Hey there. This is my first fan fic. I was a late-comer to the series, but have been a Snape-lover ever since. Hope you like and please review. More to come. Thanks!
*All characters belong to J.K. Rowling. I'm not making any money off this.
Harry pulled his Invisibility Cloak tightly around him and held his breath.
"Did I just hear something?" he silently asked himself as his heart began to beat wildly.
"If he catches me here, there will be no one to keep me from being expelled, not even Dumbledore."
He slowly pulled out the Marauder's Map careful to not even make the slightest crinkle or rustling sound. Moving his eyes slowly, as if they too could make a sound rolling in his head, he breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the name "Severus Snape" was nowhere to be seen on the entire map.
He had been extremely unsettled since the last dinner of the school year at Hogwarts when Snape had looked at him in an unreadable way. It seemed silly, but he began to imagine and invent paranoid scenarios which disturbed him all summer long.
Prior to that dinner, Harry guessed that Snape had returned to Voldemort to act as a spy for Dumbledore. Harry felt that Snape would never be able to pass as a loyal follower again unless he was able to use something or someone from Hogwarts as a bargaining chip to gain acceptance back into the fold.
That someone was going to be Harry, or Dumbledore, or both. Despite what Hermione said, Harry didn't trust Snape was on their side, and he burned to know just why Dumbledore trusted him so much.
Harry crept slowly up to Snape's office door and whispered the password he'd overheard earlier that night. Hermione had discovered a brilliant Eavesdropping Spell which allowed sound from the enchanted spot to be thrown 50 meters away in a different location.
Hermione had placed the spell on an inconspicuous floorboard near the Potion Master's office door. They'd waited nearly a half-hour after Snape's last class in a quiet stairwell, before they heard Snape whisper, "Bugger Off."
Since it was the only thing they'd heard Snape say, they hoped that it was indeed the password, and not Snape angrily addressing one of his students.
The question was soon answered after Harry breathed the words. The door clicked, unlocked, and opened several centimeters. Harry took one more nervous glance at his map before slipping quietly inside.