AN: I'm so excited about writing, that I posted another chapter. Sorry that it's still really short.
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Hermione's parents were not particularly keen on welcoming Hermione home, considered she had blown up most of their house, and left without a sound. In fact, they were surprised that Hermione came back. They were hoping she had gone for good, but apparently, that was too good to be true.
A man, dressed in black robes was behind Hermione. This was what frightened the parents the most. What was he going to do to them?
Hermione and Snape came up to the doorstep.
"Aren't you going to knock?" Snape asked.
Hermione blushed. "Ithinkyoushoulddothefavours," She mumbled.
Snape knew that she wasn't willing to knock, and decided to knock. The door opened at once. It was Hermione's mum.
Before either of them could say anything, Hermione's mum bursted out, "Look, I don't think any of us are safe with you staying here, so why don't you go upstairs, pack, and leave us for good? This way, we won't have to cope with you being a wizard, and you won't have to cope with us hindering you or something all the time. Got that? Good. I'll give you 20 minutes, then please get the hell out of my house and don't come back."
Hermione looked speechless. Her mother… her own mum had just said that to her. She nodded, and ran upstairs to get her trunk, tears falling on the way. She hastily shoved everything she owned in the trunk. She was so busy concentrating on her own thoughts; she didn't notice Snape standing at the doorway.
When she did notice, she got quite a surprise, and tried to quickly wipe the tears away.
Snape had a sympathetic expression. He didn't want to see the Granger girl crying, and yet he had no idea how to console her.
"Miss Granger, please stop crying, it's not that much of a big deal," Snape said, half desperate to get her to stop, and half annoyed.
This had the opposite effect on Hermione; she bursted into more tears. In one last desperate attempt, Snape went over and hugged Hermione.
It was a very awkward moment, for Snape had little experience on how to hug, or how long to do it for. Hermione found this strangely comforting. Finally, Snape let go. Hermione had stopped crying.
There was a moment of silence, before Snape asked, "Are you done?" Hermione nodded.
They both trodded downstairs where they nodded goodbye to the Grangers and left. Hermione didn't dare look up at her parents, afraid she was going to go into tears again.
When they were out in the open again, Snape held Hermione's hand, and they disapparated to Dumbledore's office.