"Ron, go after him!" Hermione urged him. But Ron was still looking at Harry's wake.
"What just happened?" Ron asked, "did we say something wrong?" Hermione was getting red and was going to rip into Ron when Professor Snape appeared next to Hermione, startling Ron. They both looked up at his towering figure.
Snape had an odd scent about him the Hermione couldn't quite place and his face was still hidden behind locks of greasy hair; Hermione couldn't help but feel that he was hiding something deep inside and she wanted to help him uncover it.
'This is weird', she thought, 'I never thought about him in that way before…'
"Miss Granger, I need to speak with you. Can you come to my office this evening around 5:00 pm?" he glared at her with his beady eyes, her heart skipped a beat.
"Yes, sir. Do I need to bring anything?"
"It's all right here." And her handed her an envelope, turned and strode away, his robe swatting Ron in the face. Ron could not believe what he was seeing or hearing for that matter.
"What in bloody hell is going on around here! Is everyone going bloody mad? I'm going to find Harry, knock some sense into him first!" Ron tore out of the Great Hall, leaving Hermione goggling over the envelope in her hand.
Ron found Harry in the lavatory where the Chamber of Secrets used to be. Harry seemed to be in his own world hunched over the sink.
"Harry? Are you okay?" Ron put his hand on Harry's shoulder but Harry nudged it off, "just go away. I want to be left alone."
"But Harry…"
"Don't you understand! The teachers are starting to hate me; I'm not safe here anymore. I'm just going to lea--"
At that moment Hermione slammed into the lavatory yelling, "Harry! Ron! The teachers are under a spell! We have to go to Dumbledore and tell him."
"Wha? What are you talking about? Are you going mad too? The teachers can't be put under a spell and you know that." Ron explained frustrated, his face getting flushed from all the absurdity going on.
"I thought that was the case, but there must be a loop hole somewhere. C'mon let's go find Dumbledore before something bad happens." Harry rubs his eyes like he just woke up and said, "How do we know Dumbledore isn't under that spell? I mean that meeting that Snape fetched McGonagall for was supposed to be in Dumbledore's office. And if what you say is true then we need to go to someone else, outside the school."
"So I guess you shouldn't go visit Snape this afternoon, huh, Hermione?" blurted Ron, "what was in the envelope, anyways?"
"Nothing, just proof of the spell and proof that Snape is not under the spell. He's going to fix it."
"SNAPE?" rang Ron and Harry in unison and they started yelling and arguing about how he hasn't been the most helpful of people in the past.
All Hermione had to say was how much he's changed and she turned around and finally left them in her dust.