AN: duj, i hope this chapter clears up your worries on why Snape behaved how he did.

elektrikstorm, thank you for taking the time to review and i hope you continue to read!

Princess Kalye, Thank you for agreeing with me! hope you continue to read !

Disclaimer: I still don't own anything J.K. Rowling invented. It's a shame but true.

Chapter two:

Hermione hurried back to her room, thanking whoever had decided to give the head girl her own room, fine she shared a common room with the head boy, but it was the fact she didn't have to share a bedroom with a load of giggling girls. Once inside the bedroom she warded the door, placed the cloak and book into the wardrobe, slipped off her robe and got into bed. She slept peacefully knowing she could start her research in the morning.

"Harry thanks for letting me borrow it, I got what I needed." Hermione smiled and pulled the boy into a hug.

" 'Mione, did anyone see you, I mean the teachers watches have increased lately." Harry asked a little worried.

"Snape found me twice, I've got a detention after dinner." she replied, Harry's face was a picture.

"You've what? He saw you twice? Wait, did you just call him Snape, what happened to Professor Snape?" he grabbed her arm and pulled her towards him. " 'Mione what's gotten into you? Would you like to explain how you ran into Snape twice and are still here?"

"Why so many questions? Anyway I deserve the detention, I mean I did disobey him last night. Lets go down to breakfast and I'll tell you and Ron then ok." she smiled as Harry ran off to hurry Ron up and out of the dormitory.

Hermione led the trio to a deserted space at the end of the table and filled them in on the story, fine she missed out why she was going to the library but they didn't need to know.

"So what does the Contrai whatever charm do then?" Ron asked quietly.

"It reverses most spells, its an old French spell so many people don't know it." she smiled at the two boys opposite her, they were staring.

" So why d'ya think Snape stood there watching you read, I mean come on, don't you think it's a bit strange?" Harry asked glancing up at the head table. Hermione shook her head slightly and snorted quietly.

"Do you really think he did that on his own free will?" she asked in a whisper, both boys shook their heads. "Of course not. The charm I used on him acted like a body bind but not as you know them. The charm freezes whoever cast the spell you're countering and holds them still for as long as you need, Snape obviously recognised it because he fought the charm enough for him to overcome it." If the boys had been staring at her before they were openly gawping at her now. They spent the rest of breakfast talking quietly and glanced at each other before going off to classes.

Lunch came round quickly Hermione was fine with this but the boys took it as a bad sign.

"We have potions after lunch 'Mione, aren't you worried about it? If you used that charm we talked about at breakfast then he's going to be furious." Harry said and Ron shuddered whilst agreeing. Ron hadn't got into the NEWTs potions class, not that he was worried about it.

" Harry's right M, if I were you I'd be scared shitless." Ron added with another shiver.

"Funnily enough Ron, I'm not you, I'm not going to act in any other way than I usually would." she retorted. Harry glanced up at the head table, Snape was sitting next to McGonagall, his eyes fixed on Hermione.

" 'Mione, did you know Snape's staring at you?" he asked quietly so as not to let Ron hear.

"His eyes haven't left me since I walked in." after a pause she added, "Though I don't blame him, I was a little out of character last night."

They finished their lunches bade farewell to Ron and made their way down to potions. Hermione walked purposefully while Harry lagged behind.

"Harry keep up, just pretend you don't know anything about my outing last night, or my detention. Your not allowed to tell anybody else, ok?" Hermione hissed as they walked down to the dungeons.

"Fine." Harry muttered as they approached the class room door.

§§§§§

The stillness made his entrance more impressive as he swept down the corridor, cloak flailing behind him and torches flickering in his wake. Severus Snape feared Potions Master, beware.

"In everybody now." he drawled watching the effect it had on everybody. The students, if you could call them that, all made their way into the room and took their seats. Mentally Snape counted them off,

'Potter, Granger, Longbottom, Malfoy, Zabini,' he stopped and continued with his speech to the class.

"The instructions are on the board, you have one hour to complete it." Snape paused and flicked his wand at the board, chalk writing appeared. He looked around the room, only a handful of students were beginning to collect their ingredients, his eyes landed on Hermione Granger. For about the hundredth time that day he began to wonder why she was reading such a book. What she had told him hadn't helped in the slightest and the thing that annoyed him was that, he knew that she knew that he knew. Yes that know it all knew that he couldn't find out about what she was researching and so she continued to flit around the class room, his class room. In fact she seemed to be flitting around more than usual, and throwing saint Potter some warning glances.

More than once Snape had found The-Boy-Who-Will-Not-Die-And-Leave-Me-In-Peace staring at him, then the know it all would notice him and would whisper something to Potter, then she would give him a strange look. He decided to ignore it and file it away with all the other looks people gave him.

§§§§§

"Harry, stop staring will you, I already told you to forget it. He's seen you looking at him." Hermione whispered as she added the third spiders leg. Harry turned his gaze to her instead.

"How do you know he's seen us? Been taking secret lessons with old Trelawney have you?" Harry joked in a whisper.

"Don't be silly, just don't stare anymore ok?"

"Fine, keep your secret meetings secret, I don't want to know anyway." Harry replied mock serious.

Slowly the potion was completed and it was one of the lessons where nothing went wrong at all.

"Miss Granger, remember your detention after dinner, you will report to me here." Snape said quietly as Hermione brought forward here potion sample. She realised he had spoken so no one else had heard and so gave him a curt nod and walked back to Harry.

At the end of dinner.

" 'Mione, you sure you don't want us to walk you down?" Harry asked as the trio ate their desserts. Hermione looked at the boys eating their apple crumble. Ron was stopping himself from talking a second helping and was now looking longingly at the bowl.

"No really, I've already told you I'll be fine. Nothing bad is going to happen, well nothing unusual anyway." she stood and smiled. "Oh and Ron, enjoy your second helping wont you." She and Harry shared a smile while Ron looked bemused, as she walked away she could hear Harry beginning to explain about her 'secret meetings'

Slowly Hermione made her way down to the dungeons, imagining Ron and Harry's faces after Ron got what had made her and Harry smile. 'That would have been a picture.' she thought. She raised her hand and knocked smartly on the potions class room door.