Chapter 7- blacklight

A/N- I saw a car the other day with a gryffindor license plate. In NC of all places. His real license plate, not some airbrushed piece of crap. He had to pay extra money to get that. I'm thinking he, or possibly she, could be my soul mate. I think that's what I need to look for in a guy. Someone who is as obsessed with the Harry Potter books as I am. Of course I think they should be the Severus Snape books, and if I had a vanity plate it would be slytherin, but we keep pairing Hermione and Snape up, maybe I'm a Slytherin and this unknown Gryffindor is my other half. Nah, I doubt it. On with the story.



"We never pegged you as a screamer Mione." Harry smirked at her and elbowed Ron.

"Never guessed it would be a Slytherin either. So who was it? Crabbe, Goyle or Malfoy? You know some people are saying it's Snape." The boys knew that she hadn't done anything. They had been defending her honor all morning while she slept. Parvati and Lavender had been ready to knock down her door to find out what happened.

"We've been forbidden to date Slytherins, why does she get to do it?" Lavender had asked Harry with a pout

"Well, according to what I heard she wasn't dating, anyway who said your forbidden?"

"You and Ron said that any Gryffindor girl who dated a Slytherin would be locked out of the tower for a week."

"Yeah, but you can still do it, just make sure you can sleep in the serpents den." Ron made serpents den sound very creepy and made scary motions with his hands.

"Oh grow up Ron, do you think they actually have snakes running around in there?"

"I heard something about two snakes that run around stealing candy that live in the slytherin common room." (A/N yeah trading spaces!)

"Well did you hear that hufflepuff has a stoner badger?" The conversation descended into fake mascots and drugs from that point on, at least in the Gryffindor common room. Elsewhere Hermione was still the topic of conversation.

"How could you not have known in all of your omnipotent glory that a student, the student, Ms. Hermione Granger, teachers pet, little-miss-know-it-all, head girl, perfect-prefect, was lost in the dungeons! You can tell me what I had for breakfast this morning and what color underwear I have own, but you seem to think that she was with me last night? This is ridiculous."

"Well, I'm not omnipotent, it's too tiring, I know who she is, I didn't think you had pets, I sometimes think that she does know it all, what was she doing in the dungeons, black coffee and a danish, green, no and yes."

"Old man you are deliberately trying to irritate me."

"And you say I'm omnipotent. What we" here he motioned to the rest of the staff situated in the staff room "are saying is that her little announcement this morning her caused quite a stir in the proverbial house waters. The first years are not helping in any way by making up stories of how she was found and why it was you knew where she was. You may want to have a talk with them. We may want to think about cutting back on Hermione's workload as well. She seems exhausted."

"Albus you know she'll never hear of that. She wants to be the best. She thinks that she can do reports in every class, get the most OWLS, the highest scores ever on her NEWTS, graduate top of her class and still do everything else she wants to do. I'll talk to her though and make sure she doesn't take on anything else." Minerva was wringing her hands with worry about her favorite student.

"Well now I think that it might be a good idea to let her have something else to do. But something where she is not in charge, possibly a physical activity, something to calm her mind and work her body. What do you think Severus?" Snape sat glowering at the old man, refusing to play his mind games.

"Why are you asking him, shouldn't you be asking me?" Madame Hooch seemed slightly put off by not being included in the discussion when it obviously incorporated her into the situation."

"No dear, not flying, something less magical, something a little closer to home." Dumbledore put his chin in his hand and stared at Severus waiting for him to do something. The entire staff room was confused. What physical activity could the headmaster be implying between Snape and Hermione. Suddenly it dawned on them, unfortunately it was the wrong conclusion. No one knew what to say. The headmaster was actually insinuating that Snape has sex with a student, and for her own good. They all stared between the two waiting to see which one would break first.

"Fine, I'll discuss it with her later."

"You know you had already considered it."

"Stay out of this old man." Snape stood an swept out of the room. Dumbledore stood from his seat and dismissed the staff and followed Snape out the door. The staff sat in the room looking at each other, unable to believe what they had just thought they heard.

"Is everyone allowed to date seventh years, or is it just him?" Everyone turned to look at Lupin who was usually the quietest one in the meetings. "Just wondering, not planning anything, although that Ginny Weasley is cute." Minerva threw a book at him which he easily caught and began reading.

"Why does the headmaster think this is such a good idea?"

"Well maybe he thinks that they are suited. They have a lot of similar interests, they both keep to themselves a great deal. Both intelligent. Maybe he thinks they are a match." Professor Sinestra sipped her tea.

"Well have you ever seen Ms. Granger with a boyfriend?" Flitwick wanted in on the conversation.

"Only Krum." Hagrid seemed somewhat angry about that incident still

"You mean she isn't dating Harry or Ron?" Professor Vector looked puzzled.

"I thought she was dating Harry and Ron." Sprout received a number of nasty looks for that one.

"That is not how Gryffindors work, we find our one soul mate and that's it." Minerva was very prim and proud of the fact.

"Well explain Black." Lupin sounded hurt and didn't look up to ask his question,

"He was mis-sorted." Everyone laughed even Lupin.

"Well if Albus thinks that this is a good idea, maybe we should get behind it as well. They need someone, Merlin knows it's been awhile since Snape got laid."

"Remus!!"

"Sorry must be my time of the month."

So Hermione walked out to the jokes from Harry and Ron and under the watchful glare of everyone in the school. Everyone convinced that she was having an affair, or convinced to get her into one, except for Snape who only wanted someone to skate with.