Disclaimer : I do not own Harry Potter, I have just borrowed the characters and shall put them back into JKR's toy box unharmed when I am finished :-)

A / N : I am writing this fic as a request for Brookielove44. Unfortunately my muse as run away so I am finding it hard to write anything at the moment, but as soon as the next chapter is done, it shall be posted. Same with my other fics that I am currently working on.

Brookielove44 I hope you enjoy this. And I hope everyone else reading enjoys it too.

Chapter One: Potions Class

It was November of Hermione's "seventh" year at Hogwarts and she was currently trying to concentrate on her potions work. Professor Snape had gotten them to make Poly Juice Potion from memory and Hermione was trying to draw upon her experience from her second year where she made it for her, Ron and Harry to use to get into the Slytherin Common Room. She thanked the Gods that Snape had yet to figure out it was she who had stolen from him that year. She got herself so lost within her thoughts that she didn't notice one of the Slytherins walk past and drop something into her cauldron. It took all of five minutes for Hermione to realise something was wrong, her potion had turned into a vile looking colour of green. She tried to go back and see what she had done wrong, but as she put in her stirring rod, the cauldron exploded. Hermione was thrown onto the floor and Snape's attention was caught. He spun on his heel and starred for a second before waving his wand and getting rid of the mess while stalking over the Hermione, who was still slumped on the floor.

"Stand up Miss Granger," he snares.

"Sir?"

"Stand up and tell me what happened."

Hermione did as she was told and hung her head. "I'm not sure Sir. I was thinking of the next step and when I checked on my potion it was a vile colour of green. All I did was put my stirring rod into it and it exploded."

Snape sighed inwardly before growling, "You will be spending the whole weekend with me as a detention."

"But Sir..."

"No 'buts' Miss Granger. It was your potion that exploded so it will you that will be punished as I didn't see anyone put anything into your cauldron other than yourself."

Hermione grumbles under her breath.

"What was that Miss Granger."

"Nothing Professor, just saying that you're unbelievable."

Snape's face turned red and a vein started to throb in his neck. "That's three weekends of detention with me Granger! Now get out!" He all but screamed at her and she turned on her heel and ran, tears streaming down her cheeks and her bag swinging around her from her shoulder where she had thrown it own as she passed her desk. Snape dismissed the rest of the class and went and sat in his private chambers. He slumped on the sofa in front of the blazing fire and put his head in his hands. He didn't want to make the girl cry, he didn't even wish to give her detention because he knew that she wouldn't lie to him about her school work, he also knew that she could make the potion with her eyes closed as he had been informed of her accident with the poly juice potion that he had tested and that was perfect. He sighed and shook his head. He couldn't believe that he had done that to her. The image of the tears falling down the beautiful young woman's cheeks was burned on the back of his eye lids and every time he shut his eyes it's what he saw.

Hermione ran straight to her room stationed next to Professor McGonagall's room, threw herself onto her bed and sobbed. She cursed the potions professor for hours before she calmed and pulled her sketch book out and started to drawn, letting her mind wander.

Once Snape had calmed himself down, he grabbed his seventh year essays and burried himself into his work, hoping to keep his mind busy for the rest of the evening.

To Be Continued ...