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Stuck By Law COMPLETE	By : Talented_Mrs_Lupin Category: Harry Potter > Het - Male/Female > Snape/Hermione Views: 56665 -:- Recommendations : 2 -:- Currently Reading : 1
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“Severus!” Hermione looked at him as he stood over the cauldron. It had been two weeks since she’d moved in and tomorrow the students would be showing up and he would be busy. They should have already gone to meet her parents but he kept coming up with excuses as to why they or he couldn’t.
“Hermione” He greeted.
“Why aren’t you ready?” She demanded “This is the third time you’ve not been ready”
“I’m sorry” He said “Remus’s potion…”
“Will be slowly simmering for the next thirteen hours” Hermione finished for him “Don’t try to use that as an excuse, if you wanted to use potions to get out of stuff you didn’t want to do then you should have picked a dumber wife!”
“It’s not…” He tried “Fine!” He stomped over to her “I don’t want to go, okay…is that what you wanted to know?”
“Why not?” She snapped.
“Because…I just…I don’t want to!” He growled.
“It’s because their muggles right?” She snapped “This is hard for me but…”
“For you!” He growled “Everything is hard for you but have you ever given any thought about how hard this is for me?”
“You know what” She snapped “I’m going to visit my parents”
“Hermione” He growled “We could…”
“No” She said “I’m going to visit my parents, I will be home in a few days”
“You can’t just leave” He hissed at her.
“Yes, I can” She assured him and with that she Floo’d away to the Leaky Cauldron leaving an annoyed man behind.
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Once at the Leaky Cauldron, Hermione walked out the front door quickly as to not grab anyone’s attention. She was crying and she hated being seen like this, her nose would run, her face turned bright red and her eyes got blood shot. Needless to say, she was not a pretty sight like this, however grabbing Fred’s attention (who often frequented the Cauldron for lunch) wouldn’t be good for Severus’s health. She apparated to her parents house and walked inside, she was so not ready for this right now but she couldn’t go back to the castle and admit defeat.
“Hermione!” Jane ran from the kitchen and threw her arms around her daughters neck “I’ve missed you and I thought that you were coming over last week and the week before!”
“I’m sorry” Hermione said “Do you mind if I stay for a few days?”
“Of course” Jane answered “What about work?”
“I can Floo from here” Hermione said “I won’t need to go back until Monday as Lucius and Draco give me the weekends off…sometimes”
“Good” Jane said “Then it sounds wonderful”
“I have some news to tell you” Hermione said “But I want to take a shower and get in to something comfortable”
“Go ahead” Her mother pushed her off “Your father won’t be here until dinner anyway”
Hermione made her way up the stairs to her childhood bedroom. She opened the door and thanked merlin that Snape hadn’t come with her for the only time that day. Her walls were still lavender colored, her bed still had at least thirty fluffy embroidered pillows. Her window-seat and the shelves on three of the walls in her room were packed with stuffed animals from birth to when she moved out and even since then. There were pictures of her when she had braces, fishing in the ocean and at little rivers, at her grandmother’s house and hanging out with her cousins. It was still a little kids bedroom and she knew that he would have picked on her horribly for it, not that she would really blame him. She sighed and went in to her bathroom taking her clothes off the whole way as she started the shower. Once in there she sang childish songs to herself and scrubbed her body down with the body wash that she hadn’t used since she was a teenager.
Once back in her own bedroom she dressed herself in a comfortable pair of yoga pants and a tank top and braided her hair before making her way back down the stairs and in to the kitchen. Her father was talking about a patient the apparently had vampire teeth. She sat down in her usual seat and watched them interact, she was saddened suddenly that they never got the opportunity to have any more children. They always told her that they wanted at least eight children but they had great difficulty getting pregnant with her and when they did her mother had spent six months in bed and almost died in child birth. At the young age of twenty-one her poor mother had to have a full Hysterectomy and would never have the family she wanted.
“What do you think, Hermione?” Steven Granger asked “Do you think a Vampire got his teeth fixed at my office?”
“What time did he come in?” She asked, grinning at her mother.
“Three in the afternoon” He answered “It was overcast but bright”
“Well” Hermione answered “Unless he was Edward Cullen then I don’t think it was an actual Vampire, just someone with really sharp teeth”
“Thank goodness he didn’t bite you, Steven” Jane said with a smile “Dinner is served”
While she was eating Hermione went back to her musing about her parents and the lack of children that they had. It wasn’t from lack of trying, they wanted to adopt but it was so expensive and then all the children they wanted they couldn’t get. They finally gave up when Hermione was about six, they figured that they would have her around until she was eighteen. Then when she was eleven she got the news about Hogwarts and left, often spending her Christmas holidays and summer holidays with Harry and Ron. She regretted that now, she should have spent more time with her parents and less with her friends. But she had been young and as she got older she only wanted to protect them from the war that was going on around her. Suddenly, her honey-colored eyes raised to her parents as a new plan formed in her mind.
“Mum” She said “Dad. I have something I want to tell you, however there is something else I wanted to bring up to you”
“What is it, dear?” Jane asked.
“Do you still want a big family?” She asked “I know that it had been your wish to have an enormous family but…well there were complications”
“Yes” She said “But you know that we’ve tried adoption…”
“In the muggle world” Hermione said “Not in the magical one”
“What are you saying?” Steven asked.
“A war just ravaged our world” She reminded them “There are orphanages that are over flowing with children at the moment and I am war-hero…you could adopt a child or many children”
“Are you sure?” Jane asked with a big smile “Because that sounds wonderful”
“I can talk to the ministry” Hermione promised “Now, on to my other news”
“Yes” Steve said, clearing his throat “What has you coming here out of the blue?”
“Well” She drew in a breath “The ministry of magic came out with a new law at the start of the summer” They nodded “Men within a certain age-range got a list of women that would be possible wives that they are to marry”
“That’s barbaric” Jane said and her father nodded.
“Well not really” Hermione said “They send out a letter to us women and we can choose to write back or not. I’ve chosen to write back to a few and made a decision about a man a couple of weeks ago…I’m getting married”
“Married?” Her father repeated.
“It was a marriage law” She told them “So I am to get married by August of next year”
“Do we get to meet him?” Jane asked.
“He was supposed to come with me today” She informed “But he’s busy…” She looked at the table.
“You’re lying” Steven pointed out “What is it?”
“We were supposed to come up weeks ago” She answered slumping against her seat “But he kept coming up with different reason why he couldn’t and then he flipped out about how this is hard for him and blah, blah, blah…”
“Honey” Jane said “It sounds like its hard…”
“For me, right?!” She exclaimed, expecting her parents to be on her side.
“For both of you” She answered “Has he been good to you?”
“Yes” She admitted “Though I had to sell my home and move in to Hogwarts…did I mention that it’s my old Potions professor?”
“How old is he?” Her father exclaimed.
“Forty” She muttered “But wizards don’t age the same way muggles do…he’s a good man”
“Okay” Jane spoke over her husband “So, you sold your home…”
“Lucius, my boss” Hermione said “Bought my house and gave it to us as a wedding gift at Severus request”
“It sounds like he treats you well” Jane said “It sounds like he has been trying to make sure that you weren’t inconvenienced in anyway”
“So?” Hermione asked.
“We didn’t raise a selfish girl” Jane snapped “A marriage is fifty, fifty sweetheart and if you are to be married you need to remember that. He has been there for you and you need to be there for him, he’s nervous to meet us but you harping on him about it isn’t going to make your life together any better” She held up a finger “You need to ask him what’s wrong and then listen and try to figure out what you can do to make it better even if you can’t just being there for him and letting him know that you love him works wonders”
“I don’t love him!” Hermione snapped and both parents looked shocked at her attitude.
“Don’t you think he knows that?” Her father asked her softly and she looked at him “If it’s a law that’s making you guys get married then he knows that you don’t love him and…it’s probably in the back of his mind and eating at him. You may not love him but don’t keep reminding him”
“I can’t believe this” Hermione said “I’m going to bed”
“Go to bed” Jane said “But tomorrow you are to go back home and face your problems not hide from them here” Hermione glared at them and stomped off. She knew that they were right but she hated hearing it and as she laid in bed she wondered if she really was being selfish.
A/N: Please Review and sorry it took so long.
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