Authors note: Sorry it took so long, thank you for the wonderful reviews,
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When a Man Loves a Woman:
Chapter III : Quidditch and roses
It was the first quidditch-game for the season: Slytherin vs Hufflepuff.
Even though Hermione, Harry and Ron knew that every student home that played against Slytherin was doomed to lose, they cheered for Hufflepuff.
"Another ten points for Slytherin" Lee Jordan said, trying to fight the urge to shout out that it was against the rules that they got those ten points................. and all the other points "who leads with 60 to 10."
"Poor Hufflepuff, they are never going to win" Hermione sighed.
"Not with that Malfoy-prick as a seeker." Ron mumbled and at that moment the Slytherin scored again.
"Everybody now" Harry said. "One, two, three"
Everybody: "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
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In the Slytherin tower, Severus was enjoying the game since his house was without any doubt going to win.
He was sitting next to Lucius Malfoy, who was holding a pair of binoculars to his eyes.
'Being proud of his blonde brat of a son' Severus thought, he had got negative thoughts lately about Draco because of his flirting with Hermione.
'Where is that girl anyway' he thought and looked away to the stadium, trying to see her in the crowd, which was almost impossible.
He looked at Lucius, then at the binoculars in his lap.
"Can I borrow these?" he asked, Lucius only nodded.
He lifted them to his eyes and spotted her in the audience. She was so beautiful. The wind was playing with her long hair and the sun gave her brown eyes gold reflexes, she was shining in her young beauty. He licked his lips, savouring the image of her.
"DRACO MALFOY HAS CAUGHT THE SNITCH!!"
Severus jerked out of his daydreaming as Lee Jordan shouted.
"Slytherin wins!" Madame Hooch said and blew the whistle.
Severus was of course pleased that his house had won. So instead of smiling, he stretched on the sides of his mouth but his eyes remained unmoved.
Lucius was proud of his son and smiled.
Draco was floating around on his broomstick, waving with the snitch in his hand. Suddenly he stopped by the Gryffindors, right in front of Hermione and smiled at her.
Severus saw everything and was so angry that it was a miracle that there wasn't any smoke coming out of his ears.
"The hero of the game always deserves a kiss from the lady of his heart" Draco said to Hermione.
"What?" Hermione looked at him as if he was stupid.
"What kind of a hero are you?" Harry asked "You are cheating all the time."
"Shut up, Potter!" Draco growled, then turned his attention to Hermione.
"Come here." Draco smiled and reached out his hand for Hermione.
"You wish." she answered.
"Leave her be, Malfoy." Ron said.
Draco grabbed Hermione by her robes and pulled her up on his broomstick so she was sitting opposite him. His right arm was around her waist and his left hand caressed her cheek. He leaned in and kissed her. Her lips were so soft and warm. He had always dreamed about kissing her and have her for his own. His hand moved from her cheek to her hair and then joined his other hand around her waist.
Hermiones eyes were wide open, she was disgusted, but it was a nice kiss. Then she leaned into him and responded. She placed a hand on his shoulder and accepted the kiss, but not with her heart.
All the other students said a long "Aaaawwwwwww!" together, except the Gryffindors.
Crabbe and Goyle were whistling and applauding.
As the spoiled brat Malfoy was he saw her now as his property, he gently pulled away from her and said with big confidence: "You're mine now and you better not make out with anyone else."
"Fuck y-" Hermione couldn't finish her sentence 'cause he pressed his lips to her again and this time she wasn't giving in, she struggled and never closed her eyes, she tried to pull away from him, but he was to strong. She couldn't do anything.
Severus saw everything and clenched both his fists and his teeth, otherwise he would be running out on the ground, screaming and trying to struggle Draco. That brat was touching and kissing the woman he loved! He knew that there were many boys who had feelings for Hermione, but they were to chicken to admit it. He was about to loose his temper. To see a woman that you love more than anything and at the same time see her in the arms of someone else is a nightmare.
"But what is this?" Lucius smiled.
"I think your son is in love." Severus answered with his teeth still clenched.
"My Draco, in love?" Lucius took the binoculars from Severus to look closer at Hermione.
"Such a beautiful, little girl. What's her name?"
"Hermione Granger." Severus voice caressed the beloved name.
"How are her grades?"
"The best ones in school." Severus said and looked down on his shoes, he couldn't stand to see it.
"She will be a good wife for my son then, when they are graduated."
This made Severus head pop up from the ground 'NO WAY!!! Not as long as I live, if anyone is going to marry that girl when she graduates it's gonna be me!' his mind growled.
"She's a muggleborn and a Gryffindor" he said, he knew Lucius hated muggles and Gryffindors.
"Well, as long as my son is happy" he answered with his brows pulled together.
Severus looked back at his love and Draco who was still on the broomstick. He couldn't stand it any longer. Without anyone seeing it he pulled out his wand from his robes.
"Rictusempra." He whispered and a faint light came out from the wand and landed on Draco and Hermione. Both of them flew of the broomstick and screamed.
Draco hit the ground, but before Hermione did it Severus whispered "Wingardium leviosa" and she gently floated down to the ground.
Then she ran away from Draco and the arena.
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After about half an hour in the bathroom, gargling water mixed with toothpaste, Hermione headed to the Gryffindor tower. Being a Head-Girl gave her a room of her own. She collapsed on the bed and the tears started to fall. She was really supposed to have Potions in the dungeons now, but she just wanted to stay in her room and cry.
Severus had heard that Draco had been brought to the hospital wing, because his leg had broken after that nasty fall. Which was some sort of relief to him, because now Draco couldn't flirt with Hermione.
As he entered his classroom he was as mean as usual.
"Okay, thickheads, I expect that you all have been reading the notes we made last week so who can tell me the ingredients to the lavonia-potion?" he asked and no hand was visible in the air.
'Odd' he thought, normally Hermione would always...................where was Hermione?
"Potter! Weasley!" he growled both of them looked up from the tables.
"Yes, sir." they both answered as if they were in some sort of military- school.
"Were is Miss Granger?" he asked.
"We don't know, we haven't seen her since she ran off from the quidditch game this morning." Harry said.
"Maybe Malfoy scared her off." Ron joked and all the other giggled.
"Silence!" Snape growled.
"You better find her after this lesson, and tell her the homework for tomorrow." With that he started the lesson. He wondered all the time were Hermione could be, she couldn't possibly be in the hospital wing, comforting Draco.
She didn't came to the Great Hall at lunch either.
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Severus walked down to his dungeons after his final lesson for the day. He was going to find Hermione.
He took a very big, golden goblet from one of his racks and filled it with unicorn blood, then he took the glass from a pocket mirror, cracked the glass and put it in the goblet. He mixed it.
"Montraro Hermione Granger." And because of the silver in the unicorn blood and the reflection from the mirror Hermione's image became visible in the goblet.
Severus looked at her. She was in her room, lying on the bed, crying. Someone knocked at her door, she didn't answer. Severus saw how Harry and Ron came into the room, they both sat down on the bed.
"What is it, Hermione?" Harry asked and she sat up.
"How could I be so stupid?" she said "How could I just let him kiss me, I hate him more than anything and I let him kiss me! And I didn't do anything to stop him, I just let him use me like a pet" she sobbed and Harry and Ron hugged her.
"I'm not as intelligent as I may seem, the fact is that I'm a ugly, annoying idiot!" she cried heavier.
Severus eyes started to fill with tears, she was nothing of that, she was the most beautiful thing in the world, she was not annoying (well, only sometimes) and she was definitely not an idiot. She was a genius and she was the object of his heart's greatest desire.
Severus blinked back the tears, not allowing them to fall.
"No, Hermione. I think you are making a hen out of a feather, Malfoy wouldn't be kissing you if he thought you were ugly." Harry said.
"Did you hear what he said to me?" she asked "That he owns me, like a toy."
"But you know he doesn't, Malfoy doesn't even have the right to touch you, don't you care about it one bit." Harry said.
"Yeah, that brat is in the hospital wing right now, anyway, thank God you didn't hit the ground." Ron said.
"Yeah, who was it that saved me?" she asked.
Severus held his breath.
"I don't know, I didn't see anything." Harry said.
"Well, whoever it was I'm forever grateful for him." Hermione said.
This made Severus smile.
Hermione smiled and wiped her tears with the sleeve of her robes, then hugged them at the same time.
"I love you guys." she said "I'm hungry, I didn't get any lunch."
"You can join us for supper in the common room." Ron said.
Hermione nodded and they had tea and croissants in the common room.
Severus smiled.
She was all right now.
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Hermione walked into her room again after the supper.
On her bed table there was a letter and a red rose.
She frowned and opened the letter.
It was a nice letter, she read it a few times, it was signed 'Your D.P.M'
"D.P.M" she muttered. Then she pulled out the house list for Slytherin. Being a Head Girl she had to know most of the names at Hogwarts. She found out that Dracos middle name was Patrick so it was all clear. D.P.M - Draco Patrick Malfoy.
She threw the letter and the rose in the waste paper basket and went to her bathroom to prepare for the night.
When she came out in her night gown, she saw that the letter was back on her bed table and the rose was in a crystal-vase, but the rose's petals were black instead of red and the stem was silver white.
She took it and threw it again but it flew up from the waste paper basket and landed in the vase again.
'This can't be good' she thought. But she was to tired to bother.
She went to bed and slept.
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Down in the dungeons Severus saw what she did in the goblet.
He kissed his forefinger and gently touched the water with it.
"Good night, my love" he said and he himself went to sleep.
One thing she didn't know was that the letter and the rose was from him and 'Your D.P.M' stood for 'Your dreaded potions master'.
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Severus letter to Hermione:
If you can depend
On certainty
Count it out and weigh it up again
You can be sure
You've reached the end
And still you don't feel
Do you know you're beautiful
Do you know you're beautiful
Do you know you're beautiful
You are, yes you are, yes you are
If you can ignore
What you've become
Take it out and see it die again
You can be here
For who's a friend
And still you don't feel
Do you know you're beautiful
Do you know you're beautiful
Do you know you're beautiful
You are, yes you are, yes you are
Innermost thoughts
Will be understood and
You can have all you need
Do you know, you're beautiful, do you know
About anything
Do you know, you're beautiful, do you know
About anyone
Do you know you're beautiful
You are, yes you are, yes you are
Sarah Brightman - "Beautiful"
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When a Man Loves a Woman:
Chapter III : Quidditch and roses
It was the first quidditch-game for the season: Slytherin vs Hufflepuff.
Even though Hermione, Harry and Ron knew that every student home that played against Slytherin was doomed to lose, they cheered for Hufflepuff.
"Another ten points for Slytherin" Lee Jordan said, trying to fight the urge to shout out that it was against the rules that they got those ten points................. and all the other points "who leads with 60 to 10."
"Poor Hufflepuff, they are never going to win" Hermione sighed.
"Not with that Malfoy-prick as a seeker." Ron mumbled and at that moment the Slytherin scored again.
"Everybody now" Harry said. "One, two, three"
Everybody: "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
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In the Slytherin tower, Severus was enjoying the game since his house was without any doubt going to win.
He was sitting next to Lucius Malfoy, who was holding a pair of binoculars to his eyes.
'Being proud of his blonde brat of a son' Severus thought, he had got negative thoughts lately about Draco because of his flirting with Hermione.
'Where is that girl anyway' he thought and looked away to the stadium, trying to see her in the crowd, which was almost impossible.
He looked at Lucius, then at the binoculars in his lap.
"Can I borrow these?" he asked, Lucius only nodded.
He lifted them to his eyes and spotted her in the audience. She was so beautiful. The wind was playing with her long hair and the sun gave her brown eyes gold reflexes, she was shining in her young beauty. He licked his lips, savouring the image of her.
"DRACO MALFOY HAS CAUGHT THE SNITCH!!"
Severus jerked out of his daydreaming as Lee Jordan shouted.
"Slytherin wins!" Madame Hooch said and blew the whistle.
Severus was of course pleased that his house had won. So instead of smiling, he stretched on the sides of his mouth but his eyes remained unmoved.
Lucius was proud of his son and smiled.
Draco was floating around on his broomstick, waving with the snitch in his hand. Suddenly he stopped by the Gryffindors, right in front of Hermione and smiled at her.
Severus saw everything and was so angry that it was a miracle that there wasn't any smoke coming out of his ears.
"The hero of the game always deserves a kiss from the lady of his heart" Draco said to Hermione.
"What?" Hermione looked at him as if he was stupid.
"What kind of a hero are you?" Harry asked "You are cheating all the time."
"Shut up, Potter!" Draco growled, then turned his attention to Hermione.
"Come here." Draco smiled and reached out his hand for Hermione.
"You wish." she answered.
"Leave her be, Malfoy." Ron said.
Draco grabbed Hermione by her robes and pulled her up on his broomstick so she was sitting opposite him. His right arm was around her waist and his left hand caressed her cheek. He leaned in and kissed her. Her lips were so soft and warm. He had always dreamed about kissing her and have her for his own. His hand moved from her cheek to her hair and then joined his other hand around her waist.
Hermiones eyes were wide open, she was disgusted, but it was a nice kiss. Then she leaned into him and responded. She placed a hand on his shoulder and accepted the kiss, but not with her heart.
All the other students said a long "Aaaawwwwwww!" together, except the Gryffindors.
Crabbe and Goyle were whistling and applauding.
As the spoiled brat Malfoy was he saw her now as his property, he gently pulled away from her and said with big confidence: "You're mine now and you better not make out with anyone else."
"Fuck y-" Hermione couldn't finish her sentence 'cause he pressed his lips to her again and this time she wasn't giving in, she struggled and never closed her eyes, she tried to pull away from him, but he was to strong. She couldn't do anything.
Severus saw everything and clenched both his fists and his teeth, otherwise he would be running out on the ground, screaming and trying to struggle Draco. That brat was touching and kissing the woman he loved! He knew that there were many boys who had feelings for Hermione, but they were to chicken to admit it. He was about to loose his temper. To see a woman that you love more than anything and at the same time see her in the arms of someone else is a nightmare.
"But what is this?" Lucius smiled.
"I think your son is in love." Severus answered with his teeth still clenched.
"My Draco, in love?" Lucius took the binoculars from Severus to look closer at Hermione.
"Such a beautiful, little girl. What's her name?"
"Hermione Granger." Severus voice caressed the beloved name.
"How are her grades?"
"The best ones in school." Severus said and looked down on his shoes, he couldn't stand to see it.
"She will be a good wife for my son then, when they are graduated."
This made Severus head pop up from the ground 'NO WAY!!! Not as long as I live, if anyone is going to marry that girl when she graduates it's gonna be me!' his mind growled.
"She's a muggleborn and a Gryffindor" he said, he knew Lucius hated muggles and Gryffindors.
"Well, as long as my son is happy" he answered with his brows pulled together.
Severus looked back at his love and Draco who was still on the broomstick. He couldn't stand it any longer. Without anyone seeing it he pulled out his wand from his robes.
"Rictusempra." He whispered and a faint light came out from the wand and landed on Draco and Hermione. Both of them flew of the broomstick and screamed.
Draco hit the ground, but before Hermione did it Severus whispered "Wingardium leviosa" and she gently floated down to the ground.
Then she ran away from Draco and the arena.
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After about half an hour in the bathroom, gargling water mixed with toothpaste, Hermione headed to the Gryffindor tower. Being a Head-Girl gave her a room of her own. She collapsed on the bed and the tears started to fall. She was really supposed to have Potions in the dungeons now, but she just wanted to stay in her room and cry.
Severus had heard that Draco had been brought to the hospital wing, because his leg had broken after that nasty fall. Which was some sort of relief to him, because now Draco couldn't flirt with Hermione.
As he entered his classroom he was as mean as usual.
"Okay, thickheads, I expect that you all have been reading the notes we made last week so who can tell me the ingredients to the lavonia-potion?" he asked and no hand was visible in the air.
'Odd' he thought, normally Hermione would always...................where was Hermione?
"Potter! Weasley!" he growled both of them looked up from the tables.
"Yes, sir." they both answered as if they were in some sort of military- school.
"Were is Miss Granger?" he asked.
"We don't know, we haven't seen her since she ran off from the quidditch game this morning." Harry said.
"Maybe Malfoy scared her off." Ron joked and all the other giggled.
"Silence!" Snape growled.
"You better find her after this lesson, and tell her the homework for tomorrow." With that he started the lesson. He wondered all the time were Hermione could be, she couldn't possibly be in the hospital wing, comforting Draco.
She didn't came to the Great Hall at lunch either.
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Severus walked down to his dungeons after his final lesson for the day. He was going to find Hermione.
He took a very big, golden goblet from one of his racks and filled it with unicorn blood, then he took the glass from a pocket mirror, cracked the glass and put it in the goblet. He mixed it.
"Montraro Hermione Granger." And because of the silver in the unicorn blood and the reflection from the mirror Hermione's image became visible in the goblet.
Severus looked at her. She was in her room, lying on the bed, crying. Someone knocked at her door, she didn't answer. Severus saw how Harry and Ron came into the room, they both sat down on the bed.
"What is it, Hermione?" Harry asked and she sat up.
"How could I be so stupid?" she said "How could I just let him kiss me, I hate him more than anything and I let him kiss me! And I didn't do anything to stop him, I just let him use me like a pet" she sobbed and Harry and Ron hugged her.
"I'm not as intelligent as I may seem, the fact is that I'm a ugly, annoying idiot!" she cried heavier.
Severus eyes started to fill with tears, she was nothing of that, she was the most beautiful thing in the world, she was not annoying (well, only sometimes) and she was definitely not an idiot. She was a genius and she was the object of his heart's greatest desire.
Severus blinked back the tears, not allowing them to fall.
"No, Hermione. I think you are making a hen out of a feather, Malfoy wouldn't be kissing you if he thought you were ugly." Harry said.
"Did you hear what he said to me?" she asked "That he owns me, like a toy."
"But you know he doesn't, Malfoy doesn't even have the right to touch you, don't you care about it one bit." Harry said.
"Yeah, that brat is in the hospital wing right now, anyway, thank God you didn't hit the ground." Ron said.
"Yeah, who was it that saved me?" she asked.
Severus held his breath.
"I don't know, I didn't see anything." Harry said.
"Well, whoever it was I'm forever grateful for him." Hermione said.
This made Severus smile.
Hermione smiled and wiped her tears with the sleeve of her robes, then hugged them at the same time.
"I love you guys." she said "I'm hungry, I didn't get any lunch."
"You can join us for supper in the common room." Ron said.
Hermione nodded and they had tea and croissants in the common room.
Severus smiled.
She was all right now.
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Hermione walked into her room again after the supper.
On her bed table there was a letter and a red rose.
She frowned and opened the letter.
It was a nice letter, she read it a few times, it was signed 'Your D.P.M'
"D.P.M" she muttered. Then she pulled out the house list for Slytherin. Being a Head Girl she had to know most of the names at Hogwarts. She found out that Dracos middle name was Patrick so it was all clear. D.P.M - Draco Patrick Malfoy.
She threw the letter and the rose in the waste paper basket and went to her bathroom to prepare for the night.
When she came out in her night gown, she saw that the letter was back on her bed table and the rose was in a crystal-vase, but the rose's petals were black instead of red and the stem was silver white.
She took it and threw it again but it flew up from the waste paper basket and landed in the vase again.
'This can't be good' she thought. But she was to tired to bother.
She went to bed and slept.
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Down in the dungeons Severus saw what she did in the goblet.
He kissed his forefinger and gently touched the water with it.
"Good night, my love" he said and he himself went to sleep.
One thing she didn't know was that the letter and the rose was from him and 'Your D.P.M' stood for 'Your dreaded potions master'.
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Severus letter to Hermione:
If you can depend
On certainty
Count it out and weigh it up again
You can be sure
You've reached the end
And still you don't feel
Do you know you're beautiful
Do you know you're beautiful
Do you know you're beautiful
You are, yes you are, yes you are
If you can ignore
What you've become
Take it out and see it die again
You can be here
For who's a friend
And still you don't feel
Do you know you're beautiful
Do you know you're beautiful
Do you know you're beautiful
You are, yes you are, yes you are
Innermost thoughts
Will be understood and
You can have all you need
Do you know, you're beautiful, do you know
About anything
Do you know, you're beautiful, do you know
About anyone
Do you know you're beautiful
You are, yes you are, yes you are
Sarah Brightman - "Beautiful"