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Chapter 10: Yule Ball
It was as friends that Viktor and Hermione attended the Yule Ball together. Hermione was a little tired of the continual gossiping that was occurring about how someone like her could not possibly get a partner for the Ball, and she actually enjoyed the shocked looks when she came down the stairs to meet Viktor. That will teach you, Ron Weasley, to think her as the last stopgap!
"So, Viktor, are you ready to meet my crazy family tomorrow when the school breaks up?" Hermione asked.
"Yes, I have to see where you get your fire from. My parents are most grateful that your parents invited them to stay at this house party. They have never been to a muggle house party for Christmas. They do not get on well with my Headmaster and this gives me a chance to see them without too much tension," he replied to his recently acquired female best friend.
"Don't thank me, thank Dumbledore. I think he is trying to match us up. I know I am so not your type. Tonks is bringing a couple of friends to stay at the holiday house and I think one of them is someone you would be interested in. I have met him before at his family events and he is very nice, not at all like his little brother, Ron," she commented.
"Thank Circe! But what about you? Harry? Cedric?" he suggested.
"No way! Harry has his eye on Ron's sister, except he won't admit that. For me, he is just another brother. Cedric, that is a no. He plays for your team. In denial but definitely likes very fit young men," she smirked.
"So do you like very fit women, like Tonks?" he teased.
"No, while Tonks is bisexual, I'm not. I prefer the male form but unfortunately for me, I also prefer substance over form. Form is good but I need intelligence as well, as they have to be able to challenge me," she advised her training friend.
So, Miss Granger, you knew he was gay and you are using him as your handbag date, thought Severus Snape from his hidey-hole position between two sets of French doors on the ballroom balcony overlooking the rose gardens. It was an interesting side that he was observing from the Know-It-All student who plagued his classroom.
"Vik, when there is a tango later on, let's put the cat amongst the pigeons by doing a particularly spicy one. Not many of these boys here would be able to cope with it. Most of them fluff the formal dances," she suggested to him with a glint of mischief in her whisky coloured eyes and much laughter in her tone.
"I'll do it if you remember to tuck your skirt up to one side and flash those legs of yours. Rita Skeeter will think I'm sleeping with you in no time at all with the gossip from this school," advised the young Seeker, getting into the spirit of the moment with the vibrant young lass.
They must be a good set of pins, thought Severus. I'll have to make sure that I have a look when they tango. Looking isn't touching and I certainly don't want to touch any of my students. But fresh material to assist his imagination was always helpful, especially as between his two Masters there was no possible way for him to be able to have a personal relationship, let alone find a wife, as his mother constantly nagged him about.
About twenty minutes later Professor Snape was in his private rooms dealing with the consequences of observing the Know-It-All and her idea of a spicy tango. She had certainly given the heterosexual male population of the upper grades a Christmas present and a half with her steamy tango. Circe! He had not been that ramrod hard in years; thank goodness for the fullness of robes. Those school robes had certainly hidden what a stunner the young muggle born was from most of the population and she knew how to drape herself expressively, indicating the meaning of the dance.
The Gryffindor minx had certainly given him some future inspiration for his imagination the next time he wanted to wank. Viktor Krum, for all he was gay, most certainly knew a fair pair of legs on a woman and the paps would all think he was straight after that steamy mating display dance. After ejaculating explosively once, his phallus was still half erect. It was then that Severus Snape had to admit to himself that Hermione Granger was not a girl but a very attractive woman.