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My body was still humming from Severus' latest round of neanderthal behaviour, of course I wouldn't have him any other way, he was positively beastly and the sexual submissive in me was on cloud nine. To think I now had to deal with him rooting around my mind for this occulmency training, I had to find some semblance of focus! Using the time spent having a cup of tea and relaxing while Severus finished his essay marking I started to meditate, using the techniques I used to clear my mind before going to bed. I used to have trouble sleeping as a child, my brain always going a million miles an hour so after consulting with a doctor and a child psychologist my parents decided to take me to a meditation studio in the hopes of it making a difference. Thankfully it did, utilising the techniques every night before bed meant I got a restful sleep and helped me assimilate all the information I had acquired during the day, improving my memory and focus.

Feeling a lot more calmer the time soon came for Severus to rouse me to start his lesson, 'Now Hermione, I know your a competitive little know it all, when I ask you to clear your mind of all distractions and then enter your mind know that first timers never actually succeed at this okay?'

'Did you tell Harry that when you had your first lesson with him?', I already knew the answer but I wanted to hear Severus' reasoning behind his badgering of Harry.

'No, I just wanted to take the arrogant prat down a couple of pegs'.

Sighing I hoped that one day Severus and Harry would be able to put aside old grudges and find some common ground, preparing myself for the probing powers of the legilimancy I found my centre.

'Legilimens' I heard him whisper, a tickling feeling behind my eyes was all I felt upon his entrance into my mind, calming breathes saw that I continued to enjoy my centred mind.

'You lied to me Hermione.'

'Lied to you? About what exactly?'.

'You said you had no training in occulmency and yet when I entered your mind it was clear and focused, I saw no memories or feelings there at all. Explain yourself girl'.

'Severus I didn't lie, I meditated before our lesson, its a muggle technique for relaxation. It helps with my sleep'.

'Meditation? How long have you been using meditation to clear your mind?'.

'Since I was 10 or so, I had chronic insomnia as a child, my parents were recommended meditation as a way to help their 'Genius child' cope with her runaway mind'.

'Extraordinary, it took me months to master what you have, months and a lot of headaches and cursing'.

'So now what?

'Now we train your mind to be able to find your centre at a moments notice, if you were captured by the dark lord you would not have the luxury of time to meditate to achieve this. And then we will focus on blocking intrusions from your mind altogether and if you master that quickly I will show you how to manipulate your thoughts and memories, to hide some, to pick and choose what you wish to to be seen'.

Smiling deliriously to myself at impressing the usually thoroughly unimpressed potions master I assented to his plan.

'Sounds good sir, lets get started'.