Harry meets a girl who's a parselmouth. They start a tentative friendship and help each other as they reveal their secrets to each other, and themselves. They help each other through the pain. They have a friendship that lasts through the years. CoS.

It was a friendship that carried on from childhood, from words said long ago. But Severus and Lily couldn't be friends. No pairing, previous generation. Drabble. An outsiders view of their friendship.