What if James BEFRIENDED Snape?

The Hogwarts Express pulls out of King's Cross on a grey September morning in 1971, and a boy named Severus Snape sits in a compartment near the back with the only friend he has ever had. Lily Evans presses her face to the window and watches London shrink behind them while Snape arranges his second-hand robes across his knees. The compartment door bangs open. Two boys stumble in, laughing about something that happened on the platform, and the taller one drops into the seat across from Snape with