Alright, this story is starts during Hermione's sixth year, not sure where it will end. I made a small change and had Snape teach potions instead of Slughorn.
I don't own Harry Potter.
Professor Severus Snape was patrolling the corridors as usual when he heard somebody coming towards him. For some reason he decided to step back in the shadows to wait for the culprit to appear.
Sure enough it was a student out of bed roaming the halls in the middle of the night. He was going to give her detention and send her back to bed, when he saw the extraordinarily happy expression on her face. Granted it wasn't that unusual, she was a generally happy person, but this expression was different.
That wasn't the only thing peculiar; she was walking confidently down the corridor in the middle of the night, when most students would have been sneaking about, or running for it. In fact most students would not have come to this corridor at all, that's why he liked to patrol there the most.
She kept on walking while he watched and waited, thinking about the strangeness of the situation, and when he realized he should probably do something about her breaking school rules, she was gone.
The next morning in the great hall, Snape was still wondering what exactly happened last night? Why didn't he give her a detention? Why did this occurrence seem so strange?
While he was brooding about his actions the previous night, she walks in with Potter and Weasley. She looked tired, but she should be after gallivanting about the castle in the middle of the night.
Stop obsessing about this, it really doesn't matter.
He stared at his plate and tried to think about potions, Voldemort, or anything else while he finished his breakfast. Although he tried to deny it, he did glance, inconspicuously, in her direction a time or two.
Hermione woke up late, but hurried through her morning ritual, and managed to meet Harry and Ron in the common room before they left for breakfast.
Last night she chanced a walk about the castle, so she could think. She usually liked to walk alone and think about this or that when something was troubling her. She had a path all worked out in an area that not a lot of students visited, so she wouldn't run into anyone snogging.
She shouldn't have went without borrowing Harry's cloak like usual, but her walk was a last minute decision, so she figured she would just go for a short walk without it.
Hermione made it to her usual location without any trouble, but after walking for a while she came to this one corridor and she got a strange feeling. She kept walking, figuring that if it was trouble she really couldn't avoid it now. She never saw anything unusual, but had a distinct feeling that she was not alone.
She decided to play it cool, like she didn't notice anything, and kept walking, hoping that whatever it was that was also in the corridor didn't care or notice.
Once she got around the corner, she flew back to her room, but couldn't fall asleep for thinking about what happened.
At breakfast, she felt like someone was watching her, but didn't want to alert Harry and Ron, so she just ignored it, but glanced at the other tables looking for who it was and not finding them.
"Come on Harry, Ron, we'll be late for potions."
"Gee Hermione, we've got loads of time, see, Snape hasn't even left yet."
'Fine Ron, I'll just meet you there then."
Truth be told, she just wanted to get out of there, it just felt awkward the whole time.
I might as well just go to potions even though it doesn't start for another thirty minutes. I can review the chapter again before class starts.
Snape walked into the potions classroom and Hermione was already there.
"Ten points from Gryffindor for not preparing before class Ms. Granger."
She was going to say that she had already read the chapter five times, but realized when he sat down at his desk and looked at her daring her to say something, that there was that same awkwardness as at breakfast. Quickly searching for a reason for the awkwardness, she went through the past few days and came to a shocking conclusion. It was Professor Snape that she passed in the corridor last night. How had she escaped detention? Oh well she thought, clearly she was going to pay for it, the ten points were proof. Somehow she figured that it was not over, not in the slightest.
She went back to reading, and he started marking papers, and not soon enough, Harry, Ron, and Neville came in and sat down next to her.
Class went as usual, Hermione helped Neville with his potion, but somehow he still managed to melt his cauldron.
Please, Please review and tell me what you think about this, I haven't posted any writing before, and would appreciate any feedback.