I apologize for not updating in such a long time but a lot has been going on in my life. This chapter is unbeta-ed because my beta is too good to be at home now…JOKING…he is on vacation and I love him to death and he knows that. Since it has been so long since I updated my story I have decided to do shout-outs to everyone…if you want me to continue to do that just let me know and I will…Some responses will be quite short because I was given little material with which to work...
Chained and Torchered : Yes I did know about that. For those who've not read HBP do not go read the review unless you want the book spoiled. I LOVE SNAPE! I do not care that he did what he did. I would love to say more but I do not want to spoil the book for anyone!
Padfoot 4 Life : Many people seem to be in love with Sirius. I can't say that I am one of them. Slytherin/Gryffindor matches are the best. They are just so darned SEXY! I share the warped sense of humor. I thought it might prove entertaining to have Severus have to see what it is like on the other side of the fence so to speak.
Lindseys Angel : Do not worry I will finish it. I can not promise to update soon. I have a lot of HW. BUT I do promise to finish this story.
Ms. Dwyn Snape : Yes it is. Fun isn't it?
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-Lily Evans 4 life- : First of all Lily is totally awesome. I love her so much. She is such a sweetheart. I would be friends with her. AS I have said I promise to finish this story. How long it will take it is hard to say. I am writing so much stuff -that is the best word for it- right now that this story is a little on the backburners. Mainly because one thing I am writing I need to write just for myself...just need to get it out of my crazy brain.
Aleatha515 : Sorry...but Severus needs to suffer a little longer.
Syron13 : Yes poor Severus.
JTBJAB : No need to tell me that this is like real life. IT IS MY LIFE! I AM JUST AS WUSSY AS SEVERUS IS BEING RIGHT NOW! I am sure that at least one of my reviewers can vouch for it.
Fichtel : yes. You will feel even more sorry for him.
Mo D : I will do my best!
Slytherin-Angel44 : You will feel more sorry for him if I have done a good job!
anonymous : Snape is a Slytherin...he is a planner...he has to plan his move. He is not someone who jumps into anything. He thinks it through. At least that has always been my impression.
Natsuyori : I will update when I can.
Paranoid Sarcasm : I can't wait for HP 7 but I have to. Sucks huh? You will have to wait like everyone else.
USAFroggi87 : I do not know. Will he? Maybe I should get into satire and let my reader decide the ending that they want! JOKING! I am not really into that. CHECK OUT THIS GIRL'S STORIES! I BETA THEM! THEY ROCK!
Amethyst : Thank you. I know I need to watch that. My computer is a butthead and deletes things as it sees fit regardless of what I tell it to do.
Humanity74: Thank you.
Kissmesweetly : I hope you have not died yet.
Cararox : If Snape goes to the future from the past and returns to the past in the future then his future would lie in the past regardless so he would still be in Harry's time as his adult self...trust me on this...no matter how strange this sounds...I have thought it through many times...I am the biggest nerd...-sweatdrop-...I hope that all made sense to you because it makes sense to me but I am a confusing individual!
firewall : I am not going to have them interact in class but on a personal level they will talk to one another one on one. HOW GREAT WILL THAT BE? I am socially inept...why else would a very deep part of my life be spent writing these stories? GOSH I can't believe that I typed that!
MadameAngel : That's right. You are not in charge. It is good of you to recognize that. I LOVE BEING THE BOSS! -happy leprechaun dance-
SlytherinsDarkAngel07 : I update as I feel that I have the chapters just right...this one took forever for me to figure out and hell I will come out and say it I got lazy...sorry to everyone!
SarcasticCapricorn : I did change it but it did not show up for a while. What if I liked it as Chapter 6? Who are you to tell me what to do? It is my bloody story. I will do whatever the hell I feel like. -sticks tongue out- I LOVE YOU SARCASTICCAPRICORN! You get what you want...there will be little action between Professorin Von Rosenstengeland Harry...they are not who the story is about! Also thank you...you got me a reviewer! -winks- UPDATE HG/RL soon so I can give you another odd review...I like giving those.
Countess Vladislaus Dragu : Most people can't wait for more but like I have to wait for HP 7 so shalt you have to wait for me to update! I am the biggest dork...I do not need any comments about that statement...how could I not be a dork when I write all this fanfiction?-sweatdrop-Anarane Anwamane : Yes yes...good good...poor Severus...will be picked on more! -evil laughter-coughs-glares at laughing reviewers---
mugglemomof3 : School work beckons...I update as I can...okay I am lazy but we all have our little disorders...
natyslacks : Maybe I can convert you! JOKING...I am glad you like this chapter and your desire shall be granted soon! -winks saucily-
-Severus Snape-
I watched Hermione leave with that pretty boy, Goldstein. I even, with a sneer, watched him take her hand. There wasn't much I could do about this. I wasn't one of the brave, intrepid and generally idiotic Gryffindorks. I was a Slytherin. I had always been a Slytherin and would always be a Slytherin. It would be easier and better for me to do things in my own time as I always had. There was a time to go gallivanting off to play the hero by saving the damsel in distress and there was a time for planning how best to do it. Everything came in its own time.
I collapsed back in a chair. I had to be the only seventh year staying back. Not unusual for me. I hadn't had many friends during the seventies. I slumped down and picked up my Ancient Runes book and sat at the window with one foot hanging out and one drawn up to place my book on.
-Harry Potter-
"WAKE UP! WAKE UP, HARRY!"
I felt my head lifted up and placed on something soft. A smooth hand was stroking my face. My eyelids were heavy. It felt as if two bricks were weighing them down. I managed to open them the thinnest of slits.
"I'm fine," I wheezed out finally. I got my eyes open a little farther and realized that my teacher was upside down and that my head was resting on her lap.
I jerked up in the shock. Everything swirled and spiraled as I grabbed my head. Moaning I clutched my head shutting my eyes desperately to block out everything. I felt two hands rest on my back.
"Are you sure you are okay?"
"Yeah…" I answered getting up as I felt my dizziness pass.
My teacher…it would never work…I should give up on this whole folly. That is all it was.
"That is enough for today," Professorin Von Rosenstengel said turning around and leaning on the desk. Her body was quaking as she leaned against her desk for support. "I'll see you Monday. You better get going if you want to get down to Hogsmeade."
I hated to leave her when she was clearly in a state but I couldn't stay either. It was clear that the professor wanted to be alone.
Slowly I walked back to the Gryffindor common room. I didn't feel like going to Hogsmeade. My two best friends were on dates though, admittedly, Hermione had no idea who she was dating. I grunted the password at the fat lady and went in to see the common room deserted. That was odd. At least until I saw a surly Snape miserably moping about scowling at everything from the carpet to the candles. Now it made sense. The younger years were terrified out of their minds of Snape and had most likely skedaddled out of there as soon as they had seen him.
"What are you doing here?" I asked and I raised an eyebrow. Hopefully he would give me a decent answer instead of one of his patented cold caustic cryptic retorts.
"What business is that of yours?"
"A great deal if you are staying here and letting one of my good friends wander around Hogsmeade alone in such bad times…" I snarled whipping out my wand.
"Oh you have a lot of room to be talking when you, no doubt, have been off flirting with Professorin Von Rosenstengel. She certainly is a wench. Anyone with half a brain can see that she is throwing herself at you. You must only have a quarter of a brain because you appear to have missed that bit of school news."
I blushed. I had no clue what to do in relationships. That sounded like it was straight from the Parvati and Lavender gossip mill.
"Chill out will you Potter? Hermione is on a date with a Ravenclaw prefect by the name of Anthony Goldstein."
I felt myself calm. Thank everything good and holy in the universe. There were two big reasons to be celebrating. Number one Hermione was not dating the biggest asshole to ever grace Hogwarts both as a student and as a teacher. She was not dating someone who would be going twenty years into the past who grew up to become the most abhorred teacher in the thousand year history of Hogwarts. She was out with a fellow member of Dumbledore's Army. Number Two was she was finally paying someone besides aforementioned asshole attention. Hermione was too good for him. She could do better. She deserved better.
Snape had snatched up a book and had firmly buried his abnormally large and hooked nose in an Arithmancy book.
I cocked an eyebrow at him and felt a smirk spread across my face. "Interesting way you have of coping Severus…read books upside down all the time?"
He slammed his book shut and rose with snooty dignity to his feet. He turned and left with a swish of his black robes. They billowed menacingly behind him in a mini shadow of his future self as he stalked haughtily up the stairs.
-Severus Snape-
I flung my book onto my bed. The nerve of that simpleton had vexed me. I wasn't really pissed at the Potter prick but sometimes it seemed that he really got a kick out of pushing my buttons.
I flopped out on my bed and folded my arms under the back of my head and pulled my wand from my pocket. The window had been left open and a few flies were buzzing around the ceiling even though it was rather late in the year. It was getting dark and I began to zap them one by one down.
I desperately wanted to go to Hogsmeade and steal Hermione back from that Goldstein. I knew though that that would not prove anything to her. It wouldn't show maturity or that I cared. It would show that I was capable of being jealous. Sure she could do better than me, but in my opinion Anthony was worse. There was just something about him that made him seem rotten.
-Hermione Granger-
The date had been fabulous. I would give him more time. He was pleasant enough and I hadn't had to pay for a single thing. He bought me a nice lunch and he was courteous and polite. He had bought me a book I had been wanting on Potions. It was written by Professor Snape so it was sure to be brilliant. I did have a slightly less impressed idea about his intellect after I had to explain several elementary things to him that Professor Snape had told us in our first class. The book was about medicinal potions for curse-damaged brains and different theories on how to heal them.
By the end of our date he was attempting to walk hand in hand with me. I shirked it off every time. It took about five minutes before he realized that I just wasn't ready to do that.
"Do you want to get together and work on Professor Snape's homework?" Anthony asked as we stopped on the seventh floor landing.
I felt highly unnerved. True I did want to continue to see him. Alexander wasn't interested in me but still I had plans with him and perhaps I could win his affection.
"I can't do anything tomorrow. Actually Alexander and I are going to work on our Arithmancy project tomorrow."
"Oh. Well we have another visit to Hogsmeade planned for next weekend, do you want to go with me?"
I bit my lip. I knew if Alexander asked and I already had plans with someone else…then that would ruin any chance I had with him. I didn't want to do that but I did not want to be alone next weekend like I almost had been this weekend.
"Sure…" I said slowly biting my lip.
"Great," Anthony said shifting lightly. "Well I will pick you up then."
I nodded before walking back to the common room. I sighed out the password.
"Hey Hermione," Harry called looking up as I walked in. "How did your date with Anthony go?" He winked playfully at me.
"We are going to hang out again next weekend. I do not know though. I might decide to just be friends with him. He is sweet and polite but he needed me to explain things to him that even Ron remembers from our first year of potions."
"Is there just someone you'd rather be with?" Harry asked raising his right eyebrow.
Yeah right. I wasn't about to tell Harry who I really wanted to be with. He complained enough about the amount of time that I spent with Alexander.
I shrugged. "He isn't interested in me."
"Who is it? I could talk to him for you," Harry offered giving me the same silly little grin he had when I walked in.
"No thanks Harry. I think I am going to go and take a nap before dinner."
Well here is the next chapter. I will get the next out to you as soon as I can! I get to go to the ZOO! YAY! ANIMALS! But there won't be a hippogriff or dragonsthere...-sniffles- So depressing! But I will get over it! Everyone loves the zoo...except poopy fart butts!