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Hermione's head was still spinning at what Dumbledore said. How can she make Snape. . .I mean Severus. . .fall in love with her? He's hardly ever had any relationships in his life as far as she can tell. Then he wouldn't be such a fucking ass! Harry did tell her about his Pensive, and how everyone picked on him. It definitely would be hard to make him fall for her, but she would do anything to help out the "time-space thingy".
Hermione wasn't paying attention at all of her surroundings because of the thoughts in her head. BAM! She walked face first into the Great Hall's doors.
"Shit!" whispered Hermione, while rubbing her head.
"You know, you're supposed to open the doors and THEN walk through them. Unless of course you're a ghost," said a very familiar voice behind her.
"What?" Hermione spun around fast to be face to face with none other than Sirius Black.
"I said you need to open the doors. Unless you wanted a concussion."
"Oh. Well I had more important things on my mind at the time," replied Hermione meekly.
"You don't need to explain yourself to me. Have I seen you around? You're wearing the Gryffindor robes, and you look my age, but I don't remember ever seeing you," questioned Sirius.
"I just transferred from a smaller school. I'm in the 7th year," replied Hermione with a smile. Sirius sure was handsome when he was younger. Hermione shook the thoughts from her head. She was supposed to be thinking about Severus, not Sirius.
"So you don't know anyone then. Well my name is Sirius Black, and if we don't get into the Great Hall now, we'll miss breakfast," said Sirius in a know-it-all type fashion.
With that, Sirius and Hermione entered the Great Hall. Both sat down at the Gryffindor table, Hermione next to Lily, and Sirius next to James.
"Hello, Hermione. I was wondering when you'd make it. I see you've met Sirius," Lily said the last part in an undertone.
"Yes, he seems very nice," Hermione replied with a bright smile.
"He is, but you haven't met the rest of the "Marauders". They're a weird group, they are. This is Remus," she said, pointing to a thin boy with blondish hair. "This is James," said Lily as she pointed to a man with messed up black hair and glasses that looked a lot like Harry's. "And here we have the stupid pig who goes by the name of Peter," she said that loud enough so everyone could hear that remark. Hermione looked at a very angry chubby boy. She faked a smile.
"It's great to meet you," nodded Hermione with a still bigger smile.
All the boys looked at her and either bowed or winked. While Sirius and James got into a discussion about some Ravenclaw girl, Hermione looked around at the Slytherin table. She saw two large boys who must've been Crabbe and Goyle's dads, she also saw a thin blonde boy with a large nose. ~Must be Lucius Malfoy~ Hermione thought. Then she found her target: another thin boy with shoulder length black hair, and his nose in a book. A potions book at that. ~Yes, that must be Severus. He's actually pretty good looking. ~
"Hermione, we're going to be late for Potions! Come on!" squealed Lily as she grabbed Hermione's sleeve and dragged her out of the Great Hall.
Both of them walked and talked the whole way. They talked about the rather friendly Potion's Master, Professor Lockhart. (A/N: No, not Gilderoy, but his dad. I thought I'd put that in there for fun) Lily told Hermione he was very handsome, but was married and had a son. Gilderoy had graduated the year before. ~Damn~ Hermione thought. ~I'd like to see what he looks like now! ~
Finally they had found their way to the Dungeons. Ah, some things never change. Potions with the Slytherins. Good thing though, Hermione will get a closer look at Severus. Hermione took her first step into the 1973 version of the Potions Classroom. Different. Severus treated it bad, apparently. The room was completely clean, and brightly lit. The tables looked newer, and the Professor's desk didn't look so messed up with papers and books. Everything was organized. ~I think I'm going to like this teacher. ~ Hermione thought with a smile.
Hermione, Lily, James, Remus, Sirius, and Peter took their seats in the back. Hermione asked this out loud, since the teacher didn't seem all that bad. Lily said the boys like to mess around, and it's always fun to watch it up close. Hermione and Lily giggled.
"Settle down, class! Today we will be pairing up for a potions project. I will be choosing the pairs, and yes, they will be pairings of Slytherin/Gryffindor." The class moaned one large simultaneous moan. "Now, now, it will be fun I assure you. Now when I call your name, please come up to the front so you will be assigned your potions. Then everyone will proceed to the library to research," announced Professor Lockhart.
Lockhart began calling out names from both houses ("Evans and Malfoy"). Hermione looked at Lily with a large amount of sympathy. She knew Lucius was worse than Draco; a lot worse. Finally, Lockhart got to Hermione.
"Granger and. . .Snape," said Lockhart. ~Great.~ Thought Hermione. ~It'll be easier to be friends with him. ~ But by the looks Sirius was giving her, it will still be a challenge. Hermione and Severus made their way up to the front of the class. They both locked eyes for a moment. Hermione stared hard into those dark eyes. Usually she could read what people were thinking by looking at their eyes, but Severus had no emotion. Hermione got to the front of the class faster, and Lockhart handed her the potion's name, and the ingredients they would have to use. Hermione looked at the paper and smiled; love potion. She turned her head to Severus, but he was already making his way to the door. She hurried to keep up.
"We're making a love potion. This one is a fairly simple one, so we won't have to do that much research. Only 2 feet of parchment!" said Hermione with enthusiasm showing in her voice.
Severus looked at her and raised an eyebrow. "Were you planning on using that potion for something? Or someone?" asked Severus with amusement clear in his tone.
"Well, no! I'm just saying it will be an easy task," replied Hermione, her face turning a deep crimson. "Things would get interesting though, if we managed to spill some. . ." added Hermione in an undertone.
"What was that?" questioned Severus, referring to her undertone.
"Oh, nothing," but Hermione had a viscous smile on her face. She was going to have fun with this project.
Severus saw that smile on her face and really looked at her. ~ She's really pretty. It would be a "shame" if some of that potion spilled while we were finishing it. I'm really going to have fun with this project, ~ he thought to himself. Severus immediately erased those thoughts from his head. He shouldn't be thinking those things about a girl he's just met. She hasn't even been going to this school for longer than 24 hours! He couldn't help but smile at himself. She seems like one of the smarter students.
**TEN HOURS LATER**
"OK," said an exasperated Hermione. "I think we have all the info we need. We just missed all our classes today from staying here studying, we'll be in so much trouble tomorrow, but I still think we need more information even though we have 2 feet of parchment already, it wouldn't hurt to go that extra mile. . ."
"Hermione, shut up. We have enough information. We don't need your big giant brain anymore," replied an annoyed Severus. "Besides, no one will mind we've been working on a project all day. No one usually does."
"Well, Snape, if you don't need me anymore, I'll just go to bed. I think you can handle all this on your own," puffed Hermione as she got up from the table and rushed out of the library.
"I told you, call me Severus. It's not like you have to call me by my last name, GRANGER," whispered Severus to himself. He was getting very annoyed with her.
Hermione stomped up to the dorms, but before she could make it, she ran right into Sirius.
"Where are you headed, almighty bookworm," said Sirius with a smile.
"Up to the dorms, and I'm not a bookworm!" replied Hermione with a blush.
"Well according to the 5 shades of red on your face, I'd say you WERE a bookworm; but don't worry. I won't tell anyone," whispered Sirius into her ear. He then stood up tall and winked. Hermione blushed a deeper red. With that, Hermione walked past him. "Hey, wait! Sorry if I said anything I shouldn't have, but I was wondering if you wanted to go somewhere with me," said Sirius while pulling her back.
"Like where?" asked Hermione with a confused look.
"Just follow me," whispered Sirius as he threw a cloak over them. "This is an invisibility cloak. I borrowed it from James."
Sirius then led Hermione down the many corridors and stairs until they got to the grounds.
"Sirius, what are we doing? We aren't supposed to be out on the grounds at night!" scolded Hermione.
"Lighten up will you? Just follow me," Sirius then began running across the grounds near the Whomping Willow. Hermione tried to run fast, but she couldn't keep up with his pace, so he turned around and grabbed her hand, and led her to the foot of the tree. "Stay here OK? This tree isn't exactly that friendly." Sirius picked up a long stick and tapped a knot at the base of the trunk, and the tree stood very still. "OK, come on." Sirius grabbed her hand again, and led her to a tunnel that ran underground. He went in first and then helped her down. Hermione knew exactly where they were going; The Shrieking Shack.
Hermione and Sirius walked through the small, dimly lit tunnel for what seemed like forever. Finally they made it to a semi dusty old house with boards on the windows. Not nearly as messy as it was when Hermione saw it last.
"Hermione, this is the Shrieking Shack. A secret place for James, Remus, Peter, and I. Do you want to know why it's so secret?" asked Sirius, his eyes bright with mischief.
"Um. . .sure," replied Hermione, even though she knew exactly what the place was for.
"I've never told many this, but Remus is a werewolf. He got bitten a while back, and this place was built for him to change into the werewolf on the full moons. If you don't believe me, I can prove it to you. See, after a while, Remus got lonely of being here every month alone. So therefore, James, Peter, and I became Animagi. Do you know what an Animagus is?" Hermione nodded. "OK. Well, we are unregistered, of course, so you can't tell anyone. I can become a dog, Peter is a rat, and James is a stag. Any questions?" asked Sirius.
"Yes, actually I do. Why did you bring me here?" questioned Hermione. "I mean, all of this stuff seems so secret, and very dangerous if someone found out; and you've hardly known me."
"Well, I've taking a liking to you. James has always gotten the girl, and by girl I mean Lily. I've never had one, and I felt a connection between us, I guess you could say. Well, that, and everyone in our group knows about this except you, and I assume you'll be staying at Hogwarts," replied Sirius, a hopeful look in his bright blue eyes.
"Yeah, I will," said Hermione with a sigh. She shouldn't be doing this. She doesn't even know how long she'd be there.
"Hermione?" asked Sirius. Hermione turned to look at him, and he leaned down slowly and kissed her softly. She was shocked at what he did. She wasn't expecting that. It felt right to kiss him, but she should be kissing Severus, not Sirius. Dumbledore would've told her who she should be kissing. He DID tell her. Hermione quickly pulled away.
"I'm really sorry, but I can't be doing this. It's just too complicated," with that, she ran out of the Shrieking Shack and found her way back inside the school. Without James' cloak, it would be very easy to get caught. She ran to the 1st place she could think of: Dumbledore's office. She had to speak to him.
Hermione's head was still spinning at what Dumbledore said. How can she make Snape. . .I mean Severus. . .fall in love with her? He's hardly ever had any relationships in his life as far as she can tell. Then he wouldn't be such a fucking ass! Harry did tell her about his Pensive, and how everyone picked on him. It definitely would be hard to make him fall for her, but she would do anything to help out the "time-space thingy".
Hermione wasn't paying attention at all of her surroundings because of the thoughts in her head. BAM! She walked face first into the Great Hall's doors.
"Shit!" whispered Hermione, while rubbing her head.
"You know, you're supposed to open the doors and THEN walk through them. Unless of course you're a ghost," said a very familiar voice behind her.
"What?" Hermione spun around fast to be face to face with none other than Sirius Black.
"I said you need to open the doors. Unless you wanted a concussion."
"Oh. Well I had more important things on my mind at the time," replied Hermione meekly.
"You don't need to explain yourself to me. Have I seen you around? You're wearing the Gryffindor robes, and you look my age, but I don't remember ever seeing you," questioned Sirius.
"I just transferred from a smaller school. I'm in the 7th year," replied Hermione with a smile. Sirius sure was handsome when he was younger. Hermione shook the thoughts from her head. She was supposed to be thinking about Severus, not Sirius.
"So you don't know anyone then. Well my name is Sirius Black, and if we don't get into the Great Hall now, we'll miss breakfast," said Sirius in a know-it-all type fashion.
With that, Sirius and Hermione entered the Great Hall. Both sat down at the Gryffindor table, Hermione next to Lily, and Sirius next to James.
"Hello, Hermione. I was wondering when you'd make it. I see you've met Sirius," Lily said the last part in an undertone.
"Yes, he seems very nice," Hermione replied with a bright smile.
"He is, but you haven't met the rest of the "Marauders". They're a weird group, they are. This is Remus," she said, pointing to a thin boy with blondish hair. "This is James," said Lily as she pointed to a man with messed up black hair and glasses that looked a lot like Harry's. "And here we have the stupid pig who goes by the name of Peter," she said that loud enough so everyone could hear that remark. Hermione looked at a very angry chubby boy. She faked a smile.
"It's great to meet you," nodded Hermione with a still bigger smile.
All the boys looked at her and either bowed or winked. While Sirius and James got into a discussion about some Ravenclaw girl, Hermione looked around at the Slytherin table. She saw two large boys who must've been Crabbe and Goyle's dads, she also saw a thin blonde boy with a large nose. ~Must be Lucius Malfoy~ Hermione thought. Then she found her target: another thin boy with shoulder length black hair, and his nose in a book. A potions book at that. ~Yes, that must be Severus. He's actually pretty good looking. ~
"Hermione, we're going to be late for Potions! Come on!" squealed Lily as she grabbed Hermione's sleeve and dragged her out of the Great Hall.
Both of them walked and talked the whole way. They talked about the rather friendly Potion's Master, Professor Lockhart. (A/N: No, not Gilderoy, but his dad. I thought I'd put that in there for fun) Lily told Hermione he was very handsome, but was married and had a son. Gilderoy had graduated the year before. ~Damn~ Hermione thought. ~I'd like to see what he looks like now! ~
Finally they had found their way to the Dungeons. Ah, some things never change. Potions with the Slytherins. Good thing though, Hermione will get a closer look at Severus. Hermione took her first step into the 1973 version of the Potions Classroom. Different. Severus treated it bad, apparently. The room was completely clean, and brightly lit. The tables looked newer, and the Professor's desk didn't look so messed up with papers and books. Everything was organized. ~I think I'm going to like this teacher. ~ Hermione thought with a smile.
Hermione, Lily, James, Remus, Sirius, and Peter took their seats in the back. Hermione asked this out loud, since the teacher didn't seem all that bad. Lily said the boys like to mess around, and it's always fun to watch it up close. Hermione and Lily giggled.
"Settle down, class! Today we will be pairing up for a potions project. I will be choosing the pairs, and yes, they will be pairings of Slytherin/Gryffindor." The class moaned one large simultaneous moan. "Now, now, it will be fun I assure you. Now when I call your name, please come up to the front so you will be assigned your potions. Then everyone will proceed to the library to research," announced Professor Lockhart.
Lockhart began calling out names from both houses ("Evans and Malfoy"). Hermione looked at Lily with a large amount of sympathy. She knew Lucius was worse than Draco; a lot worse. Finally, Lockhart got to Hermione.
"Granger and. . .Snape," said Lockhart. ~Great.~ Thought Hermione. ~It'll be easier to be friends with him. ~ But by the looks Sirius was giving her, it will still be a challenge. Hermione and Severus made their way up to the front of the class. They both locked eyes for a moment. Hermione stared hard into those dark eyes. Usually she could read what people were thinking by looking at their eyes, but Severus had no emotion. Hermione got to the front of the class faster, and Lockhart handed her the potion's name, and the ingredients they would have to use. Hermione looked at the paper and smiled; love potion. She turned her head to Severus, but he was already making his way to the door. She hurried to keep up.
"We're making a love potion. This one is a fairly simple one, so we won't have to do that much research. Only 2 feet of parchment!" said Hermione with enthusiasm showing in her voice.
Severus looked at her and raised an eyebrow. "Were you planning on using that potion for something? Or someone?" asked Severus with amusement clear in his tone.
"Well, no! I'm just saying it will be an easy task," replied Hermione, her face turning a deep crimson. "Things would get interesting though, if we managed to spill some. . ." added Hermione in an undertone.
"What was that?" questioned Severus, referring to her undertone.
"Oh, nothing," but Hermione had a viscous smile on her face. She was going to have fun with this project.
Severus saw that smile on her face and really looked at her. ~ She's really pretty. It would be a "shame" if some of that potion spilled while we were finishing it. I'm really going to have fun with this project, ~ he thought to himself. Severus immediately erased those thoughts from his head. He shouldn't be thinking those things about a girl he's just met. She hasn't even been going to this school for longer than 24 hours! He couldn't help but smile at himself. She seems like one of the smarter students.
**TEN HOURS LATER**
"OK," said an exasperated Hermione. "I think we have all the info we need. We just missed all our classes today from staying here studying, we'll be in so much trouble tomorrow, but I still think we need more information even though we have 2 feet of parchment already, it wouldn't hurt to go that extra mile. . ."
"Hermione, shut up. We have enough information. We don't need your big giant brain anymore," replied an annoyed Severus. "Besides, no one will mind we've been working on a project all day. No one usually does."
"Well, Snape, if you don't need me anymore, I'll just go to bed. I think you can handle all this on your own," puffed Hermione as she got up from the table and rushed out of the library.
"I told you, call me Severus. It's not like you have to call me by my last name, GRANGER," whispered Severus to himself. He was getting very annoyed with her.
Hermione stomped up to the dorms, but before she could make it, she ran right into Sirius.
"Where are you headed, almighty bookworm," said Sirius with a smile.
"Up to the dorms, and I'm not a bookworm!" replied Hermione with a blush.
"Well according to the 5 shades of red on your face, I'd say you WERE a bookworm; but don't worry. I won't tell anyone," whispered Sirius into her ear. He then stood up tall and winked. Hermione blushed a deeper red. With that, Hermione walked past him. "Hey, wait! Sorry if I said anything I shouldn't have, but I was wondering if you wanted to go somewhere with me," said Sirius while pulling her back.
"Like where?" asked Hermione with a confused look.
"Just follow me," whispered Sirius as he threw a cloak over them. "This is an invisibility cloak. I borrowed it from James."
Sirius then led Hermione down the many corridors and stairs until they got to the grounds.
"Sirius, what are we doing? We aren't supposed to be out on the grounds at night!" scolded Hermione.
"Lighten up will you? Just follow me," Sirius then began running across the grounds near the Whomping Willow. Hermione tried to run fast, but she couldn't keep up with his pace, so he turned around and grabbed her hand, and led her to the foot of the tree. "Stay here OK? This tree isn't exactly that friendly." Sirius picked up a long stick and tapped a knot at the base of the trunk, and the tree stood very still. "OK, come on." Sirius grabbed her hand again, and led her to a tunnel that ran underground. He went in first and then helped her down. Hermione knew exactly where they were going; The Shrieking Shack.
Hermione and Sirius walked through the small, dimly lit tunnel for what seemed like forever. Finally they made it to a semi dusty old house with boards on the windows. Not nearly as messy as it was when Hermione saw it last.
"Hermione, this is the Shrieking Shack. A secret place for James, Remus, Peter, and I. Do you want to know why it's so secret?" asked Sirius, his eyes bright with mischief.
"Um. . .sure," replied Hermione, even though she knew exactly what the place was for.
"I've never told many this, but Remus is a werewolf. He got bitten a while back, and this place was built for him to change into the werewolf on the full moons. If you don't believe me, I can prove it to you. See, after a while, Remus got lonely of being here every month alone. So therefore, James, Peter, and I became Animagi. Do you know what an Animagus is?" Hermione nodded. "OK. Well, we are unregistered, of course, so you can't tell anyone. I can become a dog, Peter is a rat, and James is a stag. Any questions?" asked Sirius.
"Yes, actually I do. Why did you bring me here?" questioned Hermione. "I mean, all of this stuff seems so secret, and very dangerous if someone found out; and you've hardly known me."
"Well, I've taking a liking to you. James has always gotten the girl, and by girl I mean Lily. I've never had one, and I felt a connection between us, I guess you could say. Well, that, and everyone in our group knows about this except you, and I assume you'll be staying at Hogwarts," replied Sirius, a hopeful look in his bright blue eyes.
"Yeah, I will," said Hermione with a sigh. She shouldn't be doing this. She doesn't even know how long she'd be there.
"Hermione?" asked Sirius. Hermione turned to look at him, and he leaned down slowly and kissed her softly. She was shocked at what he did. She wasn't expecting that. It felt right to kiss him, but she should be kissing Severus, not Sirius. Dumbledore would've told her who she should be kissing. He DID tell her. Hermione quickly pulled away.
"I'm really sorry, but I can't be doing this. It's just too complicated," with that, she ran out of the Shrieking Shack and found her way back inside the school. Without James' cloak, it would be very easy to get caught. She ran to the 1st place she could think of: Dumbledore's office. She had to speak to him.