Rating: R
Warning: May eventually contain slash
Category: Humor/Romance
Summary: Hermione undergoes a change in thinking and is determined to enjoy her last year to the fullest. Wacky hi jinks and craziness ensue leading to a list of amusing new rules for her, friendships with slytherins, and romance. This is my first attempt at any kind of fiction so please be kind. Constructive criticism is wanted, flames will be ignored. Hermione is a little OOC because of her change in thinking.
Disclaimer: JK Rowling owns the Harry Potter Universe and all it's characters, I'm just playing with them for a bit. There may be slash as I said so you have been warned. I got the basic Idea for this story from the list 213 things skippy is no longer allowed to do in the army. I stole some of those things on the list as I could just hear them being said in the HP universe.
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Chapter 11
Detentions so far 12. List of things Hermione can no longer do at Hogwarts 14
Severus woke up abruptly, soaked in sweat, and wondering just when he had been stupid enough to fall in love with one of his students. Not just any student either, but Minerva's pride and joy.
Yes the Know It All, best friend to the Boy-Who-Lived-To-Annoy-Him and Weasley, damn Gryffindor, and as of recently a friend. He should have known better, but it had been so long since he had had someone with equal intelligence and interests to talk to. Minerva was intelligent of course, but they had different interests.
How in the world was he going to deal with this? Normally he would just push her away, be mean, cold and snarky, but they'd become friends and he couldn't hurt her like that. Why oh why did he have to notice her as a woman? He kept thinking this over in his mind during the week never once thinking that there was even a chance that she'd ever see him in any way other than as a friend and a respected professor.
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"After all of you turn in your essays we will be performing the spell that shows you your inner animal," Professor McGonagall stated as soon as everyone had taken their seats.
There was actually a rush to get their assignments in and for once Mione wasn't the first one to have hers in. After everyone had handed in their assignments and were back in their seats, Professor McGonagall told them how to do the spell to see their inner animal. As they would be doing it one at a time she would be calling them up to the front to do the spell.
It was actually rather interesting to watch, as most were not what Mione expected them to be. Harry, whom everyone thought would be a lion or a griffon or some other strong valiant creature, was actually a black adder, much to the amusement of the Slytherins.
Ron, though it shouldn't have surprised anyone other than he was too often overlooked as being a hero, was a Griffon. Draco shocked everyone by not being either a Dragon as he predicted he'd be or a ferret as Ron teased he'd be, but was a sleek snow fox. Pansy took the form of a unicorn, while Mils shocked everyone by being the dragon Draco had wished to be.
When Mione was finally called up she was rather nervous, hoping that she wasn't some bug or something equally as repulsive. She was glad and excited when a tawny lioness stood before her. Her smile grew as she thought back on her dream and wondered if a certain black panther would go running over the grounds with her once she was able to transform.
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Mione couldn't wait to talk to Professor Snape but unfortunatly she was all out of detentions and she didn't feel comfortable enough yet to just stroll down to the dungeons and start up a conversation. Hmmm, time to rack up some more detentions. She couldn't ignore her plan either. Ron and Harry were arguing over something to do with Quidditch as they headed into the charms classroom and she was brought out of her musings as they asked her to settle their dispute.
"Sorry guys I was thinking about something else and didn't catch what your arguing about," she said apologetically.
"Oh sure just ignore your friends Mione," Harry said with a smile as they sat down.
"As you're all going to be out of school after this year and there are those of you who will be branching out on your own, today we will be learning some common household charms that you might or might not know yet. Turn to the chapters on charms for the everyday witch and wizard in your texts please," Professor Flitwick said from his perch of books. "As most of you already know the basic charms for making tea, heating water and other things you use already we are going to start on some of the ones that you will probably use in everyday life once you have your own home."
"Can anyone tell me some charms that you may want to be using that you don't have to be using on a regular basis now?"
Almost everyone in the class raised their hands and Flitwick went around getting a few answers from everyone.
"A dishwashing charm," said Parvati.
"A laundry charm," said Lavander.
"Cooking charms, my gram uses those all the time," Neville said.
"A gardening charm, including a garden gnome degnoming charm," Ron laughed.
"I'm never going to need these, the house elves do all that stuff," Draco said with a sneer.
"That may be true Mr. Malfoy but at least you will be able to take pride in the fact that even though you don't have to use them you know them," Professor Flitwick told him. "Some of you may have been taught some of these already by your mothers, for those of you this will just be review and you can look over the chapters and see if there is anything you'd especially like to learn."
"This is great," Mione gushed. "Mom's gonna teach us how to keep house."
Professor Flitwick turned a soft pink and fell off his books at Hermione talking out in class like that.
"Miss. Granger you are not to refer to any Professor as mom. While it's true the household is usually under the authority of a woman it is still important for the boys to learn these things so they are able to do them themselves," he huffed, obviously offended. "Five points from Gryffindor for not taking this class seriously and detention this evening. You will be informed later who you will serve with."
"Yes sir, sorry Professor," Mione said repentantly, unless you noted the gleam in her eye, that is.
They read through the chapters on everyday charms and Professor Flitwick assigned them an essay on them and what they would like to learn and why they felt it was needed. After the class was over and they were heading to lunch the boys forgetting all about the Quidditch argument were buzzing about her outburst in Charms.
"I can't believe you made Professor Flitwick fall off his books. That was bloody hilarious," Ron laughed.
"That was pretty good Mione. I can't believe you called him Mom," Harry said. "Not to mention if one of us had done that you'd be scolding us about how he could have been hurt."
"Well I didn't know he was gonna take a dive off his stand now did I?" Mione pointed out.
"True, poor Professor Flitwick, his best student using sarcasm probably shocked him something fierce," Harry said. "I mean coming from Ron or I he probably wouldn't have batted an eye, but not from you."
"I know but when he made the comment about the mothers teaching the household charms I just got a little upset. The wizarding world is sexist."
"Now Mione, you know witches work if they want to, not all of them stay home and take care of the house," Ron said.
"Really Ron? Name one witch that's married that works?" Mione glared at him.
"I'm only seventeen Mione I don't know all that many witches out of school and besides who's to say that they don't wish to stay home?" Ron asked.
"That is just the kind of thinking that keeps women in the home and not at a job," Mione said as she stalked into the Great Hall.
The boys, knowing Mione and being smart, tactfully changed the subject and told her how cool her Animagus form was. They got to talking about Animagi and Transfigurations and lunch passed in peace.
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