Entry for the „Unusual Ships Challenge" - Rolanda Hooch/Severus Snape

Re-read HP6 in english and just interpreted some slight ship-moment into it... diagnosis: unhealable XD

I hope you enjoy it, leave me your comment :)


Severus Snape could not remember how Slughorn had been able to convince him to accept his invitation to his Christmas Party, but he was sure that he had been hexed by the potions master. Generally being not the type of person who socialized a lot and attented parties, he was feeling like he was in the wrong place right now more than ever. Never would he voluntarily agreed to visit this crowded, hot, stuffed room... he could not recall himself saying „Yes" at all.

How he hated parties like this – everybody around him was in conversation, sipping on a drink occasionally and laughing... He felt like he was in the wrong place, like always when he was surrounded by people who enjoyed themselves and had fun with their friends...

It painfully reminded him of the fact that he himself had destroyed the only real friendship he had had and that there was nobody else left who cared about him.

His gaze wandered around Slughorns office again, mustering the people... and suddenly, it stopped, fixed to one person he never failed to recognise, even in huge gatherings.

Rolanda Hooch.

She stood near the bar, dressed in a beautiful emerald and silver gown, her blonde hair framing her face that was twisted into a amused smile while she talked to no one else than Gwenog Jones, the Captain of the Holyhead Harpies.

Severus assumed that they knew each other pretty good, since they had played together on said Quidditch team when Rolanda had still been a professional, but still it seemed odd to him to see her speaking to a celebrity as if they were old friends. He normally only saw her around a bunch of students when she was teaching her lessons outdoors or in the staff room, conversing with other staff members. It was pretty easy to forget that she was some kind of a celebrity too, at least for the deep-rooted Harpies fans.

And in this moment it was as if she had a slightly different air around her... She was still Rolanda, the woman who liked to bicker with him about profanities, who walked around in Muggle clothes because she found them more comfortable for flying, who did not bother to act like a lady but got her hands dirty and cursed like a sailor...

But she seemed even more special.

It was as if all the other persons in the room vanished from his sight even though they were standing only a step away from him. All he could see was this amazing woman, laughing about a joke Gwenog just made.

Maybe he should go over and say hello...

„Severus, old fellow, stop sulking and join us over here!"

Suddenly, Severus was grabbed by his elbow and pulled away, his eyes instantly loosing sight of Rolanda as he turned to look at Slughorn.

He was not exactly sulking, surely it could not have looked that way, he was just standing around randomly, watching a wonderful woman standing in some distance...

And thanks to Slughorn, he did not even get to say hello to her... damn old codger.