The smell of saltwater assaulted his nose and his hair began to whip across his face as they stopped spinning and Hermione released his hand. Opening his eyes he took in the ocean view before him. They seemed to be on top of a short cliff, as he could hear the crashing waves close below but they weren't on the beach. Turning his head, he saw nothing but a few low bushes and rolling green hills behind him.

"Hermione Granger's house may be found at Blacksea Cottage, Cornwall," Hermione whispered in his ear.

Within seconds, a two-story stone house appeared before him. The front of the house faced the ocean, and Severus couldn't help but wonder if Hermione had picked this home because it looked like something out of a Jane Austen novel. It was a boxy house, with large windows flanked by emerald green shutters, and a matching door. There were four large chimneys that sat at either end of the house, and he could just make out a set of French doors on one side that led to a garden. Without conscious thought, he started walking towards the garden, noticing some potion ingredients were growing.

"Would you like to take tea in the garden, Professor?" Hermione asked.

She couldn't help but smile as she watched Snape take in her potions garden. When she first moved into the house after Hogwarts, she had Neville come over and plant everything she would need to make her own potions. It wasn't visible from here, but she had a greenhouse in the back garden, as well as a potions lab that she had built in a basement below it.

Severus gave a small shake of his head. For a moment he had forgotten why he had come to Ms. Granger's home. He was here to get answers, not to inspect her plants. When he had become Headmaster last year, he had to give up brewing. There just wasn't enough time between running the school, trying to control the Carrow twins, and being at Voldemort's beck and call. His fingers were itching to make something, even if it was just a simple boil cure.

"In the house is fine," he said.

As she took a step towards her home, he noticed her hair suddenly stopped blowing in the breeze, but his was still whipping around. Walking towards her, he felt the tingle of her wards, and the wind ceased. Confused he turned to her.

"How did you get the wind to stop?" he asked.

Pausing she tried to figure out what he was asking. "Oh, I forgot about that," she said. "I modified some weather charms and added them to the wards on my property. I wanted to grow my own food and potion ingredients, but the weather wasn't conducive to everything I needed."

Pointing towards the far side of the house she continued. "That is my kitchen garden over there. I have sections that receive full sun and dry soil, and some that need wetter soil," she said, her words coming out faster. "Every plant bed has a charm around it for optimal growing conditions. I didn't want to use magic in the soil because, as you are well aware, it can have negative impacts when brewing. So Filius, Professor Filtwick, helped me put permanent weather charms around the boxes, but they don't touch the soil so everything I grow is untainted." She shrugged.

"The wind was bothersome when I wanted to eat outside," she said. "So I added that charm to the wards about a month after I moved in."

Severus watched as she explained everything like it was no big deal. He had spent time at the homes of Potion Masters around the world who didn't have anything close to what she had around her gardens. How was it possible that she was able to do all this during the middle of a war? He knew she had been living in a tent with Idiot One and Idiot Two. And when did she get on a first name basis with Flitwick? Wait, 'a month after I moved in…' how was that possible? Didn't the war just end? And she said she hadn't splinched anyone in seven years. She was only eleven seven years ago. How could she have Apparated?

"Enough about your damn garden. I want to know what is going on!" Severus snapped.

Blood rushed to her cheeks as he chastised her. "Of course, sir," she said. "Come in, and I will explain everything when Kingsley gets here."

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