A dinner party gone wrong. A group of Light and Dark members gather for a celebratory dinner, which is cut short when one of them turns up dead. How did this happen? Who did this? Are they dining with a murderer? Well...yes, but would the Dark really be so eager to break the peace treaty? Would anyone? Pre-slash!

Professor Severus Snape is not a pleasant man. He is not Hermione Granger's favourite person in Hogwarts, or even in the world. Because of her compassion, she gave him hope to be happy and survive the war. She just gave him two reasons to live and that's enough to let go of his dreadful past and the woman he loved for the past two decades. Post GoF; AU; Time-Turner fic.