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The next morning every student were staring at the deputy headmistress during the breakfast. She took her spoon and clang it on her glass. When the silence filled the great hall, the headmaster raised.
-You all witnessed a very out of character reaction from Professor McGonagall during the dinner yesterday night. She has been under a confusing charm. We're looking for the culprit. Does anybody know something?
Hermione Granger got up.
-Mudblood saw something and want do the I-know-all once again, Malfoy said to the slytherins.
Hermione's voice rose in the hall.
-I'm afraid it was me Headmaster…
A murmur of stupefaction began.
-Silence! The headmaster said.
-It was you, the deputy asked in disbelief.
-I'm sorry professor; I didn't mean that at all. I was training in your classroom as you let me do. I didn't saw you come in when I was casting it. At first I thought it has hit you but then you behave so like yourself that I believe you had avoided it. But it seems I was wrong… Oh, I'm so sorry Professor. I should have brought you to Madam Pomfrey.
-If I was acting normally – as you said – I would have refused and you know that miss Granger. I didn't remember being hit by the curse, but that's part of it. Thanks to the headmaster – who performed the counter-curse – the consequences won't be worse than me making of full of myself, kissing my superior, believing I was kissing my own husband.
-You're married?
The noise in the great hall was so loud that she couldn't catch who asked it.
-I am. But that is none of your business. We do know who cast the charm – Miss Granger, I'll have to see you before your departure – and I told you why I did what I did. Enjoy your breakfast.
She took a sip from her cup as she sat back in her chair. She barely choked when she felt Albus intruding her mind.
-What are you doing? she thought.
-Just checking how you fell, he muttered.
-I'm fine. I just hope students won't try to hex me now and then.
She began to intrude his mind as well.
-You could manage. You've been an Auror, he thought, his eyes twinkling furiously.
-I'm getting older every day.
-For me, you're still the young lady who came to y office two hours after her graduation, begging me to take her in apprenticeship.
-You shameless flatterer. You refused though.
-I wanted you to live you life. Becoming the Auror you dreamed of, meeting someone of your own age.
-Yes but four years later, you're the one who begged me to take the post.
-I couldn't have live far from you anymore. Our letter had already become letter of love.
-So that's why I had the post? Because of your love for me.
-And because you were the youngest animagus registered. You had the record of best mark in your newt of transfiguration since myself and you were the best Auror Alastor worked with.
-Oh my!
Albus looked at her for the first time since they began their mental conversation. He couldn't understand her reaction to his compliment. Her face seems the same calm one as before, but his experienced told him she was worried.
-What is it, my dear? He asked
-The Weasley twins are up for one of their prank!
-How do you know?
-They have a look on their faces. I wonder… I better go!
Minerva got up and took the direction of the Gryffondor table. As she passed next to him, Severus Snape got up and took her arm. She looked at him, greeting by… a kiss full on her mouth. Immediately her hand made a painful encounter with his cheek. She walked away, shooting.
-Fred and Gorge Weasley! In my office immediately!
The end.
So what do you think? should I look for the next bridge to jump? I was thinking of a sequel during the summer of the 5 or even a prequel about how they became involved threw letters. What do you think?