Eight o'clock came by faster than they thought and Hermione, Ron and Harry found themselves in the Home Charms class for the second time that day. Ron was flipping his wand up in the air, Hermione was working on her potions essay and Harry was seated in between then staring at the desk with his arms crossed.
"Ahhh the Golden Trio has arrived." Professor Black said from behind them causing them all to jump. "There always seems to be one group of friends that follow a certain mold. There's the quite book worm, the obnoxious athlete, and the idiot but your group is missing the tag along. Where's your tag along Harry, you have plenty of adoring fans having trouble picking one that will potentially stab you in the back? Your father didn't have this much trouble picking Peter."
Hermione laid a hand on Harry's arm to remind him to be quiet. It seemed that Professor Evelyn enjoyed baiting him just as much as her brother. "Professor may I ask…"
"No you may not Miss Granger." Black walked in front of them and leaned back against her desk and looked straight at Harry "are you trying to follow you dad's every foot step Mr. Potter? You're missing a girlfriend; you need a girlfriend if you want to be like him. Everyone liked your mother, I don't know why though there was nothing special about her. Sure she was nice and pretty but those are traits that you can find in anyone." she grinned as though she was enjoying herself.
"Are you going to hate me because of my parents too then?" Harry asked meeting her gaze, his jaw clinched as he held back what he really wanted to say.
"No I really had nothing against your parents Harry." she replied with a fake politeness. "It was Sirius that I hated."
"But wasn't he your husband?" Ron asked his facing showing how confused he was.
"Not by choice and defiantly not for love, he never mentioned his dear little wife to you Harry? Didn't mention the Slytherin he married while she was still in school? No, I don't imagine that he would want to mention being related to a Snape."
The classroom door opened and everyone looked as Professor Snape walked into the room. "Evelyn I had an appointment with Mr. Potter at 8:00, and now that you have made him half an hour late I will have to see him half an hour later than I want to."
"Oh forgive me Severus. I've just heard so much about Mr. Potter that I had to get the first opportunity I had to talk to him." Evelyn sneered leaving no doubt to anyone in the room that she didn't mean it.
"You are wasting my time Evelyn."
"Oh vary well take him, he's boring me any way. Mr. Weasley these desks need scrubbed and Miss Granger the floor needs mopped and do it silently." Evelyn sat at her desk and watched as they began moving to obey her commands.
With one week left before Christmas vacation Hermione, Ron and Harry had earned on average a detention a week with Professor Black. She was worse than Snape and didn't even get along with him. Just like the first day when one of them got in trouble they all three received a punishment. Her detentions were served cleaning her classroom of writing lines. She immensely enjoyed baiting Harry who had become to hate her just as much as he hated Snape, but where he liked to target Harry's father she targeted Sirius.
A month into school Hermione had started to do some research on Professor Black and had not found much. She and Sirius had married in her sixth year after he had already graduated. It was a quiet affair, most people did not even realize it until after they were married and then when Sirius had been sent to Azkaban in the end of her seventh year she had dropped out of school and no one had seen her until she had started teaching at Hogwarts.
Currently the three were seated in the common room. They had just returned from detention with Professor Black where she had made them write "Sirius Black is a bloody fucking git" five hundred times.
"I don't see what Sirius would ever see in her she's absolutely horrible." Hermione said rubbing her hand that was cramping.
"I have no idea maybe she used a love potion on him or something." Ron said slumping on the couch.
"I can't believe that he would marry a Snape unless he was just trying to make Professor Snape angry." Harry said with a hand over his eyes. They were all exhausted.
"Do you think Hagrid would know anything about her from back then?" Hermione asked. Ron and Harry both just shrugged. "We could go see him in the morning tomorrow?"
"We have Quidditch practice Mione but why don't you go ahead and we will meet you there when we are done?"
"Okay sound good."
The next morning Hermione made her way down to Hagrid's hut. Every since that first detention with Professor Black she had wanted to know more about her. Sure she was angry like a Snape aught to be but it was a different kind of anger. Hermione just couldn't figure out what had happened between Sirius and the professor. Why had they gotten married if she hated him so much?
Her musings came to an end as she knocked on the door and waited for Hagrid to answer, but she didn't hear anyone inside so she walked to the garden but didn't find him there either.
"Where could he be?" Hermione sighed and was about to walk back to the castle when she heard something stir in the trees. She had always felt safe at Hagrid's even though it was right next to the Forbidden Forrest but she had never been there alone either. She took a few steps forward cautiously with her wand drawn to see a little further. The wind picked up brushing lightly against the trees and blowing her hair into her eyes and it was then that the red curse flew out from behind the trees and she was hit with a stupefy.