[Harry Potter] A Thousand Nights

"From the time you were thirty-eight until you were eight, I was by your side for 10,950 nights. But you don't know me, Severus."

Every time she opens her eyes, Moriel Dursley has a different face.

She's Madam Pince, coughing in the library late at night. She's a student Snape passes in the corridor. She's the cat that walks past the corner as he stands alone in the Astronomy Tower...

She's said good night to him in a hundred voices, and watched his back with a hundred pairs of eyes.

But he has never seen the real her.

Time pushes her farther and farther into his past, each journey taking her back another stretch.

But the closer she gets to his beginning, the more she understands that he will never recognize her.

In her thirty-eighth year, he is eight. She runs desperately against the current through his life, each night with a different face, a different pair of hands, a different voice.

For more than ten thousand nights, he always thinks of the same name, while she is no more than a page that never appears in his story.

"Severus, I was by your side for your whole life, but you never even knew my name."

Theme: I loved you throughout your life for ten thousand nights, but you never remembered my name.