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DISCLAIMER: "Come to me...my preciousss...." Greenleaf grabs Severus Severus:Very freaked out and disturbed.
Angry Hermione comes to the rescue. "EVANESCO!" Screams Hermione.
Greenleaf: "NNNNOOOOOOO,MY PRECIOUS SEVERUS!!!! I'LL BE BACK YOU FILTHY LITTLE THIEF OF A WITCH."
Severus grabs Hermione and they get with the smooching. So,you see I could never own these characters.
Greenleaf ;p
Hermione sighed deeply. After what had seemed like ages of reading book after book,she couldn't seem to find anything.
Hermione felt a chill on her neck, and her hair started to stand on end, as goose-bumps made their way up her arm and covered her neck.The same feeling she got in Potions class when Severus Snape would enter the room. "Severus Snape is ubiquitous, I swear he must cast a hair-raising spell before each class." Hermione mumbled, as she absently rubbed her arm to remove the chill.
So absorbed in her task, she never noticed the man cloaked in darkness, watching her from the shadows,nor did she see the grin she received from her comment.
Three hours later.........
'Might as well call it a night.' Hermione thought looking at her watch. It was past seven thirty, she had missed dinner,but she did not want to return to the Common Room in case Harry and Ron were playing chest or deal with anyone for that matter.She could go to the kitchen and asked the house elves for some nourishment.
Closing the book she had been reading Hermione uncrossed her legs so she could raise herself off the floor with her hands and legs. "Ouch!" Hermione gasped, her left leg had fallen asleep, it felt like someone had shot a bewitched sleep spell and jelly-legs jinx combined at her numb leg.
Hermione slowly put pressure on the leg, and felt her blood supply rejuvenating.
Book in one hand,she stood on her toes, as she stretched her long,lean arm to reach the top of a bookshelf,something glimmered.Hermione raised an eyebrow.'What would be glittering in the library?'Madam Pince was certainly not one for anything remotely sparkly.
Taking a step backwards,standing on her toes she tried to get a peek tilting her head back,nothing.'I have definitely been here too long,I'm hallucinating now.' Standing on her feet now, she turned,but something caught her eye.There,it was again,something seemed to be twinkling at the very top shelf.
She almost yelled, 'Accio book,' but thought better of it, since there where at least five million books in this library and she didn't feel like getting pelted in the head by that many books, much as she loved them.
Hermione raised her wand and mumbled, "Accio ladder." A very large, cherry-bark ladder came rattling towards her.She grabbed it and climbed towards the section where the twinkling book was.
When Hermione reached the top of the ladder,she encountered a lot of dust. "I guess nobody reads any of these," she mumbled. Her nose began to itch and she tried pinching it,to prevent herself from sneezing. "Ah....ah.....ah...CHU.." She released her iron-grip on the ladder to cover her mouth and nose, and nearly fell off the ladder.
"Wo..." Hermione tilted herself foward to balance the ladder.She then seized the sides of the old,wooden ladder.
She quickly reached out and grabbed the book that had caught her eye,and tucked it under her arm, and with her death-grip,climbed slowly down the ladder till she had both feet planted firmly on the ground.
Wiping her brow she half gasped, "Phew.Now, what do we have here?" Looking curiously down at the book. It was very old, its sturdy cover made out of some kind of brownish green leather.On the cover there was a crest with five symbols, on the left corner of the crest there was a dragon and on the right corner there was a hippocampus,on the top of the crest there was a phoenix,and on the bottom there was a centaur. Above all of these stood the unicorn.They were not really one color so to speak,but they seemed to interweave into each other,causing a prism of colors.
One color never stayed the same longer than a second.Hermione would catch glints and glimmers of gold,silver,ocean blue,emerald green,and other colors Hermione could not even begin to describe.
By each of these creatures there was an element, one of water,one of fire,one of air,one of earth,and one of spirit.
It's title glimmered in metallic gold and had a strange symbol that resembled a snail shell and read as so:
MERLIN'S BOOK OF
Magick and Enchantment Hermione grinned to herself, how very cliche.Normally, she would have just put this fantasy book back on the shelf and found another,but something about this book intrigued her.
Opening the ancient book, she gasped, seeing the old,yellowing pages held nothing.
"How odd." Hermione spoke outloud.
Hermione let out a little squeak as black lettering began spelling itself out on the yellow pages.
Here is my gift to you- a secret book of wondrous power and spells of enchantment. Here are the elements of earth,water,fire,air and spirit- and the magickal symbols of the circle,sword,wand,disc and cup,and the sacred guardans of the elements. Here are the secret formulae for calling the spirits,ensnaring your lover,attracting good fortune and predicting what will come to pass.Here are the secrets for becoming like the Ancient Ones....
Merlin Hermione stiffled a giggle.She wondered if Gilderoy Lockhart had been involved at all in making this book. 'No,he would have used his name and described himself after everything.'Hermione's mind concluded. "Ancient Ones? I'd say you are more ancient,book."
Hermione's giggle changed into a gasp of surprise as the inscription began to change.
You find this amusing,girl? I have been stuck up on that old,dusty shelf for nearly five centuries,completely ignored.
Hermione almost dropped the book, she was so shocked.Racking her mind, she remembered her second year, and Tom Riddle's diary.
Careful there,girl! I may not be as ancient as the Old Ones,but I am ancient, and I am not this 'Tom Riddle's diary. Me, belong to some mediocre muggle-wizard.Care to insult me anymore?
'Was the book irritated?It not only called Voldermort mediocre,but it read my mind? I must be losing it. 'Hermione,I think it is time to put the book down, and go to bed,hopefully in the morning you will have your sanity back.'
Oh,stop it you foolish chit! Do you really think,I,Merlin, would be communicating with you if you were insane? No,I think not. Yes,girl, I can read your mind. I only happen to be, what do you call them? Ah, yes,a spokes-person for the Ancient Ones.It seems you are The Chosen One, I must congraulate you.
There, now that is over. If you would be so kind, take this book with you so I do not have to remain in this, barbaric place. It only seems logical since you will be needing it.. Okay, that is out of the way.Yawn.Ah,to be alive again... this conversation has left me in a state of lassitude. Girl, if you would be so kind when you have the urge to read this, please turn to page 72. I give you my leave now, please don't ask me anymore questions, just read what I told you, and then the pages will automatically appear what you must read. Till next time girl, Merlin Severus Snape stood transfixed, as he observed Hermione Granger from a dark,shadowed corner.
He observed her diligence as she read book after book.He had no clue what she was looking for, but each book had something to do with spells. 'Why in the 'Restricted Section' Miss Granger?'
There must have been millions of other books on spells, but the ones here were to hard to for the young mind to be competent enough to absorb anything, and too dangerous.'Then again, Miss Granger is no longer young nor is her mind.I don't think it ever has been.'
He would never actually adulate her so openly or even tell her his feelings for her and how aesthetically pleasing to the eye she was. 'Chicken shit!!Approach her about being your apprentice.' His conscious screamed at him. 'Are you crazy?She is a student and under age for that matter!' He argued back.
"Ugh." Severus Snape barely muttered,completely disgusted with himself, feeling like screaming 'YOU LECHEROUS MAN!' ,but shut his mouth. Hermione Granger would hear him,hex him and then scream when she saw that he had been in shadows,watching her.
To his surprise, Hermione started rubbing her arms, as if she were cold and mumbled,"Severus Snape is ubiquitous, I swear he must cast a hair-raising spell before each class." Then returned to rubbing her arms for a moment, then stuck her face back into the book, lost for who knows how long.
This not only caused him to raise an eyebrow,but the faintest grin cracked across his face, just for a moment of course. This of course was replaced with a triumphant smirk. 'Miss Granger thinks about me,Severus Snape feared Potions Master, in dark libraries?' Not only did his ego rise,but so did his hope.