p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; text-align: left;"It started an early morning, beginning of September. It was the break of dawn, sparrows were chirping, ravens croaked and the Potion Master of Hogwarts was running. Not many knew that he ran most mornings since he was twenty. It became a way to manage his mind, to let out frustrations, to be for some minutes only himself - Severus Tobias Snape. As simply as that. Not the Potion Master, not the Greasy Git, not the Death Eater, not the failure he thought he was. His mind was racing as he made his was to the edge of the Dark Forest. As much as he disliked the idea, he needed an Apprentice. And not just a formal Potion Apprentice. He needed someone who could later become his replacement - in every area. On the other hand, it shouldn't draw too much attention to this fact. He looked deep into the forest, as if the answer would come, but all he saw was mist and the haze he felt inside./p
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p style="margin: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; text-align: left;"Hermione Granger, fifth year Griffyndor student was excited. Beyond excited actually. The news spread that there will be a new apprentice programme for all magical schools. Every teacher of every school could accept only one apprentice for the duration of his or her schooling. This also meant that exchanges could be made between the school, which she thought would help with house rivalries - as did the triwizard tournament. Her problem has twofold about this programme: one, the students who wished to apprentice could only choose one field. The prominent masters would gather in one of the schools and held an entry examination, and then they would choose their apprentice. Her other problem was that she couldn't find any other information of this kind of mass-apprenticeship programme in the library. By this point she was frenetic. /p