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Hermione's Keeper	By : Talented_Mrs_Lupin Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Draco/Hermione Views: 17549 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Girlish laughter floated out the windows of Snape’s forest manor home while he worked in the magical garden. He knew that having three females in his home would be highly annoying so when Lovegood and Weasley showed up, he quickly made his escape in to the serene, comfort of his gardens to do some much needed weeding and removal of the pesky gnomes. He thought about when he worked at the school and would have to do the occasional, unannounced check on both the boys dorm and the girls. The giggling and laughter that he was hearing now brought a strange longing feeling in his chest and even though he would only admit it in the safety of his mind, Severus Snape missed teaching. Sure the first years were a bunch of dunderheads, most of the seventh years were too, but nothing really beat that feeling you got when you saw a student actually learn something. That swelling feeling of pride that you’re the reason that the student who just cast that spell or made that potion had done it correctly. He didn’t realize that, until the moment those giggles reached his ears, he missed it more than he’d ever thought possible.

“Severus” Hermione spoke from the doorway that lead from the kitchen in to the garden “Ginny is making lunch, are you going to want some?”

“Sure” He answered, he looked at her and frowned. Hermione was always perceptive and felt that something was changing in him and nodded solemnly in acknowledgement that something was going on in his head “Just tell me when it’s done”

“No problem” Hermione promised.

Hermione walked back in to the house and smiled at the girls. She had fought hard during the first two hours to act normal and like she wasn’t angry with Ginny for hurting her best friend. Now, however, the conversation flowed easily, laughter was everywhere and jokes were never ending, it was like Luna and Ginny needed this just as much as she did. So far, in the time that they’d been there neither girl had said anything about Draco and that was fine with her but she knew that before they left they would be asking her to come home. She wanted to go home, she wanted to be in Draco’s arms again but he’d hurt her, it was like he found the one thing he knew bothered her and just scratched it and continued scratching it until it was a festering and infected wound.

“Have you thought about coming back to the manor?” Luna asked “Everyone misses you”

“Yeah…” Hermione rolled her eyes.

“Draco misses you very much” Luna told her “And in all honesty…you kind of overreacted…”

“What?!” Hermione snarled, she turned her head from what she’d been looking at “Me?” She laughed a humorless laugh “I am the one who overreacted…that’s rich”

“I just mean…” Luna started.

“No!” Hermione held her hand up “My husband divorced me, Luna…do you know how hard it is to be a divorced witch in this world?” Luna sighed “I lost my job, was forced to live in a brothel because it was the only place I could afford and then my morals were questioned when I finally accepted help and I was called a ‘kept-woman’ which means a private whore to a rich man” She sagged down in the chair nearest her and Ginny looked over at her but didn’t try to comfort her, still worried that the other woman may hit her or curse her “Can you honestly blame me for wanting to just stay hidden for a little while?”

“But you aren’t just hidden, Hermione” Luna said softly “You were kidnapped by a lunatic, taken in to the woods, you’re pregnant and Height sent a letter to Draco telling him that he was going to send the fetus back…without you” A small sob escaped Hermione because she didn’t know about that “Then when he’s found…you are not. We didn’t know if he tied you to a tree to be eaten by some wild animal, if you were in some hidden house starving to death or if he’d already killed you”

“I let Draco know…” Hermione told her “I told him that I was safe and with a friend and he accused me of cheating”

“You told him that you were safe and that was great” Luna soothed “But you didn’t tell him who you were with and where you were he only knew that you with a male…what did you expect?”

“A little trust would have been nice” Hermione muttered “But could you please appreciate my situation?” She pleaded with her eyes at the blonde girl “I just wanted to be by myself for a little while and what the hell was I supposed to tell him when Snape asked me to keep this” She motioned around to the house “A secret”

“That is difficult” Luna admitted.

“He’s lonely” Hermione changed the subject as she walked over to the window and watched as the former potions master was being throttled by a Venomous Tentacular plant and snorted to herself thinking about how happy Neville would have been to see this “I felt bad about leaving but honestly, I think staying here is making it worse”

“Do you think he needs help?” Ginny asked, her eyes focusing on the dark man who was now being held upside down and shaken rather violently by the plant.

“Yeah” Hermione sighed, she was having a good time watching him get his ass handed to him by the plant-life “I’ll go…”

“No you won’t!” Ginny jumped between her and the door “Hermione, you’re pregnant. You can’t be going out there and fighting with that plant, look what it’s doing to Snape” They both looked over at him, his wand was on the grass having fallen out of his hand, he was swearing at the plant and it was dangling him over the giant and blood thirsty Venus Witch Trap…the magical version of a Venus Fly Trap but it ate flesh instead of bugs.

“I think someone should help him now” Luna spoke dreamily next to them “I think the Trap is opening its mouth”

Ginny raised her brows at Hermione who took a step back from the door and then the redhead went outside and shot a stunning charm at the arm of the plant that was holding Snape but within seconds the redhead was also in it’s clutches but she was sending spells at various places that was making the plant slowly lower both victims towards the ground. Hermione nudged Luna and pointed to the Venus Witch Trap, it had its mouth open just waiting for the slowly lowering potions master to be in biting range. Snape wasn’t fighting it, he just had a look of resigned annoyance on his face which made the witches in the house giggle a little. When the Trap snapped at one of his dangling fingers, Snape growled and crossed his arms over chest and waited for whatever was going to happen to happen.

“How’s he been feeding the Trap?” Luna asked, looking around his kitchen.

“I don’t know” Hermione answered “Any small kids been going missing around here?” Luna giggled and grabbed something out of a box that had been charmed to remain cold in the corner by the door “It’s a hand”

“A HAND?!” Hermione exclaimed.

Luna just shrugged and walked out of the house, she stood a safe distance away and threw the hand that she’d found in to the Trap’s open mouth and watched it clamp shut. Snape was safe, from that at least, he still had to get out of the Tentaculas grasp and get upright because his face was turning very red and if he was shaken anymore it could do some real damage to his spine. Ginny was shouting spell after spell in quick succession, before the arm that was holding the man dropped him on top of the now closed Trap and he rolled off it on to the ground, a few seconds later Ginny too was thrown by the plant landing hard on top of the man. She was breathing heavily and didn’t get off of him, merely lifting her head and offered a sheepish grin to him before lowering her head again back down to his chest. They laid on the ground together catching their breath for a while, Hermione watched the abusive plant that had been beating them up just moments before start moving again and its ‘arms’ start reaching for them again. Snape was quicker though and after wrapping his arms around the young red-haired woman he apparated them away with, Hermione walked out of the kitchen and in to the living room finding them laying in the same position on the couch, both with their eyes shut.

“Looks like lunch will be just us” Luna whispered, she led Hermione away from the room and its sleeping occupants.

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Ginny woke only enough to be moved to a bed room and Snape was moved to his bedroom. It was obvious that Ginny and Luna wouldn’t be leaving that night so Hermione showed Luna to the bedroom closest to hers and then sat down on the bed. She liked Luna, she liked Ginny but Hermione had always been able to make friends with males easier than females and Draco knew that, they’d spoken about it so him acting like her being with a male friend was odd was annoying and she felt that she needed to explain that to Luna. They sat down on the bed and Luna turned her bright, wide grey blue eyes towards Hermione and waited for her to say something. Hermione sighed to herself, thinking about talking to Luna was always so much easier than actually doing it because the little blonde Ravenclaw was always able to make her rethink how she’d always thought and she hated it.

“You know that I’ve always been able to be friends with males better than females, right?” Hermione asked “I don’t know why but…”

“It’s because you’re very judgmental towards females” Luna said without batting an eye “You’re unable to keep your thoughts to yourself when it comes to how you feel about your fellow women”

“I don’t understand” Hermione said, her throat was clogging up with emotions.

“Do you like Ginny’s hair color?” Luna asked suddenly and Hermione shook her head a bit “Me neither, I like a darker red hair color but would you tell Ginny that you don’t like her hair color?”

“Of course not” Hermione scoffed.

“And why not?” Luna asked her.

“It would hurt her feelings” Hermione explained “And it would make her mad at me”

“And yet when you talk to other women you’re mean to them” Luna said softly, Hermione opened her mouth to defend herself but Luna held up her hand to stop her words “Do you remember when Angelina quit Quidditch to get married?”

“Yes” Hermione said “I was there at the wedding”

“So was I” Luna said “And Angelina told me what you were saying to her, you told her that she could play Quidditch and be a wife unless, and I quote, “your new husband wants you to be breeding stock only” and then just walked off like there was nothing wrong with that”

“Well…” Hermione scowled “I managed to have a job and be wife…”

“Angelina wanted to have kids right away” Luna told her “But what you said was hateful and mean. In your eighth year and my seventh year, Lavender was going on a date and was wearing a very pretty light green colored dress and turned to the room and asked all us girls how it looked and do you remember your answer?” Luna continued on talking without giving her time to answer “You said ‘does it matter? You’ll probably be taking it off in an hour or so anyway’ and she spent the next forty five minutes crying”

“Lavenders different” Hermione snapped “I hated her in school because…”

“Because she dated Ron, I know” Luna rolled her eyes “But what I’m trying to get at here, Hermione. Is that you seem to think that you are the only woman in the world that wants to study, to work hard and be independent and that all the rest of us are just sluts interested only in getting a boyfriend or husband and becoming ‘breeding stock’ as you called Angelina” Hermione turned away and wiped some tears from her cheeks “I’m not trying to be mean but you seem honest in your lack of knowledge in why other females don’t like you very much and that’s why. You’re judgmental, cruel, a bit hateful and just difficult for other women to get along with, that’s why males are better friends for you but you can change that you know?”

“I’m trying” Hermione whispered. She turned her head towards the blonde and smiled at her before nodding towards the wall where on the other side Ginny lay “What’s going to happen there?”

“What do you mean?” Luna grinned, then shook her head “According to the research I have done on Harry’s parents…Ginny is everything that Lily ever was, smart, magical, driven, funny, caring, understanding, bit snobby and thought she was better than everyone else…what do you think’s going to happen?”

“So basically…I’m a monster” Hermione summed it up “Wonderful, maybe I should send Snape back out in to the world and take up his hiding place”

“Hermione” Luna said “I love you, everyone who meets you loves you…you’re smart and just wonderful…you need to get out of your own way”

“I’ve been trying” Hermione sighed.

“And you succeeded for a while” Luna smiled “How do you think you attracted Draco?”

“I thought it was my amazing boobs” Hermione laughed.

“Okay, okay” Luna laughed “I’ll give you that one, I mean how else do you think you attracted him?”

“So” Hermione gave Luna a big grin “What do you think about Ginny and Snape?”

“I think that they are going to learn to get along” Luna laughed to herself “And very well at that”

“Severus needs someone in his life” Hermione pointed out “But Ginny?”

“Ginny needs someone who can ground her” Luna said wisely.

“And spank her?” Hermione laughed when the blonde haired woman blushed at her words.

“That’s not what I meant” Luna smirked “She needs someone to keep her head on her shoulders”

“Sure that’s where her head will be” Hermione muttered making the other woman blush and dropped her face in to her hands.

“You are terrible” Luna laughed “But maybe they both need that” She sobered a bit and looked at Hermione “Will you please come home?”

“I feel bad leaving Snape here alone” Hermione said “But I suppose I will have to go home sooner or later…might as well make it sooner”

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