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What a Beautiful Curse COMPLETE	By : Talented_Mrs_Lupin Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Snape/Hermione Views: 12102 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Severus sat on the chair in his aunt Amelia’s bedroom and listened to her complain about her crappy vision and her arthritis acting up as it was a rainy day. It didn’t seem to matter that he’d given her an extra Arthritis potion to make sure there wasn’t any pain. He mentioned the complaining in passing to Miss Granger and according to her it was just something that old people complained about for no reason. Miss Granger had left about an hour before and now he was reminded how boring it was in the house and he felt a little sympathy towards her. There was a sharp pinch on his calf and his black eyes snapped to Amelia who was looking at him expectantly.
“Do you think you’ll be the one to break the Prince family curse?” Amelia asked “I thought that it would be me but I was wrong obviously”
“A curse is only in place if you allow it to be” Severus said wisely.
“Really?” Amelia said sarcastically “The women of the Prince family were said to be the most beautiful in all the wizarding world and the men were the most handsome and then...he happened”
“I know the story, Amelia” Severus sighed, he’d been told the story of the curse since the first day he met the elderly woman. He had to admit that it was nice to be able to blame his shitty looks on someone else but he knew that curses only worked if you let them. The old woman pursed her thin lips and leaned back in her chair observing the man, her nephew sitting before her.
“I always hoped it would be me” She said.
Severus looked over at her and watched her slowly fall asleep in her chair. When he was absolutely certain that she was asleep he got up from his chair and tip-toed out of the room and in to the hallway. He walked through the hallways and briefly wondered if Hermione had walked down those very same hallways and if she knew about the “curse” yet. The pictures, when one walked from the far side of the left hallway heading to the middle of the house, told the story of before the curse and then after. He’d been told that the curse had been placed on his great-great-great grandmother and the looks of all those who were born to the family after that were hideous. His great-great-great grandmother, Zelda Prince, had had an otherworldly type of beauty. Sleek, black hair that reached her waist, the type of body that was considered sinful both fragile and feminine as well as muscular, her face was delicate with small features and a big smile with perfectly straight, white teeth. Her sister, who was in the next portrait, was as fair as Zelda was dark like Bellatrix and Narcissa, her hair was white-blonde, pale skinned (which still ran through the family line), light blue eyes and full pale pink lips. Zelda’s brother had dark brown hair cut short, pale face, a full bottom lip and thin upper one, a straight nose and light brown eyes that were captivating. All the family members before Zelda were beautiful, cold and according to what he’d learned, very unkind. Then he happened. All the family members after her were monstrosities, huge hooked noses, thin lips, greasy hair, too tall, too thin and their attitudes had never improved.
“Sir” The family house-elf said timidly “Sir, Miss Granger sent a message to say that she’d be home sooner than planned but that she was bringing home a Miss. Lovegood and Miss. Weasley with her”
“She didn’t clear that with me!” Snape hissed as he stormed towards his bedroom to write a strongly worded letter to the hospice worker.
“Well I didn’t realize that there were rules against my having friends over in the house that I am staying at” Hermione said as she walked up the stairs. Severus stopped walking and turned anger-filled black eyes towards her, he hated himself for noticing her hair had escaped the bun on top of her, the light make-up and the irritation in her stare.
“Would you have brought friends to your other patients homes?” He snapped.
“Yes, I would have” She answered simply “My day off and this is my home for the time being” She offered up a smile “We’ll be in my room”
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Hermione and the girls entered the bedroom and she closed and locked the door. Then she turned she joined them in laughter, she loved the look of horror on his face when he saw his ex-students standing in his private home. Ginny looked at her with a smirk and Luna, who’d just sat down, gave her a knowing look. Hermione shrugged at them and threw their shrunken bags at them so they could change in to their pajamas.
“Neville thinks I need to make the best of my time here” Hermione said as she walked out of the bathroom in her PJs and Luna went in to put hers on. Ginny had just stripped in front of them and changed right there “What do you guys think?”
“Personally” Ginny said as she dropped her bra in to her overnight bag “He is the only man that I could not see myself having sex with”
“Ginny” Luna said with a disapproving look “Don’t be so judgmental”
“I am not being judgmental against his looks” Ginny said “Well, not only his looks. I mean he’s about as attractive as Grawp on his worse day but his attitude is shit too, who could put up with that long enough to get off?”
“I heard that it’s not his fault” Luna said “That there was a curse put on his family”
Hermione snorted and walked around her bedroom looking around. She’d decided that inviting her friends over for the night was the best way to annoy the hell out of Snape and have fun. It didn’t hurt that Harry, Draco, Neville and Ronald had decided to get drunk and party for the night so they needed a place to go that was quiet. Prince Manor had that in spades. She passed out the wine and then told them what her daily duties were, Luna was nodding in understanding but Ginny looked horrified at having to be someone’s ‘slave’ as she called it. They were all on their third glass of wine when there was a knock on the door and Hermione opened it up to reveal Snape.
“Can I help you?” She asked and there was laughter from behind her.
“Miss Granger” He greeted “May I talk to you outside?” She could see a muscle twitching in his jaw which told her that he was already hanging on to the last thread of his patience.
“Of course” She answered with a sigh. She followed him out the door and down the hallway a short ways before he turned to look at her.
“Amelia told me that you seemed very...upset, the other day” He started, he wasn’t good with feelings and hated being in the spot light like he was “When she mentioned the war”
“She more or less accused me of not trying hard enough to keep people alive” Hermione said “I already told you this, why are you bringing it up again?”
“She wanted me to tell you that she is sorry” He told her “She’s old, Miss Granger. I’d like to say that she doesn’t realize what she’s saying but to be perfectly honest, she’s part of the Prince family and I don’t think she really gave a shit what she was saying”
“Then why would she be apologizing?” Hermione asked, raising an eyebrow at him. Severus lowered his gaze to the ground with a slight hissing noise as a blush colored his cheeks.
“Fine, Miss Granger” He said “I wanted to apologize for her. I understand that as a...relatively attractive young woman that staying here with an ‘old’ lady isn’t the most uplifting job and this is my way of saying thank you and I’m sorry about her attitude”
“Well” Hermione said, she wasn’t sure what to comment on first the fact that he was apologizing, the fact that he was thanking her or the backhanded compliment he gave her “Thank you for understanding my feelings and thank you for apologizing...umm I’m not sure if I should thank you for calling me attractive or be offended that you called me ‘relatively attractive’”
“I can’t promise that she’ll get nicer” He went on after frowning at her for a few moments “But know that I appreciate the help” His right eye twitched which made her smirk “If she mentions that there is a curse on the family just remember that she is old and please don’t feed in to the delusion”
“This is the second time in an hour that I’ve heard something about a curse on your family” Hermione said “I may start to believe it myself”
“You know as well as I” He said “That a curse is only as strong as you make it”
“So how strong is it already?” She asked him feeling a little thrill of excitement at the thought of a new adventure laying out before her.
“Strong enough” He frowned at his hands and Hermione followed his gaze but she only saw the same big, pale and long fingered hand she’d always admired. She mentally slapped herself for looking at them at all and forced her eyes to take in the face of the man before her.
“Very well” She said then smiled “There is an opera in muggle London on Tuesday, would it be okay to take her to it?”
“If you can get her to leave the house” Severus answered with a frown “But don’t get your hopes too high”
“Thank you” She said as she made her way back to her bedroom door “If you don’t mind...I have friends to entertain”
“Have a good night, Miss Granger” Severus said with a slight bow.
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It was the giggling that awoke Severus in the middle of the night. He stood up and walked towards the windows that faced the side yard that held the small pond that he’d swam in numerous times. The moon was high and full in the sky and it bathed a milky-blue light over the yard and in it he saw the girls. Ginny Weasley was in the water all the way to her throat, Luna was floating in the water in a pair of purple under-garments. Then standing there in a black bikini was Hermione Granger, her hair was fully down which was something he hadn’t seen since she was student, and it was all the way down to her waist. She was curvy and beautiful standing there in the natural light and he found himself pressing closer to the glass to try to see more of her.
“She has grown in to her looks” He muttered to himself and then caught his reflection in the windowpane. His hooked nose, greasy looking hair, black eyes and the sickly pale color of his skin. He shook his head and considered smashing his fist through his reflection but knew that it would cause them to know that he was watching them.
Hermione stood there watching the others swim. Ginny was naked but Luna and Hermione decided to wear the bathing suits then brought with them. With her luck Snape would pick that moment to come outside to water some strange plant he’s probably hiding in the woods and find her without a stitch of clothing on her body. Ginny told her that should be reason enough to do it, it was like a public service to get Snape ‘up’ and if she was really feeling like helping the poor children at Hogwarts she’d help him get off. Hermione wanted to smack her, not because what she said was disgusting (which it was) but because she was so obviously being mean towards him for no reason. Well, it wasn’t without reason, Snape was a right bastard to everyone when they were students but if Hermione could get over it then Ginny certainly could.
“Come on, Hermione” Ginny sang out “The water is beautiful and it was your idea to come out here in the first place”
“You’re thinking about Snape” Luna said from closer “Aren’t you?”
“Not really” Hermione answered honestly “Just more how mean Ginny is being”
“That’s the problem with being pureblood” Luna said, as if she wasn’t pureblooded too “And the curse”
“What is this curse?” Hermione asked “Please, tell me”
“I don’t know all of it” Luna answered “Just what my father told me”
“And?” Hermione pressed.
“Okay” Luna said “I’ll tell you what I know”
A/N: Thank you for the reviews and I hope you like this newest installment. I am hoping to have the next chapter up tomorrow but no promises as I am working tomorrow all day, please continue to review!!!!
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