Disclaimer: The song and characters being used do not belong to me. The Song, AName is by the Goo Goo dolls, and of course Harry Potter and characters belongs to J.K. Rowling.

It was safe to say, that Severus Snape was not a happy man. It was bad enough, he concluded, to spend all day with insufferable children, but to be patrolling the halls at night for any trouble makers when he could be doing more important things was just to much. Even though there was that perk of catching them and handing out detentions and deducting points, but he still hated the job.

He made his way up to the astronomy tower, when he stopped in his tracks and listen carefully to the sound that was drifting through the aging wood. It was a sound that he hadn't heard in years, and thought he would never hear again. It was music, but not just any music, but Muggle music. Creeping closer to the top of the tower, he recognized the sound as a guitar. Who would have such an interment? True, there were many Muggle born students at this school, but none that he knew of that were musically talented.

When he reached the top of the opening he saw none other the Harry Potter. He would have been up there in a flash, deducting points and handing out a very harsh detention, if the music he had been playing wasn't soYdepressing. He watched the boy a minute more, and to his surprise, Potter put down the guitar, and started scribbling hastily on a piece of parchment. So, Severus thought to himself, he writes music too. He cleared his throat and started to sing. Severus held his breath.

And even though the moment passed me by I still can't turn away

I saw the dreams you never thought you'd lose tossed along the way

Letters that you never meant to send lost or thrown away

And now we're grown up orphans that never knew their names

Don't belong to no one that's a shame

You could hide beside me maybe for a while

and I won't tell no one your name

I won't tell em' your name

Scars are souvenirs you never lose, the past is never far

Did you lose yourself somewhere out there, did you get to be a star

Don't it make you sad to know that life is more that who we are

You grew up way too fast and now there's nothing to believe

And reruns all become our history

A tired song keeps playing on a tired radio and I won't tell no one your name

I won't tell em' your name

I think about you all the time

But I don't need the same it's lonely where you are come back down,

And I won't tell em your name

As soon as the last note died away, Severus, as quietly as he could, left the astronomy tower, and headed back to the dungeons.

How true was that song to Potters life, to his own? Grown up orphans who never knew their names, scars that are souvenirs that you never lose? Did Potter really write that? Moving quickly to his private lab, he took down a pensive and put the memory of the last ten minutes into it. Although it didn'tt erase the memory completely, it wasn't as strong now. It was just something about Potter he didn't need to know. It was something about his own past he didn't need to remember.

He poured himself a strong drink, but the song didn't totally leave him. He could still hear Potters quiet voice, singing in the dark.

You grew up way too fast and now there's nothing to believe

And reruns all become our history

A tired song keeps playing on a tired radio

and I won't tell no one your name

I won't tell em' your name

I think about you all the time

But I don't need the same

It's lonely where you are come back down,

and I won't tell em your name

End