Title: Helping Her

Genre: Humor/Romance

Category: Full Story

Summary: No one ever thought Draco Malfoy would show compassion. But him being the cause of a major turn up at Hogwarts, he must show at least a spark of it for what he has to deal with.

Krysta's Notes: This is the long awaited part of the story. It fits in before Hermione goes to sleep. So, enjoy. This has nothing else but what I promised, just a little SnapeHermione bonding.

Sorry, if some of Snape's actions are a little off and OoC.

Still the fourth day, just tells what happened when they left for Hogsmeade.

Reminder: MalfoyGranger. ZabiniWeasley/G/. Weasley/R/Parkinson. SnapeMcGonagall

Chapter 7: When You Give a Child an Errand

Chapter Reminder/Warning: This is before Hermione has the nightmare in the previous chapter. Warning: Snape will show somewhat a normal nature to Hermione. If this disturbs you, run while you can. LoL.

.-.-.-.-. Flashback .-.-.-.-.

Professor McGonagall and Professor Snape were in Dumbledore's office.


"Minerva, no way in hell I am going to Hogsmeade." The Potions Professor said.

"Well Severus, you need to do something! Stop being a grouch!" The elderly witch stated, sitting in a chair beside the Headmaster's desk. Dumbledore smiled at the bickering pair.

'I wish they'd just kiss already' He thought, stroking his gray beard.

"Well, I hate these wretched children. They're little demons." He hissed to the Transfiguration teacher.


"Professor!" Blaise interrupted, charging into the office. Snape switched his glare onto Blaise, before releasing it all together, as Blaise was a Slytherin.

"I really need help, Potter andWeasley are going to the pitch and there's no one to watch Hermione when we leave!" He exclaimed. Pansy, standing behind him, nodded. Snape passed Pansy a look. She had always been strange to the Potions teacher and creeped him out with her looks.

"Why children, Severus here would love to baby sit little Hermione, won't you Severus?" The Professor said happily, smiling and urging the Potions Master to answer. His face twisted into a mix of shock and horror and caused Pansy to laugh.

She was silenced by a glare from the Potions Master.

"Yeah, Professor Snape. She really seems to like you a lot." Pansy added.

"Alright, but only this once!" He said and stormed out.

"Oh and Professor?" Pansy said, calling him back in. The man looked weirdly at the Slytherin girl.

"Hermione is in the Gryffindor Common Room and refuses to leave." The greasy haired Professor left in a huff again. Professor McGonagall high-fived Pansy and the younger girl left happily with Blaise.


In the Common Room, Hermione jumped up to greet the professor.

"Hi...Professor Scrape!" She said, officially greeting him with a hug. He peeled the girl off him.

"Look, girl. Sit there, play with whatever you have there, and let me be." The greasy haired man said, glaring and squinting at all the red and gold.

"But that'll be no fun!" She exclaimed. He waved a hand nonchalantly at her.

"No fun at all." She whispered, rubbing her hands together while she was hatching a plan.


Hermione sat there for a while, before creeping off. She walked up the girls' dormitory steps armed with a wand she found.

'Probably Scrapie's' She thought.

She tore through the stuff in the rooms and found a giant bag. She carefully used the wand to assemble things back to normal.


Before coming back out, Hermione stopped and took a breath. She continued her trek, dragging a bag three times her size out. It was labeled 'Lavender's Accessories.'

"No wonder no one loves you, Scrapie." She said, looking at the sleeping Potions Master. His eyes were screwed up into a nasty look even for a sleeping person and his arms firmly crossed across his black robed form.


She wrapped a bright blue feather boa around the Potions teacher's neck. She adorned his neck with tons of multi-colored flower leis. She magically attached two pearl earrings to the Potions Master's ears and magically turned his hair into cornrows.

Then she applied bright pink lipstick, purple eye shadow, blue lip liner, and black eye liner to his face. Finally, when she started adding mascara to his left eye, it popped open and the brush poked him in the eye.


"Child!" He roared. She ran from the Common Room to StoryTeller's office. Professor McGonagall smiled quickly at Hermione and tried to hold in a laugh at Snape's appearance. Professor Dumbledore let out a heavy chuckle at his employee's 'new look.' Hermione took refuge behind Dumbledore's desk.

"Sorry, Scrapie. But I had to make you pretty, cause nobody loves you." Hermione said, shyly.

"Hermione!" Professor McGonagall said.

"Oh!" She said, winking at the older lady.

"I forgot, Professor Minnie's mad cause I made you pretty and all the other ladies are gonna like you and she doesn't want them to cause she loves you." The little girl said, running from the room.


Professor McGonagall ran after her, embarrassed. She was climbing a pair of stairs when Snape hit her with a sleeping spell. The girl teetered, before she began to fall.

McGonagall, with quick reflexes, shot a levitation charm to save the girl and glared at Severus. She shoved the child at him and stalked off.

"She has got to relax, mayhap I'd look at her. Stop being such an angry old bit." The Potions teacher said to the sleeping child, before walking off. But Hermione could hear his statement and held back a wide smile.


Arriving back to the Common Room, Hermione was laid on the couch and Severus sat next to her, reading an old Potions tome. She moved over a bit and snuggled into his shoulder. At first, a disgusting look overcame his features, before smiling and smoothing her curly hair.

Hermione 'woke up' again. Professor Snape was sitting in front of the fire and Hermione wanted something to do.


"Scrapie, I need something to do." She complained to the professor.

He sat there, so Hermione poured some water on him. He remained still. She poured some syrup from the end of his wand and it stuck to his head. He got up slowly and charged at the girl. She quickly tore open a red pillow and caught the Professor in feathers. He looked like a giant chicken.

He rampaged at her, and attacked her. He pulled off globs of syrup and feather, tossing them at the little girl. She pulled out more stuffing and creamed him in the face. He tickle-attacked her until she would stop.


"Will you stop?" He said menacingly.

"Yes---ple--ease, lemm--eee--go!" She said between laughs. He let her go. Finally, they finished their odd excuse for a pillow fight. He cleaned his robes and sat back down, settling the tome in his lap.

"But I'm still bored!"

"Go recolor this room, that's what you should do. I hate red and gold." The man said angrily, obviously interrupted from reading that giant tome. he cast a spell to rid himself of feathers.He stalked into another room inside the Common Room. She grabbed the wand from her pocket and started reciting spells.


When Professor Snape came back; he was horrified.

The wall over the archway that led into the room was a bright purple and pink polka dots covered it. The second and third walls were shot at with different colors. Spots of green, purple, yellow, and red covered those two walls. And the last wall, which was opposite the door, she had somehow put an enlarged picture of McGonagall on the wall.

"Oh, I hope Minerva hasn't left." He said, rushing back to the Transfiguration office.


"Minerva!" he said, disturbing the witch who was currently taking the names up for Hogsmeade.

"Come here!" He said, dragging her to the Gryffindor Common Room.

"Snape." He said and the door opened. She saw the wall and flushed red.

"Hermione did this?" McGonagall questioned, Snape was about to answer but the child cut him off with a silencing spell.

"No, I did the other three. Professor Snape has a little fascination with you. He did that, took the picture from his little twisted collection." Hermione said mischievously. She froze Professor Snape with a spell and beamed at the blooming witch.

"Well, this is...certainly a surprise." She said and left the room. Hermione climbed the girls' dormitory staircase with Lavender's bag and unfroze and unsilenced the Professor.


Snape began a screaming rampage after her up the stairs and she took shelter in Lavender's bed, replacing her bag. But he didn't continue up the stairs. She rushed out into the entrance and saw him sitting at the bottom of stairs-gone-flat.

She laughed and slid down the ramp.


"Don't kill me. I heard you say 'She has got to relax; mayhap I'd look at her. Stop being such an angry old bit' and I thought 'Why not?'"The girl pleaded with the furious Potion Master.

"I won't kill you, if you just relax for a while."

"Well, then kill me and send me to hell." She said, running around. He had no wand, as Hermione had it.


She shot a charm at him, covering his black robes with bright yellow. He slipped on the paint and recovered as Hermione tried to shoot a charm of purple at him and missed; it hit a red chair. Well, now it's red and purple. She tried to shoot a dark blue but it hit her instead.

She shot a blast of green on the floor and missed his feet again. Cleverly shooting an orange spray of mist into the air, it blinding his vision and he slipped in some dripping purple. Hermione laughed but wasn't fortunate enough as she slipped in her own green and fell on the Potions Master.

It was a pile of robes, bodies, and purple, blue, green, yellow, and orange-misted paint.


Later cleaningeverything, which included Hermione's blue and green robes, Professor Snape's yellow, orange and purple robes, the multi colored walls, Professor McGonagall's picture, cleaning the floor of feathers, and fixing the pillows. What Snape didn't get to was Hermione's secret trashing of the boys dormitory.


Hermione returned the Potions Master's wand and fell asleep in the uncleaned purple, blue, and red chair. Severus carefully labeled it 'Hermione's Chair' and put a repelling spell, so the chair would never lose its color.

He covered the girl with a green blanket, content with the little Slytherin color. The chair was almost like a rainbow and the Potions Master smiled. He finished his tome and carefully watched Hermione for any movement to avoid trouble.

But little did he know, there was a camera blinking in the corner of the Common Room.


"Ah, how entertaining." Albus said to himself in his office. He had gotten a hold of the wizard version of a muggle camcorder and placed it in the Gryffindor Common Room, courtesy of Minerva. He gave a chuckle to the part where Hermione fixed the wall with the portrait of the Transfiguration teacher and blamed it on Severus.

'At least she knows a little.' He thought happily.

.-.-.-.-. End Flashback. -.-.-.-.


Krysta's Notes: I apologize for any mistakes, I wanted to post this quickly. Sorry! And this was again, BEFORE Hermione had went to sleep or the nightmare.