Let me take you on the ride of your life
Chapter 3
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Aurora sat and explained herself to the stubborn Snape for nearly twenty minutes! Indeed, their teaching methods were very different! Snape was very strict, and conservative in his teaching, as where Aurora was very hands-on, lenient and sweet to the children. So, what to do? The two of them won't seem to come to an agreement! Aurora hated confrontation, and would do anything to avoid it, and it was no different in this situation with Snape.
"Please Mr. Snape, I really don't want to fight about it. What is that you want me to do differently?" Aurora cried.
"Ms. McClaire, you need to give these students structure, discipline. These are the components for a great education. Without these components, the students will never take you seriously. Music Ms. McClaire? I really don't know what Dumbledore was thinking when he agreed to have such a pointless course added to the itinerary…"
Aurora cut him off in mid sentence, "Pointless Mr. Snape? I think not. Music is very important! If you noticed, everything revolves around music, movies, entertaiment! Our society is nothing without entertainment. Life would be boring, and unhappy!"
"Please Ms. McClaire. Think about this, we are teaching witchcraft. What does music have to do with it? Potions, you see, is a very useful skill to have, and everything incorporates into each other. How does Music contribute to this?" Snape challenged.
"You have an excellent argument here! And yes Mr. Snape, I have a response to your argument. What do you suppose would happen if you were to, say, by accident add the wrong ingredient to your potion, even if it looked, smelled the same, but there was still a minor difference in the two ingredients?"
"It wouldn't be the same potion, in short, you messed it up."
"Precisely! Because you added the wrong ingredient to your potion, it is no longer the same thing! It may have a different taste, different look, consistency! It is the same in music Mr. Snape, say you are playing a piece on the piano, and you play the wrong note, it sounds similar, but it's not the same. In some cases, it may throw off the mood of the whole piece! Do you understand what I am getting at?"
"Yes, Miss. I understand your point…"
On that Friday night, the two discussed their opinions on teaching, and the discipline of children, in a heated debate late into the night.
It was a chilly December morning at Hogwarts, the bare tree branches swayed slightly in the cold breeze. Hermione scurried about with her school books to her meeting place with her music professor. This was Hermione's third lesson, even though she was slowly catching on, she hated it. The only thing that made it even bearable was her sweet teacher. She wished that all the teachers would be like that, kind and understanding. Not that all the other teachers were mean, but there was just something about this woman that made her feel instantly relaxed, and at ease with her little problem.
Professor McClaire arrived in the cramped little room shortly after Hermione did. "Good morning Hermione sweetheart! Are you ready to begin?"
"Yes. I practiced the scale you taught me last night, and I think I finally have the notes down!" Hermione said with enthusiasm, "I also finished the assignment you gave me last Saturday. I hope it's done okay, I mean, I was having a little trouble with it, but I pulled through quite nicely I think."
"Alright, why don't you hand that over to me, and take your seat. You might want to drink some water Hermione, I have quite a difficult scale for you today."
Aurora began with the lesson she prepared just that morning, but what she didn't know, was that Severus Snape had been watching every meeting she had with Hermione. He tried to justify himself for watching her, by saying to himself that because she had such "radical teaching methods" that he best watch her, for the students sake.
"Severus Snape!" a voice called from within, "Bullshit! You are stalking her, look what you've reduced yourself to! You don't even 'like' the Granger child! Why would you take an interest in protecting a lowly Gryffindor! The reason Severus, is that you LIKE the woman! You enjoy watching her from afar, wondering about her, and now that you finally had your first real conversation with her, your hooked! You need to stop forming feelings for people who will only stab you in the back, and make you draw further and further away from any potential… friend…"
Severus shook his head and rubbed his pain stricken temples in anger. With a grunt in Aurora's general direction, he fled the scene. Soon after her session with Hermione came to an end, Aurora looked over the child's homework. She had made incredible progress in the past few weeks!
"Maybe I should show this to Severus…" What! "I just called him… 'Severus' ? Wow, I need to get over myself. But this really is wonderful work! I think he needs to see this, just to see that I AM a good teacher!" Aurora said to herself.
Aurora descended down into the Slytherin dungeon, with the paper in hand. All she wanted at that moment was to be accepted, and recognized by him. Nothing more.