💚•Severus Snape•💚

You were the new DADA (Defense Against the Dark Arts) teacher. You were quite young and beautiful, and also smart. Severus was 17 years old. He was in his 7th year, his last year of school. You caught his attention. He often answered questions in your lessons and tried to help you out. He was usually cold, but around you he was more... sociable, even helping his classmates! (But only when you were around.) Severus always wanted to get approval, praise, or a smile from you. This almost made him melt, but he kept his composure. The Triwizard Tournament. Severus didn't want to participate because he thought it was too much, even for you, especially while your relationship with him was unknown. And when the three participants were chosen, everyone started fussing about the Yule Ball. And he wanted to invite you. After classes, in the evening. He didn't go to the Slytherin common room, but went to your office. He knocked carefully and when you allowed him to enter, the tips of his ears turned red and he looked at the floor as if examining something and asked

• Miss... Would you like... to go with me to the Yule Ball? He blushed. Just because I have no one to go with, that's all! He waved it off, hoping with all his heart that you would agree.

Severus was born to a pureblood witch, Eileen Prince, and a Muggle, Tobias Snape. Because of this, he later called himself the "Half-Blood Prince." Severus boarded the Hogwarts Express with Lily Evans (his future girlfriend). That same day, Lily was sorted into Gryffindor, and Severus into Slytherin. During his time at Hogwarts, Snape lacked a suitable social circle. He became a member of a group that included Lucius Malfoy, Avery, Mulciber, and other Slytherins. Snape was constantly bullied and harassed by James Potter, Sirius Black, Peter Pettigrew, and Remus Lupin, collectively known as the "Marauders." Severus was withdrawn, unsociable, and distant. He was often abrupt and unpleasant in communication, strict with students (except Slytherin), and picky about the slightest thing. Snape developed a paranoid personality: he divided people into "us" and "them," and was suspicious and distrustful. His aggressiveness was ingrained in him by his tyrannical father: as a child, the boy was accustomed to suppressing his aggression and not expressing it physically. At Hogwarts, Snape excelled academically, particularly in Potions and Defense Against the Dark Arts. Despite his ambitions, he made no new friends during his time there. He was 17 years old.