I do not own Harry Potter and I have not managed to kidnap Snape yet. Damn! I need him from to be my man slave/gigolo. (sniffles) I must have Snape! I will be kidnapping Tom Felton for my friend and Dan Radcliffe for my other friend...they do not think that Snape is the hottest character in the movies...ALAN is totally sexy in my opinion...now I know what you are thinking shut up you damn author so we can read so I believe I shall cringe and slink away.
"Jane, Professor McGonagall asked me to give you your schedule," Remus said passing it to me. "We have all our classes together."
"Do Sirius, James, Lily, and Peter all have classes with us as well?" I asked trying not to sound terrible disgusted when I said Sirius's name.
"Lily has every class with us. James, Sirius, and Peter aren't in Ancient Runes. Sirius and Peter aren't in Arithmancy, and Peter is no longer in Potions. But other than that we have all our classes with them," Remus said and he took out a book and began reading.
"Jane," Lily swung over the bench and sat next to me.
"Li..."
"Budge up Remus," the arrogant voice of Sirius Black ordered.
Remus started to move over but I reached out and took his wrist.
"Remus and I are talking," I said pinning Sirius with one of my stoniest glares.
Sirius gave me a bewildered look. I guess no girl had ever spoken to him that way but Lily. James swung over next to her and winked at me.
"Hey Jane," he grinned. "Sirius, mate, you look so confounded."
"Hey James," I grinned back at him. "Remus will you please show me to the library to go and get the books I need for class?"
"Sure, let's go," Remus grinned. "I can take you but I'll have to go and get my books for classes today."
"That's fine," I said smiling.
Remus and I walked up to the library. He left me at the entrance.
"Do you want me to come back to get you for Transfiguration?" Remus asked. He pushed a lock of his thin brown hair out of his eyes.
"No thank you," I'm sure someone will show me how to get there," I said and smiled at the pale sick looking boy.
"Whatever you say. See you in class Jane," Remus said smiling.
"See you," I grinned back at him. He was just as big a sweetheart in 1977 as he was in 1997.
I walked into the library and began perusing the shelves before I realized that I didn't know the titles of the Arithmancy or the Potions books I would need. I walked over to my usual table and to my surprise it was occupied by a certain greasy haired pale boy. I set my bag down on the table across from him.
"Where is that list?" I mumbled as I pawed through my bag. Damn! I must have left the list Dumbledore gave me up in the common room. Well maybe it would be alright, I thought chancing a look at the boy who sat with a potions book in front of him. "Excuse me; do you know what books I need for Arithmancy and Potions?"
Severus Snape looked up at me. His eyes were still piercingly dark and cold. They darted around clearly looking to see if any other Gryffindors were around.
"I know what books you need," he sneered hissing venomously, "but maybe you haven't noticed that Gryffindors and Slytherins don't get along. We don't help each other. We don't talk to each other. We don't tolerate each other. Just about the only thing we do is play cruel pranks on one another or hex members of the opposing house... You are just trying to lead me to Sirius Black." He sounded utterly paranoid. "What you didn't realize is the fact that that asshole has already done this to me and it will not work again."
"I do not want to trick you. Please help me. I haven't done anything unkind to you," I begged. Not even when I was his age and going to be attending classes with him would he notice me as anything more than an annoyance it seemed. I felt downcast.
"Why would I want to help friends of my enemies?" he asked and his eyes were still darting around madly.
"I am sorry for whatever Sirius has done to you but I was never a part of any of it so please do not treat me as though I have committed some heinous crime against you," I said. Please like me. Please like me. Please like me.
Severus sneered and stalked away from me but he left his bag behind.
'Great Hermione! Real smooth!' I admonished myself.
Thump. Thump.
I jumped. Two books were now next to my bag on the table. Advanced Potion Brewing and Seventh Year Arithmancy. I looked up.
Severus stood there. He grabbed his bag and slung it over his shoulder.
"What's your name?" he asked taking the book he had been reading off the table and tucking it under his arm.
"Jane," I answered grabbing the two books he'd gotten me. "Thank you very much. Do you know how to get to Transfiguration?"
"Yes, I'm going there now," Severus said. "I'm Severus Snape by the way."
"Pleased to meet you Severus," I smiled at him as we exited the library. "What is your favorite class?"
"I love Defense Against the Dark Arts, Potions, Arithmancy, and Transfiguration is okay. What about you?" Severus asked turning to look down at me.
"Snivellus!" a voice ahead of us sounded with excitement. Several dozen students in the corridor sniggered.
Sirius came bouncing up to us.
I glared with fiery passion at Sirius. I thought I couldn't hate him any more than I did before I met the teenaged version. I was wrong. I found this boy to be the most abhorrent creature I'd ever met.
"Hey Jane," he said and pushed some of his dark hair back. "I can take you to our class."
He offered me his arm in a grand show of chivalry. I frowned and glared at the deplorable boy.
"Severus is showing me to class. If you think you can behave and not insult Severus again then you are welcome to join us," I said acrimoniously and returned my attention to where it belonged, dedicated to Severus.
"I love potions. I've had a brilliant potions master as a teacher," I grinned. "Arithmancy is the best and so is Transfiguration. "Are you in Divination?"
"Divination is a class that people usually take for easy credit because the teacher has no idea what they are doing," Severus said scornfully.
"Sounds like my old Divination teacher," I said smiling at Severus. His cheeks colored a bit. I didn't dare expound about the teacher as I knew both of these men would one day be working with her and I did not want to give anything away. People should not know their future.
By that time we had arrived in Transfiguration.
"Jane," sit here," Lily called motioning to another seat that was across the aisle from her.
"Would you like to sit with me?" I asked turning to Severus.
His eyes widened to the size of dinner plates. He looked like he just swallowed a bug. Were people really that heartless? Had he always been ostracized? Had no one ever asked him to sit with them? I felt sickened by this. Was that why he became a death eater? Both seats were empty at that desk.
James, Lily, and Remus all gave me odd looks. I just smiled at them.
"Sure," Severus said and for once I heard his voice sound less than confident. We walked over toward the table.
Sirius, that prat, had apparently not heard any of this colloquy or he had heard it all and was determined to be an idiot. I am betting on the latter. He had gone over and sat right where Severus had been going to.
I gave James a pleading look.
"Sirius, mate, why don't you sit with Remus today?" James called.
"James, I want to sit here today," Sirius said stubbornly.
My hands balled together. How could one person be this way? I looked at Severus who had already started towards a seat in the back corner of the room. I grabbed his arm. His face was downcast.
"Remus would you please sit next to Sirius so Severus and I can sit together?" I asked.
Remus nodded and grinned. He grabbed his book but before he left he pulled me close and whispered, "You'll have Sirius all befuddled. He doesn't see how any girl could fail to be attracted to him. I commend you."
Severus slipped into the vacated seat and I sat down next to him. I felt myself laugh evilly on the inside. Sirius was livid. I could tell. His nostrils were flaring and his eyes burned.
Professor McGonagall came in a few seconds later. She did a double take when she saw me sitting with Severus. I just smiled pleasantly at her.
"Today we will be working on a little bit of research and next lesson we will apply what we've learned. We will be researching how to change our partner, the person sitting next to you at your table, into an animal of their choice. This will probably require working outside class," here she shot a look at James and Sirius. "You may begin."
Severus smiled fretfully at me, "What do you want to be turned into?"
"A lion or tiger," I said. "No birds please."
"I'll try for a lion."
"Thanks. What about you?" I asked. YAY! YAY! YAY! I knew Professor McGonagall was my favorite teacher. I got to work with Severus.
"Do you think you could do a black panther?" he asked with a small grin.
"Sure," I replied and we opened our Transfiguration book and began to pour over the text searching thoroughly for every shred of information we could find.
Ding-dong. Oh no! The bell! Severus shut his book and put it in his bag then stood there waiting for me to get organized so we could go together to the next class as he thought I had no idea where it was.
"Miss Grant may I speak with you a moment in my office?" Professor McGonagall asked.
I turned and walked to the door that led to her office.
"Mr. Snape please wait here and take Miss Grant to Charms," the Professor stated more than asked.
Severus nodded.
Professor McGonagall motioned me into her office.
"You're a very kind girl," Professor McGonagall said after she shut the door.
"How do you mean?" I asked. Was she talking about Severus? So people really have been cruel to him.
"I mean in the seven years I've been teaching the students in your class, I've never once seen one person ask Severus to sit with the. I've never seen one student work with him because they want to. Even the students in his own house reject him and he's such a shy boy that he won't talk to them to try to make friends. Many students in Gryffindor, as I'm sure you've noticed, are quite nasty to him. He does stand up for himself but when James, Sirius, and Peter all gang up on him..." Professor McGonagall said interlacing her fingers. "You've already begun to earn your house points. Twenty points to Gryffindor for true bravery and selfless kindness. You seem to already know that what is the right thing is not usually the popular thing."
"Well I had to deal with the same type of thing my first year and I do not want anyone else to suffer the way I did, though due to very odd circumstances I ended up making friends with two boys." I bowed my head. This just about tied for the most embarrassing event of my life. I wasn't sure if this was more embarrassing then bumping into the teacher I had a huge crush on and being insulted by him. Bumping into Severus was definitely more embarrassing.
"That is all I wanted to say Miss Grant," Professor McGonagall said. "Now you and Mr. Snape better hurry to class. Take this note and give it to him."
I slipped out of her office. The bell rang seconds later. The hallways were empty except for a few late stragglers and Severus who was waiting patiently for me. We walked off down the hall together.
"What'd McGonagall need to talk to you about?" he asked softly.
"Just boring transfer student information," I answered. Yeah right! Like I would tell him the truth.
"Oh, um, willyousitwithmeinCharms?" he rambled out the question so fast I couldn't understand at first. I had to take a minute to process.
"I'd love to," I said smiling which caused his pale cheeks to flush with what I hoped was pleasure.
As we entered the charms room I handed him the note and he nodded to two chairs in the back of the room, the corner furthest from Sirius. He went up and quietly gave the note to Professor Flitwick. The Professor nodded and smiled at me. His smile widened as he saw Severus take a seat next to me.
"Today we will be doing color changing charms," Professor Flitwick said. "We will start by learning to change the color of our partner's robes."
Severus looked utterly miserable when this was said.
"What's wrong?" I whispered. It was probably something that imbecile Sirius Black had done.
"Last lesson, James Potter was my partner and he turned my favorite set of robes various shades of pink," Severus said and he sneered in the direction of the delinquent. "and Sirius Black, the git, carefully cast a lasting spell on it and I can't get it to change back."
I glowered at Sirius. NO bloody wonder Professor Snape didn't care if Black was guilty or not and the dementors kissed him. Sirius was an amazingly large asshole.
"Please begin working you two," Professor Flitwick said as he walked by us.
"What color do you want your robes?" Severus asked opening his book and flicking his wand at it causing the book to go directly to the correct page.
"Do you think you could get a nice shade of blue?" I asked.
"That'll be easy," Severus said grinning.
"Would you mind having forest green robes?" I asked.
"That would be acceptable," he answered.
"Let's get to it," I said and climbed to my feet.
"Viridis," I said pointing my wand directly at Severus Chest.
Seconds later Severus' robes began to sparkle and shine as they turned a deep shade of green.
"Azurea," Severus said swishing and flicking his wand at me.
I looked down at my own robes and saw they were a beautiful shade of ocean blue.
"Excellent! Miss Grant and Mr. Snape have done it!" Professor Flitwick said looking very pleased.
I turned to see how far the others had gotten only to see James had a somewhat enlarged luminous neon green nose. Sirius was sporting flashing fiery orange hair and eyebrows. Lily, who'd been working with Remus, well her clothes were now pink with patches of black and Remus had pale sky blue skin.
Severus snorted. Was that a laugh?
Professor Flitwick looked at the others dismayed. I had to bite my lip to keep from laughing out loud. They all looked so funny!
Professor Flitwick called them up by group to be returned to their natural colors.
Ding-dong.
"Go to lunch."
"Jane wait up," I heard James call to me.
I stopped. Severus who was walking with me froze like a statue before melting into the shadows. I could see him peering out at me.
"Yes James," I said turning to the head-boy and future father of my best friend. "Do you want to sit with us at lunch?"
"Sure," I turned to Severus. "Do you want to sit with me during afternoon classes?"
He nodded before quietly slipping away through the shadows.
"He is so dirty and creepy Jane. How can you stand to be friends with him?" Sirius asked. "And he is ugly and prejudiced. Bet he doesn't know you are muggleborn."
I felt my blood begin to boil again. I glowered at him. "That subject has not come up but I am entirely certain that he would not care."
I moved so I was walking in between Remus and Lily. Sirius was unable to take a hint because he squeezed up in between Remus and me.
"Jane, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to upset you," Sirius said trying to look adorable by pushing his locks out of his face.
"Well as long as you are going to behave the same way you did when you were five by childishly insulting Severus when he's done nothing to you, I will be upset and not want to deal with you," I snapped moving over to walk between James and the wall.
Lunch was very silent in our group. Sirius stared at me the entire time without shame and making no attempt to hide it. He looked rather wistful.
"Remus, Lily, I'll see you in Ancient Runes," I said as I stood up to leave.
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