-1Disclaimer: I don't own Harry Potter.. At all. Sadly. AND apparently I don't own my room… my parents do! Haha

A/N: Thanks to my NEW beta Lukeandlorelailvr… MY BEST FRIEND! Sorry about this chapter being shorter but I felt the next one and this one should be separate. Hope you enjoy! Please review! Thanks.

The Sunday morning Hermione woke up in a particularly bad mood. She had too many thoughts in her head from if Susan Hurly would ever get a passing grade on her test to what Snape was going to say in the meeting with Jade.

The past couple of days had been hell. Hermione had graded so many papers that she thought if she graded one more she would explode! In addition, to her mundane life as a teacher she had gotten constant reminders of the consular meeting. Every morning she had received an owl from Albus telling her the time of the meeting (3:00), the day (Sunday), and why she should go ("I can't have my staff fighting… plus it should be quite amusing!") .

At 11:00 in the morning she ended up falling asleep while grading another paper. She didn't wake up until 2:30.

"Oh crap, I missed lunch!" she said as her stomach growled.

She left her corridors and went to the kitchen.

'Hopefully I won't be late for the meeting… then again maybe I should "get lost". No they would all realize I was gone… how could they not?'

In the kitchen, Dobby got Hermione a hot cup of green tea and a brownie. She finished her brownie in the kitchen. Actually she could care less for the tea but she didn't want to hurt Dobby's feelings so she took it.

She left towards the classroom where the meeting was being held. She passed several students on the way. Most were all headed outside or going into the library. One group of 5th year girls though stood out from the rest. They were walking right in front of Hermione. They all were from Slytherin but none were her students. One had short blonde hair and a pointy nose while another had long black hair and dark eyes.

They were all giggling and were walking slowly. Hermione tried to get in front of them but the wouldn't move.

"Shhh! Be quiet, Bethany!" said the black haired girl to the blonde haired one.

"Oh come on, Lexi! You had to of noticed how hot Daniel Murray is!" Bethany said a little to loudly.

"Oh my god, did you check out his feet size?" Lexi replied with a wicked grin.

'Whoa, aren't they a little young to think about ….that' Hermione thought.

"You know who has really big feet…." Bethany said.

"Who?"

"Professor Snape!" Bethany said as the girls turned the corner.

Hermione spit out the tea she was just drinking except not all was still in her mouth but down her throat. Hermione was now choking on her tea. She couldn't believe what she just heard! She was now on the ground coughing and hacking.

"Someone help! LOOK Professor Granger is choking!" shouted a 1st year boy.

"Out of my way !" a certain Professor shouted as he made his way through the crowd.

Hermione saw Snape out of the corner of her eye. She looked down to his feet and completely turned red and looked away.

"Here drink this, it will stop the coughing." instructed Snape as he gave her a small tube of a blue potion.

She took it and suddenly could breathe again, although she realized who was next to and suddenly wished she was choking again.

"Well then, I just saved your life…. Er don't I deserve a thank you!" Snape asked.

' Well you almost killed me technically but ok!' she almost said but realized it would inappropriate.

" Um… right, er, well thanks." she said her face scarlet red as she looked away from him to embarrassed. She looked down and saw his feet.

' Whoa they are really big- WAIT what am I thinking!' Hermione thought.

" Right we should probably get to the meeting." Hermione suggested.

" So what caused you to choke?" Snape asked.

" Um.. Nothing .. Um… feet that's all." she replied still looking away.

"You mean you tripped?"

"Uh kind of." she lied looking towards the ground staring at her feet.

" No that's not why you choked. I can tell your lying."

"How?" Hermione asked in a yeah-right tone.

"Well I am skilled at Legilmency," when he said this she turned even redder and felt her cheeks glowing red, "and you won't look me in the eye."

" What are you talki-" but she was cut off by him grabbing her so she was facing him.

They looked at each other while Hermione had a loss of words.

"What are you doing?" she asked.

"Seeing if you're lying. Why did you choke?"

"I told you, I just did!" she shouted but her eyes glanced away from his.

"You' re lying."

"Why do you care?"

He didn't have an answer. He let her go and they walked on towards the meeting location. As they were nearing the door he stopped and before he opened it he whispered in her ear in a teasing voice, "I do have big feet don't I?" and then turned on his heels and went inside leaving Hermione glowing red.