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Insanity Check! Complete	By : Talented_Mrs_Lupin Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Snape/Hermione Views: 21381 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 2
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“So let’s go over this again” Auror Marx said for the fifth time while Hermione felt as if she should be slamming her head on the table “Angelina and Bridget had the potion in their hands right?”
“Yes” She ground out, she had been talking to him for the better part of three hours.
“Only one potion, right?” He asked.
“Yes” She snapped
“Then what?” He led.
“I wrote to Harry Potter and Draco Malfoy as they are the ones paying for Snapes treatment and have the right to know what is happening to him” She said again “They walked out of Snape’s room Bridget told me it was for his own good, I told Angelina that it was inhumane and she said that he deserved it and then Harry and Draco blasted through the doors”
“Did they attack the healers?” The Auror asked.
“No” She answered “Draco looked as if he was considering it but keeping a cool head Harry charmed their wrists together and made them sit behind the desk until there were enough people to cover them”
“Then what happened?” He pressed
“I don’t know” She said “Harry sent a swearing and angry Draco back to his house to calm down because he was too mad and too close to the case to be of any help and then he took Angelina and Bridget to the ministry”
“And you?” He asked, this was a new question.
“I worked until six which is the usual time I work till” She answered “And then I went home, Harry was already in bed so I assumed they were sent to Azkaban. So note my surprise when I came to work that night and find Angelina and Bridget back with apparently no memory as to what had happened the night before”
“Did you tell any other Healers what had happened?” He asked making notes.
“No” She said “Harry told me that the Medical Director would be told what happened but no one else needed to know”
“What of the other patients?” He asked “Lucius Malfoy, Bellatrix LeStrange...the others that are experiencing the same effects of the potion?”
“I worked for only two hours before I was sent home” Hermione admitted “I assumed that they were in group therapy, the only person I knew to be in his room was Snape so he was the only one I checked on”
“Why were you sent home?” He asked.
“Bridget told me that my attitude was distracting me” Hermione told him “She said that I wouldn’t be able to concentrate on my patients when I was apparently upset about something that no one else seemed to remember”
“That brings us up to yesterday” He said “You say you went to the bookstore to get a book about magical myths” He raised an eyebrow at her.
“When you read as much as I do it’s not so far-fetched to think that I would read something like that, is it?” She asked he didn’t say anything just looked back at his notepad.
“Then you had lunch with Mr. Potter and Mr. Malfoy” He continued and she nodded “Then you went to visit Fred Weasley, Angelina Weasleys husband...that seems odd”
“I knew that Angelina would be at work” Hermione said “And I wanted to know what the hell was going on. You have the rest of the story”
“I do” He smiled at her “I thank you and you may leave”
“Thank you” She sighed and walked out of the office thankfully.
~~~((@))~~~
Harry sighed as he walked in to the apartment after a long day at work. Hermione watched him from her seat in a chair near the hallway, she had been sitting there for the last hour awaiting him to come home. She couldn’t concentrate enough to read and her ward had been emptied and shut down so she didn’t need to work. She now sat there working on her third glass of wine watching the door for when her roommate would return. Harry looked at her before shaking his head slightly and walking over to her, he brushed her curls away from her face and leaned over gently kissing her forehead.
“We found Neville” He said.
“And?” She led when he offered nothing more “Is he the bad guy?”
“We found him knocked out by the same potion in the greenhouse at his new home” Harry said “The plants that were needed for the potion were stolen...there was nothing found that would give us a clue as to who it could be”
“So they dragged him in to the greenhouse for his help identifying the plants?” She asked “Or was he already in there?”
“No” Harry said shaking his head to both accounts “His wards were torn to shreds, his door had a muggle lock on it as well and that was broken, the glass of the greenhouse door was broken and plants overturn and scuffle marks on the floor”
“So Neville caught whoever it was” She said “He found them but they subdued him”
“And his plants fought for him” Harry said as if in afterthought “The Venomous Tentacula was fairly uprooted and you know it is impossible to uproot an adult plant like that unless it does it itself” She nodded “There were four other plants that had battle wounds and then Marx got throttled by the Tentacula when he attempted to help Neville” He laughed a little at the memory “It took about twenty minutes to talk the plant in to letting him go and then another forty-five minutes to get the plant to allow us near him enough to help him”
“I need to think about this” Hermione muttered looking at the floor.
“There’s something else” Harry said “Not about the case”
“Okay...” She said.
“Malfoy is going to be staying here for a few days, if that’s okay with you” He said “He told me that Astoria has been a major bitch recently and he can’t stand to be in the house with her right now”
“Where’s he sleeping?” She asked “With you...I saw you two playing footsies”
“He is sleeping on the couch” Harry snapped clearly not amused with her jokes.
Hermione laughed and went to her room, she was doing what she did well. She was making a list of everything that she had learned about the case, she learned that they gave Angelina, Fred and Bridget Veritaserum. They were innocent, they didn’t remember anything but Hermione knew that would happen. Veritaserum was now a controlled potion that was only used by a ministry appointed potions master so they got to them too late. The real bad guys were still on the loose and she wasn’t sure if there was someone else in danger.
“Harry we need to go over these facts” Hermione said clearing the table and setting down her parchment and quill for him.
“You really care about him don’t you?” He asked.
“I care about all my patients” She said “But I do care a lot about Severus” She laughed “And I can’t work because of the investigation so I may as well help out where I can”
“Okay” He said “What do you have?”
“On Sunday Fred and Angelina went to a magical restaurant, right?” She asked looking at him as she wrote down the timeline and he nodded “They got muggle food poisoning which can be replicated by using a new potion that Fred and George have been working on”
“Yes” He said “It’s for a new line to get a much needed sick day from work. It goes away after twenty-four hours if the antidote is not given to the victim”
“And twenty-four hours after they woke up sick” Hermione continued “They were perfectly fine again”
“So that could accuse either Fred or George” Harry said “But I know their personalities and I can’t see them doing this sort of thing”
“I agree” She said “Madame Pomphrey saw them and so didn’t Minerva. I only saw them go in and give Snape the potion and yet I would bet that they all got the potions when I was busy with Lucius”
“Did you see Lucius’s nighttime potions?” Harry asked.
“No” She said sighing “That’s what’s so confusing, I mean Lucius is only on moderate pain potions when he needs them for his nerves and he wouldn’t have taken a potion that he didn’t recognize”
“True” He said and wrote something down “Then there is the fact that Luna, who is seen as a convicted baby-killer, wasn’t given the potion”
“Angelina said something to me” Hermione wracked her brain and when she remembered she shivered “She said ‘Let’s just say that he is finally paying for the horrors he bestowed on many students’ why would she say that?”
“Snape was a bit of an arse” Harry said “But not enough to deserve this”
“I think that someone Polyjuiced themselves in to Angelina, Bridget and Fred”
“Fred?” Harry said and then nodded slowly “Yes, he was there. When Malfoy and I came barreling in to the waiting room he jumped up and told us we couldn’t enter but I threatened him and he said ‘what bloody hell are you doing?!’ and moved aside”
“Then there’s Malfoy” Hermione said.
“What about him?” Harry asked quickly looking confused.
“Since when doesn’t he want to stay at Malfoy Manor?” She asked “Since when does sleeping on a couch in someone else’s apartment sound better than sleeping in his own bed with his wife or a guest room if they are fighting?”
“Makes sense” Harry said “But you didn’t see how he looked when I first met up with him on the upper levels of Saint Mungo’s...he was terrified and angry”
“He is also a Slytherin and able to fake his way in to and out of everything imaginable” Hermione said “I am not saying he is responsible”
“He came in with me obviously he isn’t” Harry said and blushed when she snorted.
“Harry” She smiled “Just because he wasn’t administering the potion doesn’t mean he wasn’t pulling the strings and then came rushing in as the hero. It would be the perfect plan because who in their right mind would think it was him?”
“Good thinking” He blushed again.
~~~((@))~~~
Draco showed up to the apartment an hour after the list was relatively done. Harry set to making dinner for them, nothing great just cold cut sandwiches with chips and muggle soda. Draco was iffy about the soda but manage to choke down the first sip before realizing that it was amazing. They watched the muggle telly that Hermione had managed to get working even without electricity. She had never assumed watching a pureblood (who knew nothing about muggle stuff) would be so fun. Draco freaked out when she turned the telly on, he climbed behind the box to find the little people that were on the screen. He blared the sound then screamed when he couldn’t figure out how to turn it down, then when he started to get in to the movie they were watching he leaned on the remote and changed it. Convinced he had broken it, he offered to buy another and then freaked out when they put it back. Hermione loved seeing this side of him and couldn’t help but do certain things that would get the wide-eyed or horror-stricken expression from him.
“You think I’m a suspect?” She heard, opening her eyes the next morning she saw Draco standing next to her bed holding the list Harry had been working on.
“Where did you get that?” She asked “It was in Harry’s bedroom on his dresser, you were sneaking around weren’t you?!”
“No” He answered turning pink in the face “Har...Potter said that I could move in to his room when he went off to work this morning” He glared at her “When I was fixing my hair I saw the list and read through it, I think you can understand my surprise when I saw my name on the short list of suspects”
“We are just going through people that were connected to the case” She answered.
“Why me?” He asked angrily “Because I’m a death eater, because I’m nervous to let my father back in my life, because...because you hate me?!”
“I don’t hate you” She whispered, pushing herself against the headboard and watching him “It’s not because you’re a death eater either or how you treat your father”
“Then what?” He begged “Please, tell me why you think I would have any part in what has happened?”
“Well” She whispered more to herself than him. She had seen him be mean more times than she could count, seen him truly angry, seen him happy, worried and she had even seen him scared before but this was new. This emotion was something that she had never witnessed on him before, it was vulnerability and it scared her a little “You sleeping on our couch when you have a thousand bedroom manor house, suddenly becoming Harry’s friend and...kicking...what was up with the kicking under the table?!”
“Hundred and fifty” He said and at her look of confusion he continued “My manor, it’s only a hundred and fifty rooms and only seventy-five are bedrooms”
“You’ve got to be kidding me” She shook her head “Only a hundred and fifty rooms...I see now why you couldn’t possibly have found a room to sleep in there, what the hell was I thinking?”
“It’s not that” He said laughing softly “It’s Astoria, she’s...”
“Not the woman you married?” She offered when he was silent for too long.
“No” He said “She’s exactly the woman I married. She’s cold, proper and unfeeling. Sure she’s beautiful, smart and driven when she finds something that she really wants but it seems there is always something missing when I’m with her” He sighed “And I told her that, she’s been out of sorts since then and keeps telling me that bringing my father in to the house will make things worse and if I do it she’ll leave me and all that”
“What are you going to do to keep her?” Hermione asked.
“I don’t think I want to keep her in my life” He whispered “And there’s more” His hands shook with the emotions that were overwhelming him “It’s about Harry”
“Yeah” She led.
“And the kicking” He whispered.
“Okay” She grinned.
“Potter has always interested me” He admitted “I’m confused...”
“Are you gay?” She asked finally putting it all together in her mind then she grimaced “I don’t mean it like that”
“Maybe I am” He whispered then climbed on to her bed, getting under the blankets with her “Astoria used to really do it for me, not only was she sexy and amazing in bed” Hermione made a gagging noise and he laughed “She was always good at everything she did, Potions were simple for her, ancient runes, charms...she right behind us in every class, battling us for the top spot” He chuckled slightly “Except Herbology. I sucked at that class and I know that you weren’t the top in that class, neither was she but she was right behind Longbottom”
“I always wondered who beat me in that class” She said “I was third”
“I know” He said “I was fourth” He made a face “But she was right under Longbottom in that class”
“Well” She said “Harry was top in DADA so we both had people better than us at something”
“Are you kidding” He laughed “You were better than me at everything” He sighed “I have to go, I do have a business to run...can you...can you maybe not tell Potter about my feelings and all that, at least until I know what I’m feeling like?”
“Don’t worry” Hermione promised “Your secret is safe with me”

A/N: Okay so I am still writing the chapter for the Forgotten but this wouldn’t get out of my head and I needed to write it down. I hope you like it and PLEASE REVIEW!!!!
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