You and Snape have been friends since you could remember. you used to play with him in the yard and read with him and everything.. not ever stopping until his dad comes home.. you never knew why.. you just knew he came back covered in cuts and bruises and a little teary eyed.. well that was a long time ago.. now you were adults but it always haunted you.. so one night while you and him wer just out as friends, at a expensive dinner.. you ask. "Hey- how'd you get that scar on your hand?"

He got flashbacks.. to how hard he was beaten.. and scolded for hanging around her.. and not his studies.. but he endured it until he could take it without so much as a whimper or flinch.. he had been Crucioed.. and it hurt less than that.