It was all Potter's fault, of course, for attacking him, hexing him, humiliating him in front of most of his year group. An unprovoked attack upon his person which had caused him to lose his temper and snap at Lily when she had tried to help.
And it was Mary Macdonald's fault. That bitch had been doing her utmost to destroy his friendship with Lily from the moment that the two girls had sat down together at the Gryffindor table. Macdonald had always been badmouthing him around Lily, saying that he was dark, saying that he couldn't be trusted, poisoning Lily's mind against him.
Her and Lily's other friends, Sarah Fisher, Alice Prewitt, and Marlene McKinnon…
Of course, as with people everywhere who felt that everything was everyone else's fault, Snape's recollection of these was a littler skewered.
The attack, for there is no denying that it was one, was not without foundation.
Just a month before Mary Macdonald had been attacked by two Slytherin Students, Evan Rosier and Silas Mulciber, and subjected by them to the imperius curse, much to the enjoyment of several of their fellow Slytherins, Snape included.
The assault had ended when Narcissa Black, who had been charged with keeping a lookout, had alerted them to the approach of Professors McGonagall and Flitwick.
The curse had been cancelled and the Slytherins had scarpered, but not before Mary had gotten a good look at several faces in the group, including Snape's.
Mary had told the teachers when they had arrived but they had not sought out the perpetrators in order to punish them, very likely on Dumbledore's orders, though Slughorn had kept a closer watch on them for the rest of the term.
Obviously Mary had told her friends about what happened. Lily hadn't been happy about it and confronted Snape outright over it. He tried to blow it off as being "just a bit of a laugh" but she hadn't been impressed.
Less impressed were two Hufflepuff boys, Edgar Bones and Edward Abbott, who had gone unnoticed by Lily and Snape as they had argued. Edward had told his girlfriend Sarah about what he and Edgar had overheard and Sarah had told her friends, including Mary who had gone on to tell her boyfriend, Sirius Black who, naturally, had told the other Marauders.
Thus the reason for the attack. Not that Snape remembered things that way. Not only was occlumency good for protecting your mind, it was also good for blocking off things you didn't want to remember.
The breakup of his friendship with Lily had been hard to deal with, but even harder was coping with the fact that Lily did eventually get together with that idiotic Potter in their seventh year. The day that he had learned that had been the day he had vowed to himself to train himself up into becoming the best servant that the Dark Lord would ever have. This would allow him to get rid of Lily's "friends" and her would-be husband.
The day that Lily had married Potter had been the day that Snape had taken the dark mark of Lord Voldemort. In order to do so, a prospective Death Eater had to bring along a victim, and Snape had had the perfect one in mind.
By listening to the grape-vine he had learned of the location of the wedding and had waited outside. Later in the evening his victim had shown herself, drunkenly staggering beyond the protective enchantments on the hall where the wedding was being held. She was not alone though. Sirius Black was with her.
That turn of events had made things even better, for it seemed that the couple were still sweet on each other. Snape had set a couple of noise-makers from Zonko's joke shop on the group near some bushes and then moved away. The noise went off, Sirius went to investigate and Snape stunned Mary Macdonald and disapparated with her before Sirius could realise what had happened.
It had been perfect. He got rid of one of Lily's meddlesome "friends", he received his dark mark, he had made sure that the day she married Potter was a day that Lily would never want to remember, and he had gotten to hurt that idiotic Sirius Black in the process as well.
In the line of duty to Lord Voldemort, Severus Snape had witnessed the massacre of the McKinnon family, thus removing another of Lily's friends, and had been there when Edgar Bones and his young family had been killed.
Then had come that damned prophesy. Upon realising that Voldemort would go after the Potters, Snape had begged his Lord to spare his Lily, tried to convince the man that Lily was powerful despite her heritage, and that power could be useful, but it hadn't worked. Snape was not high enough in Voldemort's ranks to make such as request successfully and had indeed paid the price for his gall.
In the end he had been forced to turn to Dumbledore, begging the Headmaster to save his Lily and, as distasteful as he found it, to save her husband and son as well, a request he only made to ensure that Dumbledore acted.
Now bound to the servitude of two masters, he had spent the year playing both sides against each other before that fateful Halloween night in 1981.
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