When they were young, she was there. The pain stopped. And now she's gone, and the pain burns on, and there's nothing he can do about it. Short Severus/Lily drabble. Based on the movie version of the Prince's Tale.

The boy sits with the man in a silent hospital room. They don't speak, but they communicate nevertheless. Canon-compliant except that Snape survives Nagini's attack.

Lupin does a lesson on Boggarts with his second year class, and finds something in Ginny's boggart that reminds him of himself.