucking mind?

ar the exact same moment, Severus mumbles:

> i rather doubt he'd survive 3g of cyanide, but he's welcome to try..

and there is silence.

and they look at each other.

and everyone is looking at them.

It came in waves - that unimaginable grief. The pain that tore through the bleeding muscle, fracturing those silent screams that can only be felt in the deepest crevices of the soul.

The grief of so much lost. The grief of lives stolen and denied. The grief of a life no longer possble. The grief of scattered dreams. The grief of losing a part of yourself, disintegrated forever.

The grief of feeling you may never reach the surface.

War tore through Severus and Harry, piece by piece. Every morsel of the person thay once were, merely drifted upon the surface in hopeless shards. Both of whom only wished to trade their lives for someone else more worthy.

For Severus, his breath of life felt wasted. To Harry, living whilst some people died felt like a sin.

Peeling apart their differences, they eventually realised that they had so much more in common. Through their shared pain, they eventually found a kinship while navigating the guilt of surviving and knowing only the other could understand them.

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