Noonlight by Twisted Silver
Chapter One
Snape walked down the corridor on the Hogwarts Express as a fierce storm raged outside. He had passed few students as he prowled the train, but this needed to be done. Dumbledore had set him the task as chaperoning the students on the Hogwarts express to the school. He had said that it needed to be accompanied by a teacher now that the Dark Lord is even greater and more terrible than ever before, even though he was still in hiding.
Severus heard laughter coming from the next carriage, so he sped up his pace. Suddenly, out from the carriage next to him came one of the older students. She had espresso coloured busy hair and she was laughing, almost crouched on the floor. He knew who it was straight away. Those coffee brown eyes could belong to no one else. It was Hermione Granger.
As the collided into each other, the ginger mass of fur in her arms which was Crookshanks leaped lightly away from Snape and ran across the corridor. As Hermione looked after her pet, Snape looked down.
'Silly, stupid, girl,' he thought, 'What carelessness!' He was about to tell her off, when she looked up.
"Oh… Sorry Professor! I- I didn't see you!" She stammered.
Snape just looked down at her, unable to utter a word.
"I- I'll just go then…" She mumbled, and she started after the ball of ginger fur.
Severus just stood there, in a trance, going through – in his mind – what had just happened. 'WHAT!' He thought to himself. He couldn't even dish put a punishment for the stupid girl! 'What's wrong with me? I must be going soft!'
'Or…' Another voice started in his head. 'Maybe, maybe it's something else. Something different.'
He stopped in his barely started steps. No, it couldn't be something different. There was nothing different that it could be!
'Apart from…' The voice had started another unfinished sentence in his head, but this time it was ignored, and Severus Snape continued on his rounds.
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