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Madrigal	By : Rotisserie_Cassowary Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Snape/Hermione Views: 7982 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 2
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September and October seemed to pass in a blur. I was obviously quite pleased to finally have my dream job, Defense Against the Dark Arts, but the fact is that teaching a class for the first time is an enormous undertaking. There hadn’t been a competent professor in the position for over a decade, so I had no usable syllabi. I contented myself with focusing on the sorts of curses and hexes that I knew my fellow Death Eaters favored, as well as the dangerous magical beings I knew the Dark Lord had access to, including inferi and werewolves. I’d have preferred to construct a more comprehensive picture of the Dark Arts, but it simply wasn’t logical. I didn’t have the luxury of breaking in the first-years with Grindylows. It was straight to “how to tell if your mommy and daddy have been Imperioused.” We’re at war here, kiddies. Time to toughen up.
To my great surprise, Miss Granger and I formed a rather efficient team. She quickly made herself nearly indispensable to me. She observed me three nights a week, studiously taking notes. She always submitted a carefully organized list of inquiries under my door by the next afternoon. During those long, boring lulls while the potions simmered, she would help me grade papers. The girl could tear through a stack of essays even faster than I could! She seemed to have an innate understanding of my grading style. I look for an understanding of the concepts in question, rather than the ability to parrot ingredient names or numbers of stirs, and she scored accordingly. Her comments were even written in a passable imitation of my own spikey script. I eventually brought myself to ask her assistance with crafting lessons for my younger students. Since I rather lack sensitivity, she was able to adapt my more disturbing subjects into a less alarming format.
She lasted until the week of Halloween before finally breaking. “WHEN AM I GOING TO ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING AROUND HERE?!” she spluttered. It was around 2 am Saturday morning, and she was obviously suffering from exhaustion. We’d been working on Lupin’s monthly Wolfsbane, a notoriously obnoxious potion. It takes at least 8 hours for the initial stage of brewing, and consists of numerous intricate and seemingly arbitrary instructions. You’ll stir it counter-clockwise 30 times, then 2 times clockwise, then 200 times counter-clockwise. You have to add a rather large amount of human saliva, freshly “harvested”. She DID NOT enjoy that process. It took her nearly 15 minutes to provide me with the 20 mLs I needed. Apparently, she found the process degrading.
“What do you mean?” I replied like a smartass. “You provide me with many valuable services. Why, just tonight, you slobbered into a cup for a quarter hour for me.” Her face was so red that I swore I could feel the heat coming off it from three feet away.
“This is ridiculous! How have I not proven myself worthy?! I’ve done everything you’ve asked! I’ve anticipated dozens of things you needed! Remember when I could tell you weren’t going to have enough mayflies, so I sprinted down the hall to Slughorn’s classroom and came running back with the jar before you were even done stripping the wings off the ones you had? You’d have missed the time window if it weren’t for me! I’m lucky if I get five hours of sleep on the nights I’m here with you! Usually it’s more like three! I’ve earned the right, Master Snape, and you know it!”
I looked at her dispassionately, my face a cold mask. “This outburst here seems to invalidate your point, Miss Granger. You clearly lack the emotional discipline needed to handle such tasks.”
“With all due respect, Sir, that’s bullshit and you know it.”
I couldn’t help but give an amused quirk of my eyebrow at her boldness. I’d never heard the girl utter a single curse word. I didn’t know she was even capable of such a thing.
“You’re just trying to draw this out as some sort of ridiculous lesson. But there’s no need to do that; there’s no time to do that. Yeah, I know, typically potions apprentices don’t brew until they’ve had years of observation under their belts. But WE don’t have that luxury. I’m capable of more than this. I can provide so much more to you as an assistant than a servant, and YOU KNOW IT.” She finished her speech with crossed arms and a proud, rather Gryffindorish expression on her face.
“Very well, Miss Granger. Starting tomorrow you are my hands, and I am naught but the observer and the advisor. I hope you’re as confident and prepared as you claim. You may return to your dormitory. It’s rather late. I can finish this up myself.”
She stared at me for a solid fifteen seconds, her jaw slightly slack with shock. She seemed to shake herself off and gratefully responded, “Thank you, Sir. So much. You have no idea what this means to me.” She gave me a small grateful smile before gathering her things and going. For some reason, I very nearly returned her smile. I blamed it on lack of sleep and low blood sugar and returned to my stack of 3rd year exams.
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