Hermione sat up in her room remembering all the fun times she had the local roller skating rink with her mom and dad. They took her almost every weekend. Her dad would sit at one of the tables and read his paper while she and her mom skated as hard as they could. They would try to do tricks likes cross-overs and Hermione even got up the nerve to try a tour-jete one day, which resulted in her first and last broken bone. However she didn't stop, of course by the time she was skating the idea of competition skate-dancing was a thing of the past.





Of course Dumbledore knew the secret, he couldn't pass up a chance to ask Snape if he had skated lately, while twinkling away and sucking on a lemon drop. The rest of the staff that should have known had somehow "magically" forgotten about Snapes little past time. Magically of course be the obliviate memory hex. The students who were present at his time of insanity as he liked to call it found that page 285 of their annuals had been conveniently forgotten. Considering that was the only proof anyone had he had lulled himself into believing he was safe. Of course there were others who knew about his moment of weakness.



Severus had just landed a double toure and was getting ready to go into a difficult aerial move when he saw staring at him from the crowd Lucious Malfoy and his wife Narcissa. In his moment of confusion he landed to far forward and the magnificent career of the Black Knight was over as Snape took his love of roller disco and hid it away in the depths of Hogwarts. Of course he used the obliviate on Lucious and Narcissa, he wouldn't be able to take the ridicule from them, knowing that they would have a child that would one day be in his class. Oh how he had wished that their child would be a squib, but no such luck. He was graced with the presence of the Malfoy boy every day. He had even prayed he would be in a different house. His mother had been Hufflepuff after all. Of course there are those who still think Draco should have been in Hufflepuff.



Hermione had owled her mom and asked for anything else she might have with the Black Knight on it. Two days later in the middle of breakfast she received a package. It wasn't huge but it was larger than average. She decided to take a quick peak while she was at the table. She opened it to find buttons, and autographed Donna Summers 8-track, and other various objects, she wasn't sure but she thought there was a lock of hair. She began laughing and was unable to control it. The thought that her mom had, at one time, a crush on her evil git of a potions master was enough to make anyone laugh. As she glanced up at the head table she saw a pair of black eyes staring her down and found that it made her laugh harder. Soon the entire great hall was watching Hermione and wanted to know what was in the box that she found so funny. Ron had his hand touching the box slowly pulling it away when Snape all but sprinted to Hermione's side, deftly collected the box and pulled her out of the great hall mentioning something about airborne potions and dangerous to the student body.

Once out in the hall Professor Snape opened the box and found a plethora of mementoes from his past. He was tempted to be nostalgic for a moment when reality struck in the form of a doubled over hyperventilating student. He grabbed Hermione and shook her. She caught her breath, looked into his face and promptly began laughing again. He had decided that the only alternative was to obliviate but as he raised his wand an all to familiar voice stopped him.

"Don't you dare obliviate someone else Severus Snape!"

'Damn that old man! Always foils my plans.' He lowered his wand and Hermione, realizing the trouble she was almost in finally stopped laughing, and began apologizing profusely.

"Professor Snape I did not mean any disrespect, I wasn't laughing at you, or what you did. It was more the Idea of my mom running around after a roller disco dancer and to top it off it ends up being one of my teachers! You have to admit it has some humor to it." Dumbledore was twinkling all over the place now.

"You mean to tell me that Professor Snape had Roller Disco Groupies?! That is funny. The fact that it was your mother just makes it ironic." Hermione and Professor Dumbledore shared a giggle between themselves while Severus looked extremely put out.

"Ahem, well. Yes then. Hermione you have to promise not to tall anyone about Professor Snapes secret, and treat him with the same respect that you always have."

"Wait, You're going to let her know? I can't have a student running around with this information, it could get back to the wrong people."

"Nonsense! Miss Granger is a Gryffindor and Gryffindors always keep their Promises. Now do you promise Hermione?"

"Yes sir, no different, No one will know."

"And get rid of that trash!" Snape turned his back on the two Gryffindors and stalked down the dungeon steps muttering something about Gryffindors, Peter Pettigrew and Sirius Black.