FolaHIM Balogun

You're forgetting something important. The reader knows more than the characters. Lily didn't agree to date until after Snape had already ruined any chances with Lily by calling her a mudblood and made it clear that his sympathies lay with the death eaters. Lily didn't choose between 11-year old Severus who said that she was too cute to be taken by the dementors; and 11-year old James, Gryffindor hopeful. Lily didn't choose between James and the Severus who eventually died to bring down Voldemort and who spent his entire life preparing for this and protecting Lily's son. She chose between 17-year old James, Head boy, and handsome captain of the Quidditch team; and 17-year old Severus, racist, death eater. But since all Potterheads are so clearly invested in the characters of the books, let me change the setting a little. Germany, 1930:ish Lily is a Jewish German, James is a rich German, Severus is a poor German (and Lupin is obviously homosexual; hated by most people on all sides). Severus has been brought up to hate all Jews, but doesn't really see Lily as a Jew. James bullies Severus because he's poor. He does make friends with Lupin though, and remains so even after he finds out about Lupin's sexual orientation. James is so full of himself that he expects Lily to fall for him just because he's so rich and handsome. Meanwhile, Severus, just like the rest of us "best friends without benefits" keeps hoping that by just being there long enough the girl will eventually fall. At one point James humiliates him in front of Lily, who further humiliates him by the simple act of trying to help him, he calls Lily a filthy Jew, something that causes Lily to stop hanging out with him. A bit short on friends, Severus joins and finds meaning in Hitlerjugend. While Severus remains anti-semitic and a member of the Hitlerjugend, James eventually becomes slightly less full of himself, and Lily agrees to marry him. They have a child. The year is 1945. The final solution is in full effect. All Jews are to be "terminated". Severus, now a spy for the SS, overhears a conversation mentioning the location of a Jew in hiding, so he tips off the SS. But when he realises that the Jew in question is Lily and that she, just like every other Jew, is about to be hauled off to the ovens-together with her blood traitor husband and their half-blood son-he realises his mistake. At first Severus tries to convince the Nazis to spare his beloved Jew (pretending that he just lusts after her), but fails. Having cold feet he now contacts the resistance to help extract Lily. Clearly disgusted by his half-arsed apology they demand that help save the entire family, not just Lily. He agrees. He, and the resistance, is too late though. Another traitor, a close "friend" of the Potters, have ratted them out. Only the child survives. At that moment Severus swears off his NSDAP ties for good. While he can never look at the surviving child or think of James without being reminded of his own dark past, he never the less swears to protect the child, and if the Nazis ever were to rear their ugly faces again, he'd infiltrate them and help bring them down permanently. The war is soon over and the world starts recovering. Unlike our own timeline, however, Hitler didn't die (he was protected by a computerised, 5 layer kevlar vest), and some 16 years after the first events we once more come full circle, with Hitler once more in full power (now with a 6th layer added), the SS hauling people off to death camps or killing them on the spot. This time three things are different though. Harry is grown and knows about the computerised kevlar vest, and has, together with his best friends, been hunting down backdoors to hack and disable layer after layer. Severus Snape is a spy for the resistance. Hitler's luger can only be used by Harry-if Hitler tries to use it to kill Harry, it will backfire.