Drabble 13:
Christmas Holidays.
At the start of the year Hermione was going to go home for Christmas, spend it with her parents and family. But after spending all that time with Snape – she stayed.
She was going to spend Christmas with Snape, whether he liked it or not. (She was hoping he would like it.)
The good thing about Christmas holidays was that not many students stayed at school, so there would only be one table in the Great Hall for students and teachers to sit at. So Hermione was going to sit towards the side that Snape usually sat on (but not obviously so) and hope that he might strike up a conversation during dinner.
Harry sat quietly next to her, Ron was at home with his family (not that Hermione was talking to him – they'd had another argument). He'd decided to stay with Hermione because Ron was also getting on his nerve.
Snape didn't come out for dinner that night.
And Hermione just shrugged it off and headed down to his office later that night.