Chapter 7: In which things go horribly wrong
The next morning Hermione got up early, excitement making it nearly impossible to sleep. She skipped around the room, making as little noise as possible so as not to wake the other sleeping girls, grabbing her clothes, books and bag as she headed down to the kitchen.
She had promised the house elves she was going to stop leaving knitted clothes around the common room and in exchange had asked them to slip a very light sleeping draught in Snape's morning coffee, not enough to make him sleep or for him to notice the taste but enough to slow down his reflexes. So down she skipped to the kitchens to make sure everything was in order.
In the dungeons a very anti-morning person was just getting out of bed and trying very hard to fight the urge to get back into bed and let the dunderheads just kill each other. He groaned and still with his eyes half closed felt around the floor to find his slippers, accidentally banging his toe against the side of the bed. Mentally cursing the stupid thing he pulled himself across the room thanking Merlin the war was over and he at least could have a decent night sleep.
He pushed his hair back and didn't even bother brushing it, because seriously, would that make it any better?" Probably not" he thought to himself and unbuttoned his shirt because he had missed a hole and looked rather lopsided. Putting on his coat he walked, still have asleep, into his living room where the strong smell of his morning coffee was beckoning him. He sipped it gingerly, trying not to burn his tongue and looked around the room to see if he could find his missing boot. Once he had finished his drink he stood up and billowed his way to the Great Hall for breakfast.
Hermione, who had gone back to her common room to get the boys, was practically bouncing up and down as the three of them headed for breakfast.
Poking the bowl of porridge in front of her she raised her eyes to the High table just waiting for the right moment to cast her spell on the unsuspecting Potions Master. She was set and ready for the moment.
It was going to be epic, she thought, as she took a last glance down at the book where she found the spell. Now, this charm was rather nifty, it was supposed to make the wearer of the target dance to the music of " Witches style" (which had become very popular at Hogwarts after one of the Muggleborns had come back from holidays humming "Gangam style" and the other pupils had changed the words to be more fitting to the Wizarding World). She nearly slobbered just thinking about Snape making all the sexy moves. It was going to be fun and then hopefully they could leave all that had happened behind them and either ignore each other or become a couple (she sincerely hoped he wasn't going to Avada her).
Seeing her chance she started chanting under her breath the words to the complicated spell. As her wand started to emit a light orange glow Ron nudged Hermione with her elbow, "Oi, Mione pass me the milk" he said far too loudly in her ear making her loose concentration on what she was doing. Her wand spun out of control, glowing and sputtering strange lights. Luckily it was pointed at Snape under the table so the most anyone could see was her making strange faces.
Hermione held on to her wand for dear life. It suddenly stopped and she let out a very relieved sigh. She shouldn't have done that. Just as her shoulders were relaxing the wand vibrated and the spell was cast far too soon.
She was horrified. Eyes round she stared at Snape who wasn't doing anything other than glare at his plate of bacon and eggs.
"Well", she thought, "that wasn't that bad. It could have gone much worse. He's not dancing but at last I can try it again, obviously this time making sure that Ron, the big son of a Flobberworm, kept his hand and preferably his voice to himself."
She glanced up to the High Table, her friends never noticing anything, and scrunched her eyes up as she inspected Snape thoroughly. Not being able to see any noticeable side effects she decided to postpone her second attempt for lunch time. And this time she could ask Neville to make his Boggart in to a Snape dressed in women's clothes for the chorus.
Up at the High table Snape wasn't feeling very well, he felt drowsy and more annoyed than usual. At that instant he went totally stiff and turned his head to look at the most annoyingly beautiful student in the school that was looking at him with what seemed concern all over her face. When she looked down and sniggered he realized she was up to something.
Snape stood up abruptly and stomped elegantly (yes, there is such a thing as stomping elegantly if you are a Slytherin) down the hall to the Gryffindor table.
Just as he was nearing the resident school know-it all his body stopped working. In shock he stared aghast at Hermione, his arms started to tingle unpleasantly and in a great "Bang" he disappeared.
All heads turned to see what the noise had been, people ducked under the table or drew their wands. The older students crowded in front of the younger ones ready to fend off any attackers and the teachers sprang to their feet demanding order and silence.
At the Gryffindor table one very white and panicked young woman just sat and stared at the place where Severus Snape had just been standing.
"NONONONONONOONONO" she muttered under her breath, this could not be happening to her.
She looked up at Ron who had gallantly stood up in front of her to protect her (or the food, who knew?) and that was by now grinning like an idiot and screaming to everyone that would listen to him " The greasy git has gone! Let's celebrate" and prodded him with her fork. After all it had been partly his fault Snape had now gone missing.
At that instant Hermione started feeling strange, there were tingles all up and down her body, starting at her head her limbs were trembling violently. She couldn't control her own body and now she really was in a panic. The boys noticing something was wrong were shaking her. Suddenly the world went black and she fainted.
A few hours later Hermione was woken up by a familiar voice screaming in her ear "Miss Granger what have you done? What is the meaning of this? Fix it NOW!" the voice shouted increasing the volume.
"What in the name of Nimue had happened to her?" She groaned and flapped her hand at the person with the annoying voice. It was just making her headache worse.
"Just shut up for Merlin's sake" she shouted back.
Witch her eyes still closed she went over the events that had brought her to what she supposed was the Hospital Wing. As things started coming back to her she opened her eyes and exclaimed "Professor Snape".
No one was there. Well that was weird; she could have sworn he was shouting at her.
"Miss Granger, Miss Granger, Hermioneeeeeee" the voice continued screaming.
Hermione looked around the room still not seeing anyone. "Oh God, she had killed" him she thought in a panic. It was her ghost that was talking to her. Oh nononononoononon she had murdered him! She stood up absolutely horrified, searching the room frantically for the ghost of her former crush/ Potions Master of Hogwarts.
"Are you as stupid as your pathetic friends? Get it together, you have not killed me. I most definitely not a ghost"
That shut the screaming Hermione up."
If you aren't a ghost what on earth are you? I can't see you, are you invisible?" she said, her curiosity now awakened by the extraordinary events.
"Not invisible, I seem to be stuck in your head" said the voice of Severus Snape.
"You seem to be what?" she exclaimed catapulting from the bed expecting someone to come out and tell her it was all a joke or that she was hallucinating.
"I see you are as pea- brained as the rest of the members of the Golden Trio" sneered the voice. "Not a hallucination or a joke, unluckily" said the voice sighing "What have you done?"
Hermione clutched her head. She had a Potion's Master in her head, in her BRAIN. She had to fix that now!
"Yes you do have to fix it now" said Snape, "It's extremely unpleasant in here. Please try not to project your thoughts to me Miss Granger I most definitely not want to know the colour of Mister Weasley's underpants and incidentally the go another fifty points from Gryffindor for ticking me in here "
Just flipping great, not only was he in her head he also seemed to be able to hear all her thoughts, even the most private ones that he couldn't see when he was using Occlumency. She quickly grabbed the jersey someone had left next to her bed and tried to move her hand, which decided not to obey. Suddenly it jumped and grabbed a quill.
"It seems like I have a minimum use of your body Miss Granger" said Snape, the laugh evident in his voice even through the angry tone.
"Let my hand go now" she screamed silently in her head.
"I have to tell the Headmistress I will be absent for a while" he said as her hand summoned a parchment and a quill and proceeded to write a rather lengthy letter to the Headmistress.
She was livid, only Merlin knew what he would do with her body now he could get control of it.
She thanked the stars as Professor Snape voice made an act of presence in her head again "I only seem to be able to control your right arm Miss Granger, or may I call you Hermione? I apologise for my behaviour earlier this week, can we now concentrate on a way to get me out of here. I would very much like to have my body back"
Oh so now he was apologising, she supposed she was going to have to accept, after all it was her fault his was now in this situation.
Hoping to find a way to get him out (opinion that was loudly shared by Snape who was still very angry he couldn't walk around on his own and was calling her every name under the sun now she had accepted the apology and he didn't have to be nice for her to cooperate any more) or at least shut him up for a while she started walking towards the library.
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