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Living	By : ssdawn Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Snape/Hermione Views: 31345 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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Now the aftermath of finding out about the new Dark Lord and the junior Death Eaters.

Living: Chapter 23

The students scurried out of the way as they saw their stern looking potions professor walking down the hallway like he was ready to kill someone. If his wand had been out, he probably would have been hexing people out of his way; instead he was just glaring at anyone who happened to be standing there. Someone must have seriously pissed him off to get him in such a mood. Maybe Neville Longbottom had blown up something again, though he hadn't done that in many years.

Severus shouted out to some first years that were standing there frozen in the spot, "Get out of the way!" The two timid Ravenclaws backed up against the walls trying to meld into the stones hiding from the frightening man's temper.

A fifth year Gryffindor turned to his mate, "I wonder where Professor Snape is storming off to?"

"Someone's about to be read the riot act. I'd hate to be the one at the end of that scolding."

"I actually have and didn't think I'd come out of it alive."

"Ha! You're still standing mate so I guess you're tougher than you look." His friend teased him as they walked into the Great Hall for dinner, happy to be anywhere away from where Professor Snape was heading to at the moment.

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Severus Snape slammed opened the door of the Room of Requirement, came rushing in and shut the door with a wave of his hand. Ron Weasley gulped as his saw the look on Snape's face. Harry Potter licked his lips nervously as his saw the man's apparent mood from the scowl he sent their way.

"What was the meaning of the note that you so carelessly tossed at me on the way out of potions class today? If you were trying to be unobtrusive, well you failed miserably." His voice growled at the two Gryffindors. "If you are going to be a spy, you need to learn to do things on the sly, not out in the open where every person in the room is witness to your act."

"Uh, sir…we found out…" Harry started to speak, but was interrupted by Ron.

"We found out something last night that could change everything and we really need to tell you about it then, but knew that you'd kill us if we interrupted you last night, but we decided that a note would be better but wasn't sure how to get it to you so we decided at class was better than…"

"Would you stop your blathering Weasley?" His look, more than his words, stopped Ron in his tracks from saying another word.

"Sir, did you read the note?" Harry asked.

Severus shook his head and brought his hands up to rub at his temples. This was an attempt to try and stop the raging headache that had started when the note had been tossed at his face.

"Yes, I read the note," he pulled it out of his suit pocket, "There is a new Dark Lord. We need to talk in the R of R ASAP!"

"Is this your handwriting Weasley?" Severus asked with a touch of distaste.

"Yeah, why?"

"I thought so. It hasn't improved much since first year." Severus said.

Ron looking angry started to say something until Harry pushed him back, "Not now Ron. Professor, please, we need to tell you what we discovered last night. Sit down, because this is going to take awhile.

30 minutes later:

"So you're saying that Nott and Finch-Fletchley are not only lovers, but Death Eaters to a new Dark Lord?" Severus sat with his mouth hanging open which frankly wasn't a normal look for him.

"Yes, sir, "Harry said, "That's what we're saying. We not only saw them…" Ron interrupted Harry again.

"Just stop it Harry. I couldn't sleep as it was last night after what we saw." Ron hung his head down staring at his feet as they sat on the couch opposite Severus.

"I don't need details about what you saw. Believe me, in my years as a Death Eater it rivaled or was worst than anything you witnessed last night."

Ron looked up at the older man, "I'm sorry for you and bloody glad I was never a Death Eater."

"I don't need your pity, but how do you know they had to do anything with what has been happening to all of us?" Severus asked Harry, as Ron was still sitting there with a sour look on his face.

Harry look uncomfortable but spoke up, "Well after, I mean…I know you don't want details, but Nott spoke up and said something like, 'What do we want to do to rattle the Chosen One next?' and I'm almost 100% positive they were talking about me."

Severus looked at Harry with a smug grin, "Well, Potter, you are probably correct. You are the only person that has been referred to as 'The Chosen One' in many years."

"But then he said something about their next mission for the Dark Lord and they didn't know what it was." Ron joined in.

"It has been quite peaceful since Hermione's accident, so what they said does go along with the timeline of events." Severus sat, trying to pull the pieces together in his mind. He'd hoped that in his lifetime he would never have to deal with another Dark Lord again. Who did he know that would have that power to pull another group of Death Eaters together again? Further more, please Merlin don't let it somehow be Voldemort that somehow made it back again. There was always the rare possibility there had been that one last horcrux they hadn't known about. Gods! Just kill him now if that was the case.

"I need to think about this tonight, alone, and we will all meet back here tomorrow to discuss what I pull together. Inform Hermione and Miss Weasley about our meeting." Severus stood up and smoothed out his robes.

"I expect that neither one of you have said anything to anyone else about this, correct?" His dark eyes glowered at both Harry and Ron.

"Yes, Sir. Only Ron and I know about it."

"Good. Keep it that way. Don't say anything to Hermione; not-a-word. I don't want her running around the castle tonight trying to figure out things for herself. You both know how she is."

Ron nodded in agreement, "Oh we know how she is." His tone being sarcastic, this only earned another dark glare from Severus as he walked to the door, nodded to the boys and walked out.

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Hermione and Ginny sat in her room as they talked quietly. Ginny was brushing her long, silky waves as she watched Hermione work.

"So, how was last night?" Ginny asked with a smile.

"It was wonderful, but I'm still not sharing any details about our private life. Severus would have my head if he found out."

Spread out on Hermione's bed was a sheet with the names listed of every student now attending Hogwarts. They were separated by house, year, and any connection with former Death Eaters. Everything was color coded and looked exactly like one of Hermione's famous spreadsheets she put together when she revised for exams.

"I'm not asking for specifics…just did you do it?" Ginny smiled at her closest female friend. Ginny tended to pester people until she got what she wanted to know out of whomever she was interrogating at the time.

"Oh, dear God Ginny! We are not twelve years old. Yes, we did it. Just like I know that you and Harry do it probably more than Severus and I do."

Hermione was exasperated with the girl. She'd been trying to put her chart together the past several hours, but all Ginny wanted to do was gossip and talk about sex. The boys had disappeared right after dinner, along with Severus. She had a raging headache and all she wanted right now was for Ginny to shut up, but she didn't want to hurt her friend's feelings by coming right out and saying it.

Ginny giggled, "You're probably spot on and if my mum knew she'd kill me, Harry, or both of us."

"Look, help me finish in this column here with the last of the Ravenclaws, and then we'll head down to the common room to see if Harry and Ron have returned from wherever they snuck off to." Hermione tried to appease her friend from the bad mood she'd been showing all night.

"I can do that. What do I need to do?" Ginny asked.

Hermione showed her what she needed; thanking the Gods that finally the non-stop chatty gossip would stop and the real work could get done. Then she wanted to send a message to Severus to find out why he'd been avoiding her since class. Something was up, because usually they'd talk after everyone had left the potions classroom. Hermione had gone back into the storage cupboard to put some things away at the end of class. When she came back, everyone had left, including Severus. It was strange. He never left now without saying goodbye, or at least nodding his head at her. She knew he wasn't angry at her, especially after last night. They had woken up in each other's arms, had some more fun while showering, and then discreetly left and headed to breakfast through Severus's secret tunnel. However, her inner doubts still niggled to her at times and she hoped that his absence this evening had nothing to do with her.

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Harry and Ron came back to Gryffindor Tower after sneaking down to the kitchens after they'd left their meeting with Professor Snape. The tension from the meeting had made both boys terribly hungry. After meeting the needs of their growling stomachs, they traipsed in to find Hermione and Ginny sitting in front of a roaring fire.

"Where have you been?" Ginny asked in a voice reminiscent of Mrs. Weasley.

Both Harry and Ron stopped dead in their tracks like they'd been caught doing something they shouldn't have been doing. Harry looked around nervously, noticing only a few other people still up and hanging out in the common room. After Ginny had screamed at them, the few stragglers had quickly left the room not wanting to hang around to view Ginny Weasley's fiery temper or her famous Bat Bogey Hex.

"We have something to tell the both of you…tomorrow." Ron said hurriedly as he started towards the stairs. Harry stood with his mouth open wanting to curse his best friend, especially after Professor Snape had told them specifically NOT to say anything to Hermione tonight.

"What are you talking about Ronald?" Hermione stood in front of him blocking his way with her arms stretched out. Even with her tiny frame, Ron's tall body couldn't get past.

"Um, I didn't mean anything I said and I'm really tired." Ron tried again to get around Hermione until she pulled her wand out and stuck it in his chest.

"You are not going anywhere until you tell us where you two have been and what you've been doing." Hermione was angry now and everyone knew that wasn't a good thing to have her this angry.

Ginny walked over to them, pulled out her wand, and pointed it at her brother. "I agree with Hermione, we know that you've been up to something, now spill."

"No," Ron said looking over his shoulder to Harry for some help.

"Don't look at me, your mouth got you into this mess so get yourself out of trouble. I don't want to die." Harry plopped onto the sofa and crossed his arms in defiance.

"Mate, help me out. Come on." Ron pleaded with Harry.

"One of you better speak up…wait a minute, who's going to kill you?" Hermione looked from Ron to Harry then her eyes lit up with fire again. "You're talking about Severus aren't you?"

The two boys stammered, looked at each other, with Ron's face sporting red and Harry's a pale color.

"Yep, we're dead." Ron croaked out, as Hermione stormed out of the common room.

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Did Severus really think he'd be able to keep Hermione from not knowing about this? He should have known better. There will be fireworks in the next chapter. We will see more of our junior Death Eaters also in the next chapter.

Welcome to all of the new readers to Living. Feel free to review and leave me a message. If you haven't read my other stories I just finished a 78 chapter Tomione saga called "Time Changes All Things." I also have a Dramione WIP called "Blinded." If you like Cedmione, I have a cute complete story called "Counting Fingers, Counting Toes." Thanks for reading my story!
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