Why Don't You Love Me?
5/3/12
Chapter One
Hermione Granger was finishing her Charms homework when Harry and Ron burst into the common room, looking totally miffed. Surprised, Hermione spilled a bottle of ink all over her finished homework. Cursing under her breath, she waved her wand and cleaned it up, her homework parchment now black.
Shooting the boys a glare, she took out another roll of parchment and began to redo her homework. Just as she was about to write the first sentence, Harry shook her shoulder, making her spill yet another bottle of ink over her parchment. Face reddening with so much anger, she whirled around to Harry.
"What do you have against my Charms homework? What did it ever do to you?" she yelled at him, and his cheeks turned slightly pink.
"Nothing. Ron and I found something out, though, and we couldn't wait to tell you," Harry said, quickly looking around the common room to make sure the coast is clear. "Snape has a girlfriend."
Hermione gaped. Snape? A girlfriend? No way.
"Nu uh. That's impossible. What woman would go out with that. . . thing?" Hermione couldn't even think of a possible term to describe him, even with her astounding vocabulary. Ron shrugged.
"Apparently, McGonagall would."
Hermione almost gagged; Snape and McGonagall? Yuck!
Trying to get the image of Snape and McGonagall out of her head, Hermione returned to her two ruined pieces of parchment. She sighed, then took out another piece of parchment, intent on getting it done today, even though it wouldn't be due until next Wednesday (today was Thursday).
Starting to write, the scratching of a quill on parchment the only sound, Hermione ignored her two friends and began again on her homework. But only one thought stayed in her head.
Why would Snape do this to me?
Heart hurting, she proceeded to finish her Charms homework.
