A/N: well I thought about posting this separately, but I didn't think it would be good as just a single post. So I decided to post it with chapter 13- you guys are lucky and get a bonus.
Party preparations (14)
It was three weeks since Hermione had begun to delve into the memories of Snape, left behind by Dumbledore and she had finally finished them. Those three weeks had been an emotional rollercoaster of amazement, hate, pity, sympathy, compassion, sadness and a personal reconciliation to what was done was done. She also realized that what had been done, had been for the greater good, even though she did not like the fact it had been done. She had come to understand more about the man that she had called teacher for six years. Her heart went out to him and she began to see what more was beyond the biting and evil dungeon bat persona that he had continuously portrayed during her time as a student. He was a complex man, with many facets to his personality. She could see that there were more than the handful of emotions and faces of Snape than she had seen both personally and through the pensieves.
Now that she knew more, she knew she would never know the whole story, she found that her respect for the man was still intact and in fact, had grown even more. He had risked his life repeatedly for the greater good of the Wizarding World and so far he had little to no thanks for it. He had done as Dumbledore had told him, bound him to be actually with an Unbreakable Vow, in the first few years of their friendship; by fulfilling the vow made to Draco's mom. It seemed that from early on it had been Snape's density to kill Dumbledore, seemingly his only friend. He had walked a very thin line since the night that he had come to Dumbledore with his confessions and a plea to be dealt with in a fair manner. It seemed that in that first meaning he was both surprised and almost disappointed that Dumbledore had not turned him over to be thrown in prison, or at the very least killed for his indiscretions.
During this time she also had begun to experiment and develop her own personal line of hair care products for herself. She had mastered some of the more complicated techniques on her own with her wand to keep the unruly, but thankfully not as bushy, mess in check. She wanted to have a shampoo and conditioner that did most of the work for her. The muggle stuff she was using now was not only extremely expensive and a drain on her already stretched budget ,with Prince to keep buying feed for, but it only took the edge off of the frizz; and it was the strongest stuff on the market. She kept her research Potions, as well as the Potions she was making for Prince to one corner of the classroom.
She wanted very much to have her own space that her own research and other Potions could be separated from the rest of the ordinary and mundane Potions, as well as to keep her own work, just that, her own. Not that there was anybody who was going to just walk into the room, as she kept it as heavily Warded and locked when she was not there. McGonagall had asked her about this, but she had replied along the lines of never being too safe and it satisfied her enough; though she had dropped in a few times to make sure that everything was in order when Hermione had been there and the Wards down.
Hermione had even briefly thought about what the private lab of the Potions' Master might be like, or where it exactly was. She had her suspicions that it was beyond his private chambers. She had seriously toyed with the idea a few times, but each time she stopped herself. She knew what a private man Snape had been and how she would feel if someone broke into her rooms. She also knew what she had seen the last time that she had gone to Azkaban and the realizations that she had made on that visit. She had a suspicion that his rooms were not going to be left unoccupied for much longer, once his trial was complete.
A/N: yeah, not to much goes on, but I needed to deal with the time after Hermione looks through the pensieves and they are getting ready for the 1 year anniversary of Voldemorts defeat, which is very near at hand ( will get to that in a few chapters, got to tie up a few loose ends first). The shampoo also is something important later on, just wait you'll understand on my next post.
We get to visit Snape again in my next pair of chapters. And for all of you who beg for his moral to rise, don't worry, a few months to stew over what was said last time have helped.
I would like to have 6 reviews before I post again. That should give me a few days before I run to the library again and fight with their computers. Stupid things won't take my flash drive. Grr!