Chapter 14
A/N Do you think Blake and Araminta should be together, or Blake and Selene? Tell me in a REVIEW!
Blake and Selene brought Araminta a dish of pudding and some apple pie for dessert. "Can you come down to the common room in the dungeons with us?"
Araminta spooned up the pudding thoughtfully. "Can't. I really have to practice."
"Practice what?"
"Oh, all sorts of things. I have singing, and Quidditch, and magic to do," said Araminta.
"Well, bye, then, see you tomorrow!" chimed Blake and Selene.
Araminta walked slowly back to her room, thinking about the day. She felt bad keeping the secret about being an Animagus from Blake and Selene, but if what Professor McGonagall had said was true, Blake and Selene could be Animagi themselves if they'd just apply themselves.
Then, there was the whole fiasco with Professor Snape--
"Excuse me, Miss Malfoy-Potter, but what are you doing wandering through the dungeons alone?"
Araminta turned around slowly to meet the assessing gaze of the Potions Master. "Oh, Professor, I was distracted, and I must have gotten lost. I was on my way to my rooms..."
Severus Snape swooped down upon her, trapping her against the wall between his arms. He put his face close, his beaky nose almost touching hers. "Where did you learn it?" he breathed. "How did you know so much already?"
"I-I-I practiced," Araminta stuttered. "I'm a good witch."
"I'm sure you are," said Snape, looking at her neck. "The question is," he said, then moved his mouth so close she could feel the words on her skin, "how good?"
He wrapped one arm behind her shoulders and drew her closer, bending her backward with his other hand in her hair. "Good," he muttered, and Araminta put her hands on his chest and pushed hard.
"No, no!" she cried out, but he squeezed her tighter and ran his tongue over her collarbone.
"Yesssss."
"No!" she shouted again, then made her body limp and fell to the floor. She drew her wand and sprang up to curse the man, but she found herself alone in the corridor. Where was the Potions Master? Araminta turned in a circle. What had just happened?
Shaking her head, Araminta decided it was all a dream and headed off to bed.