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Chapter 2

"I've…what...who?" sputtered Snape.

Hermione stared at Snape she knew he was an old snarky man but had no idea that he didn't even know the concept of who Cupid was…or had been, thought Hermione staring down at the balding man. Then she looked closer… Oh thank god! He wasn't dead just knocked unconscious like Harry. When Snape came through the door he must have banged into Cupid causing him to slam his head against the wall. Hermione looked at her Professor who the look of a very confused man.

"Haven't you ever heard of Cupid, Professor?" asked Hermione thinking it odd that he had not.

"No, what is the meaning of this Miss Granger? Why is there a bald man in a diaper in my classroom? He looks as though he's escaped from St. Mungo's psychiatric ward!" huffed Snape staring at the man in disapproval.

"Sir, Cupid is the giver of love. On Valentine's Day he is said to fly around and shoot people with his golden arrows and make them fall in love with one another. That love is said to last forever if you fall in love with another by being shot by one. I thought it a muggle fantasy," said Hermione looking down at the man. "But apparently it is not."

"What kind of idiot would participate in such an obtuse undertaking? What is he doing here?" seethed Snape thoroughly disgusted that such a presence be seen here in his dungeons.

Hermione blushed profusely and Snape seeing this began to look for Potter but, he was no where to be seen. "Granger, where's Potter?"

Hermione pointed to a spot on the floor where snoring was being emitted from. "He err, hit his head when you startled us upon re-entering the room."

"All right well you levitate Potter and I'll levitate the nut job in the diaper up to the hospital wing," said Snape getting ready to levitate Cupid when suddenly someone stepped in front of him.

"No sir, I can't let you do that. If he is seen by someone else then he will disappear and there will be no more Romeo and Juliet's, no more Jennifer and Brad's, no more J. Lo's and whoever she's with that month! Sir, if you expose him to the rest of Hogwarts he'll never be left alone! He may even quit, we can not do this to him Professor!" gushed Hermione all in one breathe.

Snape felt a head ache coming on and pinched the bridge of his nose. "Fine, but I had better not be disturbed!" and with that Snape turned and sat at his desk banging his head against it. No sleep for him tonight. He had to baby-sit a Gryffindor who was babysitting a middle aged nut job in a diaper.

"Professor…" squeaked Hermione.

Snape waited for her to finish her thought but when she didn't he looked up. "What is it Miss Granger?"

Hermione slowly walked toward him with a piece of paper clutched in her hands. She shoved the paper under his nose it had a list of names on it. "Sir, these are stops he had to make tonight…I found them in his hand," Hermione glanced back at the slumbering man. "Sir, if these people are not shot with Cupid's arrow by midnight tonight they may never fall in love and may possibly never realize that they are meant to be. Sir, we have to do something!"

Snape could really feel the headache coming on now. "And what pray tell do you want me to do?" asked Snape.

Hermione looked frightened for a moment but then looked back at Harry for reassurance. "I want you to become Cupid."

Snape stared at her. There was complete silence. Then a look of comprehension came over his face, "YOU WANT ME TO DO WHAT!?" shouted Snape.

"Oh please Professor Snape, it would only be for one night! Please you have to do it after all it really is your fault you're stuck in this position," stated Hermione matter-of-factly.

"MY FAULT! How, Miss Granger, is it my fault?" shouted Snape

"You hit him with the door! That caused his injury!" snapped Hermione.

"If you hadn't have made me give you detention then I wouldn't have even been here!" snarled Snape.

"Ah! But if you hadn't have given me detention for something I didn't do then I wouldn't have been here and Cupid wouldn't have shot Harry which wouldn't have caused you to come into the room and you wouldn't have hit Cupid!" Hermione's breathing turning shallow took a moment to relax herself as she watched Snape's calculating eyes as he tried to figure out some way around her counter attack.

Snape looked defeated, then snatched up the list and looked at it. Only three couples appeared to be left. He looked up at the clock quarter past nine. He should have enough time to complete these last few. But he wasn't doing so alone.

"All right Miss Granger, let's go," said Snape standing up and heading to the door.

"What? I'm not going! I've got to stay here with Harry and Cupid!" said Hermione.

Snape went over to Harry and levitated him then proceeded to his fireplace throwing in some floo powder. "The Hospital Wing!" stated Snape clearly as he levitated Harry into the flames and walked in after him. Hermione sat down and waited a moment or two until the flames roared once more and Snape stepped through again brushing the ash off his robes.

Hermione looked up at him. "Mr. Potter is fine and is in the hospital wing. We will take Cupid with us, we can't have him waking up and gallivanting around the school. Come on Miss Granger." With that he levitated Cupid so that he would bob up and down behind them as they walked about the school. Hermione followed him out the door.

"Sir?"

"Yes, Granger?"

"Who's first on the list?"

"Mr. Weasley and Miss Lovegood."

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