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Ready and Willing	By : SexyMomma Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Snape/Hermione Views: 13953 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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A/N: Thank you so very much for my welcome back. It�s like my muse took a holiday without giving me the proper notification�Or it just could be the lack of sleep that comes with being the parent of a ten month old baby girl. I personally feel that it�s the former, lol. Not to miss a beat, here is the newest chapter for the story.

Chapter Nine: Understanding the Demon named Hatred
Severus shook his head to clear it of the lascivious thoughts that spurred on his arousal, and strode over to the fireplace. Throwing in some floo powder, he called out the name Mr. Michael Higgins and stuck his head in the fire place.

Michael was seated in his office when he heard the �whoosh� in the fireplace signaling a floo-call. He smiled slightly when he saw Severus there, a slight smirk planted on his features. � Ah, Severus. What can I do for you today? Come on over, if you have the time that is.�

Severus shook his head. � I�m afraid not Michael. It�s about your youngest daughter, Amanda�The only one of yours to make it into my house��

Michael paled. Amanda had been the odd-witch out in a family of Ravenclaws, and had a muggle stepmother that had abused her for years before he had figured it out and divorced the deplorable woman after turning her into the authorities. � What happened, Severus?�

� She verbally accosted my intern, Hermione Granger, and said some pretty hateful things. I�ve requested your presence as well as Draco�s, as Lucius is your half brother, and you need to talk to her�I fear that because of her past, she�ll hold Voldemort�s views to heart for the rest of her days here at Hogwarts�Can I expect you in my office at about seven this evening?�

Michael nodded. � Of course Severus. May I ask what spurred her tirade?�

Severus nodded. � Hermione bewitched some quills for the class so that they could take notes from the lecture verbatim. When Amanda attempted to write a note to a classmate, the quill squirted her with ink.� He said. � My students were trying to get Hermione to quit so that they could still get some semblance of the preferential treatment they are used to.�

Michael nodded once more. � I�ll be there Severus. The crimes of one woman do not make it right to be racist. Ms. Granger was there to teach, not torture��

Hermione walked back into the classroom and to a precursory glance around. Amanda Higgins was seated back in her seat, looking rather sullen, and raised her head to give a defeated gaze up to the older witch. � Is everyone here?� Hermione asked.
The affirmative was announced and Hermione tapped her wand to the board. � First I will demonstrate how the potion is to be completed in a timely manner.�

The students watched with rapt attention as she chopped, crushed, and stewed the ingredients into a perfect potion.

�Here are your directions for the potion. I want the more skilled makers at each table to cut the ingredients and to help their partner understand the order and how the potion comes together. The other half of the team will make sure that the ingredients are added at the right time and that the right amount is added. You have forty five minutes. Begin.�

Severus watched as she walked around the classroom, pausing to help a student here or there. He watched with thinly veiled surprise as her approach of soft and firm actually seemed to do well for her in this case. Even his Slytherins were behaving. He walked up to Hermione and looked at her for a moment.

� Well done so far, Hermione�I need to go speak to the Headmistress for a moment. I�ll be in my office making the floo call�� he said. He exited the classroom as Hermione continued her rounds.

Hermione approached the table with Amanda Higgins and Selena Morley. Selena was too busy chopping to notice how Amanda was looking at Hermione with veiled contempt.

Hmph�She thinks she�s so great that she can take over the Professor�s classes. I�ll show her, the filthy mudblood�Amanda thought. � Ms. Granger�I�m not sure that my potion is supposed to smell this way after adding the eye of newt�Could you please verify for me?�

Hermione bent down slightly to waft some of the fumes to her nose when Amanda swung her stirring rod sharply, hitting Hermione directly in the eyes with the concoction. Hermione was blinded immediately by the hot liquid and screamed.

Selena looked up as soon as Amanda had asked her question and quickly ran to Hermione�s side as she slumped to the floor. � Someone hurry to Professor Snape�s office and go get him! HURRY! If this isn�t treated within twenty minutes of contact, she�ll be blinded permanently.�

Amanda paled. Now she was really in for it. What had gotten into her? She just attacked a staff member.

Selena turned harsh, green eyes to her lab partner. � I hope you get expelled for this. She did absolutely nothing to you, and you wanted to hurt her just because she�s a muggle-born witch. Like me�� she said vehemently

Severus was shocked when one of the students rushed into his office, screaming about an emergency and he had to come quickly.
� Why can�t Ms. Granger tend to the problem, Mr. Buttone?� Severus replied harshly.

� But Professor, this is about Ms. Granger. She got splashed in the eyes with the potion!� Alexander Buttone replied.

Severus nodded. � Hurry up to the hospital wing and have Madame Pomphrey have everything ready. I�ll be up with Ms. Granger by floo. Now go!� he said. He rushed into his stores quickly enough to grab a minor healing potion and grabbed a sterile steel basin and gauze pads. He quickly dumped the potion over the gauze and rushed into the classroom. Time was of the essence

Hermione sat on the floor, her eyes burning even worse now as she fought to keep from crying out in pain. She concentrated on the soothing voice that was there and heard a slight shuffle. The scent of herbs and smoke reached her nose and tried to open up her eyes.
�Severus�The potion was in the third stage. I don�t know if she added the lacewing flies yet��

Selena spoke up. � She didn�t, I was in the midst of crushing them when the incident occurred Professor Snape.�

Severus nodded. � Everyone put out your flames and dispose of your potions. This class is dismissed. Ms. Morley, Ms. Higgins. Stay behind and wait in my office. I will be asking the Headmistress to escort you to her office accordingly.�

The class left as Severus placed the medicine soaked gauze pads over Hermione�s damaged eyes. He carefully lifted her and walked into his office. � Ms. Morley, please throw some floo powder into the flames please?�

Selena did as she was instructed and watched the two pass into the flames and then were gone. She then turned her head over to the other student in the office and gave her a harsh glare. � What in the gods name did you do that for?�

Amanda whimpered and hugged her knees to her chest. � I�m not sure�She just made me remember all the pain�I just want it to go away�.� She whispered.

Selena automatically felt her heart soften for the other girl. She came from an abusive family too. That made sense now. She didn�t know how to cope with it. � I know how it is�To feel all that pain and to not know how to let it go�My father�He killed my mum in a drunken rage and nearly beat me to death�But before all that, he left bruises, broke bones�He almost raped me�That was the night my mum died. When he finally sobered up and saw what he had done, thinking that he had killed me too, he shot himself�� Selena said. � Who was it for you?�

� My step-mum�.� Amanda said quietly. � But it was never that bad. She made sure never to let any bruises show, but my back has a few scars where she broke the skin with a belt. When my dad found out�He turned her in to the muggle police and divorced her. She�s still serving time�� A few tears leaked out the sides of her eyes. � Uncle Lucius promised me that when the Dark Lord finally came into power, that I would be able to exact my revenge on the woman�He told me I needed to hold on to my pain, my hatred, because one day it would give me great power�All it did was make me hurt more and now look at what I�ve done��

Severus had heard almost every word that was spoken between the two when he came through the floo. � Well it seems, Ms. Higgins, that you�re another victim of Lucius Malfoy�s. He promised me the same thing�and it caused the death of the woman I loved�� he said softly.
Amanda looked up at Severus with wide eyes. She hadn�t even heard him enter. � How��

� She�ll be as right as rain if about four days�But this is a very serious matter Ms. Higgins. You deliberately attacked and injured a member of the staff in a manner that is most unbecoming of a Hogwarts student, a Slytherin student.� Severus said. � Ms. Morley, Headmistress McGonagall said to release you to your next class. Here is a note for Professor Flitwick.�

Selena nodded and made to leave. � Thank you sir��

� Oh, Ms. Morley, how did you know that crushing the lacewing flies would be more productive and efficient?�

� I notice that when Ms. Granger demonstrated the potion in class, that she slightly crushed the flies. It helped them to stew faster and that it would give us a few more minutes to make sure that our daisy roots were symmetrically diced before adding them.� She replied.

Severus nodded. So he had another bright Gryffindor student after all. He was relieved about this, seeing as Hermione had been his greatest teaching challenge, and nodded. � Five points to Gryffindor for paying attention to detail Ms. Morley.�

Selena smiled and left the office. She had to get to charms before she missed something important. � Hmm�Maybe this quill could come in handy in charms too�� she said softly, twirling the bewitched quill; that Hermione had never collected, in her fingers.

She didn�t care what anybody said about the houses being nothing alike. There would always be a little Slytherin in everyone.

Severus turned his attention back to Amanda and gave her a grave look. � You do realize that this could mean expulsion�� Severus said softly. � I know of the hardships you endured while you were younger. Your father and I go back a ways from our time in the Order of the Phoenix together. He was constantly worrying about you then, and he will be coming by this evening. You had better hope you�re not going home with him��
Amanda nodded. � Would it be possible for me to apologize to Ms. Granger? I know that what I did was positively wrong of me, but, if I could explain a little to her��

Severus held up a hand. � She is not aware of the pain you endured. But I know her well enough. If it is a heartfelt apology, she will accept it.� He looked at the student. Lucius had played her well. If the Dark Lord had come into power, he would have had another faithful deatheater in his ranks. It was well enough that he was defeated when he was. He could see how Amanda thought of the situation. Hermione was one of the Golden Trio after all. She had helped Harry bring him down. And to Amanda that probably meant that Hermione had helped to sabotage her revenge against her step-mother.

� Professor�I understand that if I am expelled, that I do deserve it. I shouldn�t have done what I did, but, I felt compelled, like some outer force was driving me to do it. Like I hated her so badly I could taste it�� Amanda said.

Severus nodded and escorted her to Minerva�s office, his mind playing over the last hour.

Thirty-Five minutes Earlier�
Severus stepped into the hospital wing with Hermione in his arms. Poppy had met them at the grate and ushered them over to the closest cot. He laid her down gently and stood back allowing Poppy to work her magic.

�Severus�� Hermione said, holding up a hand to stop Poppy for a moment. � Go back to the students. I�ll be fine.�

Severus looked at her with a raised eyebrow. � Are you sure Hermione?�

� She�ll be fine Severus. Your quick thinking gave us some extra time. However, Hermione, your eyes are badly damaged. They were burned very badly and it will take three or four days to remove all of the scar tissue over your lenses, irises, and pupils. Not to mention I need to treat the counter effects of the half brewed potion. � She replied.

Hermione nodded. � That would explain that then.� She replied. � Really Severus, go, you can drop back by if you�re going to be such a worry-wart.�

� Alright then Hermione�If you do insist, I will take my leave. Poppy. Will she be well enough to attend a conference this evening? It�s with the student�s family��

� Very well then Severus, I�ll bring her up this evening. What time?�

� Seven.�

� Severus�Ms. Higgins�She�s Lucius� niece isn�t she?�

� Yes, she is.�

� Make sure he didn�t feed her the same bullocks he fed Draco for years�� was all she said.

Minerva sighed heavily. She really didn�t know what to do in this case. It was obvious that Ms. Amanda Higgins was in need of counseling, in need of closure, but an emotional outburst such as this would be seen as more of a temper tantrum from a Slytherin student against a muggle-born witch. � Ms. Higgins, you�ve expressed that you wish to apologize to Ms. Granger?�
Amanda nodded. � Yes Headmistress.�

� You do realize that there�s not much protecting you at this moment from being expelled�� Minerva said calmly.

� Yes Headmistress��

� Report here this evening. Your father and your cousin will be arriving, and Ms. Granger will be in attendance as well. We will decide then. I�ll let Professor Lucas know that you�ve been excused from Transfiguration�I suggest that you take this time to figure out how to plead your case.�

Amanda stood and nodded, silently excusing herself from the presence of the two teachers.

The hours seemed to pass by slowly for everyone involved. At six thirty, Amanda made her way from the Slytherin dorms up the several floors to the headmistress� office. When she entered, she saw Severus, Draco, Hermione, Minerva, and her father all speaking as they waited for seven o clock to strike on the clock. Amanda felt a twinge of guilt when she noticed that Hermione�s eyes were completely bandaged closed.
� I�m here, Headmistress�� she said.

Minerva looked over at Amanda and sighed. � Take a seat Ms. Higgins. I hope you are prepared for whatever happens here this evening.�

Amanda only nodded. � I would like to say that I am sorry, Ms. Granger. I was led to believe by my uncle that if I held on to my pain and my hatred for my muggle step-mother, that it would give me more power and I never really let go of that idea. My actions against you are inexcusable, but I am willing to take the responsibility necessary to own up to my mistake.�

� Then I forgive you�� Hermione said. Severus and Michael had told her what had happened to the young girl before her attendance to Hogwarts and promptly understood how Lucius had persuaded her to embrace the bigoted ideals of the Dark Lord. � Headmistress, may I assign her detention now? I do believe that was the arrangement we made.�

Minerva nodded. Even though her star pupil was a Gryffindor at heart, she did have a mean streak a mild wide when you pissed her off.

� Ms. Higgins, for the next month, seeing as how you decided you were going to put me in the hospital wing for the rest of the week, you�ll be helping me after classes and dinner every evening until my eyes have healed. Then after I leave, you�ll be cleaning out the bedpans and replacing the linins on every cot, and whatever else Madame Pomphrey wants you to do while you�re there. Oh�And also, you can�t use magic. In accordance with that, Professor Snape has also suggested that if there are any injured Gryffindor students there, you�ll be comforting them, and you have to mean it.�

Amanda winced. This was going to be worse than cleaning out the cauldrons with Professor Snape. She nodded in understanding and looked at her father. � I�m sorry that I�ve disappointed you�But I will not make this mistake again. I promise.� She said.

� Big words, let�s see if you can hold to that.� Severus said sharply. � Ms. Higgins. I have a stipulation for you. I want you to attend a group counseling session here every Saturday evening. It�s a group of your peers that are either in or have been abused. It�s completely anonymous, meaning you can�t reveal anyone in the group. It just might help you reach the closure you need.�

Amanda nodded. That seemed fair enough.

� If that�s it, I�ll let these three alone so that they can talk. Severus, will you oversee the detentions for Misses Toomey and Stames?� Minerva said. � I�ll take you back to the hospital wing Hermione.�

� Thank you Minerva.� Hermione said, taking Minerva�s arm. � Oh, and Ms. Higgins?�

Amanda whirled around quickly form her conversation. � Yes Ms. Granger?�

� This had better be the last outburst I see from you. And don�t forget�Tomorrow right after dinner.�

� Yes Ms. Granger.�

Minerva chuckled as she led Hermione through the floo. It seemed as if Severus was definitely rubbing off on her after all.

A/N: Ha! There�s that one! I am on a role this week! Man, I love having a little bit of free time in the afternoon and evenings�Enjoy all! Next Chapter-Hermione�s recovery and the big date!
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