A/N: sorry for the long update. school sucks...and i'd also like to apologise for all of my previous spelling/gramatical errors. Ididn'tnotice them until i went back and was reading the chapters to see what i mentioned before. and i was mortified i had postedsome of that. I will attempt to re-read better from now on - anyways...

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Snape opened one eye. Nope, he wasn't imagining it. He was in his shower. With the water turned on. With all of his robes on too. Tonks had pointed out that if he wanted to go naked, she wouldn't stop him. Seven layers of wet robes it was.

Snape may not have cursed her as she tried to get him in the shower, but it was because she got to his wand first ( not THAT wand, ahem). Still, no wand or not, he refused to co-operate any more than he had to. Tonks washed his hair with what had to be the most feminine shampoo he had ever laid eyes on before. He would end up smelling more fruity than all the other food in the great hall. Just what he needed. He had washed his hair once before while being a professor at Hogwarts, after losing a bet over quidditch with McGonagall, and it resulted in unwanted attention from Hooch all that morning. Dumbledore had to change seating arrangements in the great hall as she couldn't keep her hands off of him. Ever since, Snape didn't pay that much attention to his physical appearance, he had more important things to worry about.

Finally the agony was over and he was allowed to get out and change his robes. As if his suffering wasn't bad enough already, Tonks insisted that he tie his hair back.

"Would you want your hair to dangle in one of Longbottom's potions ?"Tonks asked.

Snape decided he couldn't argue with that, and admitted defeat. Then he was off to his first potions class of the day. The potions class no students would ever forget. Even after being obliviated. And then using a pensieve.

Snape entered the classroom just like he did every other day. Except he was snarling more than usual. Or at least that was what he was trying to do. He'd have to snarl twice as much to make up for his hair. He put the instructions on like every other day. And sat at his desk like every other day. Besides everyone staring at his hair, not much changed. Snape attempted to mark papers, but found it increasingly difficult as Miss Brown, Granger, Patil and shudder Parkinson were staring at him. For a moment he wished he could wear his Death Eater robes to class. No one would see his hair - alas they would no doubt stare more - well only the Gryffindors, the Slytherins wouldn't notice anything.

"Miss. Granger ?" purred Snape.

Granger jumped and dropped what she was holding into her cauldron, in an attempt to pretend she had not been staring, causing it to produce purple smoke.

"I'm afraid" purred Snape again, " that I will have to take away twenty points form Gryffindor".

Instead of Granger protesting as she usually did, she just blushed and nodded her head. It was the first time she didn't have an emotional breakdown after not getting a perfect mark. Granger ruined a potion. This earth shattering event wasn't even noticed by the other students. Apparently, Snape's hair was much more interesting. Snape did not see what they were so concerned about, nor did he care, although Potter had almost passed out before Longbottom this class, and thatwould havebeen worth the shower. Almost. After threatening expulsion to whoever did not begin their potion immediately, there was a sramble of parchment and students finally ceased to stare. However the amount of whispering had doubled. Potter figured they were in a time warp, and that his potion might actually pass Snape's standards today, because if Sanpe had washed his hair, it must be the end of the world. Longbottom was even more terrified than usual, and Weasley had suggested that they were hallucinating due to the after- effects of a potion that must have been brewed incorrectly in the class before. Surely if they worked really hard on their potion, they would snap out of the hallucination, and the rest of the class decided it might be possible and itwas worth a try.

It was astounding. Snape had never seen Miss. Brown open her textbook before. All the students were intensely looking at their work, double checking every step, determined not to glance towards the front of the room. Except Granger, who was still staring, oblivious that she had ruined her potion (not that it would drop her average below 100 because her average was currently at 145)

Snape decided he would get no marking done with Granger staring at him, and instead, he would attempt to terrorize the students as Tonks had suggested. He walked through the rows of desks until he was standing right behind the-boy-who-lived-but-couldn't-get-a-girl, the flaming carrot, the hairy encyclopedia and the .. well there were no words to describe Longbottom.

"Longbottom" hissed Snape.

"Eep"squeaked Longbottom.

"he's not here, i'm immagining things" murmered Weasley.

"You don't seem to be concentrating completely. And i can assure you this potion needs your complete attention... It's very.. hard" Snape continued, leaning in.

Potter stopped stirring. So did Weasley and Finnigan. And Longbottom stopped breathing.

' There's one less student to worry about . He didn't even get a chance to ruin his potion today '

"Perhaps" Snape said softly, "Mr.Weasley can exaplin the importance of focusing on this potion"

Weasley shrunk back into the counter, unable to say a word. Aha. So Doby did let them in on what had transpired in his rooms earlier... Bloody house elves.

' Weasley speechless ? There's a first'

"No ?" Snape asked.

The rest of the class continued the same way. Fortunately for snape, no student was able to make the potion correctly. The students were diving over each other to get out of the classroom. Within bare seconds, word has passed around. Not one single student showed up for his class the next block.

' if I had known this would happed, I would have done it ages ago'

Snape returned to his rooms, surprised to find Tonks there.

"So" Tonks asked, walking towards him "how was class".

"Somewhat better than usual" Snape replied.