Thanks, TLGN. As I was reading fic, (I've been scouring through crack_van for the past week now) I came across hardly any Snape/Jame Potter fic. Maybe only one. And I started to wonder why. Because as I see it, there's something else that we don't know yet. Something awful that made Snape hate James and Sirius and Remus and Peter. And I got to thinking. What if they were friends first? What if they all really liked each other but then the Marauders dropped Snape? And what if Sirius and the others just went along with it, not because they knew what was really going on, but because they always went where James led? That kind of story makes the power of the hatred Snape feels for James more understandable and tragic.

I also got the almost story idea from your recs page. I thought, hmmmm...that's a good idea. :)