severus-not-snivellus:

“I said some very not nice things to Lily out of anger and then we grew apart. Only recently have we started talking again.” He looked down. “That I think would be one of the things I would take back,” he said turning around to walk backwards and face her. “I feel like if I knew what would happen and then I could go change it, maybe things would be different.” He turned back around walking forward again. “Maybe I am just a loony.”

Andromeda nodded slowly. “Ah,” she said with a small frown. “Well … I’m glad you two are getting on again.” Mudblood. That’s exactly what he meant, and she knew it. It was a word she’d banned from her vocabulary many, many years ago. It always sounded like such a terrible, vulgar word. To be quite honest, she was a bit shocked that Severus Snape had used it at all - he never really struck her as the type of person. “Who knows?” Andromeda asked with a smile, spreading her arms wide. “You may just get the opportunity! And you’re no loony. I’d rather think of you as a … ‘wishful thinker’,” she smirked, jogging to catch up to him. “So tell me, Wishful Thinker, what else do you wish for?”