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A teacher remembers

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Emma Kellerman was rummaging through an old shoe box, which once contained her most favourite dress shoes. Dress shoes, which she hadn't worn for more than four years now, since the soles had come loose due to her heavy use, and regrettably she'd had to throw them away.
Now the box housed several small things from her time as a primary teacher before she had retired. Gifts from her pupils, pictures drawn for her and a stack of old photos, which were what she had been looking for and which she now took out of the box. They were taken with the old polaroid camera from her husband, which he had given to her years ago when he had bought a new one. She had taken it to school with her to take some pictures of her pupils.

She divided the stack and handed half of the photos to her granddaughter Linda, who was the reason why she had been looking for them in the first place. Linda had told her she needed old photographs for a school project and asked her if she knew where she might find some.
They were looking through the photos and chatted, until one seemed to catch Linda's interest.

"Now whatever did you say to this poor kid? He doesn't look all too happy..."

Emma reached for the slightly yellowed photo and took a look at it. It showed a thin, pale boy with ravenblack hair and, unlike the other, mostly smiling or laughing children, his face was blank.

"Oh! I remember him... Now, what was his name again.. Slate... Sni- right, Snape! Severus Snape. A cruel name to give a child nowadays, isn't it?", she smiled softly at her granddaughter. "It's so very old-fashioned..." Memories began to cloud her mind until she was snapped out of them by Linda's voice.

"So you're telling me he looked so unhappy because of his name?", the girl asked dubiously.

"Of course not, dear", the elderly woman chuckled. "But it might have been one of the facts, that made him different from the other children... He was a loner, very quiet. He never worked or played with the other children. In fact, I can't even recall ever seeing him truely smile..."

Linda seemed now to be honestly curious and waited for her grandmother to continue.

"At first I thought the other children were bullying him, but they never really went further than calling him names on occasion. Then I started to suspect, that maybe his life at home wasn't very happy... But whenever I tried to get him to talk or offer some help, he'd simply reply that 'everything was fine' and withdraw completely. It quite frustrated me at times." A pensive look came to her face. "I wonder what became of him..."

A few silent moments passed between the two of them, until Linda took the photo of the young, sad looking boy out of her grandmother's hand, and declared that she was going to use it for her school project.

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Sorry if it the picture looks kinda awkward... I've never really drawn children before D:
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LadyClassical's avatar
"I wonder what became of him".

Ehh...well, it's kind of a long story.