How To Correctly Break Rules

By NefariousImp

AN: Sorry about that, I had company come over and I had to get off fast, otherwise I would have had this chapter out around 11 pm thurs night. Major thanks to my girl Crista who helped with the memories. I was having a brain-fart night. I'm also sorry it's so short. It's actually a continuation of 7, but I'll work on 9 tomorrow. Also, I may not have said it in the last chapter, but Dumbledore gave permission for all of them to learn Legilimency. I'm starting to hate those words, they're a bitch to type, esp. when you are trying to stay awake at 3 am. Also, not spell checked or looked over so ignore mistakes just this once please.

Chapter Eight: Memories

"You had SEX with his MOTHER?" The others in the room gasped.

"Hermione, please." Snape pleaded actually saying her first name for once, but once again she didn't hear him.

"No wonder you didn't like him. You were in love with his mother! And his father stole her from you!"

"Who are you talking about Hermione?" Harry asked. She whirled around.

"I'm talking about you!" She yelled. Everyone in the room froze.

Harry blinked slowly.

"Me? As in my parents?" She nodded furiously. He looked up at Snape who suddenly looked like he wanted to crawl in a hole, which for Snape was a look you'd only see on his face once in a lifetime. Maybe two lifetimes. "You and my mother?" Snape dipped his head once in affirmation. "Care to explain?"

Snape sighed and sat down on the edge of his desk, gesturing to the chairs. The teens sat down and looked at him expectantly.

"It was our sixth year and I had been in love with Lily since the first year. I was a Slytherin and she was a Gryffindor. It was highly frowned upon for our houses to mingle. Much less have inter-house relationships. I finally got up the courage and kissed her on prefect rounds one night. After that we had a secret affair. No one knew about it.

"She grew tired of the secrecy and at the end of our sixth year she said that we either had to tell everyone or it was over. I asked her why everyone had to know and she said because I've been asked out by James Potter. And I can be in the light with him. I love you, but not enough to hide it. And I could easily fall in love with James."

"Well, James and I already could barely stand each other and I got mad and yelled at her to fall for him, then, cause I didn't need her." He sighed and stood up. "So, she did what I told her to." The group sat absorbing what he had just told them.

"You loved her?" Harry asked quietly. Snape nodded. He had no bitterness on his face. The teens couldn't believe that the man standing before them was the same one who they'd seen day in and out for the last seven years.

Harry stood up and held out his hand. Snape stared at it in shock for a moment before looking up into Harry's green eyes.

"The past is the past. If you really loved her, then I can't be mad at you." Snape had a look of immense relief on his face as he shook his hand. "Besides," Harry said with a small smile, "It's a lot different than if she was still alive. I don't think anyone wants to think of their mother as a...um...well, in that way." Snape actually smiled.

"Thank You, Mr. Potter." He said shaking out his robes.

"Now," Snape said turning to Hermione, "Miss. Granger, what you have just done is supposed to be impossible. Would you care to tell me exactly how you did it?"

"I waited til I had a good connection and then moved my eyes over slowly, focusing on the corner of one eye, kinda focusing through it. Then I concentrated on looking into your eye with my peripheral vision. It's more sensitive that strait on vision." He looked at her for a moment.

"Hmm. Very interesting. May I try it on you, Draco?" Snape asked. Draco nodded and they faced each other. Snape and Draco both tried it.

A few minutes later they both turned and faced the others.

"Miss. Granger, I do believe that you have just made Wizarding History." Snape gave a small smile to her. "Now, I do believe you've just helped us win the War. We are all going to study this."

For the next three weeks they practiced Occlumency and Legilimency. Studying each others ins and outs for three weeks gave each other the chance to see secrets that should have stayed secret.

For example: When Ginny was practicing Legilimency on Draco she got potentially embarrassing information about him. Scratch that, It was lethally embarrassing, cause if Ginny ever told anyone that Draco wet his bed till he was ten, he'd kill her. Apparently he stopped when his father found out and used the Cruciatus curse on him in five minute intervals for an hour. He also couldn't go to the bathroom for two days and got a fever because of it.

And when Hermione was learning Occlumency from Snape and he got to find out that the reason she was scared of heights was because when she was on a rollercoaster when she was nine. The rollarcoaster broke down and stopped mid loop with Hermione upside down for fifteen minutes.

Snape who was on the rollercoaster in Hermione's body, got the full effect and ended up running to puke in the trash can.

And Harry learned to never prank Ginny. As he got to see Ron's memory of hexing Ginny bald and she retaliated by shrinking his penis. Which made Fred and George think twice about pranking her, but proud of her at the same time. Ginny said it was worth the punishment that Mrs. Weasley gave the two of them.

And Ginny was trying her hand at Occlumency with Draco and he discovered an intersting dream of a threesome involving him and Harry.

Draco had smirked at her and asked if she would mind joining Hermione and himself that evening. To which, she had promptly glared and smacked him upside the head, knocking him off of his chair.

Snape 'scheduled' another meeting after the three weeks was up. That is to say he gave them all another detention.

The meeting was to be held in Professor Dumbledore's office. They met outside his office and Snape gave the password of 'Skittles' and the gargoyle moved aside to show the staircase. They proceeded up to the office and knocked on the door. It opened and the Headmaster smiled from behind his halfmoon glasses. He had them each take a seat.

"Today, you are going to be tested to see if you have what it takes to protect yourself or gather information, depending on what you've learned. One at a time, I'm going to ask you to come up here and I will test you on your Legilimency, then on your Occlumency, then on your ability to use Occlumency while using Legilimency."

"Hope he doesn't test on whether or not we understood what he just said." Ron whispered to Harry only to get a deer-in-headlights look when Dumbledore looked at him and called him up first.

"I allowed you to learn a forbidden magical talent. Was it in vain, Mr. Weasley?"

"No, Sir. I was just commenting on your tongue twister, Sir." Dumbledore chuckled.

"Good, now, lets begin with showing me how well you learned Legilimency."

By the time everyone had tested. Only Ron had not passed with flying colors.

And he only failed on the peripheral Legilimency. The five were strongly cautioned not to tell anyone about the peripheral. It was their secret weapon in the war.

TBC...

AN: Sorry to end it there, but i'm tired, and it's alot better than a cliff hanger. ; P Thanks to all my amazing reviewers as usual. You guys are totally getting me going. I'm doing my best. Don't be mad if I miss a day. I'm trying. Love you guys, Hi, Jess!