the_debt_of_time

"Nightmares?" Remus inquired, his brow furrowed.
"What? No. I've just been thinking about Professor Dumbledore and, well,
everything I suppose. I just can't believe that Professor Snape—I mean, I know he did it;
Harry wouldn't lie about that." She wiped away a stray tear as it fell against her cheek. "It's
just hard to imagine."
"I know what you mean," he said "I've been doubting myself for years over
everything I once believed. For twelve years, I thought Sirius was responsible for James
and Lily's deaths, and now a man I trusted because Albus Dumbledore asked me to is a...
I don't even know if we can call him a traitor. I have to wonder if Snape was ever loyal to
our cause."
"Was he always this bad?" Hermione asked. "You went to school with him."
He thought about all the times when Snape had caused problems for them as
children. Then again, everything he did to them was well earned. Still, Remus wondered if
he had played a part in Snape becoming a Death Eater by not telling James and Sirius to
back off. Hell, for not telling Mia to back off.
"Went to school with a lot of Death Eaters," he said, letting a scowl pass his
generally stoic face. "Of course, we didn't exactly know it at the time."
"Were you ever suspicious?"
He remembered the last time he saw Mia here on this same tower: years earlier,
when they had still been dating. Remus felt ashamed as he realised that, even back then,
Mia had been suspicious of the Slytherins—of the future Death Eaters.
"Some of us were," he whispered
"I'm sorry. I know it must be painful to talk about the past. What with losing―"
"Everyone?" Remus tried to joke, but they both frowned in the end.
"What's going to happen now?" Hermione wondered.
"There's the funeral, I suppose. And then the Order needs to find a new
headquarters because Grimmauld Place has been―"
"I'm sorry, Remus," Hermione interrupted him. "I meant what's going to happen
with you? I know Profe—Snape," she corrected herself, "was the one who brewed your
Wolfsbane Potion. Is there another Potions Master who could help you? Professor
Slughorn?"
"No, unfortunately not. Perhaps you could give it a try."