Authors note: I love, love ,love all my reviews, it was quite hard to
write this chapter because I wanted to add some humour in it, but here it
is............Snowstar.
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When a Man Loves a Woman:
Chapter VIII: "When You find Love, You're the Luckiest Man on earth."
As Hermione sat down in the dungeons to begin her Potions class, everything went good. She completely ignored the part of the room were the slytherins sat. She could sense that someone was looking at her, which could only be Draco.
Hermione was so deep inside her thoughts that she almost jumped out of her skin when Severus stormed in.
He went over to his desk. His robes billowed behind him like a big cloud, he almost looked like a king. The king of darkness, the power of darkness, that's what he is, the darkness itself. Black and mysterious and...'Get a grip of yourself, Granger' Hermione thought and shook her head a little to clear her view of the situation.
The lesson started and everybody stood by their cauldrons, trying to make a potion that was suppose to give you better confidence.
Hermione ignored her surroundings and just focused on her work.
Severus sat by his desk and gazed over the students. Everything went well, he stole some glances from Hermione who worked as flawlessly as ever on her potion. He sighed soundlessly and felt his heart beat as he looked at her.
When he had woke up in the morning, with his face still buried in the pillow that she had been lying on, he wanted to do anything but move from the pillow, because her scent was still there. At that moment he had sensed her, but what he wanted was to breathe her and taste her till he could feel her in his blood.
He had to tear his eyes away from her and check the other students.
Everybody were doing good, but when his eyes fell on Neville an alarm bell started to ring in him.
"Longbottom, NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!" he screamed and ran over to Neville, but it was to late.
Neville poured the very red fluid into his cauldron and a big, bright red cloud surrounded by a golden glitter shot up from his cauldron and hit Snape right in the chest, making him fall to the floor, unconscious.
Everybody screamed in panic and gathered around their unconscious Potions master.
"Is he dead?" Ron asked.
Hermione bent down beside him and felt him breathing.
"No, he is just knocked out" she said and heard Ron sigh and mutter a 'Damn' under his breath.
"Professor, professor, can you hear me?" Hermione asked and gently shook him.
Snape felt as if he was in a big, black fog. He felt a longing, a longing that only one person could satisfy, then the fog separated itself and there she was. He opened his eyes and saw the most beautiful vision in the entire world. His heart was beating as if a wild horse was running inside of it. He was lost, he was mad.
Hermione saw how his eyes fluttered and then he opened them, and they shot like an arrow at her.
She saw a very dangerous light in them and removed her hand from him.
"Hermione" he said and started to move up from the floor. Hermione did the same and was stepping back towards the door with him following her.
"Professor, are you alright?" she asked, but he didn't answer.
"Hermione, come here" he said and started to walk faster towards her.
"No" she simply said, and right at that moment she stumbled at her robe and fell to the floor. As she looked up she saw Snape throwing himself at her, but she managed to roll away. She got to her feet and ran like hell out of the dungeons, screaming in panic.
She heard him run after her, he was only a few meters behind.
'He must be in very good shape' she thought.
"Come back here!!!" he roared after her, his robes were flying behind him. It looked as if a big, black panther was chasing an innocent, little bird.
Hermione screamed and felt the tears stream out from her eyes.
Snape was obsessed with her, he needed her. The love was now burning so hot inside him that he couldn't control himself anymore.
"Stop this instant and come back here!!!!!"
As they ran through the corridor all the other doors opened and the teachers along with their students looked out and saw what was happening. Even Madame Hooch and her students flew up to a window outside the castle and looked inside.
"Severus, you leave her alone right now!!" McGonagall yelled after them, but he didn't pay attention.
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The rest of the students that had been in the dungeon was standing by the door as they saw Severus and Hermione running down the hall.
Harry turned to Neville.
"How did you do that?" he asked impressed.
"I don't know" Neville responded.
"Lets go and check out your cauldron" Ron said and all the rest of the class followed.
As they were searching through all the ingredients that were standing on Neville's desk, Harry finally found the answer to their question.
"Did you pour this into your cauldron?" he asked and Neville nodded.
"Well, what is it?" Ron asked.
"It's one of those 'Cupid'-ingredients that sets the heart aflame for the one you love, apparently you become so obsessed with your partner that you're going mad."
"Wait a minute" Ron said with his hands in the air "Are you saying that Snape is in love with Hermione?"
Harry thought for a moment and his eyes widened. Snape in love? 'Let's write some history' he thought.
"Well...it appears so, otherwise he wouldn't be acting like this."
Ron almost fainted. But then turned to Neville and grabbed him by his robe.
"You've screwed up, this is all your fault as usual!!!!!!"
"Hey, hey, hey Ron" Harry said and pulled Ron away from Neville "This is nobody's fault, OK?"
"Well, stay here if you want, nobody tries to steal my chick without punishment" Draco said and started to run down the hall, and a few seconds later all the others followed.
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Hermione was in pure panic as she ran down the halls with a very turned- on professor behind her.
'Help' she thought as he was getting closer.
Then she saw her rescue. The girl's bathroom.
She ran in and slammed the door behind her, locking it very carefully.
It was the second time today that this room had saved her life.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you" she said, panting, she was exhausted after all that running. She could almost kiss the floor, but she didn't take that risk.
She sank down upon one of the toilets to catch her breath, but then she heard a loud slam against the door.
"Open up at once!!!" Severus yelled outside.
Hermione looked around, she had to get out of there. But where? She couldn't possibly use the door.
"Twenty points from Gryffindor, for running away from a professor when he needs you!!!" he kept on shouting.
Then Hermione looked up and saw a little window very high up on the wall. She climbed up to it with help from a sink that was standing near her. As she was out and closed the window she could see how the door flew open and a very angry Professor Snape entered the bathroom.
Hermione had run around almost the entire castle to find the main entrance, and as she found it she ran over to the first fireplace she could find. She took some Floo powder.
"The Head girl room" she said and disappeared.
Thank God she didn't had any more lessons today. It was Friday and she had a whole weekend in front of her.
She couldn't stay here at Hogwarts, it would be too risky. She would make a visit to the Muggle world, to parents' grave, where she hadn't been in a long time.
After writing a note to Dumbledore and owling it to his office, she packed some things, went to Diagon alley and took the Hogwarts Express home.
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A very dumbfounded Severus was still standing in the girls bathroom searching after her.
"Severus" he heard a voice behind him.
He turned around, and there stood Albus.
"She's not here, she has left to visit her parents. I received a note from her a little earlier today." He said with his eyes twinkling.
"How long have you been in here?" he asked later.
"I don't know?" Severus answered.
"Well, maybe you can buy my school a new door later on?" he said. Severus brought his wand out from his robes and pointed it to the door opening, and then the door was fixed again.
"She will be back this evening, and until then I think you should try to sleep a little so the spell you're under can come off." And with that the Headmaster left.
Severus sighed and returned to his dungeons.
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Hermione heard the church bells ring as she entered the cemetery. There were sculptures of angels and gargoyles surrounding the church and some of the tombstones.
She was completely dressed in black, which made her think of Snape a little.
She clutched the flowers in her hand tight as she started to walk through the stones and then she saw he father's grave. She felt the tears come out from her eyes.
There were still quite many flowers around it from their friends and family.
She stepped forward and laid the little bouquet by the stone.
She kneeled down and rested her hands at the top of the stone, then she laid her cheek against it.
"I love you, father." She said and kissed the stone. Her father had always said to her: 'When you find love, you're the luckiest man on earth'.
She would always remember that, then she walked out from the cemetery.
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You were once my one companion
You were all that mattered
You were once a friend and father
Then my world was shattered
Wishing you were somehow here again
Wishing you were somehow near
Sometimes it seemed if I just dreamed
Somehow you would be here
Wishing I could hear your voice again
Knowing that I never would
Dreaming of you won't help me to do
All that you dreamed I could
Passing bells and sculpted angels
Cold and monumental
Seem for you the wrong companions
You were warm and gentle
Too many years fighting back tears
Why can't the past just die?
Wishing you were somehow here again
Knowing we must say goodbye
Try to forgive, teach me to live
Give me the strength to try
No more memories, no more silent tears
No more gazing across the wasted years
Help me say goodbye
Help me say goodbye
Sarah Brightman - "Wishing you were somehow here again"
From Andrew Lloyd Webbers musical "The phantom of the opera"
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When a Man Loves a Woman:
Chapter VIII: "When You find Love, You're the Luckiest Man on earth."
As Hermione sat down in the dungeons to begin her Potions class, everything went good. She completely ignored the part of the room were the slytherins sat. She could sense that someone was looking at her, which could only be Draco.
Hermione was so deep inside her thoughts that she almost jumped out of her skin when Severus stormed in.
He went over to his desk. His robes billowed behind him like a big cloud, he almost looked like a king. The king of darkness, the power of darkness, that's what he is, the darkness itself. Black and mysterious and...'Get a grip of yourself, Granger' Hermione thought and shook her head a little to clear her view of the situation.
The lesson started and everybody stood by their cauldrons, trying to make a potion that was suppose to give you better confidence.
Hermione ignored her surroundings and just focused on her work.
Severus sat by his desk and gazed over the students. Everything went well, he stole some glances from Hermione who worked as flawlessly as ever on her potion. He sighed soundlessly and felt his heart beat as he looked at her.
When he had woke up in the morning, with his face still buried in the pillow that she had been lying on, he wanted to do anything but move from the pillow, because her scent was still there. At that moment he had sensed her, but what he wanted was to breathe her and taste her till he could feel her in his blood.
He had to tear his eyes away from her and check the other students.
Everybody were doing good, but when his eyes fell on Neville an alarm bell started to ring in him.
"Longbottom, NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!" he screamed and ran over to Neville, but it was to late.
Neville poured the very red fluid into his cauldron and a big, bright red cloud surrounded by a golden glitter shot up from his cauldron and hit Snape right in the chest, making him fall to the floor, unconscious.
Everybody screamed in panic and gathered around their unconscious Potions master.
"Is he dead?" Ron asked.
Hermione bent down beside him and felt him breathing.
"No, he is just knocked out" she said and heard Ron sigh and mutter a 'Damn' under his breath.
"Professor, professor, can you hear me?" Hermione asked and gently shook him.
Snape felt as if he was in a big, black fog. He felt a longing, a longing that only one person could satisfy, then the fog separated itself and there she was. He opened his eyes and saw the most beautiful vision in the entire world. His heart was beating as if a wild horse was running inside of it. He was lost, he was mad.
Hermione saw how his eyes fluttered and then he opened them, and they shot like an arrow at her.
She saw a very dangerous light in them and removed her hand from him.
"Hermione" he said and started to move up from the floor. Hermione did the same and was stepping back towards the door with him following her.
"Professor, are you alright?" she asked, but he didn't answer.
"Hermione, come here" he said and started to walk faster towards her.
"No" she simply said, and right at that moment she stumbled at her robe and fell to the floor. As she looked up she saw Snape throwing himself at her, but she managed to roll away. She got to her feet and ran like hell out of the dungeons, screaming in panic.
She heard him run after her, he was only a few meters behind.
'He must be in very good shape' she thought.
"Come back here!!!" he roared after her, his robes were flying behind him. It looked as if a big, black panther was chasing an innocent, little bird.
Hermione screamed and felt the tears stream out from her eyes.
Snape was obsessed with her, he needed her. The love was now burning so hot inside him that he couldn't control himself anymore.
"Stop this instant and come back here!!!!!"
As they ran through the corridor all the other doors opened and the teachers along with their students looked out and saw what was happening. Even Madame Hooch and her students flew up to a window outside the castle and looked inside.
"Severus, you leave her alone right now!!" McGonagall yelled after them, but he didn't pay attention.
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The rest of the students that had been in the dungeon was standing by the door as they saw Severus and Hermione running down the hall.
Harry turned to Neville.
"How did you do that?" he asked impressed.
"I don't know" Neville responded.
"Lets go and check out your cauldron" Ron said and all the rest of the class followed.
As they were searching through all the ingredients that were standing on Neville's desk, Harry finally found the answer to their question.
"Did you pour this into your cauldron?" he asked and Neville nodded.
"Well, what is it?" Ron asked.
"It's one of those 'Cupid'-ingredients that sets the heart aflame for the one you love, apparently you become so obsessed with your partner that you're going mad."
"Wait a minute" Ron said with his hands in the air "Are you saying that Snape is in love with Hermione?"
Harry thought for a moment and his eyes widened. Snape in love? 'Let's write some history' he thought.
"Well...it appears so, otherwise he wouldn't be acting like this."
Ron almost fainted. But then turned to Neville and grabbed him by his robe.
"You've screwed up, this is all your fault as usual!!!!!!"
"Hey, hey, hey Ron" Harry said and pulled Ron away from Neville "This is nobody's fault, OK?"
"Well, stay here if you want, nobody tries to steal my chick without punishment" Draco said and started to run down the hall, and a few seconds later all the others followed.
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Hermione was in pure panic as she ran down the halls with a very turned- on professor behind her.
'Help' she thought as he was getting closer.
Then she saw her rescue. The girl's bathroom.
She ran in and slammed the door behind her, locking it very carefully.
It was the second time today that this room had saved her life.
"Thank you, thank you, thank you" she said, panting, she was exhausted after all that running. She could almost kiss the floor, but she didn't take that risk.
She sank down upon one of the toilets to catch her breath, but then she heard a loud slam against the door.
"Open up at once!!!" Severus yelled outside.
Hermione looked around, she had to get out of there. But where? She couldn't possibly use the door.
"Twenty points from Gryffindor, for running away from a professor when he needs you!!!" he kept on shouting.
Then Hermione looked up and saw a little window very high up on the wall. She climbed up to it with help from a sink that was standing near her. As she was out and closed the window she could see how the door flew open and a very angry Professor Snape entered the bathroom.
Hermione had run around almost the entire castle to find the main entrance, and as she found it she ran over to the first fireplace she could find. She took some Floo powder.
"The Head girl room" she said and disappeared.
Thank God she didn't had any more lessons today. It was Friday and she had a whole weekend in front of her.
She couldn't stay here at Hogwarts, it would be too risky. She would make a visit to the Muggle world, to parents' grave, where she hadn't been in a long time.
After writing a note to Dumbledore and owling it to his office, she packed some things, went to Diagon alley and took the Hogwarts Express home.
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A very dumbfounded Severus was still standing in the girls bathroom searching after her.
"Severus" he heard a voice behind him.
He turned around, and there stood Albus.
"She's not here, she has left to visit her parents. I received a note from her a little earlier today." He said with his eyes twinkling.
"How long have you been in here?" he asked later.
"I don't know?" Severus answered.
"Well, maybe you can buy my school a new door later on?" he said. Severus brought his wand out from his robes and pointed it to the door opening, and then the door was fixed again.
"She will be back this evening, and until then I think you should try to sleep a little so the spell you're under can come off." And with that the Headmaster left.
Severus sighed and returned to his dungeons.
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Hermione heard the church bells ring as she entered the cemetery. There were sculptures of angels and gargoyles surrounding the church and some of the tombstones.
She was completely dressed in black, which made her think of Snape a little.
She clutched the flowers in her hand tight as she started to walk through the stones and then she saw he father's grave. She felt the tears come out from her eyes.
There were still quite many flowers around it from their friends and family.
She stepped forward and laid the little bouquet by the stone.
She kneeled down and rested her hands at the top of the stone, then she laid her cheek against it.
"I love you, father." She said and kissed the stone. Her father had always said to her: 'When you find love, you're the luckiest man on earth'.
She would always remember that, then she walked out from the cemetery.
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You were once my one companion
You were all that mattered
You were once a friend and father
Then my world was shattered
Wishing you were somehow here again
Wishing you were somehow near
Sometimes it seemed if I just dreamed
Somehow you would be here
Wishing I could hear your voice again
Knowing that I never would
Dreaming of you won't help me to do
All that you dreamed I could
Passing bells and sculpted angels
Cold and monumental
Seem for you the wrong companions
You were warm and gentle
Too many years fighting back tears
Why can't the past just die?
Wishing you were somehow here again
Knowing we must say goodbye
Try to forgive, teach me to live
Give me the strength to try
No more memories, no more silent tears
No more gazing across the wasted years
Help me say goodbye
Help me say goodbye
Sarah Brightman - "Wishing you were somehow here again"
From Andrew Lloyd Webbers musical "The phantom of the opera"