Dance with Me
Based loosely on the song by Jenna Greene
Disclaimer: Harry Potter and all its character's are JKR's and the song is Jenna Greene's.
Summary: On her 20th birthday Hermione encounters Severus Snape at t3bs. Not quite sure of the direction. Chapters will be short for now as my English teacher thinks I need to improve on not being long winded.
Hermione Granger, age twenty, had decided to celebrate her birthday in solitude at The Three Broomsticks, as she had celebrated with her friends the preceding Saturday and none of her colleagues took enough interest in her to do more than bid her a merry birthday at dinner. It was Tuesday, September Nineteenth, 1999 and she had thought that getting out of Hogwarts would do her some good.
For it was at Hogwarts where she worked, and Hogwarts where she lived; she had attended school at Hogwarts and would most likely die there as well. When Minerva McGonagall took over as Headmistress in Hermione's seventh year of schooling she had offered to allow her to take her NEWTs early and take on an apprenticeship with her, along with the position of Professor of Transfiguration and Head of Gryffindor.
Yet, as she surveyed the pub over her ale, she realized that now she had no home to call her own, and her friends had all drifted since the war. Most of her coworkers still thought of her as a student, although she had proved herself a capable young woman. Those that viewed her as an equal hardly thought of her as a peer. For that they had reason, of course, for she was over a century younger than some of them, but it was still emotionally difficult on her. She knew that she was a reasonably attractive young woman, yet she could not recall having felt this alone in over five years.
She banged her fist, ale in hand, down on the table as the door to the pub slammed shut. Some of the cool, golden liquid sloshed out of the mug, but she did not notice. Her attention was instead on the catalyst of the slamming door, one of her colleagues.
Please, review. This is the first fanfic I've ever been able to stick with to the point of posting it.