Title: Crush
Summary: Hermione Granger has a crush on the most unlikely person
Disclaimer: I own nothing.
Pairing: Severus Snape/Hermione Granger
Author's Notes: A challenge set down for me by searchin4romeo. Write a student/teacher fic.
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Hermione Granger was one of the smartest students at Hogwarts. She knew it, and so did the majority of the other students. Which was why she was so surprised to realise that she didn't love Ron at all.
It had been coming on for a while, she supposed. This feeling of being incomplete when she was with him. Perhaps it was just that, no matter how hard he tried, he could never match her in intelligence. She was smarter than him, there was just nothing else that could be said, no ifs or buts. It was the truth and that was all there was to it.
But who she did love, oh, that had been the biggest shock of all. Snape. Severus Snape, the Potions Master. Sexy, smart, snarky Severus Snape, who had challenged her intelligence since day one, who was a match for her wits, and then some, and who made her think hard about life and everything it entailed.
And just her luck, the epiphany came in the middle of Potions. She blew up her cauldron, something which still made her blush in mortification.
"But Hermione, how can you like him?" Ginny Weasley had asked when she told her. "I mean, he's our teacher. Teachers are mindless drones who only exist when we need them then disappear into a puff of smoke with a really cool 'whoomph' sound."
Hermione had giggled at that, knowing that Ginny was ok with her crushing on Professor Snape if she could joke about it. "You don't mind, then?" She asked anxiously.
"Hermione, I don't care who you crush on so long as you leave Harry Potter to me." Ginny said. "I just want to see you happy. Besides, now I can smirk knowingly at Snape. It'll drive him bonkers."
And so, giggling, the two girls had made up a plan. Severus Snape was going to fall in love with Hermione Granger, if it was the last thing they did.
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