The Burning Pen

In An Alternate Universe Someplace
by Ruth Solomon aka Ms_Figg

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CHAPTER 1

Disclaimer: All recognizable characters belong to JKR. All situations are mine. No $$$ is being made from this fanfic.
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In an Alternate Universe Someplace

“Mr. Snape, put your blasted hand down and let someone else have a chance to answer my question,” an irate Professor Granger hissed at the pale, dark-haired young man who had his hand raised.

Severus Snape slowly lowered his hand, his dark eyes locked on the scowling Potions Mistress.

”Thank you. Now that Mr. Snape has so kindly deigned to give the rest of you dunderheads a chance to make your meager offerings, let’s see some responses or there’ll be a pop quiz!” Professor Granger spat.

Several hands flew into the air.

Severus Snape stared at his scowling teacher. Professor Hermione Granger had to be the coldest, meanest and most brilliant witch he had ever met. She was also one of the most courageous.

The seventh-year Gryffindor was one of the best friends of Harry Potter and a brilliant student himself, excelling in every class. Most considered the pale wizard a know-it-all and a stickler for perfection. He and Ronald Weasley had stood by the boy-who-lived in the Final Battle against Voldemort and in the end helped to bring about the evil despot’s downfall.

Initially, Professor Granger had been hunted for the death of Albus Dumbledore and ultimately arrested. But when the Headmaster reappeared, restored by a Horcrux, she had been taken from Azkaban and restored to her former position as Potions Mistress. Her part in Voldemort’s death came out in the end. The witch’s love of Harry’s deceased father, James Potter was a driving force in garnering her aid

James was the one who told her she was a witch and befriended the strange, dark young woman. She was broken-hearted when he was sorted into Gryffindor. Lily Evans and several of her friends, who called themselves the “Velvet Mauraders” had antagonized the witch throughout her young years at the school and she sought the company of her fellow Slytherins, falling in with Bellatrix LeStrange and the rest.

It was difficult going for her at first in Slytherin because she was a Muggle-born, but she was so dark and vengeful that she managed to cull the favor of the Dark Lord. She had no love of her own tainted magical background or people, especially Lily Evans who was Muggle-born like she was, in fact Lily may have been one of the driving forces that turned her to the dark side completely.

Her own mother and father were both dead, her mother by her father’s hand, and her father of his own. All Granger cared about was her own advancement and showed a great talent for potions from the very beginning.

It was Professor Granger who developed the elixir that changed Tom Riddle into Voldemort and sealed her place as one of his most trusted servants. When the despot killed James Potter in an attempt to destroy his son Harry Potter, the witch changed allegiances, swearing to see the wizard dead and spent many years protecting Harry so he could come of age and destroy him.

On Professor Granger’s back was a mass of scars that resembled a tree with many branches, the result of bouts of the Dark Lord’s displeasure with her from time to time. She was often whipped and crucio’d by the frustrated despot during her servitude, but she returned to him time and time again to garner information for the Order of the Phoenix. Now he was dead, and she was left to her bitterness and guilt.

Severus calmly accepted the parchment the Potions mistress handed out, giving the class a pop-quiz anyway, her lips curled sardonically as they groaned. The black-eyed wizard looked up at her as she placed the parchment on his desk, but she ignored him as she always did, moving away with a billow of robes. He sighed.

She acted like he didn’t exist, unless she was dressing him down about something. He didn’t mind it. It didn’t bother him at all in fact.

Actually, it turned him on a little.

”Something must be very wrong with me,” he’d muse to himself as he lay in his four-poster bed fantasizing about the dour witch. She had to be twice his age and was as approachable as a basilisk. When she trained those slitted amber eyes on most students, they were so full of malice it was cringe-worthy. But Severus loved when she looked at him that way.

”Yeah, I’m pretty sick,” he’d sigh, rolling over in his bed and trying to get the witch out of his head.

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A/N: Just a fun little head clearer. Am a little stuck with ANB right now so wrote this weird little piece. Could be fun though, don’t you think?  Based on a challenge I read a while ago switching the couple up. Thanks for reading.

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