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Author's Note: Hey, I read HBP and I know all of you are mad at Severus, but I still believe in him. Before I read the book, my brother had ruined the ending for me. (HE DOESN'T EVEN READ HARRY POTTER!) I was halfway through the book and knowing the ending I was about to quit fan fiction forever and abandoned my story. I was really disappointed, but when I finished the book, the way JK worded it just made me still believe in Severus. I have some theories about why he killed him too. So please don't abandoned your stories! I was really mad when my favorites were gone because of this. I guess this is AU now…
Gooseflesh Note: Oh for bloody sakes, it's a book. (Never mind that I refuse to admit that Sirius is dead, that I cried at the end of HBP, and that I have a HP poster… on my ceiling.)
A Teenaged Snape?
Two. Two complete weeks of absolutely ignoring one another. Severus would not speak not a word to Hermione and Hermione barely acknowledged his existence. Everyone else was stuck in the middle of it, and it was starting to get annoying.
Harry, Ron, and Ginny sighed heavily as they watched another routine scenario between the two at lunch. Hermione would be sitting down eating her meal chatting with them, when Severus would walk in. He would seat himself down as far as possible from her, but yet still sitting with them. The Head Girl would then, as she had done the past two weeks, remain silent the rest of the meal and kept her eyes down. The Head Boy would do the same.
The tension was driving everyone crazy. Well, not everyone. Charlotte and Eric were unable to respond because they had once again left on a family emergency. It was their fifth trip since they had gotten here. Apparently, their mother was ill.
As soon, as Hermione and Severus had silently excused themselves from the Gryffindor table, the two-thirds left of the Golden Trio plus Ginny huddled together to form a plan.
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Severus had just seated himself down with the latest edition of Potions Master's Monthly while he sat under his favorite tree at Hogwarts. He really didn't consider it his and Hermione's tree anymore, since they hadn't spoken since Halloween. He was still just as every bit angry with her as the night it had happened, but he threw himself into his reading rather than focus on it.
Preoccupied by an intriguing article about the new theory on ashwinder, he barely noticed the Harry and Ron were standing in front of him.
"Do he and Hermione ever stop reading?" Ron asked Harry, scaring Severus. The pair grinned at that their startled friend. Severus ignored them as he continued to read.
"What do you want?" he asked in an even tone. He had just gotten to a good part. Just as Sev was about to read the last paragraph in the article, he found himself being linked arm and arm with the two, being led back to the castle.
"Where the hell are you taking me?" Severus yelled angrily, unable to escape their grasp. He struggled to wiggle out of their arm lock.
"You'll find out soon enough, mate," Harry answered with a grin on his face.
After five minutes of being dragged through the castle, Severus found himself inside one of the dungeon classrooms. He had already given up trying to escape long ago and they had met nobody on the way. The two finally let go of him.
"What was that bloody about?" Severus yelled once again. He was getting quite irritated with the boys' pranks. The two carried wide grins on their faces. Before the Head Boy had gotten his answer, Ron and Harry had pushed him into something soft in the classroom's ingredient closet. Falling back on the soft object, he heard a...
"Get off me, Severus!" Hermione yelled. Realizing what he had landed on; Severus quickly removed himself and stood up. Furious, he began banging on the door.
"You bastards! Open this door this instant! I'll have your heads for this!" Severus shouted, trying to open the door. Hermione stood up as well.
"You're not twisting hard enough!" She yelled at her closet-mate.
"I'm trying my damn well best!" Severus roared back at her in frustration.
"Let me try," Hermione said, pushing pasted him and having no luck herself. She reached into her robes to find herself wandless. Severus was obviously wandless as well.
"Damnit!" She shouted.
"You always have to do everything yourself, don't you?" Severus hissed. Anyone would be annoyed if they were in their current predicament. They were stuck in the potions supply closet, which was luckily larger than most. It was pitch black aside from a tiny bit of light streaming in from the crack underneath the door.
"Severus, you're being such an arse right now." Hermione snapped, as turned towards him. The two looked each other directly in the eye and glared at each other.
"I'm the arse? Look who's talking, Ms. I-have-to-ruin-someone's-fun-just-because-you-were-wondering-where-they-were-going! You are nothing but a stupid little girl who keeps following me around!" Severus shouted. Hermione faltered, as Severus noticed her eyes beginning to water. She quickly looked away before walking over the far corner of the closet and sitting herself down, facing away from him.
Severus seated himself beside the door, still quite angry. He knew he had made her cry, and could hear her try to conceal her sobs. It was nothing new.
As the meanest teacher at Hogwarts, he had made several students cry, including Hermione as well. Currently, he just wanted to live up to his reputation and just let her cry.
They sat in silence for a moment, before they heard another person enter the classroom.
"Severus? Hermione?" Ginny, the newcomer, called. "We put you two in here today because we are starting to get annoyed of you two ignoring each other. Neither of you will tell us what happened on Halloween, so we had to resort in this method. The door won't unlock until you've worked out this stupid fight." The two in the closet could hear that the group had left them. Severus let out a frustrated groan, as he rested against the door. It was going to be a long night.
Hours later in silence, Severus and Hermione could feel the temperature begin to drop in the dungeons as the moon took the place of the sun. Shivering, Hermione unrolled the long sleeves on her lavender shirt.
"Well, are we going to solve this or do you want to sit here in this dusty closet the rest of your life?" Severus let out, finally giving in.
"Getting even more frustrated will get you nowhere, Severus Snape," Hermione said, coldly. Letting out a sigh, the young woman reluctantly turned towards him. The couple remained in silence for a few more moments.
"I'll say it once," Severus started, staring her straight in the eye. "Why are you not speaking to me?" Hermione looked a bit surprised.
"Why haven't you been speaking to me?" Hermione retorted. Severus pounded the back of his head on the door in aggravation.
"First of all, I was angry with you for interrupting me and secondly, because you weren't talking to me in the first place," Severus said, "and the last reason was because..." He paused, unsure of how to word what he wanted to say exactly.
"Well, what is it?"
"It was because you said you loved me." Both paused this time, contemplating over the situation as they looked away from each other's eyes.
"It was a mistake," Hermione said, as she fidgeted with her skirt. "I was acting rash and on my impulses. Just forget I ever said it. It never meant anything." Severus looked up at her in surprise, as she continued to look away. Had she really meant what she said?
"Hermione? Severus? You two still alive?" Hermione and Severus heard Ginny say from outside the door. The pair stood up from there dusty seats on the dungeon floor, just as the door opened to reveal Harry, Ron, and Ginny with sorry expressions.
"We're sorry that we had to do that, but we thought it was for your own good," Harry said, fidgeting with his glasses.
"Have you worked you problem, yet?" Ron asked, impatiently. Ginny and Harry rolled their eyes. Before Severus could respond, Hermione, who was still not looking at Severus, nodded her head.
"Good," Ginny said, clasping her hands together in gladness, "We came her a little sooner than planned because Dumbledore wants to see Severus in his office about something, right away." Severus took his leave.
"I'll be making you all pay at Quidditch practice on Monday," He called back from the hallway.
After a fair few minutes of walking to the Headmaster's office, Severus finally found himself in front of the familiar gargoyle.
"Sherbet Lemon," Severus said, rolling his eyes at Albus's candy passwords. Reaching the door to the office, he knocked on the door.
"Come in, Severus," Albus called from within. Severus let himself in to see Albus and unfortunately, Professor Daniels sitting with him.
"Hello, Snivellus!" Severus glared at him, before seating himself next to him, facing Albus.
"I've come to my decision," Albus said, ignoring Sirius's comment. "You're going to need a tux."
"What?" Severus said, confusion written all over his face, "What are you talking about, Albus?"
"The Ball, of course; you're going to Lucius' New Year's Ball," Albus said calmly while eating a lemon drop.
"What? I thought you were against the idea of me going," Severus said, confused.
"I know I have, but I have come up with an idea and it involves Sirius."
"You want me to go to Ball with him?" Severus said in shock. Sirius rolled his eyes, as Albus let out a soft laugh.
"No, I suggest you take someone your own age, preferably a girl," Albus responded. "He's going to be guarding on the inside in his animagus form."
"That's ridiculous! Wouldn't someone notice a dog in the middle of a formal party?"
"I'm going to shrink him to the side of a mouse. He'll warn the Order if anything goes wrong and we'll be there in no time. If the war must be waged then, the war will be waged."
Sorry this chapter was short and delayed. I had a lot going on. I promise a new chapter as soon as I can.
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