Chapter 2
A/N I'm soooo Happy! Thank you to everyone who reviewed, especially Paranoid Sarcasm who's been very supportive, and also my sister LadyLily06 who forced me to write more (just kidding). On with the show!
She watched him through the corner of her eye, pretending to do her assignment.
She had always wondered what he was thinking, but as of late, he kept throwing longing glances at her all of which she noticed but never understood.
She had always known him to be a fascinating man.
He wasn't the most handsome man, but he had qualities that attributed to him in a most pleasing way.
He was not heartless, he just didn't know how to love or be loved.
She loved his voice that was like velvet caressing her skin, and his hands that prepared ingredients so delicately, intimately even, his eyes that shone like black depths into his soul, and most of all his intelligence that rivaled her own, which would make great conversations with.
She had grown rather attracted to him over the years at Hogwarts she thought as she gazed at him over her potions assignment.
It was her last year at Hogwarts and she was considering career options along with her fellow students.
Both Harry and Ron were looking at being Aurors, so she was left to look for something that would attribute to her intelligence.
She was rather interested in potions and Arithmancy and thought of an apprenticeship for her new career.
She looked at the Common Room message board for apprenticeships.
There was an opening with Professors McGonagall, Sprout, and Snape.
She wasn't really interested in Herbology so that was out of the question, especially since Neville was probably already signed up for it, he had been acting very strange around her since that night she decided to play cards with the boys when they spilled some sticky potion on her clothes that needed to be removed quickly so she decided to take a shower in the boys dormitory.
They had given their promise they would be out of the room when she came out, but Neville didn't seem to hear.
So it was very embarrassing to come out of the boy's bathroom with nothing but a towel on in front of Neville Longbottom, thank god he had fainted from the sight giving her time to dry herself off and transfigure some clothes for herself.
Ever since that last year, he always hid or ran out of the room when she came.
'Well I wouldn't mind being an apprentice of Professor McGonagall, but I'm not really looking for a job in transfiguration,' she thought.
'Oh, that just leaves Professor Snape, I am interested in Potions but he might not let me, I'll just ask and see, the worst thing he can do is say no.'
So with her mind decided she went up to the girl's dormitory to think about it.
The next day she went to class waiting for it to be lunch so she could go down to the dungeon and ask Professor Snape.
'What would it be like to be his apprentice?' she thought.
'I wonder if he'll keep being such a snarky bastard, maybe he'll be civil for once in his life.'
"Miss Granger," said Professor McGonagall snapping her out of her reverie.
"Yes, Professor."
"Did you decide on your career, or apprenticeship?"
"Um actually professor I'm going to take an apprenticeship, I just have to ask him if he'll allow it."
"Him? Miss Granger," Professor McGonagall said slightly shocked that her prize student wouldn't go with her.
"Yes Professor, I'm going to ask Professor Snape."
Professor looked at her with a slightly apologetic face.
She said, "Well Miss Granger, Professor Snape hasn't taken on an apprentice in some time, due to his view of the student body, something about all of the people who try out being, what's a better word for it? Well as he says dunderheads."
Hermione smiled at the thought.
"Well Professor, I am most certainly not a dunderhead, I'm sure he'll pick me," she said with a knowing mind.
"I dearly hope so Miss Granger, if you want a career in Potions, he's the best to learn from."
As she turned to leave the classroom, everyone had already left for lunch, she thought about what she would say to Snape to convince him to make her his apprentice.
'I hope he does pick me, It'll be a good opportunity to get to know him better.'
A/N Well I hope you liked it, Just wait til the next chapter for the talk between Snape and Hermione of apprenticeship. Wee! Of Course Read and REVIEW!
