Sors Vita
Some changes in wording have been made from the original. Especially a fixing of tense and spelling errors that I hadn't caught in earlier postings of this fanfiction. Further edits may be made in the future, as I currently don't have a beta and find myself making edits everytime I go over each chapter.
As much as I'd like to say I'm committed to finishing this story, I've never been known for following through so I'd prefer of no one kept their hopes up. However, I hope I'll keep working on this story even if it is a at snail pace.
Disclaimer: I am not J.K Rowling and am only borrowing her universe and characters to fulfill my own fantasy.
Prologue:
Four years after the final war, wizarding Britain had returned to it's former glory. The defeater of You-Know-Who, Harry Potter was now happily married and a successful Auror. His best friend and decorated war hero, Ronald Weasley was a worldwide celebrity after achieving great success as a commercial Quidditch star. The brains of the Golden Trio has happily pursued a career in teaching at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Unfortunately the highly publicized relationship between Mr. Weasley and Ms. Granger had not lasted and ended in a rather quiet break up.
Shocking the wizarding world was the survival of former Headmaster Severus Snape who had survived the final battle after receiving timely medical aide by the school matron Poppy Pomfrey. Madam Pomfrey had told the press shortly after the pardoning of former Headmaster Snape that she had been conflicted about saving her former colleague and was happy that she had stuck to her principles as a medical professional. Former Headmaster Severus Snape had returned to his former teaching post at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and was awarded the Order of Merlin First Class for his contribution to war.
Headmistress Minerva McGonagall watched as her once favorite student berated her beloved colleague at the head table. Professor Granger of Arithmancy was arguing with Professor Snape of Potions over the unfair treatment of students. Professor Snape had recently taken a couple of house points from a Slytherin student who had hexed a student in the halls, only to have sentenced a Gryffindor couple with a week's worth of detention for snogging in the halls. Professor Granger had politely asked Professor Snape to reduce the punishment or reschedule the detentions to allow the Gryffindor Keeper to attend practices.
"Severus, it is hardly fair that you let your Slytherin off without detention for hexing a student and force our Keeper in detention for a week. You know that the game is next week and I know that you're doing this to get and upper hand at the next Quidditch match." Hermione tried to reason with Severus.
"Forgive me Professor Granger that I couldn't leave such inappropriate displays of affection within the walls of Hogwarts unpunished. Should I have not been there your beloved little cubs would have stripped themselves bare in front of an audience. Mr Kurt on the other hand had only been playing with his fellow classmate causing a slight disruption in the halls," Severus Snape retorted back.
"A slight disruption? From what I remember Mr Lee was knocked out on the floor by the time you had reached the scene and stopped the duel. While I doubt that Mr Tegan and Miss Richards were as indecent as you describe them to be."
Severus remained silent as he began to ignore his fellow colleague and shifted his attention to his copy of the Daily Prophet. He picked up his cup of coffee and took a sip.
"I don't care what you think Professor Snape, but I'm going to get my students out of your unfair detentions and assign the appropriate detentions to your beloved misbehaving snakes." Hermione resigned as she rose from her seat.
Severus put down his cup and glared at Hermione, "Don't you dare, Granger."
Hermione feeling slightly threatened, raised her voice, "Don't you dare what, Professor? Oh believe me, I will do what I believe in."
Professor Snape also stood up to place himself above the younger witch, disregarding the stares towards the head table.
"Now Severus, Hermione, I think that is quite enough, the students are staring. Maybe you two need some time apart today." Minerva had been enjoying the interactions until now but unfortunately she was unable to let the fight continue knowing the students would have been discussing the incident for the next month.
At that, Hermione stormed out of the Great Hall and Severus returned to his coffee as he sat himself back down again. He quickly glared at the students who returned their attention to their breakfasts in fear of the professor's wrath.
Throughout the day Severus and Hermione avoided each other, they chose to stay in either their classrooms or their rooms. Both reflected on their earlier argument and both came to the conclusion that they were not going to backdown or make a compromise. The day had nearly come to a close when both professors were approached by students to solve another mess in the school.
Severus was siting in his office grading some fifth year papers when he heard a knock at the door.
"Enter!" Severus yelled at the door and a young first year student walked in.
"P...p...professor, Mr Burke had sent me to tell you that Miss Greengrass has been hurt. It seems that she got in the middle of a duel," the first year stuttered.
"Who started this fight? Where is it?" Severus quickly questioned his student.
"Mr Kurt and Mr Lee, sir. They were fighting in the Astronomy tower," the first year informed the Head of Slytherin who rushed out of his office.
At the same time Professor Granger was working on some of her research work when a fourth year student had walked in to her office.
"Professor Granger," the fourth year said, "it's about Mr Tegan and Miss Richards they are.. uhm..."
"What's wrong Miss Jennings?" Hermione kindly prodded.
"They are having sex in the middle of the courtyard. The older students have managed to get the younger ones back inside but we couldn't get them to stop. It seems they are too distracted to notice their surroundings," Miss Jennings explained as quickly as she could without getting red from embarrassment.
"Oh no, Miss Jennings. Thank you for telling me, I'll head down to sort the problem. Help yourself to a piece of dental gum and head back to the Gryffindor tower if you want," Hermione said as she quickly exited her room and head down the staircases.
She was nearly at the courtyard when she bumped in to something hard. She felt compelled to grab hold of whatever she just bumped in to and found herself to be almost floating. She looked to see what she had just bumped in to and found herself facing the shocked face of Professor Snape.
Severus had been in a hurry to reach the Astronomy tower to tend to his students when he had bumped in to Hermione Granger. He had saw Professor Granger heading his way but had chosen not to dodge thinking Professor Granger would had moved aside seeing his state of hurry. Not only did she not move aside causing this collision but she was grabbing on to his finest pair of robes. Severus tried to get Hermione off of him in this gravity-less state, but some unknown force pulled his arms around the body of Hermione Granger.
The students watch their embracing professors fall gracefully down the stairs. They had landed softly and rolled down the stairs together. When the professors reached the bottom of the stairs they miraculously found themselves still conscious and alive. They quickly let go of one another but once they had let go they again felt the magical urge to hold on to one another. They both looked at one another and extended their hands out to keep hold of the other but before their hands touched they fell unconscious.
The students gathered around their fallen professors in shock.
A/N: Again, I'm not confident that I will finish this story but as I have marked down, there are 40 chapters planned. Reviews do keep me motivated, but even then I can't make any promises.