Adult-FanFiction.org : Harry Potter

What a Beautiful Curse COMPLETE	By : Talented_Mrs_Lupin Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Snape/Hermione Views: 12102 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I don't own anything to do with Harry Potter and I make no money this is only fanfiction

Chapter List
- 19
- 20
- 21
THREE WEEKS LATER:
Hermione stood in the room she was using at Malfoy Manor as a dressing room, she would store her wedding gown at Prince
Manor but Severus had a nasty habit of "accidently" finding her hiding spots. He was impatient about seeing her gown as
he told her it wasn't really bad luck and he wanted to see how beautiful she was going to look so he wouldn't be
standing at the alter with his mouth hanging open like an idiot. The image he painted for her with those words caused
her to want to hide the gown even more, he now assumed that it was still in the house while it was in a room at Draco's
house under numerous spells and curses cast not just by herself but by Draco, Harry and Narcissa as well. A week before
her wedding and she was trying the dress on for the thousandth time to make sure that she hadn't lost or gained any
weight. Ginny, who had taken a two week leave from the team, was fluttering around her like a busy bee making sure that
all was as it should be, she pulled different bits of the dress, made notes and muttered to herself absently all the
while.
*
"This is perfect" Ginny said "It has to be taken in a little on one side but that has nothing to do with weight loss it
was just an oversight" She fluffed the back of the white gown "I'm your maid-of-honor, Padma is a bridesmaid...Luna was
supposed to be..." She trailed off and looked at the ground. Hermione's red haired friend had been jumped on the minute
she got home by everyone about if she was touched or raped by Xeno Lovegood but she refused to answer them "Have you
found anyone else?"
"Angelina" Hermione answered "Alicia and Parvati Patil"
"Good choices" Ginny smiled "We still have the bachelorette party to do"
"Oh merlin" Hermione sighed as she walked back in the oversized bathroom to change back in to her regular clothes "What
do you have planned?"
"The guys are taking Severus out" Ginny answered "Keeping him out all night, you won't see him until you two are getting
married the next day, I figured we'd stay in, drink, talk and just have a good old fashion girls night as I figured you
wouldn't want to go to a strip club and I'm sure that Snape would have a heart attack if we did"
"Most likely" Hermione agreed as she walked out and sat down across from her friend and fixed up some tea from the tray
that the house-elf had brought up a few minutes ago "Ginny..."
"Eeesh" The younger woman said leaning back in her chair "I don't like the sound of that tone"
"Ginny" Hermione said again "I know that we all bombarded you with personal questions pertaining to Xenophilius Lovegood
but...did he...rape you or touch you" Ginny's eyes snapped towards hers and Hermione put her hand up as if to ward off
her anger "I just...I need to know and I won't tell anyone else if you don't want me to"
"I was twelve" Ginny said, she stood and walked over to the window overlooking the back garden and the damn peacocks
that Lucius had loved so much and she wrapped her arms around herself "It was July and about two weeks before we won the
money and went on the trip to see Bill. Luna had asked me to spend the night because it was okay with her father, my
mother said yes and walked me to their house later in the day, we had fun playing stupid games and then went to our
seperate rooms...I remember being confused when Luna told me to lock my door and she would leave hers unlocked, it made
no sense and I..." Ginny wiped her nose a little noisily on the back of her hand "Left my door unlocked, because in all
honesty, why would I lock it, stuff like that didn't happen to people like me or my friends" She took a deep breath and
continued on bravely "I woke up in the middle of the night to someone stroking my hair, I thought that maybe Luna was
trying to wake me up but when I opened my eyes it wasn't her but her father. I asked if everything was okay, maybe
something had happened and he needed me to wake up, he put his finger to his lips and sat on the bed under the blankets"
"Oh god...Ginny" Hermione stood and rushed to her friends side but Ginny had already turned to look at her "Did he...?"
"No" Ginny answered "He started to touch me and I knew that it was wrong. I told him so, told him that he was sick and
needed help then I tried to get up and told him that I was going to tell my mother and he grabbed me...I was
terrified...and then, I remember Tom"
"What?" Hermione asked "Tom?" Ginny nodded and tears filled her eyes "Tom Riddle...Lord Voldemort?"
"Not Lord Voldemort" Ginny answered "But Tom Riddle, a boy who was angry, driven, charming and a little insane. A boy
who, even after he grew up and in to the monster we knew, saw the rape or molestation of man, woman or child as the most
despicable act of violence" Ginny sat down suddenly on the window-seat and looked at Hermione "This was why I didn't
want to tell anyone. It meant having to own up to the fact that I am not fully healed by what happened to me in my first
year"
"What happened?" Hermione pressed.
"I was outside of my body" Ginny answered "I couldn't feel or speak or formulate thoughts, I could only watch from above
as he took one of my hands and put it down his pants and made me stroke him. I was yelling at myself to stop and that's
when my body lifted my head and looked at me, the eyes weren't my color they were dark like Tom's and then suddenly he
shot a curse at Lovegood and shot him back. I don't know what the curse was but it scared the hell out of him and he
took off. I was in charge of my body again and I ran over to lock the door but I didn't sleep anymore that night and I
left early in the morning, I've never told anyone that story before now and I would appreciate it if you never told
anyone"
"I won't" Hermione promised "Ginny, is he still with you...Tom?"
"At points I would say no" Ginny answered "But then there are moments when I hear him in my head, making conversation
innocently enough, when I need a spell, charm or even curse and suddenly I just know it and can use it and sometimes I
can feel this drive to do better, to BE better than I am and I have to appease that want"
"Do you get the urge to..." Hermione trailed off.
"Hurt people?" Ginny asked with a small laugh "No more than usual" Both women burst out laughing.
~~~//~~~
Severus looked across the garden to where Neville stood tending some of the plants that he loved, he was worried about
him now. Potter and Draco had come for dinner the week before and told them that to appease Luna they were opening her
fathers case as a possible murder case and he was investigating the area where Xeno had hung himself, Severus watched
the young Herbologist work with his plants so lovingly and he wondered when it was he decided to murder someone for the
greater good. He wondered if that idea haunted him. All the lives that Severus had been forced to take in the first war
and then in the second haunted him in his waking hours and then followed him in to his dreams and were only silenced
when Hermione was near him.
*
"Neville" Severus said "Potter is investigating Lovegoods land, where he was hung to be specific"
"Yes" Neville said, looking at him with only a little interest.
"Did you clean up the Sirens Seeds?" Severus asked "If something happens to Potter...Hermione will be crushed"
"I did" Neville answered "No one will know what I did"
"Does it haunt you?" Severus asked "Do the memories haunt you?"
"No" Neville answered as he walked past Severus in to a little garden shed "This isn't my first Quidditch Match and I
know how to cover my tracks"
"You've killed before?" Severus turned his dark eyes the younger man "When, why?"
"Its really a need to know situation" Neville answered "And no offense Severus, but you don't need to know"
*
Severus sat in his office at Hogwarts a few days after his talk with Neville and he found that he couldn't stop worrying
about Hermione. She trusted the younger man no matter what and Neville does seem to love Hermione but Severus couldn't
get the fact that he was able to kill someone...possibly more than one person and not be haunted by it, the potions
master found his sleep was always haunted by those he'd killed or sent to be killed. He wasn't comfortable with the
thought of Neville in the house alone with Hermione, Severus knew that she was more than able to take care of herself
but as her fiancee he felt that he should be there to protect her. At the very least he felt that she should know about
Neville and what he'd done to Xeno Lovegood, even if the sick pervert DID deserve it, but another part of him felt that
maybe if he told Hermione he'd be putting her in danger. Severus couldn't shake the cold feeling that ran through his
blood when Neville told him without blinking how he'd followed Xeno for days, learned his habits and where he liked to
go out of the house and how he had expertly put the Siren Seeds in a spot that would be too far for anyone to hear him
should he scream or see him while he hung in the tree. His eyes were completely devoid of emotion, his voice cold and
each word was spoken with little to no regret in them, even as he sat there in his office going through the memories and
worrying about his soon to be wife his hands shook and the hair on the back of his neck stood on end. The fireplace
flared to life with green flames and Hermione walked in with a big smile on her face, she was Flooing over from her job
for thier usual lunch. She stopped immediately and looked around before looking back at his expression and frowning, she
knew that look on his face, he was worrying or confused about something and that always put her on edge as she
wasn'tsure if they were going to have a fight or not.
*
"Are you okay?" Hermione asked as she walked over to the chair across from his desk "You look...troubled"
"I don't know...what to say..." He led "I'm...lost"
"Severus, you can tell me anything" Hermione said as she moved to the edge of her seat, now she was extremely worried.
"I'm not sure I can tell you this" Severus whispered, looking at her with worried eyes.
"Are you..." Hermione tried, her heart was in her throat "Are you...breaking up with me?"
"NO!" He said quickly as he nearly crawled across the desk to get to her to reassure her that he still loved her "No, I
love you and next week we'll be married, it's not that"
"Then what is it?" She asked him as she placed her hand against his cheek "And why is it so hard to tell me?"
"Because I'm afraid it may place you in danger" He told her honestly and she slowly leaned back in her chair "It has to
do with Mr. Longbottom"
"What is it?" Hermione pressed "Tell me"
"Okay" He said and looked at his feet and then proceeded to tell her all about what Neville had told him in secret. He
shouldn't be telling her anything at all but he needed another person to know what the man had told him, only then could
he think of something to do to make this right or ignore it, whichever came first. Hermione sat there and her face went
from amusement to shock and then to recognition which once again made his blood run cold which meant that she already
knew about what he was doing "What is it?"
"Nothing" Hermione answered "I brought you a sandwich from the cafe near my office"
"Don't change the subject" Severus snapped at her "Tell me why you don't look horrified or even all that shocked?!"
"I am" She lied "Horrified and shocked but what am I supposed to do...?"
"Don't lie to me" Severus said slowly "Tell me what is it that you know"
"Nothing" Hermione said, she locked eyes with him and with a deep sigh she stood up and made her way towards where he
stood before the fireplace "I need to go back to work, I'll see you later"
"Hermione..." He started.
"It's a need to know situation" Hermione answered before leave "And I'm sorry Severus, you don't need to know"

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
A/N: Sorry about the format I am still saving up for WORD for my computer, once I have it then things will go back to
normal. Tell me what you think, PLEASE REVIEW!!!!
- 19
- 20
- 21
You need to be logged in to leave a review for this story.You need to be logged in to leave a review for this story.
Report Story

What a Beautiful Curse *COMPLETE*

What a Beautiful Curse COMPLETE