As if she read his thoughts, she raised a hand to his cheek, "Your life is very special, and if anyone has ever seen the real you and not the snarling mask you put up everyday, they would see it too. That is why I chose you, Severus. You were a man, sentenced to death at a very early age by joining my brother, and then Dumbledore. I would never ask you to do anything I would not do myself, or do anything to you that I myself would not take."