Disclaimer: I am not J.K Rowling and am only borrowing her universe and characters to fulfil my own fantasy.
Prologue:
Four years after the final war, wizarding Britain has returned to it's former glory. The defeater of You-Know-Who, Harry Potter is now happily married and a successful Auror. His best friend and decorated war hero, Ronald Weasley is a worldwide celebrity after achieving great success as a commercial Quidditch star. The brains of the Golden Trio has happily pursued a career in teaching at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Unfortunately the highly publicised relationship between Mr. Weasley and Ms. Granger had not lasted and ended in a rather quiet break up.
Shocking the wizarding world was the survival of former Headmaster Severus Snape who had survived the final battle after receiving timely medical aide by the school matron Poppy Pomfrey. Madam Pomfrey had told the press shortly after the pardoning of former Headmaster Snape that she had been conflicted about saving her former colleague and was happy that she had stuck to her principles as a medical professional. Former Headmaster Severus Snape has returned to his former teaching post at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and was also awarded the Order of Merlin First Class for his contribution to war.
Headmistress Minerva McGonagall watches as her once favourite student berated her beloved colleague at the head table. Professor Granger of Arithmacy had been arguing with Professor Snape of Potions over the unfair treatment of students. Professor Snape had recently allowed a Slytherin student hex a fellow student in the halls with only a couple of house points taken from Slytherin however had sentenced a Gryffindor couple a weeks worth of detention for snogging in the halls. Professor Granger had politely asked Professor Snape to reduce the punishment or reschedule the detentions to allow the Gryffindor Keeper to attend trainings.
"Severus, it is hardly fair that you let your Slytherin off without detention for hexing a student and force our Keeper in detention for a week. You know that the game is next week and I know that you're doing this to get and upper hand at the next Quidditch match." Hermione had tried to reason with Severus.
"Forgive me Professor Granger that I can't leave such inappropriate displays of action within the walls of Hogwarts unpunished. Should I have not been there your beloved little cubs would have stripped themselves bare in front of an audience. Mr. Kurt on the other hand had only been playing with his fellow classmate causing a slight disruption in the halls. " Severus Snape retorted back.
"A slight disruption? From what I remember Mr. Lee was knocked out on the floor by the time you had reached the scene and stopped the duel. While I doubt that Mr. Tegan and Ms. Richards were as indecent as you describe them to be."
Severus remains silent as he begins to ignore his fellow colleague and shifts his attention to his copy of the Daily Prophet. He picks up his cup of coffee to take a sip.
"I don't care what you think Professor Snape, but I'm going to get my students out of your unfair detentions and assign the appropriate detentions to your beloved misbehaving snakes." Hermione resigned as she started to rise from her seat.
Severus puts down his cup and glares at Hermione, "Don't you dare, Granger."
Hermione feeling threatened raises her voice, "Don't you dare what, Professor? Oh believe me that I will do what I believe in."
Professor Snape also stands up to place himself above the younger witch, disregarding the stares towards the head table.
"Now Severus, Hermione, I think that is quite enough, the students are staring. Maybe you two need some time apart today." Minerva had been enjoying the interactions until now but unfortunately she's unable to let the fight continue knowing the students would be discussing the incident for the next month.
At that Hermione storms out of the great hall and Severus returns to his coffee as he seats himself back down again. He quickly glares at the students who return their attention to their breakfasts in fear of the professors wrath.
Throughout the day Severus and Hermione avoided each other, they chose to stay in either their classrooms or their rooms. Both reflected on their earlier argument and both came to the conclusion that they were not going to backdown or make a compromise. The day had nearly come to a close when both professors were approached by students to solve another mess in the school.
Severus was siting in his office grading some fifth year papers when he heard a knock at the door.
"Enter!" Severus yells at the door and a young first year student walks in.
"P...p...professor, Mr. Burke had sent me to tell you that Ms. Greengrass has been hurt. It seems that she got in the middle of a duel." The first year stuttered.
"Who started this fight? Where is it?" Severus quickly questioned his student.
"Mr. Kurk and Mr. Lee, sir. They were fighting in the Astronomy tower." The first year informed the Head of Slytherin who rushed out of his office.
At the same time Professor Granger was working on some of her research work when a fourth year student had walked in to her office.
"Professor Granger, it's about Mr. Tegan and Ms. Richards they are.. uhm..." The fourth year struggled to get her message across.
"What's wrong Ms. Jennings?" Hermione kindly prodded.
"They are engaging in sexual acts in the middle of the courtyard. The older students have managed to get the younger ones back inside but we couldn't get them to stop. It seems they are too distracted to notice their surrounding." Ms. Jennings explained as quickly as she could without getting red from embarrassment.
"Oh no, Ms. Jennings. Thank you for telling me, I'll head down to sort the problem. Help yourself to a piece of dental gum and head back to the Gryffindor tower if you want." Hermione said as she quickly exited her room and head down the staircases.
She was nearly at the courtyard when she bumped in to something hard. She felt compelled to grab hold of whatever she just bumped in to and found herself to be almost floating. She looked to see what she had just bumped in to and found herself facing the shocked face of Professor Snape.
Severus had been in a hurry to reach the Astronomy tower and tend to his students when he had bumped in to Hermione Granger. He had saw Professor Granger heading his way but had chosen not to dodge thinking Professor Granger would had moved aside seeing his state of hurry. Not only did she not move aside causing this collision but she was grabbing on to his finest pair of robes. Severus tried to get Hermione off of him in this gravity-less state, but some unknown force pulled his arms around the body of Hermione Granger.
The students watch their embracing professors fall gracefully on the stairs. They land softly and roll down the stairs together. When the professors reach the bottom of the stairs they miraculously find themselves still conscious and alive. They quickly let go of one another but once they let go they again feel the magical urge to hold on to one another. They both look at one another and extend their hands out to keep hold of the other but before their hands touch they fall unconscious.
The students gather around their fallen professors in shock.
A/N: I don't think the writing style for this story will be the same as the prologue, but I hope you enjoyed the prologue.
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