Chapter Twenty One: Lemonaide!

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 its characters; I am 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. Oh yeah and I do not own DR Seuss stuff either. I am just borrowing it for fun. Being a bit scatterbrained I may get class schedules wrong. I did not actually write one out so if I misplace a class day do forgive me. I am working with the impression that class times change from time to time.

Big Thanks to my Beta Gelsey. Who without things would be less error free!

Chapter 21 Detentions so far 25 List of things Hermione can no longer do at Hogwarts 28

Mione walked through the dungeons that evening a little nervous. After the almost kiss last night she didn't know how Severus was going to act. She steeled herself and pushed open his office door. He was sitting at his desk grading papers and he looked up as she walked in. With a nod of his head he indicated she should start on the stack of papers to be graded across from him and then offered her a smile before getting back to work. She let out a breath of air she had not even realized she had been holding and sat down to start grading the 3rd year essays. They worked in silence for about an hour, when she finished the last essay. He had already finished and was leaned back in his chair with his hands steepled underneath his chin, just watching her. She put the last essay down and looked up and smiled at him.

"Well, I can definitely understand your attitude sometimes now. Some of those essays were downright pathetic."

"Be careful, Miss Granger. People will start to say your sounding like me," he said with a snort.

"That's alright Severus, I could be compared to a lot worse, at least you have intelligence," she said, smiling at him.

"Your night's detention is officially over. I appreciate the help with the correcting, Mione. You're free to go if you like. Though I have a nice bottle of wine and some Roast Duck waiting if you'd care to join me for dinner?"

"I'd be delighted Severus," she said, rising to follow him to his chambers.

They had a good meal and afterwards sat on his couch enjoying the wine and talking about their day. She was wondering just what he was thinking as he never once mentioned the night before and acted like it hadn't happened. She was rather disappointed at that, but he had invited her to dinner, which had to mean something didn't it?

At the same time Severus was wondering just what was going through her head. He didn't bring up what happened in the garden the night before because he wasn't sure if she regretted it or not. He was worrying that she wasn't saying anything about it because she had realized that he was not good enough for her.

She scooted closer to him on the couch ostensibly to get a better look at the book he had on his lap that he was reading to her from. When he didn't even glance up, just pointed out the paragraph he was reading to her, she smiled and moved even closer. She spent more time looking at him than really listening to what he was saying about the potion they were discussing.

When he looked up to ask her what she thought they were face-to-face staring into each other's eyes. She took the moment to lean in and press a kiss to his lips. As soon as their lips touched it was as if a fire had started raging. He let the book slid off his lap and wrapped his arm around her and pulled her close as he deepened the kiss. She opened her mouth and tentatively brushed her tongue across his lips, sending a spark of lust coursing through his body.

She opened her eyes as he pulled away wondering if she had done something wrong, but he just caressed her face and looked into her eyes before pulling her back for another kiss. Several minutes later they finally pulled apart for some air.

"Wow, Sev, that was wonderful," she said, all dreamy eyed.

"It rather was, wasn't it," he said softly, smiling at her.

He wrapped his arms around her tighter and they sat watching the fire, content just to be in each other's arms. A while later he pressed a kiss to her lips and sat up and looked at her.

"Would you care to go to dinner in Hogsmeade on Saturday, Mione?" He asked, a bit fearful that she wouldn't want to be seen in public with him.

"Of course Sev, I'd love to but won't you get in trouble if you're seen dating a student?"

"If you were an underage student yes but as you are of legal age there is no school rule against it."

"Well then, I'd be happy to go to dinner with you or anywhere else you'd like to go," she said, with a blinding smile.

"I'll walk you back to the tower, it's almost curfew."

They walked up to Gryffindor tower in silence, sneaking looks at each other and smiling when they caught each other. At the door Gryffindor tower he leaned in and gave her a soft kiss on the cheek, wished her a good night and smiled at her before turning to return to the dungeons for a restless night of dreaming of her.

Mione drifted into the common room on cloud nine and went straight up to bed to dream about her wonderful evening with Severus.

Mione woke the next morning feeling as if everything in her world was finally falling into place. She was going out to dinner with Sev on Saturday and they had shared the most amazing kiss. It had been nothing like the kisses she had shared with Viktor nor the sloppy kiss she had shared with Ron before they had realized they were too good of friends to be in a relationship. This kiss had been mind blowing. With Severus's arms around her she had felt as if she could do anything. Life was good.

The only cloud on the horizon was that if she was going to go to dinner in Hogsmeade with him, she was going to have to tell the boys before the weekend about her and Sev. They were not going to take this well.

"Hey Mione, let's get down to breakfast. We need all the strength we can get before Potions," Ron yelled up to her.

Oh yes, they weren't going to take this well at all.

Later that morning they were sitting in the Potions classroom working on their days potion. Mione, of course, had finished hers well before anyone else except Draco and was bored. This year a bored Mione was not a good thing. Sitting there trying to keep from falling asleep, she got a wicked idea. When it came time to turn in her vial of the potion she had made she labeled it and took it up to Severus's desk and returned to her seat waiting for the explosion. She didn't have to wait long until she heard Severus bark.

"Miss Granger! You do not mark poison with a smiley face," he yelled. "Detention Miss Granger, and since detentions don't seem to be deterring you this year 50 points from Gryffindor for this little stunt. Class dismissed."

"Mione, what were you thinking?" Ron grumbled.

"Don't worry Ron, I'll make it up before the end of the day."

"Yeah, if you don't lose anymore points."

"As I said, don't worry I'll make the points up. I may get more detentions but I'll make the points up. Besides I've seen you two lose way more than that so back off."

"She's right Ron. Mione can make them up anytime. We never can so let's just leave it alone. She'll be paying when she has to sit in another detention with the greasy git," Harry said.

She almost felt like telling them just how enjoyable her detentions were turning out to be just to see the looks on their face but now was definitely not a good time.

The rest of the day went smoothly, Mione was able to make up those fifty points and more before the end of her last class and delighted in rubbing that in Ron's face at dinner.

"Ok, ok Mione I get it. I should have just kept my mouth shut."

"Maybe you've learned then. We can hope anyways," she sneered.

"Geesh Mione, I think all those detentions your serving with Snape have been bad for you. You're starting to sound just like him."

"Well at least I sound intelligent then," she said, glaring at him.

"Mione..." Ron started only to be interrupted by Professor McGonagal.

"Miss Granger, something has been brought to the staffs attention and I have come to tell you that you are not allowed to sell what you term as magic beans to the first years, do you understand? You will also return all the money you were given for said magic beans or you will be serving detention longer than you care to imagine, do I make myself clear?"

"Yes Professor, crystal clear." "On second thought Miss Granger. Make that not only first years but any year," Professor McGonagal said, before turning and walking back to the staff table.

"Just how much money did you make off the first years Mione?" Draco asked.

"Oh, about 30 Galleons is all," she told him with a grin, leaving them gaping.

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