Ok. I messed up big time! I tried to correct my prologue by deleting it, thinking that I could just replace it with the new and improved version and was sadly mistaken. I hope that the corrections that I have made are helpful and that I can put the story back together correctly. I appreciate all of your follows, favorites and reviews and I would have deleted it and begun again if it weren't for those. So thank you again!

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Bound to You

Chapter 1

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Hermione screamed, Black leapt to his feet. Harry jumped as though he had received a huge electric shock.

"I Found this at the base if the Whomping Willow," said Snape throwing the cloak aside, careful to keep his wand pointing directly at Lupin's chest. "Very useful, Potter, I thank you…"

Snape was slightly breathless but his face was full of suppressed triumph. "You're wondering, perhaps, how I knew you were here?" he said, his eyes glittering. "I've just been in your office, Lupin. You forgot to take your potion tonight, so I took a gobletful along. And very lucky I did… lucky for me, I mean lying on your desk was a certain map. One glance at it and it told me all that I needed to know. I saw you running along this passageway and out of sight."

"Severus" Lupin began, but Snape overrode him.

"I've told the headmaster again and again that you've been helping your old friend Black into the castle, Lupin, and here's the proof. Not even I dreamed that you would have the nerve to use this old place as your hideout."

"Severus, you're making a mistake" said Lupin urgently "You haven't heard everything, I can explain, Sirius is not here to kill Harry."

"Two more for Azkaban tonight." Said Snape, his eyes now gleaming fanatically. "I shall be interested to see how Dumbledore takes this…He was quite convinced you were harmless, you know, Lupin, A tame werewolf"

"You fool," said Lupin softly. "Is a schoolboy grudge worth putting an innocent man back inside Azkaban?" \

Severus's dreams that night were frightening and disjointed. The return of Sirius Black, the bastard that made his childhood hell and just as well killed his best friend, coming up against a werewolf, one he had faced 20 years before and trying to protect that dunderhead Potter from both. They were the things that nightmares were made of, at least his were.

He just couldn't understand why he could not have just one year without drama, without danger. Why couldn't that child just sit still and stay safe and quiet for just one year. What happened to the uneventfulness of the previous 10 years before Potter showed up at Hogwarts? Yes the Weasley boys, especially the twins were always up for some kind of mischief, but with the exception of minor explosions and some creative hexes the previous years had been pretty quiet. He longed for the old days. Merlin what a Death Eater he was.

Was it too much to ask that Potter and those other two children just do what they were told? He could understand the dunderhead Potter and his sidekick Weasley getting into all sorts of mischief but he honestly thought that the know it all Ms. Granger had a bit more sense than to continue to hang around with the two of them year after year. Of course between both him and her, they were the ones keeping the idiot boys alive. "Just give me peace the next four years until they graduate." were his final thoughts as he drifted off to sleep.

Hermione's POV

Really could they not go one year without being in constant danger? Honestly, was it too much to expect to have a normal year at school? Just one? At least as normal a year one with magical abilities could have at a Scottish Boarding School for Witches and Wizards.

Hermione lay in the hospital wing quietly fuming, lying in the hard single bed with bleached sheets and wearing pajamas that were not her own. She didn't understand why she had to continue to stay the night even after being healed. The Headmaster and Matron were adamant that she spend the night in the wing along with Harry and a loudly snoring Ron. When they had tried to get her to take a dreamless sleep potion she refused.

To put off her nightmares and thoughts of this night were not an option for her, she had always believed that she should always push forward through difficult times and if she constantly put them off she would not have gotten through these last three years. Three years in which she was attacked by a plant, chased across a giant chess board, almost poisoned her best friend, turned into a cat (ok that was kind of her fault) petrified and now chased by a werewolf. She was fourteen years old and had faced death a bit too often to be healthy.

If only her parents' knew the kind of trouble she had gotten herself into she would be dragged home quicker than she could say Basilisk. That could not happen.

"I can't believe that we actually survived the werewolf twice." Hermione thought to herself. It wasn't her brightest moment calling to the wolf of Remus Lupin and then almost being attacked, but her only thoughts were of the terror of seeing his transformation first hand and being pushed behind Professor Snape along with her two best friends.

Poor Professor Lupin being attacked by Buckbeak, He really is having a terrible night. Poor Professor Snape being attacked by the werewolf, then ridiculed by Professor Dumbledore and the minister of magic over Sirius Black. Even knowing he was innocent and her part in saving him from the dementors, she still felt ill over the treatment of Professor Snape. Maybe next year will be less drama-filled and more academically beneficial and maybe Professor Snape won't feel the need to have to save Harry again. Hermione thought as she fell into a restless sleep.

I know that these are short chapters but I promise they will get longer as the story develops.