That was until he met the two eldest sons. Of course he didn’t say anything, but Hermione met his eye from across the room with a nod, they’d need to look into them. Ron sat next to him, "scabbers’ (the 2nd, unknown by the Weasleys) in his pocket, scarfing the food into his mouth as if it was going out of style, they had made up shortly after they went to Snape, Ron took sick glee as Hermione cried, saying how sorry she was, that they had been in the wrong. Harry had expressed how Ron was like a brother to him. Severus watched the whole thing from Harry’s mind and smirked at their act, giving pointers here and there. The Professor wouldn’t admit it out loud but the two Gryffindors had grown on him, Hermione's smarts made her all the better actor, having studied body language before Hogwarts, Harry was cunning in the strangest of ways.