"You did WHAT??" Harry yelled, "The wanker almost killed you and you let him off."

"It was my decision Harry and that's that." She huffed

"I for one, agree with Potter on this." Snape added with a smirk

"Who asked you?" she yelled back, panting with anger.

"Hermione... Usually I agree with what you do but this... this is just stupid – what if he does it again?"

"He won't and if he does, He will be expelled."

Harry threw his hands in the air and walked away before he ended up expelled for killing her himself. He had been sitting at breakfast when Malfoy walked in and took his seat. He thought that Dumbledore just hadn't gotten around to expelling him yet and continued to eat his breakfast, smiling smugly as Draco winced when someone would touch him.

However, When Severus walked in holding Hermione, he could tell something was wrong. Snape still walked with an air of confidence but he was grumbling at Hermione the entire time without even looking at her.

He left his table and approached the head table...

"Professor Snape, Can I speak with Hermione for a few minutes."

"Take the stubborn, yet of forgiving little Gryffindor." He grumbled, pushing Hermione to the front of the table like a shaker of salt.

Harry held out his hand and allowed Hermione to crawl into his palm... She was really starting to wish she paid more attention to everyone's bathroom habits, god only knows who doesn't wash their hands.

Harry carried her into the hall, "Why is Malfoy still here?" He asked bluntly

She sighed, "I told Dumbledore not to expel him – I wanted him to finish his education."

And that's when Snape walked in, He could tell Harry was close to squeezing her.

"Well, well" Snape laughed as Harry walked away, "A lovers spat... how...quaint."

"It was not a lovers spat you big oaf. Harry and I are not together."

Severus chuckled again, muttering something about hormonal teenagers. He carried her back down to her house and left her their saying he needed to go to his lab to work on the potion to bring her back up to size.

Hermione waved him away and decided to take a little nap. It was Saturday after all, there were no classes – even though she wasn't allowed to attend, but none the less a nap sounded nice after the night she had.


Severus had been down in the lab for about an hour, analyzing the potion Potter had mucked up. When the accident happened, he quickly saved the potion for just this use... to find a cure.

He determined the potion had been brewed correctly until somewhere in the last two steps. He thought back on the last two ingredients and tried to figure out which would possible cause Hermione's shrinking.

The bat toes were more of a stabilizer then anything else. The potion had required three and if more or less were added, it shouldn't have caused this.

The last ingredient was crushed beetle leg. He thought about that one longer, but neither of those should have caused her condition... It had to be something else and he knew he was going to have to dissect the potion, little by little.

He gathered the ingredients and a lab rat to experiment on. He would brew the potion step by step, testing the rat each step of the way.

He managed to get through 4 of the 9 steps to brewing the potion with no success. He really didn't expect to find the cure today but he continued to work and look over his notes – the quicker she was of size, the quicker he could get back to life as normal.

The rat on the other hand was angry. He had been sitting there being force fed a nasty tasting substance over and over, giving him nothing but an upset stomach. He was tired of being grabbed, he was tired of having a dropper shoved in his mouth, and he was tired of humans, plain and simple.

Severus had just added the fifth ingredient, stirring 15 times clockwise and 3 times counter clock wise, when he reached over and grabbed the rat. The rat had enough of the treatment and did the one thing any rat would do in the situation... he bit him.

Severus jumped in surprise, not expecting a rat he had been handling to suddenly go postal. The rat gripped on the tender spot between the thumb and index finger with a death grip. In his surprise, He accidentally spilled the original potion that Potter had created and looked on in horror as it dripped over his hand and down to his arm.

Severus dropped the rat, not caring if the damned thing escaped and ran to the sink. He needed to get this potion off before it sunk into his skin.


Hermione woke up about two hours later and decided she needed a shower. She could still smell the burn ointment on her skin and while it wasn't entirely unpleasant, she wanted to be clean. She gathered up her things and pulled grabbed the port key for the bathroom.

She arrived a few seconds later and went straight for her little corner of the shower. She stripped down, pulled the curtain and turn on the water.

Her shower only lasted a few minutes, after all, she didn't have much to wash as of late. She dressed and grabbed the port key once again and landed back in her little bedroom. She placed her dirty clothes in a pile and her bathing stuff on the top of her little dresser.

"Did you enjoy your shower" A voice drawled from behind her.

Hermione spun around and noticed a 6-inch Severus Snape sitting in a small chair in the corner.

"Oh... my... god" and with that she burst out in a fit of laughter.

Severus didn't find any of this amusing in the least and her laughing only added to his anger, " I wouldn't laugh you little chit. I would not be in this... situation if not for you and your moronic friends and to say I'm unhappy is an understatement."

Hermione stopped laughing and looked over to the scowling Potions Master.

"I-I'm s-sorry" she sputtered, trying to keep a straight face. She was trying not to laugh but it wasn't working, "It's just... it's just" and that was all she got out before laughter took over once more.