Chapter 7
A Meeting With Snape
***Hermione***
After I regained my composer I looked over towards Padma, Parvati, and Lavender. They all had a haughty expression on their faces.
"Immature." Padma smirked and walked off closely followed by her twin. Lavender gave me a small smile before following the twins. I looked back at Harry, his laughter had finally subsided and he was talking to Terry who was chuckling at what ever Harry was saying. Lisa was also listening with a comical grin on her cave. She turned to me and said,
"You walked out on Trelawney?"
I gave her a small smile and a shrug. "It wasn't a big deal."
"OH, come off it Mione. It was almost as big as a deal as when you hit Malfoy." Harry said, his green eyes had a mischievous twinkle in them.
"You hit Malfoy?" Terry said in awe.
"Well, yes I did." I said blushing a bit. "But just to stop Harry and Ron before the three of them got into a fight."
"Right Mione, like you expect us to believe that." Harry said, rolling his eyes.
The rest of the train ride was uneventful. We pulled into Hogsmeade just as the sun had started to set painting the sky a myriad of colors, red to violet. We stepped off the train and into a carriage. Once we reached the front hall we heard Snape calling for prefects so Terry and I bid Harry and Lisa adieu before going over to Snape.
"Mr. Boot, Miss Granger. Hello. We're waiting for Miss. Parkinson, and Mr. Macmillian." Snape said sounding unusually cheerful. Terry and I exchanged a confused look.
"Professor Snape?" I asked. "Is something wrong?"
"No, Miss. Granger, nothing is wrong." He spat at me, disgust written on his face. Suddenly his face softened. "Miss. Granger, I'm sorry. I merely forgot. But Miss. Granger," Snape's voice had gotten compassionate. "I just wanted to say I'm very sorry about Mr. Weasley. It's all my fault. I tried to stop it, but I didn't try hard enough, evidentally. So, I'm very sorry for you and Mr. Potter's loss." He squeezed my shoulder and turned to find Pansy running up the steps. Ernie was a meter or two behind her.
"So, Mr. Macmillian, you've finally decided to join us?" Snape said, his usual sneer back in his voice, as Ernie arrived a split second after Pansy. I felt someone staring at me; I turned to find Terry giving me a queer look.
"What?" I mouthed to him.
"Later." He whispered.
"Mr. Boot. Would you pay attention? I'm going over a rather important subject." Snape snarled at him.
Terry shot me another confused look. I just shrugged and turned my attention to Snape.
"Now, because of certain circumstances, all prefects, head boy and girl, and the faculty must know all passwords. Hufflepuff's is Brocktree, Ravenclaw's is Turtledove, Gryffindor's is Unicorn hair, and Slytherin's is Dragon Blood. These will change about once a week. Now, the four of you are to meet me after you lead the first years to their dorms. You are dismissed." Snape finished his little spiel and we started to walk away.
"Miss. Granger." He called me back
"Yes sit?" I asked trying to keep my voice from shaking.
He smiled at me. "Miss. Granger, you are by far the best student I've ever had. And so I'm placing you in my advanced Potions class." I gaped at him. There had never been a Gryffindor in that class while Snape was the potions master.
"There is something else Miss. Granger." Snape continued. "Mr. Potter is to come along with the prefects."
I opened my mouth to ask 'why' but before I could ask he shrugged and said plainly, "Dumbledore's orders." I nodded and headed back to the feast. As I walked past the Ravenclaw table I whispered to Terry, "I'll tell you what that was about later." He nodded and Lisa waved at me, I waved back and slipped into the seat next to Harry.
"Snape said that you're to come with the prefects later to meet him, I asked why, but he didn't know, it was just Dumbledore's orders." I whispered to him as the hat started to sing.
"Great, just how I wanted to start the school year. A meeting with Snape." Harry groaned. I smiled at him. "You know, he wasn't that bad before. He was complimenting me. And guess what. I'm in his advanced Potions class!"
"What?" Harry sputtered.
I just smiled at him again then turned to watch the sorting.
***Harry***
'There Mione goes, ignoring me. What kind of friend is she? Honestly.' I thought grumpily to myself.
"Finnigan, Brianna!" Professor McGonagall called.
A little girl with shoulder length straight sandy blond hair made her way to the sorting hat. She sat down on the stool timidly before placing the hat carefully on her head. She sat there for a few minutes. Tears began to well up in her eyes.
"HUFFLEPUFF!" The hat called out.
"NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOO!" Brianna shrieked and threw the hat down on the ground. Next to me Seamus groaned.
"I wanna be with Seamy!" Brianna cried out and ran towards us.
"Bri, no, you're a Hufflepuff!" Seamus called out to his, apparently, little sister. But she didn't' heed his words. She just lunged at him causing him to crash into me. I fell over into Mione who collapsed into Neville. Neville crashed into Dead, who just missed falling into Dennis Creevy. The rest of the Gryffindors crowded around us to see if everyone was okay.
"Hey 'Seamy' watch out! The Cheese's gonna kill you!" a rude voice called out over the racket.
"Malfoy" I muttered hearing Seamus, Dean, and Mione say the same thing at the same time as me. We were pulled to our feet as Dumbledore came over to us,
"Seamus, Brianna, please step outside with me." He said with an amused voice.
The rest of the sorting went on with little commotion, as did the feast. Finally it was time for the prefects to take the 1st years to the dorms. I looked up at the head table and saw Snape, he saw me gave me a small nod. I rose from my seat and walked over to Mione. She was ignoring me again, but this time she was trying to get the 1st years to listen to her. Terry came over to Mione and started to talk to her.
"Hey Hermione, why did Snape keep you back?"
"Well, it has to do with why he was being nice to me." She answered
"Oh no! Does he have a crush on you?" Terry exclaimed in mock terror.
I gaped at him. That was way to disturbing to even think about, and besides Mione's mine. 'Or is she?' 'Arg! That darn conscience on mine. GO AWAY!!'
Mione just laughed it off. "So what if he did. I'm just about taken with someone else." She winked at me and turned towards the 1st years. "Ok, I need to show you were the dorm is, follow me. For those of you who are ignoring me good luck finding the hidden entrance, and if you do manage to find it just try and guess the password. Off we go!" Mione said cheerfully giving up on trying to quiet the 1st year boys who were gathered in the back of the group talking excitedly about me, quidditch, and me among a few other things. "Terry!" Mione called over to Terry. "I'll tell you about it later."
Terry groaned in response to Mione then turned to me. "Harry, where ya goin?"
"With Mione," I answered unenthused.
He laughed and called, "See ya Harry!"
"Yeah, see ya Terry!"
Terry waved and led the Ravenclaw 1st years away.
Mione was giving the 1st years a tour of the castle, much more than Percy had done for us. Finally she reached the Fat Lady. "First years!" Mione called, "The password is Unicorn hair, until I tell you otherwise." The fat lady swung open after beaming at the new Gryffindors.
Once all the 1st years entered the common room Mione started to talk to them about stuff concerning Hogwarts. I grew bored and walked up to my dorm room.
"And I must tell you this now, girls are not allowed in the boy's dorms and the boys are not allowed in the girls dorms, got that?"
I chucked hearing Mione say that. She should really take her own advice. I opened the door to my dorm and looked around, only 4 beds. 'Someone must've taken Ron's bed out.' I thought as I slipped onto my bed. 'I really need to clear my head of Ron' I decided as I pulled a big photo album out from my trunk. I opened to the first page. My mum and dad holding me in front of a little cottage. I sighed as I flipped through similar pictures. Finally I came across my favorite one. Sirius standing there holding me. He looked like the happiest man alive, just holding me, his godson. As I turned the page a picture fell onto the comforter. It had a note written on the back, it read –
~Harry~
Have a great term! And send my regards to Remus.
~Sirius~
P.S. I just found this picture, I hope you like it!
I smiled as I flipped over the picture. It was of the Marauders in their final year at Hogwarts. Dad had a billowing robe on with the headboy badge on it; Sirius was standing next to him with a cheesy grin on his face. Remus was on Dad's other side and Peter was off to the side with a timid and uncertain grin. His watery eyes looked sad as he gazed at his best friends. Was he a death eater then? Did he know what he had to do to my dad? Is that why he looks so sad? I took the photo and placed it on the night table next to my bed and laid down pondering these questions about Wormtail. Slowly my thoughts drifted to imagining what life would have been like if Voldemort had never been to Godric's Hollow on that fateful Halloween night.
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"Harry…Harry…HARRY!!!!!" I was rudely shaken awake. I opened my eyes and everything was blurred. "Here," the person handed me something. The voice sounded familiar, but I was too tired to think of who it was. I took whatever the person had handed me, my glasses, and I put them on. Hermione slid into view before me. 'How could I not recognize her voice?' I mentally kicked myself.
"Mione, you're not sposed tan be in here." I groaned groggily.
"Harry, we have to meet with Snape." She said.
'Oh crap! Snape, I completely forgot!' I thought panicking.
I jumped out of my bed and followed Mione into the common room. We opened the portrait to step out and were confronted by none other than Snape and the other prefects.
"Miss. Granger, show them around the Gryffindor Common Room. I need to talk to Mr. Potter." Snape said pulling me away from the door and a little further down the hall.
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A.N. This is the last chapter that I'm posting for about a week. I'm going to try to post a new chapter every week. But it might not work cause my teachers are loading us up with homework, and I have a huge history project due soon. And then on top of that my violin and piano. So, I'll try to update as much as a possibly can on a regular basis.