O.k. so far Hermione is starting to get feelings and Snape is about to jump off a five story window, things could not be better for her.
Disclaimer: All characters belong to J.K.Rowling (wish I was as smart at writing as her)"Snape!"
They ran over to the tower just as their Potions Teacher jumped off.
"What do we do? Ron yelled.
Snape's cloak flew off as he fell towards the grounds like a wingless hippogriff.
"Harry do something!" cried Hermione
"Accio Firebolt!" he yelled. The broomstick flew out of the common room and quickly into his hand. He then kicked off immediately.
Swooping down in a nose dive was not a problem for Harry; it was the 'catching Snape' part that had him worried. He finally sped up underneath Snape and let him fall onto his broomstick with ease that even he didn't think was possible. Harry touched down lightly as Snape jumped off the broom and ran around brushing himself against Hermione making some sort of purring noise.
"Very good skills Mister Potter and I must say they come in handy" Harry turned around to see his headmaster clapping for him.
"But I'm afraid we'll have to talk about this problem" he motioned to Snape who was curled up between Ron and Hermione.
As soon as they had got inside and had put Snape into a muzzle and tied him to a post, Dumbledore invited them in to his office.
"I believe you have some explaining to do" he said with a hint of humour in his voice.
"Well you see Sir" started Harry,
"-I'm very sorry Sir" said Hermione cutting off Harry from finishing his sentence, "it is my entire fault and" Dumbledore silenced her, "now, now Miss Granger, it is right that you take the blame but that's no longer important." He smiled and looked down at Snape who was hungrily eyeing Fawkes, "first we must return Professor Snape here to teaching rather than chasing mice"
Harry turned to Ron, "Sir we have found the cure to the spell"
"Very good you three" he said, "I give you permission to use whatever you need to make the antidote" he looked at Hermione, "I trust this task with you Miss Granger".
"Yes Sir"
The cauldron bubbled as the final ingredients were added and it turned a bright green.
"Done" Hermione said happily.
"Thank Merlin this is going to be over soon". Ron sighed.
"Yeah" agreed Harry, "but because of what happened. Hermione just got detention for the rest of the year".
"Do you have to remind me?" Hermione said the annoyance.
"Look just hurry up and get this veil filled up so we can cure Snape and go back to the common room" Ron said.
After some ten minutes of feeding Snape the bottle of liquid and dragging him down to the hospital wing, Hermione collapsed onto her four-poster bed and fell asleep without bothering to get undressed.
The next day was spent mainly at Hogsmead drinking butterbeers and looking in shops. When it reached seven thirty, Hermione went down to the dungeons to serve her detention. She sat down on a desk and waited for Snape to come. 'Why must he always be late the sneak' she thought.
Snape entered in his usual manner wearing his black robes and looking at her as though she was a lump of dirt. Hermione however took one look at him and remembered the tuna incident and fell to the floor laughing. Snape was anything but amused.
"And what might I ask is so funny Miss Granger" he said in a deadly tone.
Hermione continued to laugh before answering, "I don't think you would like to know".
Snape became paler than usual, "I'm waiting"
Hermione looked up and straightened herself out, "Ever tried eating tuna with a knife and fork?" she said teasingly.
Snape stopped for a moment before pulling out a chair and sitting down while holding his head with his hands. Hermione didn't know how to react to this, did she just make him crack with so much humiliation that he has lost all dignity. She sighed and sat down beside him, "look" she started softly, "no one else but me knows about this because both Harry and Ron wanted the event out of their minds, they said it would scar them for life" Snape looked up at her and turned away, "Why are you still here? Haven't you had enough tormenting me?" he said like a child.
Hermione looked at him and cocked an eyebrow, "Excuse me? Who has tormented whom ever since the start of school? Who has called me names for getting an answer right? I've been through just as much as you have!" she had lost her tolerance for the bat. She stood up off her chair and turned around and was about to leave until something caught her wrist.
She looked around to have her eyes meet with the pleading ones of her teacher,
"I'm sorry" he whispered.
Her expression softened and she took his hand in hers, "I am too"
Snape came over and wrapped his arms around her and rested his head on hers.
"One question though" Snape started, he picked up the muzzle that they had used on him, "what is this?"
Is it done?
Oh of course, besides it's nice to leave the story there with them holding each other
Well that's it for me and 'Hypnosis, What is it good for?' Feel free to read any time. S.L