Authors note: This is my first Harry Potter-fic' and I choosed to write about our dear Miss Granger and our dreaded Potions Master.why? 'cause it's a very forbidden relationship so of course I have to explore it.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Harry Potter characters (FUCK!) they all belong to J K Rowling...yadda yadda yadda...

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When a Man Loves a Woman:

Chapter I : It All Begins

"Class dismissed" Professor Flitwick shouted with his calm grandfather tone. All the students walked out of Flitwick's classroom.

"Are you sure?" Ginny asked Hermione. The thought that Harry now had feelings for her made her so excited.

"Absolutely" Hermione responded calmly as she gathered all the books she needed after lunch in the Great Hall "I mean, just the way he looks at you tells me everything, how come you don't see anything?"

"I am cursed with this thing that when I look at him and he looks back at me my entire face turns red, so I haven't got a chance to look at him in the eyes, but when I do he's not looking at me."

"Poor thing, well I know it and not only because of the way he looks at you, every time when I or Ron mentions your name his head always popps up from the ground."

As they walked to the Great Hall they heard a smacking sound in the corner next to the bathrooms.

"Ron and Parvati!" Hermione hissed.

Ron and Parvati were standing in the corner and feverishly made out with each other. Ron looked at Hermione, his lips all swollen.

"What? We didn't do anything"

Hermione raised an eyebrow.

"Ok, ok, we just had the urge to do it."

"How can you have the urge to make out with someone just like that?"

"Oh, Hermione, you'll find out as soon as you get a boyfriend." Parvati smiled.

"Get a room next time, will you" Ginny spoke with a bit of a disgusted look in her eyes.

Harry came out from the boys bathroom.

"What's all the noise here?" he asked but he only needed to look at Ron's and Parvati's red faces and swollen lips to understand.

"I see" he said then his eyes fell on Ginny "Hi Ginny" he smiled.

Ginny turned her face to the floor and murmured a "Hi" loud enough for Harry to hear.

"So are we going to the Three Broomsticks tonight?" Harry suggested.

"Sure" they all answered at the same time without noticing the tall dark figure that was walking up to them.

Professor Snape was heading to the Great Hall but stopped as he saw the five Gryffindors chatting. With a look on Ron's and Parvati's flushed faces he growled so that Ron and Parvati almost got cold from the draught.

"MR WEASLEY AND MISS PATIL! TEN POINTS FROM GRYFFINDOR FOR YOUR RUDE BEHAVIOUR IN THE HALL!" His voice was so loud, but at the same time so silky (according to Hermione) so all the people in the great hall probably heard him. "And another five points from Gryffindor for your late arrival for dinner."

All five of them opened their mouths to protest.

"Do I need to remove another five points?" he hissed at them.

"No, sir" they all said together.

"Good, then get into the Great Hall"

They started to move forward, but Hermione stopped in front of Snape.

"Professor, why do you have to remove points for such a petty detail?"

Severus leaned forward so close to her face that his forehead was almost touching hers.

"It's none of your business how and why I remove points as I do" he spoke with a silky drawl "Now get in the Great Hall before Gryffindor don't have any points at all."

And with that she left.

As she turned her back to him he realised that he had been holding his breath and now exhaled.

He rushed to the boys bathroom with his robes billowing behind him. God, only talking to her made himself get dizzy. Severus had been infatuated with Hermione for almost a year now. Having teached her in six years now her beauty had grown along with her intelligence, and to his eyes, heart and mind she was irresistible. He remembered the day before she was going to start at Hogwarts when he had been looking in the Erised Mirror and her image had reflected the glass. Of course he didn't knew who she was but the next day when she had been sorted to Gryffindor his eyes had almost popped out from their holes when he first saw her.

He hadn't understood why that little 'Know-it-all'- figure was the object for his heart greatest desire when she had irritated him already during their first lesson. But the fire that had burned in his heart the first day of her sixth year when she had entered the doors to the Great Hall had never died, feelings that he thought he'd never be capable of feeling had blossomed up inside of him. That day a girl hadn't entered the Great Hall, but a woman. And now he was lost to her in the heat of love. Oh yes, he was in love for the very first time.

Having only made love to whores in his life he was going to win her heart, he knew if she didn't become his before her time at Hogwarts was over he was going to kill himself.

One thing that he was well aware of was that he was not the only one who had feelings for her. But she would belong to him even if he had to kill for it.

Taking a deep breath he stepped out from the boys bathroom and headed to the Great HllHHHjgfjkgfjk Hall.

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I'd like to run away from you,

But if I were to leave you

I would die.

I'd like to break the chains you've put around me,

And yet I'll never try.

No matter what you do, you drive me crazy,

I'd rather be alone,

But then I know my life would be so empty

As soon as you are gone.

Impossible to live with you,

But I could never live without you

For whatever you do

I never, never, never want to be in love with anyone but you.

You make me sad, you make me strong.

You make me mad, you make me long for you.

You make me live, you make me die.

You make me laugh, you make me cry for you.

I hate you, then I love you

Then I love you, then I hate you

Then I love you more.

For whatever you do

I never, never, never want to be in love with anyone but you.

You treat me wrong, you treat me right.

You let me be, you make me fight with you.

You make me high, you bring me down,

You set me free, you hold me bound to you.

I hate you, then I love you

Then I love you, then I hate you

Then I love you more.

For whatever you do

I never, never, never want to be in love with anyone but you.

Celine Dion - "I Hate You Then I Love You"